BigCommerce trending among Development Services

BigCommerce, one of the leading e-commerce platforms, is a result of a similar idea that has provided comfort to every stakeholder associated to e-commerce on the platform. As an analogy, desktops first used to be customized with different components from companies, though it is still practiced till date, today many of the companies provide complete desktop hardware. Now, e-commerce is a similar concept, the e-commerce development companies used to customize the web services earlier, but today, e-commerce platforms are provided with every required functionality for the platform as the inbuilt template and therefore, e-commerce owners need not go to the website experts asking basic features to be included. With many players in the market, e-commerce concept accounts for business owners, clients, and web services.

Shopify and BigCommerce are two leading companies related to online commerce store. These companies are the first type of providers of the e-commerce store, integrated with every basic functionality. E-commerce development services such as BigCommerce and Shopify development are third party companies and contractors that customize the e-commerce store according to the needs of clients and meeting the demands of e-commerce business for the best productivity of the services and products at the e-commerce platform.

For new players in the BigCommerce market, it is necessary to know about the whole concept around which, the e-commerce dwells as a result.

Structural layout of the store

As the layout structure of the front-end, the BigCommerce websites pages are developed with layout file having as many as panels. Further, each of these panels is structured into snippets, which can be more than one at a time. Colour, fonts, size, the design of panels and etc. are editable in this layout file page and subcategories mentioned. For a BigCommerce development service, it is a challenging task to customize the website according to customers’ needs related to the look and feel of the site.

Modification of design

Normally, it is done by modifying the template files via design mode & quick edit, comparing & managing template files, and modifying the template files via FTP. Thus, BigCommerce development services modify the store design via design mode and quick edit in the templates. Further, these templates are compared to each other keeping them side by side to have a better design at the end. Apart from the modification of the templates, maintenance of the theme is done keeping the design up to date.

Template variables

In BigCommerce store development, one of the main points from the developers’ end is the layout, panel and snippet files designs. All of these files include template variables that are enclosed in between %% tags. These variables are global variables, language variables, panel references, snippet references and File includes.

Further Stylesheets are customized extensively using CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) such that the design and appearance of the store are modified for best user experience. Additionally, customer reviews of the product constructively help in the marketing of the store. Integration of the payment gateways is provided by third party vendors guaranteeing secure payments. BigCommerce development services are inclined towards every single aspect related to e-commerce stores, management, and marketing strategies. The coming years in the e-commerce store development will mark new features providing the best user interface, not only according to the appearance but, according to the functionalities being added up to the store providing quality and uniqueness.

Xamarin edge for App developers

Considerably, the tools are used for developing native applications. Therefore, all the apps developed by Xamarin are native applications and tries to incorporate native user-interface in the application. Considerably, since the platform is open source, Xamarin tools can be utilized by third-party application development companies.

In the mobile tech world, since Android, iOS and Windows became three major operating systems that are used by users based on the applications installed by users. At present, if we analyze the market of mobile application development, it can be noticed that all the three platforms have sources that allows the user to download and install the application. For Android, Google play store acts as application source, iTunes for Apple and Windows play store for windows mobile. Third parties are able to create accounts on these sources and upload the applications developed by them. Xamarin is the open source that allows developers to build applications using C#. For a Xamarin app development company or developer, anything that can be done using Java, Objective-C or Swift, could be easily achieved with C# with Xamarin. As a misleading fact among many IT intellectuals, it is to be noticed that Xamarin is the name of the company owned by Microsoft. The company emphasized on C# language to achieve functionalities similar to the other three languages mentioned above.

Xamarin has definitely provided a flexibility of utilizing same Integrated Development Environment (IDE) as well as Application Program Interface ( API) for all the three platforms. This way, C# is the only language to be take care by the developers or app development company using Xamarin, but with a constraint as it is designed to work with Microsoft’s .Net platform. Xamarin understands the technical requirements of operating systems irrespective of the mobile devices and their respective software updates, thus as one of the another main features, the applications developed using Xamarin tools are compatible fro developer support on the same day of new OS releases.

Compared to any other tools, Xamarin Application Development Company relies on automated testing procedure provided in the framework. Thus, developers can easily find and fix bugs in apps by automated testing procedure by Xamarin having more than 2000 real test devices in its cloud. All the testing procedures are accompanied by real time usage of the applications developed using Xamarin. Along with the users performing user interface gestures such as swiping, pinching, taping on the screen, the cloud tests also gets performed on Xamarin cloud. Xamarin app development companies really have an edge in terms of flexibility in developing high-end apps increasing the efficiency of mobile app development.

WooCommerce Developers Need to Soar High

If we compare Prestashop and WooCommerce, the primary difference that can be identified is the Content Management system (CMS). Prestashop does not require CMS. Though, if we look at the stats, PrestaShop has a number of downloads more than WooCommerce plugin. But interestingly, WooCommerce had 2.3 million downloads in just two years, whereas, PrestaShop could only manage to have downloaded 3.4 million in seven years. As a significant advantage, a WooCommerce development Service should consider few points to have an advantage over other platforms in the market. Well, these are just listed below.

As a basic for WooCommerce Development, the development service needs to know just two things. First, it is a shopping cart plugin, but not, a platform. Simply put, it is just a plugin that can be installed to an existing theme to get developed into a platform. Nowadays, there are plenty of sources that determine WooCommerce plugin as an online platform, which is mistakenly a myth in the e-commerce market among owners. Thus, to have WooCommerce plugin installed, there must be a WordPress theme, which has evolved as a kind of content management system. Now, if one have a WordPress site and wants to install WooCommerce, then it is absolutely fine, and can be achieved with an ease. In case, one doesn’t have a WordPress site and wants to install WooCommerce functionality into it, then, it’s not worth transferring the whole site to a WordPress platform. The existing theme can be modified to have exact features like the WordPress plugin.

The names like Shopify, Magento, and Volusion are some of the leading e-commerce solutions. Websites on such platforms have extensions that are needed to be bought in premium versions. As an analogy, if WooCommerce can be considered as an iOS, then Magento or PrestaShop can be considered as Android. The analogy is based on customization functionality at the backend. WooCommerce plugin is entirely free to download. To install extensions on the platform, the WordPress site needs to be the configuration in addition to SSL and hosting package. At present, WooCommerce development service provides these two pieces of advice to their clients.

Shopify is one of the leading e-commerce store platforms. Now, if WordPress is compared with Shopify, it would be too critical to decide the winner among both. In terms of ease of management of the store on both the platforms, Shopify is better than WordPRess. Regarding best features, Shopify has many features that are more advantageous than WordPress plugin. SEO management is again one of the critical points to be considered to make a choice between the two, where, Shopify holds an edge over WordPress. In terms of customer support, again business owners need to know that Shopify has a live-chat option with the customer care support and thus, far better than the uncustomised WooCommerce website.

Thus, websites that are built on e-commerce platforms are always leading than WooCommerce plugin. Still, WordPress is preferred by business owners as it has its own advantages which other platforms don’t give. Easy to customize, WordPress is considered as one of the best platforms for websites that can be handled with a great ease and better to manage if one have a good hand in it. A WooCommerce development service must have dedicated WordPress developers, capable enough to have any sort of customization, and know to play with all the extensions. The organization mainly faces these two issues many times with their clients. As a leading WooCommerce service, the organization provide its best efforts to its clients and thus, maintained an edge over the generic equivalents in the market.