Avenir | Drupal Development | Joomla Development | Magento Development | OsCommerce Development

Tuesday 26 July 2011

Drupal Development

Drupal is one of the Top Open Source Web Content Management System (WCMS) that allows either One or a Group of People to Manage or Publish various contents in a website. Drupal is developed in PHP and MySql database. Drupal is distributed under GNU General Public License.

Drupal Development Eases the work for users and manages to do complicated tasks. Drupal is designed to provide an easy way to manage the contents for users and admin. Drupal Core supports various features right out of the Box, On top of it Drupal Supports installing additional modules to its core. Almost all the features one would require can be already found developed as a module or can be easily developed into one. Drupal has about 11000 modules (as of July- 2011). Even these modules can be Drupal Customized to change the behavior and appearance according to users need.

Working with Drupal is very easy due to it’s simple and easy to use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor allows for simple modifications. We can use Drupal Theming and Design beautiful websites. Drupal support can work as a backend framework for Small or a Large Corporate Web Applications Development.


Some of the New and Improved features in Drupal 7 are (For the Developers),
  • Advanced WYSIWYG editor
  • Fluid drag and drop for input format listings.
  • Fluid drag and drop for language listing.
  • Fluid drag and drop for poll options.
  • Descriptions and English Names for user permissions.
  • Built-in Automated Cron.php page
  • Strong Password Framework
  • Added Security feature, like prevention of Brute-Force Method, Flood Control API, and limiting User Access to Resources.
  • Adding Content Type Screen
  • “Input formats" renamed to "text formats".
  • Field specially for Uploading Files
  • Field specially for Uploading Images
  • Performance lag fixed for uncached pages

Avenir has experienced Professionals for Drupal development and Drupal Support. We have specialized in creating a Custom Module, Drupal Theming - Develop a theme according to Clients requirement, Drupal Customization in Core and code our Own Filters. We have expertise in inner workings of each key part of Drupal like User Management, Sessions, the Node System, Integration of Ajax, Caching and including various Web Services & API integration into the Site. We recommended Drupal Application to our Clients in need of a Medium or Large sized Corporate Sites.

Wednesday 20 July 2011

Aspects Of Joomla Development And Joomla Customization

Joomla! is one of the most advanced and powerful Open Source Content Management System in Web Application development. It is one of the leading Web Content Management System (WCMS). It is used to develop a wide range of sites from a single static page a complex Multitier Dynamic Sites. It is well versed for it’s easy to manage contents from Admin Panel and for its User Interface. 
Joomla development is easy to use and customize for developers who have Basic knowledge in PHP and MySql, Because Joomla core is developed using PHP and MySql. Joomla Development is even made possible for those who have very little knowledge about Programming, Due to it’s simple and easy to use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor allows for simple modifications. Joomla gives extensive flexibility to customize sites according to Users requirement. Joomla development is comparatively different from colloquial.
While Joomla provides support for third party modules or plugins to be integrated into it’s core module. These Modules and Plugins serves the best when it comes to solving high and complex requirement, just by adding it’s relevant modules will solve the issue in minutes. This also provides Joomla Developers a flexible and much intuitive experience in both while administering and using the website. 
Some of the Default features supported in Joomla Administrative interfaces are,
  • Add / update content
  • Add / update news, event, products, services etc.
  • Add unlimited content and pages
  • Community & social networking Portals
While just by adding some modules or plugins we can achieve some advanced features like,
  • Form Builder
  • Document Management services
  • Photo and streaming video gallery
  • E-Commerce facility and Shopping cart (webstore)
  • Forums Management and Private Chat Software
  • Calendars and Event Management extensions
  • Blogs Management
  • User Registration, user management and
  • E-Mail and Newsletter Services
  • Banner advertising systems  &  Many more
The Joomla developers recommend Joomla for Customers like in need of Update/ Manage Contents in Back End periodically, to have easy access to database and tables, Ability to change minor template tweaks like changing color or shades, Having the contents to be presented in the given layout and Joomla serves these requirement with Great deal. Joomla is a great CMS to build a great website for Personal, Small and Mid-sized business.

In Avenir, We designed and developed Joomla based site for many of our Customers, Whom are all well satisfied and happy while looking the functionality and performance of the site. Joomla Development is unlike any other CMS is much user friendly and easy to learn with very Basic Programming knowledge and Avenir is the Place to Start with.


Magento Development


Now days, we are using web for shopping, and online shopping is very much user friendly due to the following reasons:

Anytime shopping, consumers feedback, unlimited choice, products comparison and product review, online payment process and so on

In order to implement all these features, there is various open source software available in the market to build the ecommerce web application. Of various software available, Web Development Company supports magento commerce, because Magento Development is based on PHP/My SQL platform which can be easily customizable by our PHP experts.  Also, for our PHP experts do integrate the wordpress or buddypress with magento such that single sign on feature between shopping and blogs can be easily achieved. Though Magento Development require dedicated server for hosting, it has an added advantages of providing the secure and hacker free website.

Using Magento we can built website to support various payment gateway, single checkout page, multilingual support, multicurrency support, tax calculations, order tracking, different level of user accounts, SEO friendly, multiple products search, different themes available, integrate various extensions available to extend the website features, good community support and clear admin structure. Also various editions of magento ecommerce platform is available to suit the business needs.

Another feather to cap will be mobile commerce enabled feature supported by magento. The mobile has become inevitable device in human life, so the current trend would be creating a websites that supports on mobile devices too. This feature has been built within magento to tailor the websites such the websites will viewable in mobile devices. And the research is still in progress to provide a fully compatible application with mobile platforms.

Shopping never ends, online shop, e-shop, internet shop, webshop, online store, virtual store, the process keeps progressing. As a open source software, magento will be feature rich software and capable of extending its features to suite the current trend and technology. The Web Development Companies provides you custom service of magento theme customization and template design. We professionally design templates for your online store to make it compatible with Magento Development platform. Our designers and programmers always follow web 3.0 website design styles to make your store different from others. We also provide resource hiring facility to complete your Magento Development integration including theme design, programming, payment gateway integration and customization of magento ecommerce platform.

Tuesday 12 July 2011

Features In Drupal Development

The Drupal development core includes the basic features which is general to CMS like user account registration, menu management, user account maintenance, page layout customization, RSS-feeds, and system administration.

Drupal takes your business to the Internet and free your business applications from the constraints of desktop software. Using Drupal it is alsopossible to provide support, development, theming and administration services.

Drupal development is portrayed as a structure for content management. It portrays as a web application structure. Drupal progresses on any computing platform that assists the web server capable of running PHP 4.4.0+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, or Microsoft SQL Server to store content and settings.

Drupal 7 requires PHP 5.2 or higher Content management facilities. It also has many facilities like image upload, inclusion facility, file attachment facilities and many more. Drupal development is open source software for creating websites, portals, Web 2.0 style applications, e-Commerce and social networking websites.

Features :

• Testing Framework – 100% pass rank
• DB New Generation
• WYSIWYG Editor Support
• Code Registry
• Files are first class Objects
• Better Handling of Exceptions
• Core Integration as Simple Test modules
• Improved UI
• Test Side Error Reporting

Significance Of Mobile Application Development

With the Increasing in the Mobile technologies, there has been a huge shift in the Software Application and the way People perceived Applications. Various Mobile Application Development Platforms and the SDK provide users much flexible and intuitive user Application.

There are various Mobile Device Operating System’s (OS) that Powers most of the Smart Phones today. The List of Mobile Operating System starts from Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS, Nokia’s Symbian, Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS, Blackberry’s RIM OS, HP’s Web OS, Samsung’s BADA OS, MeeGo from Nokia and Intel and many more competing to enter the Mobile OS wars.

Each of the Mobile OS has some unique features to them, Most of the OS have Software Development Kit that provide and support developers to build Application according to their requirement utilizing the Mobile hardware. Now a day’s mobile devices with Touch Screen, Full Qwerty keyboard, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Gps, Wifi, Proximity sensors, Bluetooth, NFC, Camera and many more hardware supported right out of the box, It is easy for developers to build an application utilizing these hardware using the firmware and using them into their Application. With these Compact hardware and intuitive Interface, Mobile Applications turned out to be an easy and fun way to use. Mobile Application development has earned its own Market in this field due to its exposure and extent of the Application Usage. Gaming in these Mobile devices has turned out to be a mammoth success due to its interactions and live experience. Various stack applications and games available for all range of users from 3 year to 60 year old.

Being a Mobile Application, that has the advantage of staying in touch or connected with the User all the time unlike system Application. Mobile Applications are easy to install, easy to get, and easy to use. We can get applications based on the platform right from their own App Store or Application Market With very few step of installation Process. Mobile Application Development plays a major role in getting the OS familiar to the Users.