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Open Source Customization - The Most Effective Solution for Web Portals by Brian Parker





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With the way the software technology has drastically changed over the past few years, we find that more and more businesses are turning to eCommerce, as a medium to sell their products and raise brand awareness. The traditional way of shopping has being slowly overtaken by the virtual world, where the people are enjoying shopping sitting in their comfort zone. The evolution of technology has totally changed our lifestyle. Today, most of us love to shop online. Browsing through the catalogs, analyzing, comparing and then ordering; all these activities are carried out with much ease. And, this is possible only through an efficient software, which is usually customized and integrated through open source technologies.

These days, web application has become an imperative tool for any business owner to sell things online. Virtually, they can connect to their customers and can fulfill their requirements. Well, this is possible through open source structure that provides a complete freedom for the business personnel to integrate functionalities as per their business requirements.

Open source framework usually has a developers community, who modify, update and add new features to this platform. Gathering on the same platform, they are always eager to resolve any problem that come across through development or deployment process of web application.

It has also given flexibility to individuals residing in any remote place of the world to run an online store successfully. Moreover, for an efficient store to run smoothly, open source customization is very much important. There are numerous open source technologies such as Joomla, Magento, WordPress, Drupal, etc. which are significantly used by programmers for building shopping carts.

However, open source software may lack in some functionalities, which you may think essential for your store development. In order to optimize your shopping site with the required features, you need to hire a developer, who can customize the store by adding the right features, which can go according to your business needs. Thus, by customization, you can run your business smoothly.

The different open source platforms are used according to the varied shopping store development requirements. Let us discuss about few of them.

WordPress:

WordPress is highly preferred for creating a blog as it has a wide array of all the functionalities and creative designs.

Joomla

With high flexibility, and ease of work with, Joomla development is highly opted by developers and designers. You can create innovative apps with the help of Joomla.

Drupal

Specially meant for maintaining or organizing a wide variety of content on the store or website, Drupal requires skilled hands to work on it. But, once you are proficient in Drupal development, you can explore its beauty in web development.

Magento

Highly used in eCommerce development, this open source content management system is a powerful tool for customization. It's quite easy to create your own website with this open source technology.

With several open source technologies available, you have the wider options to choose the best open source platform for your web applications or shopping cart development. For customized web app development, you need to hire expert developers, who can build flexible, powerful and scalable websites and web portals.

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