A different perspective

The most frequent and serious gain associated with outsourcing to India is definitely the cost edge. Cost of operations in India is without a doubt considerably lesser at any level of business. Depending on comparative analysis, web application developer in India will be at least 3-5 times cheaper than his counterpart inside a developed economy. With the same budget in mind an enterprise may actually hire much more resources and obtain more work done, faster and with better quality. More developers focusing on a task does not merely deliver time benefits but also provide significantly more reliable quality in form of peer reviews and developer to developer interactions resulting in a better product. In the present world situation, with financial troubles around the world, cost advantages may go quite a distance in sustaining business advantages for any kind of enterprise.

Due to the financial gains as mentioned above, it has been found out that India based web design services setup are able to recruit as well as sustain a much larger team size and diverseness in relation to expertise and capabilities than the majority of smaller setups in western countries. Larger team strength not merely guarantees a reliable delivery but also each individual developer or web designer is able to learn more and mature faster in their work because of interaction with a lot more number of peers within the same expertise areas. Collective learning is increased in group mode. So while a smaller web development services setup in the city like “New-york” are able to afford a team of 3-5 individuals with only one primary programmer, a agency in India are able to have a team of 20-25 people with 10-15 developers, in the act supplying a more active learning and cooperative atmosphere for its developers and in turn providing a much better and a more qualified output.

The full viewpoint is presented in Business advantages of India based web development services

Need for Excellent Website Banner Design services at Low costs

With increasing use of Wordpress to build quick and easy sites, demand for well designed web banners and website headers have sky rocketed. Even if you put in a ready-made theme on your Wordpress site, you still need a customized banner built with your name on it. For small sites selling low cost products and services having access to affordable banners to put up in their sites is a necessity. This site Best Web banner provides customized and affordable web banners and web headers for your website needs.

Internet marketers now days are increasingly looking for micro niche sites to build their affiliate businesses online or to sell their info products. Micro site makes sense when they can be put up fast and at low costs. A nicely designed attractive banner is essential for these mini sites to make an impact on their audience. Best-web-banner.com actually meets their needs for affordable web banners and website headers.

Web banners are also widely used in advertising to bring traffic to your site. Having a source for affordable yet attractive web banners can play a big role in attracting traffic to your site. So users in need of web banners for advertizing stand to gain heavily from having access to a custom banner design service.

Hope you find this info helpful. Thanks
 

Web Design in India: Top Mistakes Made by Novice Outsourcers

Now a days, With decreasing cost for Web design and Web development services, creating a professional website for your business has become much cheaper and affordable. A host of Web design and development firms in places like India offer high quality sites at very affordable rates. Services include anything from small info sites for a basic web presence to large Ecommerce and Social networking sites which would drive business for you. But new buyers and people outsourcing work for the first time to India often make few basic mistakes which if eliminated would lead to a very profitable deal for them.
Presented below are the top mistakes that novice outsourcers do nine out of ten times. Have a read and fine tune your outsourcing strategies to put a stop to making costly gaffes.

1) No knowledge, no power
Web development and Web design outsourcing opportunities to India can do poorly for people who do not do the legwork and research beforehand, in order to find the best people to work with and ideal arrangements. Outsourcing Web design / Web development to India can be a very lucrative deal both in the short and long term, if the person knows what they are doing before committing to a deal overseas. Look for reliable partners with track records accessible on the web, you can do a quick search of the company name to read more about them. A reliable Web design and development company should have an established client base and have clients with whom they have worked years back and have good things to say about them.

2) Who you know will help you grow
People who know individuals with previous experience outsourcing to Indian Web design and Web development firms stand to do a lot better right away than those who associate with people who are not outsource-savvy either, or perhaps do not contact anyone at all about the subject before signing on with firm. Research your needs and find out suitable web development partners who have catered to such needs before. Not researching multiple companies or providers of Web development and Web design before making a commitment is a common error. Hasty decisions with no foresight can be costly early, and create a domino effect that takes more work to overcome later.

3) Know the law of the land before signing the deal
This may sound like a no-brainer, but it is surprisingly common that seekers of Web design and Web development outsourcing opportunities in India end up getting short-changed by not doing their homework and research ahead of time. This includes not knowing about how Web development and Web design operate in India. Many people do not look into certain key things, such as how the currency differences, hidden costs, and potential middle-men (and women) involved in certain outsourcing opportunities may end up costing people more than they initially bargained for. India based Web development and Web design outsourcing can be lucrative to those who have done the work, but can cost those who are ignorant to these some common sense but important points, especially for the outsourcing newcomer.

4) Evaluate the deal
Many people get over-excited about the possibility of saving (and making) a lot of money by partnering up with Web design/ Web development providers in locations like India; Look for trust and reliability in your new partner, how frequently they communicate and how well they communicate and give you insights about how prompt and responsive they will be to your needs. Draw up a contract and finetune to your needs and have that discussed with your Web design and development partner upfront. Set clear expectations and discuss clear ways of how you would track the progress of the the project. In addition, people fail to consider that there might be other people involved in their business affairs, perhaps providing other in-between services along the way, and potentially some extra costs that the new outsourcer did not consider.

I am sure this will helpful to all looking to outsource web design and web development services to India.

Few great blog posts I read today

While browsing the web I can across few great blog posts and wanted to share them with everyone.

Here they go:
http://www.sitepoint.com/develop-wordpress-custom-page-excerpt-plugin/


http://www.sitepoint.com/wordpress-easy-administration-plugin-3/

http://designfestival.com/looking-at-shift-logos/

And this one is on javascript:

http://designfestival.com/one-javascript-design-pattern-i-cant-live-without/

Happy reading

A Review of Some Common Design/Development Host Sites on the Web

This article aims at providing rich information about a few host sites on the internet, throwing more light on their popularity among web designs and development services.

Come for the better rates, but don’t stay for the tech support. www.godaddy.com

At godaddy.com they received a lot of positive feedback for fair rates for web hosting but users complained the most about the lack of adequate IT support, and an overly complicated system both on the website and in trying to deal with people via the phone for technical support and administrative issues. Users also described a site that is cluttered and difficult to navigate, with a lot of popup advertisements and encouragements to upgrade their account.

Simple effective service- just the basics with nothing fancy. www.hostgator.com

This summarizes the lion’s share of customer reviews, with many supporters and naysayers as well. People reported very reasonable rates, excellent customer service and IT support, and a site that is user friendly and offers people the kind of package that is right for them, without trying to sell them any extras. Hostgator seems to be competent in terms of offering basic hosting for Web design and Web development services to the public.

Those who like it swear by it. www.justhost.com

This Web design and Web development provider has some users that swear by the company, quoting fair rates, good technical support, and stable efficient service. However, there are also those who speak of being billed without having their website or other service activated on time, a lot of “run around” in trying to contact customer service. Those who found the services helpful are not complaining, but for some the lack of quick reliable service experienced here may be enough to encourage some to take their needs else where.

A mixed bag for customers... www.bluehost.com
Here is another provider that some promote readily, but many found themselves dissatisfied by the hosting opportunities provided by Bluehost. The most common issues quoted were lack of efficient and helpful customer service, and lots of server crashes/ downtime, and false advertising claims regarding the “unlimited” space that is advertised in some packages. Users reported that they found themselves quickly in need of upgrades, and complained that Bluehost could not meet their needs on time.


There are some customers who are happy with their current providers, and many who have reported a lot issues. Since Hostgator had the best connections to India and the best overall ratings by consumers, it may speak well of Indian Web development/ Indian Web design.

Don’t put Schezuan Sauce in an Italian Pizza - A Web Design rant

While I love Schezuan sauce a lot and use it on all my Chinese cooking, still I would not like to put that on top of an  Italian Pizza, they are a completely different style of dishes and don’t go well together. It will make less of a Pizza and not even a proper Chinese dish either. Same is the case with web design.

While that nice flipflop colors may look great on some other site you have visited, but that may not be best suited for your website. Now a days, I see a increasing trend in buyers vision for their new sites is to have all the nice features and widgets they have seen on all sites ever visited, jumbled up together in their site to make their site more attractive. Well that does not work and actually goes a long way in making the site a joke. Every site has unique context and purpose and the style, colors and features should reflect that purpose rather than having every flashy widget they see on the web in their site. 

Sometime back I was working with a medical practitioner for her personal site to grow her business. I had suggested her lighter and sober colors and style to reflect a peaceful ambience and welcoming tone. The buyer instead was adamant that she wants the site in Black. She had recently visited a hip/hop rock music site with a full black design and liked it very much and wanted to use that as a design base for her site. While a shiny black site with high contrast yellow and greens may be a great theme for rockstar site but its definitely a misfit for a medical practitioner. As expected that turned out to be pretty bad design and visitors of the site will no doubt get irked by the color sense of the designer.