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Mobile Web Vs Mobile App

Mobile Website Vs. Mobile App: What Should You Get

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Limiting your website capacity to only fully function on desktop is almost just as bad as not having a website at all. We became dependent on our mobile device for almost a anything – pay our bills, shop, check destinations, manage our schedule and connect to the interwebs. There’s really no question whether you should get a mobile version for your own website or not. Some of us would go on though for a quest to find out whether to get a mobile website or a mobile app.



WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Mobile Website

The mobile Web refers to browser-based Internet services accessed from handheld mobile devices, such as smartphones or feature phones, through a mobile or other wireless network.

mobile website by pixel8

Mobile website made by Pixel8

It’s usually included in the price of designing your website that works with both iOS and android system. Although it’s low to almost no cost for maintenance there’s no push notifications or offline access. Poor web design can cause problems like: performance issues, cluttered design and unresponsiveness.

Preferable for:
Website that provides short and quick information
Process of simple transactions
Excellent web design support for mobiles

Mobile Application

A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone/tablet or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications that run on desktop computers, and with web applications which run in mobile web browsers rather than directly on the mobile device.

Its advantages include push notifications, offline access, optimum performance for mobile devices, smart design. However, getting a mobile application costs extra expense and licensing for app / android stores.

Preferable for:
A wide catalogue or gallery of products
Multi-transactions like online banking or payment systems
Newsfeed for articles or blogs that can be read on the go

The Verdict

If you have loads of funds for marketing you can absolutely get both and get better results. But if you have a limited financing, you can just get the right one and save the other for later. Mostly if you need to provide an offline touch base for your customers, you can get the app. You can use a well done website design to work for mobiles, too – by sticking to the mobile version and polishing it to fit nicely and work perfectly.

You can never go wrong with Pixel8 Web Solutions whatever choice you come up with choice because make mobile apps that works well on all devices tested on iOS and android devices. We also make websites that is mobile ready if you opt to have that.

Domain Registration and Website Hosting

What is Domain Registration and Web Hosting Service?

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A quick search on Wikipedia will tell you that Domain Registration is the process of acquiring a domain name from an organization or commercial entity that manages the reservation of Internet domain names – like getting a newborn’s name registered on a birth certificate. A domain name should not only be easy to recall, but should be simple to type. Web Hosting Service on the other hand, allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible through the internet – like your local statistics office.

 

Why is domain registration important?

Each website is assigned an IP address and remembering one is almost impossible. Domains are like shortcuts that people can easily remember. It is more than just a shortcut because it provides name recall for your business, too, if you’ve chosen a good one. There is a very thin line between strong online presentation and getting buried in the internet. This is why it’s important to put a lot of thought and research on choosing a domain.

  1. Your business benefits from name recall. The easiest your domain is to remember, the more traffic you’ll get.
  2. Private domains gives credibility to the services and products you provide. It shows how established and systematic your system is.
  3. Domain names plays a big part in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), where it helps your website or content to show up in every search engine.
  4. Serves as an advantage with marketing attracting walk-in customers to trust you.
  5. Registering your own domain support your brand advocacy. It promotes loyalty and accessibility to your existing customers.

 

How to Register a Domain

There are many other ways on registering a domain, especially if this is part of a package or internal arrangement as part of outsourcing. This is the standard step by step procedure if you want to register on your own.

  1. Settle on a domain that you’d like to use.
  2. You will need a credit card of Paypal account for paying your domain.
  3. If you have a web host, you’ll need the names of their primary and secondary nameservers. You’ll need the information to point your domain name to your website after you buy your domain.

If you don’t have a web host, a temporary website specially set up for you to reserve and secure your domain name. Most automatically park your domain by default

 

Top 5 Domain Registrars

  1. NameCheap

Namecheap, Inc. is an ICANN accredited registrar, which provide services on domain name registration, and offer for sale domain names that are registered to third parties (also known as aftermarket domain names). It is also a web hosting company, based in Phoenix, Arizona. The company claims to manage more than seven million domain names for its approximately three million customers.

  1. iPage

iPage is a web hosting and domain registration company owned by the Endurance International Group. They offer a wide range of web hosting solutions for online businesses and webmasters to create websites. iPage offer one of the cheapest and low-cost shared web hosting packages which are highly suitable for small sites.

  1. GoDaddy

GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company. As of May 2017, GoDaddy has served approximately 17 million customers and had over 6000 employees worldwide. The company is known for its advertising.

  1. BlueHost

Bluehost is a web hosting company owned by Endurance International Group. It is one of the 20 largest web hosts, collectively hosting well over 1.9+ million domains with its sister companies, HostMonster, FastDomain and iPage.

  1. InMotion

InMotion is one of the great hosting providers due to their outstanding support services and feature rich plans. You can reach their customer service through Skype. You can also learn on your own by searching the information from the knowledge base maintained on their website.

 

Web Hosting Services

Web hosting services makes it possible for websites to post on the internet. They allow storing and posting of data through servers. Paying for web hosting is like paying for a safe storage of your files that can be accessed online anywhere, anytime.

 

The concept of domain registration and web hosting can be a little intimidating to most people. This is why our packages in Pixel8 Web Solutions and Consultancy is quite flexible in its terms involving domain registration and web hosting services.

 

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Hitting the Maximum Marketing Potential thru a Comprehensive Website

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What good does a comprehensive website do to a business? It’s innumerable! But we tried and gathered all the best resources and studies that we have to come up with this list.

Benefits of comprehensive website:

  1. Wider reach to customers
  2. Cheap and accessible way of marketing
  3. Measureable response and ROI
  4. Interactive communication with customers, clients and prospects
  5. Highlights value added services
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Anatomy of a Comprehensive Website

Creating the perfect comprehensive website can only be achieved by completely understanding the needs of your business and your customers. We can always create a site for our business using presets and template made available online. This doesn’t however covers the careful study of what you need to put up in your website where to put them and how responsive it will be. It’s makes a first time visitor feel like they’ve been there before. You are confident that people will be able to look at your site, find what they’re looking for and give them the freedom to browse more.

 

Factors to consider:

      • Site Architecture
        Graphic Design
      • Color Scheme
      • Page Layout
      • Content Creation
      • Relative values of margin and font
      • Consider device resolutions
      • Size changes proportionally
      • Vertical column drop for content
      • Navigation drawer for sub-sections
      • Bottom bar for more actions

 

10 Tools We Use for Making a Comprehensive Website

  • Git

Git is a version control system (VCS) for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people. It is primarily used for software development. It can be used to keep track of changes in any files.

  • Backbones.js

Backbone.js is a JavaScript framework with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the model–view–presenter (MVP) application design paradigm. Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only hard dependency is on one JavaScript library, Underscore.js, plus jQuery for use of the full library. It is designed for developing single-page web applications, and for keeping various parts of web applications (e.g. multiple clients and the server) synchronized.

  • WooCommerce

WooCommerce is an open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. Launched on September 27, 2011, the plugin quickly became popular for its simplicity to install and customize and free base product.

  • CS-Cart

CS-Cart is a perfect solution for any online business, from a small startup to a large web shop.

  • Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a free and open-source front-end web framework for designing websites and web applications. It contains HTML- and CSS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions. Unlike many web frameworks, it concerns itself with front-end development only.

  • mySQL

MySQL (Structured Query Language) is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). The MySQL development project has made its source code available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as well as under a variety of proprietary agreements.

  • sketchUp

SketchUp is a 3D modeling computer program for a wide range of drawing applications. These applications include architectural, interior design, landscape architecture, civil and mechanical engineering, film and video game design. It is available as a freeware version (SketchUp Make) and a paid version with additional functionality (SketchUp Pro).

  • Npm

Npm allows users to consume and distribute JavaScript modules that are available on the registry. Packages on the registry are in CommonJS format and include a metadata file in JSON format.

  • Apache Cordova

Cordova wraps your HTML/JavaScript app into a native container which can access the device functions of several platforms. These functions are exposed via a unified JavaScript API, allowing you to easily write one set of code to target nearly every phone or tablet on the market today and publish to their app stores.

  • Adobe

Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products. Now, they’ve foray towards rich Internet application software development. Best known for Photoshop, an image editing software, Acrobat Reader, the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Creative Suite, as well as its successor Adobe Creative Cloud.

 

WordPress

This platform is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. WordPress is installed on a web server that is either part of an Internet hosting service or a network host in its own right. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress is reportedly the most popular website management or blogging system in use on the Web, supporting more than 60 million websites.

 

What We Offer:

  • Lock-In Period and Service Guarantee
  • Responsiveness
  • Design & Feel
  • Flexible Features
  • Client Support
  • Package that Fits
  • SEO Friendly Sites
  • UX Design Assured
  • Secured Websites
  • Safety Backup
  • Online Payment
  • Online Reservation

Moreover, what we offer is understanding your business and building the blueprint of a website from the core to the external layers. We find the thin line between what your business needs and what your customers want to see and make it the center of our services.