The ColdFusion Developers at Adobe have contributed an invaluable asset to the world of computer programming with this very widely distributed software program. Developing the perfect ColdFusion web application requires a certain level of depth and execution that only a ColdFusion Development Company can provide consumers with on a consistent basis. In recent years, the developers of ColdFusion have been at the receiving end of an incredible surge of support and recognition in the web development community, and rightly so.

ColdFusion offers many advantages to its users, and these are emphasized even more when programmers integrate its use adjacently with the Adobe Flex program. One of the key benefits to consider is the sped up development time. ColdFusion Developers have found ways to make the creation and deployment of dynamic ColdFusion web applications both easy and fast. Not only does this make using Adobe ColdFusion and Flex more convenient than any other available platforms, but in the long run, this also brings down the costs of production and maintenance for users.

Another significant advantage to be found in the utilization of these two programs is the enhanced layout capability. With ColdFusion‘s built-in Javascript and HTML, the program’s GUI is optimally executed. Direct communication with the server and bold data display have both been made possible through the successful marriage of ColdFusion and Flex. This Flex shopping cart is an example of the kind of technology using Flex developers can bring to your website.

There is also a considerably broader range of communicability to be experienced through ColdFusion due to its compatibility with most operating systems and servers. Some of these systems include AIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD and more. Investing in a Coldfusion Development project with Flex Components is undoubtedly a smart move. The ColdFusion development and Flex development Company, Ecom Solutions, has made it possible for programmers to undoubtedly get the most from their time and money, Which in the end is a savings passed on to their clients.

Currently the market is brimming with numerous shopping carts, therefore:

Why would you go for a Flex shopping cart from Ecomsolutions.net?
At EcomSolutions.net we let our Applications create their own reasons for existing and for becoming irresistible choices for our customers and clients. When you use our Flex Shopping Cart you provide your shoppers an unparalleled experience in online shopping. Gone are the days when even small changes demanded the loading of new pages. A Flex Shopping Cart does not have to depend on that old-school methodology.

A Flex Shopping Cart provides the following unique features:

Pageless navigation: that means your customers don’t have to hop from page to page in order to complete the transaction while using the Flex Shopping Cart; everything happens on a single page like a desktop application.

The changes are reflected immediately: as your customers quickly add new items and change the quantities of existing items the changes are immediately reflected without having the pages to be reloaded. This significantly increases the speed and interactivity.

Secure, single-screen checkout: a single screen checkout reduces the chances of abandonment and distraction. The entire transaction takes place extremely fast and your customers don’t lose track of what they are doing due to countless distractions existing on the Internet. Our Flex Shopping Cart is completely secure.

Comprehensive administrative area: you can control all the aspects of our Flex Shopping Cart using a highly intuitive administrative area that can be accessed using login ID and password. You can assign various accessibility levels for your employees. You can maintain your entire stock, reporting formats and calculation algorithms using the administrative area of the Ecomsolutions.net Flex shopping cart.

Native support for rich media: who says that a shopping cart only means drab numbers and inactive purchasing functions? Make your shopping cart highly interactive by embedding audio, video and even Flash animations using the native support for rich media in our Flex Shopping Cart.

Countless design styles and skins: brand the Flex Shopping Cart according to the layout of your own Website; your customers don’t have to know that you are using an external Application to handle business transactions. Through various designs and skins you can totally customize the look and feel of our Flex Shopping Cart.

Multiple international currencies and automatic exchange rates: once you start selling on the Internet people buy from you from all over the world and you cannot simply offer them a single currency. Our Flex Shopping Cart gives you the ability to let your customers pay in their own currencies. This way they feel totally at ease while shopping on your Website and they don’t have to use external help to figure out how much they need to pay you in case they pay using their own currency.

Filtered navigation and sorting: give complete control of how the data is displayed on your shopping cart to your customers so that they completely feel at home while shopping at your website. Our Flex Shopping Cart lets them customize the navigation and sort the displayed items according to names, values, and even their colors.

Custom product display and layout: as explained above, the sky is the limit when it comes to customizing the display of your products and prices using our Flex Shopping Cart. Display your products in whichever way you want to so that practically no distractions and confusions occur when people are buying from you; this ensures seamless transactions without the chances of your customers leaving the transaction midway.

Automated shipping and tax calculations: once these calculations have been defined using the administrative area they are calculated automatically while your customer is adding items to the shopping cart. Every calculation happens in real-time and immediately on the same screen so that your customers don’t lose track of what they are doing. They don’t have to carry out even a single calculation. It’s as simple as clicking on individual items in order to add them to the shopping cart and then clicking the checkout link in order to pay on the same screen.

So what’s the big deal? Doesn’t every shopping cart provide these features?
Sure, many shopping carts do provide these features but the startling difference with a Flex Shopping Cart is that everything happens on the same screen — it seems like using a desktop application. This significantly improves the quality of experience that your customers have while shopping at your website. You can animate the processes, you can create highly customized and interactive inventory lists that can be scrolled up and down keeping other components of your current webpage static, and every action, every calculation happens in real time, on a single page. It totally redefines the way people use and interact with your shopping cart interface. Your customers will get addicted to it.

How does Flex Development revolutionize the way your clients do business with you?
It’s all about speed these days. Just follow the link at the bottom and take a look at some Adobe Flex Examples. Long gone is the time when to update even a tiny bit of information on a webpage the user either needed to be directed to another page or needed to refresh the current page.  With Flex Development the current page behaves like a Desktop Application – only the information that needs to change will change, while everything else remains static on the Webpage; no need to load another page or reload the existing page.

Whenever you go to another page or reload the existing page everything on that page is reloaded.  This may include images, shopping cart items and the various scripts you may be using.  This not only means excessive use of your bandwidth it also means your Website technology seems archaic and slow to your clients. The entire thing especially becomes cumbersome if you are using online word processor or software that requires lots of updates with great speed. Websites and Online Applications developed using Adobe Flex allow the users to keep working while the data is being updated on the page, that is, they don’t have to wait while the page is being reloaded or refreshed.

Another example would be showing results from a database or sorting various columns alphabetically – or according to a certain value.  If such an application is developed in Flex the user can simply click the appropriate link and the column gets sorted immediately on the same page – without having to refresh the page.

What exactly is Flex Development?
Flex is a collection of technologies developed and marketed by Adobe and it is primarily used for developing and deploying cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with great speed and efficiency. Flex takes the abilities of Flash development to the next level.  Flash is all about animating various webpage objects based on a timeline.  An interactive Application developed with Flex on the other hand does not function based on a timeline, and lots of interaction takes place according to user response. This is achieved by saving the necessary logic and data on the client side instead of fetching them from the server again and again; this improves speed and efficiency tremendously. Flex development combines interactivity, usability, compatibility, adaptability and desktop-like richness to bring you an unmatched user experience. Our Adobe Flex examples are here to support the statement.

Since Applications and Website components developed with Adobe Flex can be easily embedded into existing pages, they can be used with almost every programming language and platform.  This means whether you have a Website developed in ColdFusion, ASP.NET, JAVA, or PHP you can easily incorporate and seamlessly integrate Flex Development. Adobe Flex can be customized to fit any industry and concepts.

So, to unleash the power of contemporary Web Development technologies think about using Flex Development for your next project or even your ongoing project, in order to redefine the way people use your Online Applications and browse your Website.

Examples of Flex Development and it’s advantages:

Flex Development – Overview & Description

Example of Flex Development – Shopping Cart – Fashion Industry

Example of Flex Development – Shopping Cart – Electronics Commerce

A Flex Shopping Cart provides the following unique features:

1.  Pageless navigation: that means your customers don’t have to hop from page to page in order to complete the transaction while using the Flex Shopping Cart; everything happens on a single page like a desktop application.

2.  The changes are reflected immediately: as your customers quickly add new items and change the quantities of existing items the changes are immediately reflected without having the pages to be reloaded.  This significantly increases the speed and interactivity.

3.  Secure, single-screen checkout: a single screen checkout reduces the chances of abandonment and distraction.  The entire transaction takes place extremely fast and your customers don’t lose track of what they are doing due to countless distractions existing on the Internet.  Our Flex Shopping Cart is completely secure.

4.  Comprehensive administrative area: you can control all the aspects of our Flex Shopping Cart using a highly intuitive administrative area that can be accessed using login ID and password.  You can assign various accessibility levels for your employees.  You can maintain your entire stock, reporting formats and calculation algorithms using the administrative area of the Ecomsolutions.net Flex shopping cart.

5.  Native support for rich media: who says that a shopping cart only means drab numbers and inactive purchasing functions?  Make your shopping cart highly interactive by embedding audio, video and even Flash animations using the native support for rich media in our Flex Shopping Cart.

6.  Countless design styles and skins: brand the Flex Shopping Cart according to the layout of your own Website; your customers don’t have to know that you are using an external Application to handle business transactions.  Through various designs and skins you can totally customize the look and feel of our Flex Shopping Cart.

7.   Multiple international currencies and automatic exchange rates: once you start selling on the Internet people buy from you from all over the world and you cannot simply offer them a single currency.  Our Flex Shopping Cart gives you the ability to let your customers pay in their own currencies.  This way they feel totally at ease while shopping on your Website and they don’t have to use external help to figure out how much they need to pay you in case they pay using their own currency.

8.  Filtered navigation and sorting: give complete control of how the data is displayed on your shopping cart to your customers so that they completely feel at home while shopping at your website.  Our Flex Shopping Cart lets them customize the navigation and sort the displayed items according to names, values, and even their colors.

9.  Custom product display and layout: as explained above, the sky is the limit when it comes to customizing the display of your products and prices using our Flex shopping cart. Display your products in whichever way you want to so that practically no distractions and confusions occur when people are buying from you; this ensures seamless transactions without the chances of your customers leaving the transaction midway.

10. Automated shipping and tax calculations: once these calculations have been defined using the administrative area they are calculated automatically while your customer is adding items to the shopping cart.  Every calculation happens in real-time and immediately on the same screen so that your customers don’t lose track of what they are doing.  They don’t have to carry out even a single calculation.  It’s as simple as clicking on individual items in order to add them to the shopping cart and then clicking the checkout link in order to pay on the same screen.

So what’s the big deal?  Doesn’t every shopping cart provide these features?
Sure, many shopping carts do provide these features but the startling difference with a Flex Shopping Cart is that everything happens on the same screen — it seems like using a desktop application.  This significantly improves the quality of experience that your customers have while shopping on your Website.  You can animate the processes, you can create highly customized and interactive inventory lists that can be scrolled up and down keeping other components of your current webpage static, and every action, every calculation happens in real time, on a single page.  It totally redefines the way people use and interact with your shopping cart interface.  Your customers will get addicted to it.

Our Flex Shopping Cart:

Being at the forefront of the Adobe Flex development technology it was but a natural step for us at EcomSolutions.net to build an enterprise level Flex Shopping Cart that brings pageless navigation to your E-commerce interface. The Flex Shopping Cart is a full-blown RIA component that can be incorporated into any workflow and E-commerce requirement.

Why would you go for a Flex shopping cart from Ecomsolutions.net?

At EcomSolutions.net we let our Applications create their own reasons for existing and for becoming irresistible choices for our customers and clients.  When you use our Flex Shopping Cart you provide your shoppers an unparalleled experience in online shopping.  Gone are the days when even small changes demanded the loading of new pages.  A Flex Shopping Cart does not have to depend on that old-school methodology.

Flex Shopping Cart powered by Ecom Solutions http://www.ecomsolutions.net/flex/

Flex Development is at the cutting edge of current Web Designing and Web Development technology. Its in Flex where functionality, interface, technology and design coalesce to give you a totally different experience when it comes to consuming and offering Web Applications. Adobe Flex has the required ability to transform any Online Application in such a manner that it functions like a Desktop Application – no longer you need to wait for the web pages to refresh and reload in order to display updated information. All the needed data resides on the user’s machine so the program does not have to communicate with the distant server again and again even to reflect tiny changes.

Why Ecom Solutions and Flex?

At Ecomsolutions we have a highly competent Team of Flex Developers continuously working on high-end enterprise level solutions based on Flex.  Our Flex Development Team has been involved with Flex Development since the days the technology was introduced by Adobe.  So we are completely at ease with all the ins and outs of this Web Development technology.  If something can be done in Flex we are capable of doing it.
Our Flex Developers have practically been working in the ditches.  We love challenges, and the requirements of our clients continuously offer us new benchmarks to set for the Web Development community. Of course, we are perpetually setting benchmarks for our own team of Flex Developers too.
Our Flex Developers closely work with the clients to make sure that the deliverables match the exact requirements of the clients – both, present requirements and future requirements.

So what makes us stand apart as a Flex Development Team?

•    Our hourly rate is highly competitive compared to other Web Development Companies
•    Our Flex Developers have already implemented and installed scores of enterprise level Flex Applications
•    We are based in New York – the hub of international business activities
•    We can integrate Flex with all major programming languages such as C#, PHP, .NET, Java, ASP etc. and can also work with all major mainstream databases

We don’t just want to awestruck your customers and clients with the amazing visual and design capabilities of Adobe Flex; we want to create Online Applications that are functional, do brisk business for you day in and day out, while a pleasurable experience for them.

Make your website Flexible today!

The trend nowadays, especially after many disappointments of outsourcing to other continents and odd time zones in the past years, is to Subcontract your overhead Web Development and Programming tasks to experienced, U.S based Companies that don’t work while you sleep.

Who can benefit from using Web Development Subcontractors?
A variety of established Enterprises, Software Giants, and Government Contractors are prone to profit from offering Subcontractor Web Development and Programming Services to knowledgeable, U.S. based firms that will deliver on time. In your time zone, too!
•    Companies that provide Information Technology Solutions to others
•    Web Design Firms with overhead, busy or inadequate resources
•    Marketing Companies looking to offer their clients a guaranteed delivery
•    Anyone that likes to have piece of mind when it comes to Professionalism, Clear Contract Terms, and Timeliness
•    Most people that like to sleep nights and dislike heavy accents

Why would you want to use Ecom Solutions as an IT Subcontractor?

Should you need ColdFusion and Flex expertise, we have it under our belt. Our firm can partner with you to fulfill your clients’ demands. If the following points make sense to you:

•    Profit Control – We offer you our rates, and you can handle financials with your client as you see fit
•    Cost Management – You only pay for the work you need done. Unlike a permanent employee, we don’t cost anything while we aren’t being put to use.
•    No extra Hassle – You can avoid the headaches and extra cost of permanent personnel. We take care of our own benefits, and you don’t need to provide them.
•    Assured Added Capacity – Our expert ColdFusion Analytics and Programming staff is here to stay, and you are guaranteed the combined experience

…then Contact us Today!

There is a paradigm shift in the way people use the Internet and interact on commercial Websites. Total customization no longer remains in the realms of usability, whitepapers, and web design conferences! Adobe Flex makes functionalities feel like a breeze. Here are some examples of Flex enhanced features we can provide:

• Updating data on the webpage without having to refresh the page
• Dragging and dropping items into the shopping cart along with simultaneous recalculation of the cost
• Rearranging items on the webpage according to your convenience
• Changing the look of the website according to your preferences
• Developing and installing the most complex animations and graphics

The greatest benefit of our experience with Flex is that we can create Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that deploy consistently on all major browsers, and Operating Systems, consequently providing a richer experience for your audience. Flex brings real-time interactivity in your existing Applications, and Ecom Solutions can develop and install completely new Flex Applications in a timely fashion!

So what’s the big difference between the normal HTML websites and Flex websites?

HTML Websites, as you may know, are a collection of static pages linked via a common navigation system. Whenever you want to update information on an HTML page, the page has to connect to the server where everything is being hosted and get the latest information. For this to happen you either have to fill out a form and then submit it, or you have to refresh the page.

In the case of Flex, your webpage does not have to go to the main server in order to display the latest information. The way it is programmed, the required data is handled on the client side. This makes your interaction with the online application extremely fast and it also saves repeat visits to the server. Imagine the amount of bandwidth you can save in the case of 1000s of visitors accessing your Website every hour!

For further understanding, think about basic applications used on your computer, such as word processors and spreadsheets. You don’t have to refresh the window after every change; the changes are reflected immediately and most often your word processor or spreadsheet application saves whatever changes you are making automatically. The same ease of functionality can now be rendered on websites too, with the use of Flex Technology.

Right from the early days of the launch of Adobe Flex our experienced team of Developers and Programmers at Ecom Solutions has been creating cutting-edge online applications for our local as well as international clients. We are redefining the way our clients leverage their business websites to provide a richer experience to their users, while in the process, significantly improving their bottom line. We can offer you the following Adobe Flex Services:

• Redesign the Architecture of your existing Online Applications
• Create new Flex Applications from scratch
• Provide Consulting Services to your Flex development team
• Convert your Legacy Applications into Web-based applications with same functionalities and ease of use
• Maintain, update and modernize your existing Flex Applications

So far we have developed and installed the following Applications developed in Adobe Flex:

• Intranet Training Courses
• Content Management Systems
• Interactive Instructional Design Modules
• Shopping Carts / Flex enhanced E-Commerce
• Online Help systems and Reference Modules

Ecom Solutions can integrate Adobe Flex Development with all major existing web programming platforms and languages such as ColdFusion, PHP, .NET, ASP, JAVA, Ajax and Ruby. To learn more about how we can revolutionize your online presence and catapult your business to new heights please contact us.

MAX is an Adobe Conference centered on the ecosystem of companies, developers, and designers using Adobe Tools such as Adobe ColdFusion, Adobe Air, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flex, and other Adobe products .

JavaScript and CSS improved things to a great extent but still the functionalities on a webpage could never even remotely match the interface of a desktop application. With the advent of Flash things spiced up a bit but they were still on the static side. There was nothing that we could call interactive and dynamic in the Flash animations that the developers created. Although there is a fair amount of “programming” that you can do in Flash, this feature never caught on with hardcore programmers because interface designing skills were always required; they needed something that could help them create Flash applications by simply having to write code. Flex was developed keeping this in mind. And with this was born the concept of Rich Internet Applications.

Rich Internet applications gave the best of both the world to the users: the flexibility of desktop applications and the reach of the Web. Remote data could be accessed and manipulated just as local data and this was made possible by Flex. Flex, now Flex 2, allows developers to create animated interfaces just by coding. So what’s the big deal you may ask? Many often enterprise level applications need to interact with remote database servers. Data is fetched from the servers, interpreted, processed and manipulated and then presented to the user, and this requires a fair amount of programming.

Then how does ColdFusion come into the picture? Flex 2 works in tandem with ColdFusion; ColdFusion handles all the back-end programming and database access. Flex 2 cannot directly access the database server and understand the data; this part is handled by ColdFusion. Flex 2 can display the data and you can move the objects around on your web pages while using rich Internet applications but the real database level programming and other algorithmic programming is done by ColdFusion.

So why so much fuss over Rich Internet Applications? First of all they demolish the boundaries of traditional web-based applications. Up till now the web-based applications, in the name of interactivity, could only offer text boxes, drop-down boxes and other form-based and link-based controls. Every action depended on page refreshes. Every processing happened on the server side and the client side only handled the static data. This meant whenever the application needed to access new or updated data it had to access the server. Accessing the server again and again might not be a problem if very few people are using the application but it tremendously slows things down if lots of people are using the application at the same time. This also created constraints for application developers who were itching to create applications that could use strengths of both the desktop and the Internet environment. Both users and application creators terribly missed the level of interactivity and flexibility offered by even mediocre desktop applications.

Then came to the scene Rich Internet Applications and they soon became a hit among the developers as well as the users. If you are wondering where have all these Rich Internet Applications been and how come they have become a part of the mainstream without you ever noticing them, well, you have been using Rich Internet Applications in the form of Ajax applications, for instance Flickr and Google maps. These applications store data locally in what they call a “sandbox” and then keep on using that data or manipulating it unless it is absolutely necessary to access the server again. The page refreshes are avoided as much as possible. The users can manipulate the page elements to a great extent and they get all the feedback instantly. For instance, if you’re using finance management application you will need to generate graphs again and again; even for small changes it will take a very long time if all the regeneration and redrawing happens on the server side.

A great thing about running Rich Internet Applications is that you don’t have to install any software; most of the applications run inside web browsers and almost all web browsers these days support Rich Internet Applications. With Internet speed and bandwidth increasing in leaps and bounds and with ever evolving browsers we will soon stop having to install applications on desktops. From word processors to spreadsheets to database management and image manipulation, everything will be handled by Rich Internet Applications. All you will need will be a basic operating system and a decently current browser. Then you will be finely free from the confines of your computer: you will be able to access your favorite programs, tools, applications and files from wherever you can log on to the Internet. Such applications are already knocking at our doors.