Flex shopping cart – Latest Technology, in Style !

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/

Working With ColdFusion Frameworks

Frameworks can drastically reduce the time frame of your Development Cycles by letting you focus on the fundamental business solutions rather than getting trapped in the nitty-gritty of developing repetitive code. For instance let’s say you are working on an enterprise level online accounting system coded in ColdFusion. Instead of writing tons of code on how to handle transactions with the database and user verifications, you can work on the actual logic of the accounting system because the framework you are working with provides you with all the necessary routines to take care of repetitive but essential tasks.

So basically a framework is like a library of different code routines that you can use as and when you need them, but the big difference is that once you start working under a framework, it basically controls your work flow, and this is not in a bad way. A framework helps you streamline your development process and maintain code so that it can be easily used and customized. Read the rest of this entry »

Who needs a Flex Development Team?

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe Partners With ZIO Pro Offering a chance to win a free trip to Adobe MAX ‘08

NEW YORK, New York – September 11th, 2008. Adobe Systems, the leading creative software company, and ZIO Pro, the new media network for creative professionals, are offering an exclusive opportunity to send a Creative or IT Director to Adobe’s MAX 2008 conference in San Francisco.

Registrants will be entered for a chance to win a trip to Adobe MAX 2008 in San Francisco.  The winner will receive a free all access pass to the even as well as free air travel to San Francisco and free hotel stay.  No obligation and no credit card information necessary.

In addition, every registrant for the contest will get access to a 30 Day 10 Seat software training license for their team – absolutely free – including full length training courses on Dreamweaver CS3, Flash CS3, and Photoshop CS3. Every qualified registrant will also receive a free e-Book – ‘Adobe Air with Ajax’ or ‘Presentation Zen’.

To register for this limited time offer:
IT Directors/Managers can go to: IT Directors / Managers

Creative Directors/Managers can go to: Creative Directors / Managers

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What do you have in mind when you are involved in a Web Development Project or if you have hired a team of designers and developers for your web development project?  Do you merely want “a killer” Website that looks awesome, or do you want a Website that proactively promotes and conducts your business on the Internet?  We are positively sure that the latter would be your answer.

Whenever you are involved in a Web Development Project you always look at it from the perspective of your fundamental business objective; if it is just the design that overwhelms your development decisions then at some point or the other you tend to get off the mark and you don’t achieve what you intend to achieve from your Website.  We don’t mean to claim that design doesn’t play an important part in fetching your business; but it is the functionality, the ease of use, and the working of your Website that eventually turns it into a successful Web Development Project.

Whenever we start a new Web Development Project we make a list of the following:
•    What the client intends to achieve through the Website
•    What are the short-term and long-term business objectives of the client vis-à-vis the Website
•    What sort of targeted audience is expected to visit the Website
•    The demographics of the projected/intended traffic
•    The nature of business
•    The nature of content on the Website
•    The level of expertise of the people who are going to manage and maintain the Website
•    The platform on which the Website needs to be developed
These facts enable us to develop a Website that entirely caters to the right audience, maximizing business prospects in the process.  The user experience on a Website should be enjoyable and effortless so that customers and clients only have to focus on the transaction rather than trying to figure out how to do business with you.  Everything is at the right place so that your user can navigate your Website intuitively rather than consciously figuring things out and getting confused at some point.

This is in my opinion how Web Development Projects should progresses in sync with overall business objectives.

Is your Company overwhelmed by more accounts than you can handle? Or maybe you have a nice Contract opportunity, but don’t have the skills to deliver it…

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!

Do you manage a Small Business and wonder whether it needs a Website or not?
Many Small Business Operators are faced with this dilemma, especially when they see everyone carrying an official URL on visiting cards and letterheads.  The doubt is greater when most of your customers and clients are situated locally.  You may ask yourself why your customers and clients would go to your Small Business Website when they can easily drop by at your office or outlet!!

A Website is not just a fad – it used to be a fad maybe 10 years ago but not anymore.  Your Website can be as important as your telephone connection, or even your actual business location. We are not saying this because we are in the business of building Websites; these days whenever people have to make a purchase or hire a Service Provider they instinctively log onto the Internet and try to visit the Website of the business.  They simply assume that every business these days has a Website – and businesses that don’t, don’t mean business.  Irrespective of the fact whether you can directly sell from your web site or not, a Small Business Website can be an integral part of your Shop or Office.

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Are you ready to move on to the next level of web design and user interaction?

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!

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I just noticed the news on the Adobe Website, about their upcoming North American Event.
MAX 2008 is an opportunity to connect with the Adobe community. The North American event will take place in San Francisco, California on November 16-19, 2008
At the event, Adobe will bring together the most creative and influential minds in the community, from designers and developers to executives and partners, for three days that they claim will shape the future of the industry.

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 .

With more and more people using their Mobile Phones, PDAs, iPhones and other Handheld Devices it is rapidly becoming imperative to have a Mobile Web Version of your Website, so that you don’t lose a significant proportion of your audience that simply doesn’t want to wait to access a PC or laptop in order to browse your website and do business with you.  What if you’re losing business just because this section of your audience cannot access your Website, or faces difficulty while browsing important sections of your Website through their Mobile Phones?

There are many gradual and rapid technological changes that are making it possible to browse the Internet through smaller handheld devices and Mobile Phones.  The screens are coming bigger, the connectivity and browsing speed is faster and the touch screen interfaces are improving day by day.

Why does it make sense to create a Mobile Web Version of your Website?

These days your URL can appear everywhere; whether it is your stationery, letterheads, advertisements, brochures, visiting cards or your office lobby your URL is visible everywhere.  Since we are so used to visiting Websites the moment we come across their URLs we immediately want to check them out.  These days since everybody has a Mobile Phone or a PDA or some Handheld Gadget that can easily connect to the Internet, they would rather visit your Website the moment they come across your URL.

Now, we don’t mean to say that people will be browsing your apparels inventory or reading articles of your website (at least not in the near future) but accessibility on Handheld Devices can enable them to quickly retrieve the needed information, for instance, a list of retailers and their contact numbers, booking status in the restaurant or the movie theatre, or booking airline tickets. The Handheld Devices and Mobile Phones are also great for quickly browsing the latest news headlines; content companies like the BBC are creating dedicated Websites for Mobile Devices.

There is another paradigm shift in the general behaviour of how people access the information available around them.  These days, due to many existing factors, the average attention span of people has considerably shrunk.  They want shorter and shorter chunks of information that they can immediately utilise.  Mobile phones and Handheld Devices are the ideal tools for sending and receiving crisp information packets.  That is why you require a toned down version of your Website when it comes to making it accessible to Mobile Phones and Handheld Devices.

With browsers and operating systems specifically being coded for mobile devices the future of Mobile-Phone-based Websites looks promising.  It depends a lot on the level of connectivity that people can avail and of course the speed and the interface.  Mobile Technology is cheaply available these days but sadly most of the devices become toys in the hands of technologically obsessed geeks.  It will make greater sense if everyday Internet Applications can be used using Mobile Phones and other Handheld Devices.