Basic Use of Conceptual Framework for Development

Companies implement different frameworks and best practices considering it as a base with the objective to improve the project management success rate and improvethe business adaptability to the changing business environment. Agile as “Project management framework” and Scrum as “Development framework” proved in many cases that they can meet these objectives. Though, both the frameworks are based on different principles and the use of both frameworks together should be carefully considered.

A huge amount of money and effort has been invested by companies into setting up their project management background and progression that follow the classical segmented approach where requirements are defined straight and fixed. But companies wish for to respond more quickly to advanced global challenges and to the changing in the business development environment. These business provisions then result in the failure of many running projects.

For all these global challenges, there is a need to improve the current project management environment so that it is more “Agile” and “Adoptive” to changes.

The objective of all this discussion is to create a conceptual framework that comprehensive ideologies and methods from both frameworks (Agile and Scrum) with importance on their use in web development projects. Project managers must have a better understanding of agile development principles and the knowledge of how it fits in the classic project management framework. Finally, a better understanding of frameworks helps product developers to work in more agile ways and endure in the controlled and compound project environment. For the corporate management companies, these specific frameworks help to set up agile software products and development projects.

Benefits of Laravel Framework for Web App Development

Laravel is the most popular PHP framework for web application development. This framework is faster, speed up the development process, extremely clean and simple, more robust with more and more advancements and ideal for web developers. Laravel framework is beneficial for business web application development.

A website is the combination of web application development technology, strategies, and expert applications from a business point of view. In this technological period, it is crucial to choose the best platform to make user friendly and excellent business websites.

The Laravel framework provides the following benefits for business web application development.

• Laravel framework makes the authorization and authentication procedure manageable and very smooth.
• Laravel create fast and reliable applications by sending mails through locally and a cloud-based service with the use of drivers like Mailgun, Mandrill, and PHP’s mail function, SparkPost, SMTP, Amazon SES and Sendmail.
• Laravel allows web developers to test their code in the best possible way. Developers can write their multiple unit tests quickly by using Artisan command-line utility.

• Laravel configured default error occurred in business website and exception handling.

The general and productive tasks contribute in the development of a business web application. Although not all frameworks can solve each of the website’s specified issues easily. But Laravel framework is cost effective and fast for business app development.

Why You Should Design Responsive Website?

The rise in the popularity and use of mobile devices demands for responsive website designing. Now in this technological era, it is very easy and quick to make responsive and attractive website designs using latest web designing techniques and tools. A responsive website adjusts itself according to the size of screen it is being viewed on either on a phone, desktop, or a tablet etc.

A responsive website can get several benefits as follows:

Increased Traffic from Mobile Users: The solution of creating two different versions of one website one for desktop users, and other for mobile users is responsive website. One responsive website is ready for all devices. A majority of business owners and their clients use mobile devices to visit websites. This trend is beneficial to increase website traffic.

Adoptability: A great responsive website adapts easily and automatically to any screen size either mobile, desktop, laptop, tablets, smartwatches, IoT devices, etc.

Improves SEO Efforts: Responsive websites having high quality content and user focused experience have a greater chance of ranking high in SERPs. Google recommends a responsive website design patterns.

Economic Website Maintenance: Responsive website offers lower maintenance cost as compared to running two versions of one website. However, in the beginning it is relatively expensive. But the reduced cost of maintaining two separate websites does add up. 

Provides a flawless User Experience: This is one of the greatest benefits of having a responsive website. As responsive website adopts all screen sizes so the user can easily visit such website on all devices. While in unresponsive websites texts are jumbled, images are blur and do not align and users have to scroll through endless pages to get the required information. After such painful and time consuming experience the visitor will not again visit your website.

On-page SEO Techniques

Search engine optimization of website makes post keyword targeted, drive more traffic and improve website’s ranking. Search engines are algorithms that look into various factors to rank your page for certain keywords. The two main factors that play an important role in optimizing a website or a blog post are On-page optimization and Off-page optimization. 

Google takes into account many factors like domain authority, off-page metrics, social media signals (likes, shares, follows, tweets, etc.) along with on-page SEO while ranking an article. On-page SEO focus on content for a target keyword using suitable keyword placement, proper headings, content quality, and paying attention to many other factors within a single blog post. Here are some On-Page optimization techniques for better ranking and optimizing your blog posts.

• Improve user experience by making website responsive, appealing and user friendly.
• Make professional website by provide necessary and required information and services on front page so that the visitors easily get the required information and spend a lot of time on your website.
• Create good quality and informative content. Use benefit-driven sub-headings to be more engaging.
• Make attractive and optimized blog post title so that it gets more clicks and higher rank.
• Create a Meta title less than 65 characters and a Meta description less than 150 characters.
• Use targeted keyword in the URL by using dashes to differentiate the strings in your URL structure. These are called “pretty” permalinks.
• Use heading tags to highlight various headings, sub-headings, and important points of your blog post.
• Include images and videos into your post to make it attractive and engage the user.
• Add relevant and necessary internal and trusted websites’ external links in your blog post to stay the blog readers on your post.
• Write high quality and engaging content. Try to write that material which the readers want to read.

Software Localization

The Information Technology in Pakistan is a growing industry having a lot of potential. Software technology sector has developed a lot as compared to the last decade because now Pakistan has thousands of registered IT companies, call centers, English speaking IT professionals and many Software technology parks. 

The developed software is increasingly used in education sector, business, health, supermarkets, agriculture, and security departments etc. Now there is a need to localize the software development in Urdu and Regional languages so that Pakistan could meet the standards of digitalization. A software application is customized for a specific region or language through Software Localization process. 

Software development in regional and Urdu language will facilitate the people to get maximum advantage of technology. Software localization will increase the usage and productivity of technology, reduce the Digital Divide in the community, can enhance the utility of basic mobile phone text messages and normal computer usage.

Selection of a Mobile Application Development Strategy for Your Company

Nowadays many businesses are significantly consuming a lot of IT budgets for mobile app development. They have found that an app can provide good connection with consumer-culture and can also help in concluding serious businesses. 

The market of handled devices like tablet PC, smartphones, and other similar gadgets has shifted the large number of customers from the computer market. The people are using these smart devices and applications for serious business procedures along with entertainment purposes.

Although a lot of businesses are making investment for the development of mobile applications for their businesses but some businesses do not need to have apps on platforms like iOS, Android or Windows, those businesses where speed and efficiency are the pre-requirements and they need large screen devices for certain computing-operations.

But there are a number of domains where mobile apps can contribute a lot to attain desired productivity with small screens. Enterprises have just learned this technique, some businesses have already launched their apps and, some are in the trying phase. Many businesses are confused with mobile-web, native, and hybrid approaches of app development.

Native Apps

The native apps are locally installed on a device and run faster and in many cases, even without the internet connectivity. These native apps can be downloaded from app stores, installed and used anytime, anywhere. Both the leading stores Google Play and App Store have been deeply stressing on native mobile app development technologies and have succeeded because we see the wealth of app store hosting millions of native apps.

Native apps are created for a specific platform e.g. an iOS app cannot run on Android app. These apps have capacity to correspond with GPS for location tracking, data storage, camera support, advanced graphics and accelerometer supports. Many utility operation based applications are entirely native. 

Mobile Web Apps

These apps are developed and designed using CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript web technologies. Mobile web apps are fully functional web based apps and have full support from web browsers. The biggest benefit of web technologies based mobile app development is that a single app can be accessible on the multiple number devices. These apps are developed with better usability, graphics and audio and video tags to deliver look and feel similar to native apps.

The main problem of these apps is that they are not available on play store and can be accessed though browser using an URL. Hybrid mobile application development is the solution of this problem and a middle way which allows them to launch a web app as a native app.

Hybrid Mobile Apps

The hybrid mobile applications are the combination of both native and web technologies. Some part of app is native and some part is web. It is created using platform specific native technologies. The front part users launch an app with is native which is actually a web app, based on HTML, JavaScript and CSS3.

It totally depends on a business to choose the best option out of available three to get a mobile app developed.

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a development of the application service provider (ASP) model and enables cloud computing to offer flexible and professional delivery of software to customers. SaaS is the main model of cloud computing from storage to security to backup. Today almost all businesses can use a variety of applications delivered using the Software as a Service model.

SaaS applications provide best practices and more useful features as compared to other equivalent software developed in-house. SaaS is different because it involves offering access to software that has specifically been designed to run in the cloud for multi-tenancy. Many customers can use a single instance of the application at the same time, even their configurations and data are kept separate.

A standard web browser offer access to SaaS applications so there is no need to install or update any software locally. SaaS applications are usually charged on monthly basis which enable companies to pay only according to their required usage. Some Software as a Service companies offer free access to their application for a limited feature set or for a limited number of customers.