Open Source Softwares and Uses

Magento:

It is amongst the fastest, compatible and by far the most adaptable growing open source tool for your Ecommerce Web Development. Magento is a theme based framework with layouts, templates and skins and include comprehensive features such as- Easy navigation menus, options for extensive reviews, catalog management from both the customers' and the administrative end, secured customer's account, RSS feeds, enhanced features for customer service such as- contact us form and order tracking system. Magento comes equipped with multiple invoices shipments, credit memos, varied set of payment options- PayPal, Cybersource, ePay, eWAY, Google Checkout, checks, money orders, etc. Not only this, but magento offers shipping to multiple addresses, multi-lingual, and it is very search engine friendly.

Drupal:

While some have criticised Drupal as difficult to learn because it requires some technical knowledge, Drupal is known for its dynamic nature. It is an open source CMS, that equips the availability of the source code to anyone working on it. It uses PHP, MySQL and proves to be very versatile. It becomes easy to maintain the list of people using your website. Drupal provides you a complete control over the look of the website and PHP and HTML coding saves a lot of time to get a hang of the template language. Editing website content, uploading images, creating new pages, publishing content, detailed track record of the changes that you have made with date and time, and reliable online administration are some of the features that Drupal offers.
                                          

Joomla:

Joomla has proved to be a boon to almost each and everyone, be it, an amateur, or a professional web designer. Joomla templates serve as the basic foundation designs- html, php, xml and image files. One can have absolute control over the content, its presentation, and overall look of the website. It can be done either by available Joomla templates or your own customised templates. Joomla offers a multi-user and multi-environment that allows several users to interact and contribute towards the development. WYSWYG is the editor that helps you achieve the same. It helps you generate layouts without the need of using tables, which helps the website to load faster and easy to maintain, conforming to the W3C standards.
                                          

X-Cart:

X-Cart is a shopping cart software that is again an open-source Web Development Software but with a sophisticated touch, that requires no technical knowledge. The web-based administrator area and the installation wizard makes the maintenance as well as the setup as easy as point and click. There is actually no limit set to the number of products. It offers a wide range of e-commerce features that include- SEO friendly product catalog, multi-lingual, complete store-builder package, friendly web-interface, export and import of X-Cart store data, intuitive navigation, built-in template editor: preview, edit and restore templates. The list being endless, X-cart is also one of the major used open source software used to create dynamic shopping carts. Last but not the least, if we see from the customer's point of view, it offers advanced customer care that involves all orders stored in MySQL database, able to search personal history, customer can choose between account registration and express checkout, password reminder for customers and many more.
                                          

WordPress:

Widely being used as a blogging application, using PHP and MySQL, which uses a plugin architecture and a templating system. Plugins are the backbone of WordPress, and the performance of the blog can be customised according to it. Wordpress offers an easy Custom Web Development WordPress offers a lot of themes and customised options of theme. WordPress is search engine friendly and it comes equipped with a feature that sends ping to different search engines everytime a blog is updated. WordPress is adhered to W3C standards for XHTML and CSS templates.
                                          

To remind you, WordPress is not only for "blogging". Since it's a Content Management System, it is also used in order to carry on the regular updates on the corporate sites. And the best of all, WordPress has a large community and the interaction is easier and faster. Best of all, WordPress has a large user community. When you're part of this community, you can be sure that interaction with other bloggers is easier and faster.

With the open source software, real-time communication and transparency are on their priority list. Every one going online and demanding a web presence, it becomes important for you to have a hand-guide of the various open source software available to you.

By Pixel Crayons
Web Development Company India