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Introduction:

Magento is an open-source ecommerce web application that is designed and developed in the Zend framework. Its modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility means your business is no longer constrained by your ecommerce platform.

A lot of users prefer Magento due to its flexibility. Moreover you can imagine its popularity by viewing the latest Job trends for Magento over the web. Magento developers are in high demand as compared to Ocommerce & Zend Cart.

We as a professional Web Design Company have collected some useful Magento plug-ins for you. From updating products to running new promotions, ecommerce web design services offered by us, simplify the process for you and make it easily manageable.

Magento Ecommerce Plug-ins For Your Consideration:

1. Canonical URL For Magento:

This extension appends the new canonical links to the head of your Magento pages.

2. Yoast MetaRobots:

With the help of this module you can easily control Meta robots tags to Magento pages. It is basically categorized as SEO plug-in.

3. Remerce CMS Meta Robots:

This module adds the option to set the Robots Meta for CMS pages.
You can simply use this module with the following way:
Go to CMS/ Manage Pages & go to the “Meta Data” tab under Robots. Here you can set the Robots Meta Tag.

4. Auto CrossSell Products:

Automize the product cross sell maintenance. If a customer checks out, all the products chosen are linked as cross sell products.

5. Lazzymonks Google ads:

Lazzymonks Google ads can be added to the left, right or both of the web page menu at the bottom.

6. Auctionmaid Matrxrate:

Auctionmaid Matrxrate plug-in basically enhances transporting fee table rate for international shipping.

7. Category Admin product tab:edit product link

This plug-in adds-up the product edit links in the category tab.

8. Change Attribute Set:

This plug-in allows you to alter the product attributes after registering any product.

9. MailChimp ECommerce360 Reporting:

MailChimp Ecommerce360 plug-in has the powerful reporting capabilities that will help you to track out everything from clicking the email to visiting your website & then either visitor is being involved in the purchasing process or not. MailChimp according lying manages the information and show it on your campaign report

10. Lazzymonks Twitter:

This plug-in display the twitter updates in the menu and allows updates from within the admin panel.

11. Product Gallery Importer:

This is a great plug-in which allows you to import all the products images from a CSV (Comma-separated values) file.

12. Fontis WYSISYG

This plug-in gives you the feature of “What you see is What you get” in product description.

13. Mass Product Relater

It registers related products, up-sells and cross-sells

14. Fooman Google Analytics Plus

Fooman Google Analytics plus tracks every keyword typed by your user and tracks every user’s individual page.

15. Advanced Sitemap

Advance Sitemap Plug-in list the products from the current store.

16. Post Affiliate Pro Connector

With the use of Client Side Script (JavaScript) or Server Side Script (PHP) API, this plug-in automatically handles clicks and sale for affiliate tracking.

17. IW PayPal Standard Currencies

This plug-in gives the support for payment gateway specifically for the PayPal. It allows you to choose any PayPal supported currency & adds in your shops admin-panel.

18. J2T Points & Rewards

The Buyer is allowed to receive the points or rewards and these points are further useful for discount in other purchases.

19. Fontis SecurePay

This Plug-in process the payments through Secure xml gateway.

20. Checkout Newsletter

The Checkout newsletter sends email to the customer about their latest transactions, new products and some newest offers if available.

21. Events Calendar

Display your current/important events on your website.

22. Exploded Menu

Exploded Menu replaces standard menu with a multi-column drop down menu system.

23. Fooman Invoice=Order Number

It is the most important plug-in as it use to generates separate invoices, shipment and credit memo numbers for one order.

24. Teaserbox

It will show you the teasers of your product if available. A teaser is basically an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers’ interest.

25. MostViewed module

It automatically generates the list of products which are most viewable by the site visitors and display it at the home page at the Customer Area.

INTRODUCTION

Brand is a Symbol, Sign, Name, Combination of colors or a company slogan which is mainly intended for developing the uniqueness or identification of any business.

Branding is the process of creating a unique name and image for a product (goods or services) in the consumers mind. Branding is all useful for making or developing the presence in the market that attracts and retain potential customers.

Branding your Business with a Website Design is the most effective way to promote your services or products. A website is composed two web design elements which are important for branding prospect:

Header:

• The website header is the top rectangular shaped area that runs across the top of the web page design of your screen.
• The primary purpose of your header is to promote your company’s brand and make it instantly recognizable to your audience.

Logo:

• Logo is placed at the top left side of the web template.
• Logo can only be a symbol, sign, text or combination of colors. It is recommended that brand focused logo should be designed and placed in the website to recognize by your targeted audience.

EFFECTIVE RULES TO DESIGN A LOGO

Following are the Effective Rules to Design the Logo with Brand Promotion of a business website:

1. Branded Focus Logo:

Website Logo can represent the Brand effectively. As far as business website is concern, whenever a visitor lands on the homepage, he usually sees the logo first. After viewing logo, a visitor get a clear picture what services company is providing. However creating a logo not only requires an effective visual presentation only but requires a plenty of practice and experience for it. Definitely Knowledge is Power for a web designer.

2. Preliminary Investigation is Must

A professional graphic designer always spends much time on preliminary investigation before start designing.

Five steps to create a preliminary Investigation in Logo designing are given below:

Step1: Sketching a logo is the first step of preliminary investigation to logo designing.  Just draw your all ideas related to a company on a simple paper with pencil.

Step2: Start with 20 to 30 sketches or ideas coming into your mind. Once you drawn, it will become easy for you to decide a logo. While drawing just focus company image, slogan or brand in your mind.

Step3: Final step is the process of assessment and finalizing the logo from the designs you sketched.

3. Create Balance

It is important to keep in view that our website logo will be viewed by masses after it placed into a website. For pleasing & appealing affect on targeted audience, a logo should be balanced in terms of Weight, colors and size.

So Design a logo with Balance affect is the safest approach.

4. Ingenious use of Colors

Choosing a color scheme of the website according to the Business needs & requirements is always a difficult task for designers.

A few basic rules need to keep in mind:

• Study the niche: and Business needs while deciding the color scheme. For example if you want your website much professional then use navy blue color.
• Don’t use bright colors: so that it may not hard on the visitor’s eye.
• Set a Baseline: It is prefer to use a color combination of two or three colors in a logo design. And design the complete website in making these colors a baseline. For example if your logo is made up of black and white color then these colors should reflect to the complete website.
• Understand Each Color emotions: Each color has set of feelings and emotions on the human eye. For example white color gives the feeling of purity and neatness.  So choose colors very carefully.
• Color scheme importance in Branding: A brand is always recognizable with the use of distinct colors. So be smart!
• · Color wheel: Use colors near to each other on the color wheel (e.g. for a “warm” palette, use red, orange, and yellow hues).
• Mozilla ColorZilla: ColorZilla is the most useful Mozilla ad-one for the graphic designers. With the use of ColorZilla anyone can just pick the color and its RGB values instantly.

5. Design Theme should suit the Company’s Profile

Research about the organization needs and focus its intended audience is important for portraying the right image of the organization on a web. Remember website is the face of organization on the web so it is important to research first then designed.

As a web designer, Following are the rules for building a Company’s profile via effective logo design:

• Always use the background information about the client and Brand.
• Consider the web 2.0 trend while designing a logo.
• In web 2.0 there is a trend of making 3-d Logos, drop shadows and bubbly graphics.

6. Typography Considerations

Designers in a beginning stage always follow difficulties in deciding the right font type and size of the website.

If your logo design includes a part of text, you need to consider its font type and size that must looks awesome to the visitor’s eye.

A Few recommended techniques for the Logo Typography You should consider:

• Prefer fonts like sans or serif as well as script like italic, bold & custom fonts.
• Avoid most common fonts like comic sans, or else your design may look non professional.
• Use not more than two fonts, and using one font is Ideal.

7. The ultimate Goal is Recognition

A designer ultimate goal for creating the logo is Brand recognition. Take the examples of World most famous brands like Pepsi, MacDonald, Coca-Cola, and Nike. Whenever we see the design of round ball with red color, white strip and then blue and call it Pepsi instantly.

Following are a few important points for making easily identifiable Logo:

• The key for making the most identifiable logo is to check it for a number of parameters like:

• To check the quality of your own Logo, you can check it through the test of above mentioned entities. Overlooking to any of these entities may impair the quality of your final design.
• Always keep in mind that Logos are not looked rocking on the real World like in billboards, buses etc…

There is a list of World Most famous brands that have great design with the quality of being recognition.

Index	Brand Name	Brand Logo
1	Pepsi
2	CocaCola
3	MacDonalds
4	Nike
5	KFC
6	Subway
7	Mercedes-Benz
8	BMW
9	Mitsubishi Motors
10	LG

8. Dare to be Different

You as an organization or a business owner is not alone dealing in product or services your company have. There might be a number of competitors in your way. In order to differentiate your organization product or services from them you need to have a recognizable Logo.

• Try variety of styles, color combinations, patterns for achieving uniqueness.
• And uniqueness can only be achieved with the great time you spend in doing research.
• You can take start by viewing others Logo in order to have an idea what trend currently is being running. Like Logo designing Focused with 2.0 trend.

9. Logo Design; Keep it Simple

The Basic rule you need to follow for Logo Designing is:

“The simpler the Logo is, the more identifiable it will be”

From the above mentioned list of World famous Brands, take all as a reference, they have simplicity in their design and easily recognizable for the Audience.

Conclusion

Logo is the unique identity of your Organization, Thus it should be designed with proper Research and Analysis.

Following is the Streamline beneficial for creating and designing a Logo:

• Research is the first step for Logo Designing
• Brainstorming Session by generating Ideas
• Draw Sketches in the Preliminary Investigation Phase
• Send your Design to client
• Adjust changes that is desired by Client
• Update the Design and resent it to the client.

Hence Logo design is the core element of Web designing which plays a vital role in establishing a brand name of your organization. The main purpose of Logo design is for the branding prospective, so that it is uniquely identifiable by the site visitor. And thus you go towards Success and compete with everybody in the world.

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Are you leading your competitors by having a website, but still wondering why your website is not producing enough visitors or sales? Don’t look too closely, as the reason is already evident—your website design is hideous!

Visitors have enough options to choose form on the web, what makes them stay on your website depends on how your website has been designed. Attractive images (don’t forget relevancy), proper and organized content, good color scheme, easy navigation, and an overall neat and clean design is what gets your website rocking with customers and sales.

No matter how high the quality of your products or services, a user may easily fall prey and opt for the low quality products, just because that website was designed more wisely than yours. Hence, it is gravely important for you to have a first-rate design for your website. To create such an eye catchy website design, you can follow these important tips:

• Make your website easy to navigate and explore, any blockage or complexity will be irritating for the user.
• Your website should be able to catch the eye of visitor at first instance with its overall pleasing appearance.
• Use colors that blend together, not clash!
• All elements of the website layout must be in harmony with each other, not at war! Each element should complement the other in a way that it gives your website a synchronized effect.
• Make sure to test your website on different browsers for browser-compatibility.
• Make your website happening for the users through creative designing. It should not seem dull and conventional.
• Take special care of fonts. The size and style should be proper so it does not harm user-interaction.
• Finally, putting it all together—attractive, readable, and easily browsed website should be your goal.

If you don’t want visitors leaving your website because of its poor designing, consult Cyber Designz. Our professional web designers’ help you create a web design that will draw clients and increase your online sales.

This is the arena of getting social and having an identity over web. A quality website design can bring you image globally but it will not be visible to a big share of audience until and unless it is renown or branded well enough. Usually, your website design sails your identity and traits in different platforms. These days the most common and effective platform is the social media and networks just like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, etc. There are numerous social networks for various purpose and niches which can be highly effective to promote your business globally and can build your reputation.

Social media exits in different varieties specific to different domains and categories such as for networking, blogging, booking marking, wikis, videos etc.

However, following is the list of  social media platforms which are categorized to help your web design and development business promotion by means of appropriate planning and selection of suitable niche in that particular social platform.

These social platforms can help your web design and development business for promotion and marketing alongside building a brand name and reputation for your own self too. However, it is necessary to hit a suitable platform or the niche in each of the social stream and then setting up your goals and business plan accordingly. Such as promoting your web design portfolio and building an identity as a web design or graphic design company via social and business networks. Having your readers/clients being informed of your latest offers, news and getting them in constant collaboration using social networks for news and blogs etc.

In short, social media can really be a good start for your website promotion and this is not the all since there are tremendous opportunities for getting business, keeping your clients informed and sticky, brand awareness, building reputation and so on. So, get social and take an edge of social media.