5/15/2013

8 Tips How to Build Up a Mobile-Friendly Website

How to Build a Mobile-Friendly Website

Nowadays, due to increasing popularity and usage of tablets, Smartphone, and other mobile devices, business owners who runs websites and blogs for their business, cannot afford not to own a mobile friendly website. Since mobile devices are hand-free and wearable most of the people today accessing website through it and according to the studies in a near future the mobile online usage will advance and increase. Now, if your business website is not mobile friendly, potential customers and clients will not stay around for long, so meaning you may lose a potential clients and profits as well.

Actually there are number of methods and dozens of inspiring books on how to build a mobile-friendly website. If you want to create website through CMS like WordPress, then you may use free plugin such as WPTouch that improves the display of you web pages in iPhone, iPad and other popular Smartphone. If you want to have a flawless display of web pages on all phone screen sizes then you may use premium responsive theme. Usually the exceptional premium themes costs $25 dollars, but believe me investment is worth the price.

However, plugins and responsive design are not enough, website design as well plays an important role to have a mobile friendly website. The following are some tips:

4/17/2013

Honest Review of Spring Integration Training

Honest Review of Spring Integration TrainingI have been using spring framework for a long time and wanted to explore the spring integration training as a enterprise integration option.

I recently attended the Spring Enterprise Integration Training in San Francisco and wanted to share my opinion with everyone about the training. This was a 4 day hands-on course that teaches how to use various Spring project in conjunction to integrate business applications. The training was provided by one of vmware certified vendor called "ExitCertified" in San Francisco.

The overall theme of the training is based on how various spring projects accomplish the Enterprise Application integration patterns described in this book.


4/01/2013

10 Best iPad Apps for Simplifying Money Management

On April 13th 2010, Apple unveiled the iPad; a gadget that was to take the world by storm. Within the first three months of its existence, the company sold over 3,000,000 iPads and cornered 95% of the tablet market. One of the main attractions for users is the capacity for apps; miniature software packages that can be downloaded and installed.

Currently, there are over 200,000 apps available for the iPad, but given that most people use the device for business purposes, the ones that are proving to be the most consistently popular are those designed to simplify money management. Not only have app designers cottoned on to the fact that money management on the go fits in well with our modern lifestyle, but the banking and finance companies have jumped on the technology as a USP for their products as well. Now you can check your balance, get email or text alerts when you’re near your limit and even check up on your stocks and shares portfolio on the go.

But it’s in business money management that the new iPad apps really come into their own. Everything from spreadsheets to energy management – iPad has an app for that. So to help you manage your money a little better, here are ten of the best new iPad apps:

3/18/2013

5 Reasons Why You Need Responsive Web Design

Key Reasons Why You Need Responsive Web DesignA website says a lot about a business. When a visitor comes to a site, they will make a quick decision on the company based on the layout and content of a site.

With an e-commerce business, the responsiveness and layout is even more valuable. Brick and mortar businesses and online businesses need a solid, well-designed website built with the customer in mind.

Unfortunately, most entrepreneurs do not spend enough time on developing and setting up their site, and they suffer tremendously. Though responsive web design takes time, the time spent will be worth it as the business will see an increase in conversions.

Here are five reasons a site should have responsive web design.

3/11/2013

Top 10 Android Apps for Managing Personal Finance

Best 10 Android Apps for Managing Personal Finance
Since smartphones took the world by storm, no self-respecting businessman is seen without one. Certainly, they do the basics of making calls and allowing you to send texts, but the beauty of smartphones is that they allow many aspects of life that were once confined to the office or the home to be taken on the road.

Apps are one of the most useful tools you can have on your phone and they’re available for a variety of functions. Perhaps one of the most useful purposes an app can serve is to allow you to manage your personal finances, whenever you like and wherever you happen to be. However, not every app is a worthwhile investment, and it can be a struggle to track down the ones that represent genuine worth as opposed to those that just ‘look cool’. You will also need to consider that an Android phone won’t necessarily have every app out there, as many are designed to be used on iPhones only. To help you find the right money management apps, here’s our list of ten of the best finance app for android: