5 Tips to Speed up your Magento E-Commerce Site

Magento, one of the largest platforms for E-commerce is widely accepted and used worldwide by the developers as well as E-commerce websites. Because of its versatile and advanced features Magento is about to become synonym of E-commerce. But it is also a fact that using magento is not always a good experience sometimes, because of older version, low memory etc…One can face the problem of magento site speed. One can speed up the site by using following steps.

     1.     Install latest Version

Magento is having large community of users and developers. Therefore, an update is always available on time to time. It is advisable to install the latest version of Magento to make website work smoothly.

    2.     Use Magento Optimized Server

Running Magento on a generic server may sometimes cause the slow working of site. Magento recommends a standard configuration of two web nodes and one database server. If it is configured and optimized properly, it will help speeding up the magento.

    3.     Minimize Use of Third Party Extension

Though Magento allows and support third party extension, sometimes it may make the website slow. Thus, it is advisable to keep third party extension as minimum as possible.

    4.     Clean Database Log

While using magento e-commerce site, sometimes, due to unnecessary log information on database may increase its load and can make the working of the site slow. Therefore, one should regularly erase the unnecessary log on database to ensure the easy running of a website.

    5.     Optimize My SQL Server

My SQL server has its own ‘query cache’ which will help to generate dynamic pages and content, which will help improving the performance of website drastically.

Here, at Xhtmljunkies we are providing various E-Commerce and Web Development solutions with the advanced tools like Magento, Wordpress, Joomla, etc. And have created the large group of Valued Clients by providing excellent service and 24/7 support.

5 Things E-commerce Developers Must Do

Team of qualified developers, a good coding system and basic framework for website, etc. basic things comes in one’s mind while thinking about developing a good website. But one question arises, are these means capable enough for developing and easily working of a website? Probably not, because smoothly working of a website specially an e-commerce website requires more than the basic tolls mentioned above. Let’s have a glance at some of them,

      1.     Enable Responsive Design

With the passage of time and evolution of Digital and Communication technology, we have witnessed the drastic change in the usage of devices for the transmission of information. Now-a-days Desktop and PC are replaced by Mobile Devices like Smart Phones and Tablets.

Same is affecting E-Commerce in large extent. As mention in one of my blogs “Driving Trends of E-Commerce” more than 50% of the total orders placed on E-Commerce during the year 2014 were made from Mobile Devices.

Therefore, an E-Commerce Developer needs to enable responsive design for the site so that one can access the website in every device.

     2.     Develop Genuine Content & Keep Track of its Effectiveness

For an e-commerce website, its content is the core of the website and the way of presenting the content on site has its own prime importance.

Therefore, developers should strive at developing genuine content for website and after that to measure its effectiveness one can use tools like Google Analytics, Web Master, etc.

     

     3.     An Effective Content Management System

Once the content of website is created, it is necessary to manage it properly. One can use the data from analytics software to support the CMS of the website. An effective CMS works as an active backend system for website, which makes the website capable of attracting more traffic. 

    4.     Social Media Integration

Effective use of Social Media Integration may help website to perceptible increase in its traffic. Over the years we have noticed drastic change in usage of social media. Numbers of users have increased more than 100% for the past years. Thus, enabling social media integration one can open the doors for all those users to visit and use the website.

Social Media Integration also provides an easier alternative to guest visitor to purchase from website. One will feel inconvenient to create separate User Account for purchasing from site which may later result in loosing that visitor. But through social media integration one can retain the visitor by allowing them to log in with their social media Id.

     5.     Security

Security; the most sensitive issue for any website, specially for e-commerce website where customers are submitting their personal details like address, contact numbers, bank and credit card details, etc. It becomes necessary for developers to secure the site with Secure Sockets Layers (SSLs) to build trust in the mind of customers submitting their details.

Here, at Xhtmljunkies we are providing various E-Commerce and Web Development solutions with the advanced tools like Magento, Wordpress, Joomla, etc. And have created the large group of Valued Clients by providing excellent service and 24/7 support.

4 Things to keep in Mind before Starting E-Commerce Business

Starting an E-Commerce Business is not a difficult task now-a-days, with vast availability of support and references, one can easily enter the market of E-Commerce and can get access over global market place and can achieve remarkable success and growth.

But it is also a fact that entering into E-commerce Market is not that much easy task as it looks. One needs to think a lot on various factors which guides the success of the business in E-commerce market. Let’s have a glance at some of them.

1. Clearly Defined Business Objective

A well defined business objective provides a clear road-map to the business. One should be well aware of the main objectives behind starting e-commerce business and should be having adequate knowledge about current and future requirements of an e-commerce business. Proper evaluation of business objective provides clear vision for the future of business. 

2. Deciding on Offerings

Offerings of a business plays vital role in achieving business objectives. Offerings of businesses are the means which will support and guide the development of business.

Therefore, one needs to focus on the analysis and selection of offerings of business. One must answer the question like,

    ·        What will be offerings of business?

    ·        To whom business will deliver its offerings?

    ·        How business will deliver its offerings?

           3. Identifying Target Audience & Finding ways to target them

Once, the business has decided on its offerings next is to think about its target audience. There is a common myth about e-commerce that everyone will come to buy from the seller if selling on e-commerce, but as supposed earlier it is a myth. In reality one needs to undergo the study of target audience and needs to find the answer to the questions like.

    ·        Who is the Target Audience?

    ·        Where are they located?

    ·        What are they needs?

    ·        How business will approach them?

    4. Basic Qualitative Aspects of a Website

The most important factor while launching business on e-commerce is designing and developing a good website. One has to focus a lot on this aspect, and needs to think on aspects like,

    ·        Domain Name

    ·        Basic Design & Framework of Website

    ·        Content Management System

    ·        Backend Support and Security requirements of site

Here, at Xhtmljunkies we are providing various E-Commerce and Web Development solutions with the advanced tools like Magento, Wordpress, Joomla, etc. And have created the large group of Valued Clients by providing excellent service and 24/7 support.

Boost Up your sales promotion activities with Magento Extensions.

In the highly competitive environment of e-commerce market one cannot deny to the fact that Sales Promotion on e-commerce store is completely different than of traditional offline business. One has to work hard on qualitative aspects of e-commerce along with generally followed sales promotional activities which highly requires a well settled base of the website to perform such activities.

Here are some Magento Extensions which will contribute to create that base.

1. Color Swatch Plus and Mega menu

Homepage is the first thing which promotes the website. Impression of an e-commerce store will be created on the basis of its look, design and way of presenting the content. What if customer can decide what to see? And can select the product according to their choice and preference.

Mega Menu extension helps customer to add CMS pages in the navigation menu and also allows deciding whether to put it on the right or left of the navigation menu. One can easily see the featured product by just hovering over category.

At other side Color Swatch Plus enables one to check product in different available colors, size, design, swatches, etc. Vendor needs to add the details of the available sizes, colors and designs of the product. 

2. Multiple Deals and Discount

Offering deals and discounts are the mostly used promotional activities. But while doing business on e-commerce one has to be careful in handling information of all the deals and discounts offered in the store. One with the use of magento extensions like XJ Daily Deals and Multiline Discount will be able to manage all the information and updates of various deals and discount.

XJ Daily Deals allows one to feed the details of all the deals and offers in a queue with starting and ending date. As a result it will display the details of offers on website and once the offer gets expired it will remove it from website.

In other hand Multiline discount extension will help customers to know how much discount they have got in case of  purchasing in bulk or more than one item by showing each discount in separate line. 

3. AJAX Cart Pro with Drag and Drop

Customers, while purchasing product from e-commerce store expect a good purchasing experience, under that expectation if a customer visits specific website and if found inconvenience in checking the product details, comparing the products, one will never turn back to visit website again.

AJAX cart pro Drag and Drop extension one can remove this drawback. Drag and Drop extension enables customers to add product in cart or to compare it with other products by just one click.

4. Auto Currency and Country Switch

Sometimes for the vendor operating e-commerce business on international market it becomes necessary to display the price of the product according to country’s currency. Otherwise it may create confusion in the mind of customer while purchasing from e-commerce store.

Auto Currency and Country Switch extension helps to display the website content and price of the product according to the country of the customer. This extension automatically switches the store currency for visitor based on visitor’s IP Address geographical location.

Here, at Xhtmljunkies we are providing various E-Commerce and Web Development solutions with the advanced tools like Magento, Wordpress, Joomla, etc. And have created the large group of Valued Clients by providing excellent service and 24/7 support.

Easiest Way to Make Customer Purchase Online

E-Commerce market, opening doors of global business opportunities has huge potential. One can if successfully identify the best way to approach and serve the customers, can rapidly achieve the growth in business.

We are living in the world surrounded with services. Businesses have started focusing on their offerings and services to the customer to provide the customer best experience with company to create positive image in mind of customers.

E-Commerce market is the market which is highly affected with the experiences of customer with website. If customer had bad experience while purchasing from e-commerce website. They will never type the name of that website in the address bar of their browser. Therefore, we are here with some extension which will help one to provide their customer the best purchasing experience.

1. 360 Degree View of Product

The way of the presentation of the product to the customer has changed with the evolution of e-commerce industry. Now-a-days customers want to check the product from every angle. Customers’ decisions of purchasing product highly depend on the way product is presented to them.

360 degree view of product extension enables customer to check the product from every angle which makes product presentation effective and attractive.

2. One Step Check Out

It is seen that many of the customers don’t purchase from e-commerce site because of lengthy and difficult payment process. Too much details to fill, lack of knowledge, etc. prevents the website visitors to purchase online.

One Step check out extension helps one to make payment process easier by combining all typical 5 or 6 steps of payment in one step.

     3. XJ Help Desk

For an e-commerce website it is necessary to be responsive and establish two way communications with customers. This can be done by answering every single query and complaint of the customers. Such practices help one to create positive image of company in the mind of customers.

XJ Helpdesk thus, ensures the reply to each query by arranging them and answering all the queries on time. It establishes central desk from where each query can be linked to corresponding order or department.

     4.     SMS Manager

Now-a-days customers after purchasing product want the update of every stage of delivery process and much other information like new offers, deals or products, etc. thus SMS Manager Extension helps to keep customer updated with latest information.

Here, at Xhtmljunkies we are providing various E-Commerce and Web Development solutions with the advanced tools like Magento, Wordpress, Joomla, etc. And have created the large group of Valued Clients by providing excellent service and 24/7 support.

Expand Your Market with Magento Extension

E-Commerce with its large potentiality opening doors for business opportunities across the globe. One can get maximum benefit out of it with best outreach. But the question arises here, how beginners can increase their market share? Most of the beginners are generally not having large number of products to offer. Therefore there is a need to find source which fulfil this need.

One easy solution for this problem is the extension explained below. Magento themes and extensions are considered as one of the best open source Content Management System tools, which enables one to upgrade the e-commerce website with the advanced features.

Magento Market Place Extension is one of the magento extensions, which enables an e-commerce vendor to create their profile and in return sellers will pay fees or commission and an e-commerce vendor can earn additional revenue by using market place extension. In this way an e-commerce vendor can create virtual market place by creating group of the sellers.

Working of market place extension includes following parties,

1.     Sellers Activities

Sellers are the members of the market. In market place extension every individual seller is provided a specific profile and also URL as per seller’s choice. Market place extension enables sellers to,

• Manage and Update their profile
• Assign category and subcategory to the product
•  Display available inventory
• Set the shipping price for every product
•  Manage Banners, Catalogue, Shop logo, and can or remove the products from the list

2.     Admin Activities

Admin at Market Place extension can be the centralize authority to handle all activities of Market Place described as follow,

• To authenticate seller’s account before activation
• To control the approval or disapproval of products
• To manage details of products as well as sellers
• To manage individual commission rates for individual seller
• To moderate the products added by sellers

3.     Customers Activities

Customers are the individuals who will get the maximum benefit out of market place extension. It provides benefits like,

• Wide range of products
• Can purchase from any seller
• Can check the availability(stock) of product
• Can provide feedback about specific product

Thus, this way market place extension helps e-commerce vendor to grab more customers and earn more revenue.

Here, at Xhtmljunkies we are providing various E-Commerce and Web Development solutions with the advanced tools like Magento, Wordpress, Joomla, etc. And have created the large group of Valued Clients by providing excellent service and 24/7 support.

Elsnerites’ visit to Kasbara Municipality School

Kasbara Municipality School is located in Tarapur Taluka at Aanand District. It’s a municipality school having 240 students starting from Std 1 to Std 8.Their requirements for having a proper educational experience which were fulfilled by us included stationery items, school bags, raincoats, school uniforms, etc. It was fond experience for Elsnerites to be able to contribute in fulfillment of a tiny eyes’ dreams.