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Maria Crause 2021-02-24
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Building an eCommerce website is never a cheap and quick venture.

Oftentimes it is expensive and not fast because it requires a lot of skills and knowledge.

However, investing in the improvement of an eCommerce website is crucial for the development of the business.

At this point, the expense to improve an eCommerce website should be perceived as a financial investment in the business venture.

In this article, several components boosting the price tag of the eCommerce website are discussed, so the message of this article is going to be useful to those people, who plan their budget to develop their online store.

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Maria Crause 2021-01-19
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With 2021 underway, K-12 and higher education institutions have a new challenge on their hands – proper remote learning management.

With millions of students across the globe still attending classes and exams from home, schools need to find efficient ways to compensate for it.Based on published data, 7% of the top 10,000 websites use Drupal CMS, with around 46,350 Drupal modules available for free download as functionality extensions.

Drupal CMS can provide educational instructions with a good platform to work with when it comes to student management due to its list of features.According to Drupal Groups, some of the most prolific schools, such as Oxford University, MIT, Stanford University, and UCLA, all rely on Drupal CMS already.

The CMS can provide your school with a combination of time-efficient, cost-effective, and user-friendly features meant to make the students’ learning easier and more engaging.

Let’s take a closer look at what Drupal can do for your school or university and how you can benefit from relying on it.Benefits Of Drupal For Educational WebsitesScalability & AffordabilityAs we’ve mentioned briefly, Drupal CMS is highly flexible in regards to the modules you can integrate into it.

Given the open-source nature of these modules, the Drupal community continually provides new extensions for public use.These modules often come free of charge and can be used to enhance your students’ experience.

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Maria Crause 2020-12-28
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Headless commerce is about a different way of coordinating development activities.

Traditionally, there is a front end and back end, and these two are coordinated to produce a great result.

With the headless approach, the frontend presentation (head) has been decoupled from the backend commerce functionality.

This means that the user interface, social commerce, and digital marketplace might be updated individually, without changing the backend accordingly.

Source  WHAT IS HEADLESS COMMERCETo put it simply, headless ecommerce is the separation of the front end and the back end of the ecommerce application.

This separation gives businesses the freedom to build whatever they want and need to build.

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Maria Crause 2020-12-04
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WordPress is adored and employed by millions of community fans, which is not surprising at all.

This renowned free open-source platform boasts a wide variety of themes and plugins, great performance implementation flexibility, and extraordinary ease of use.These benefits alone explain why WordPress powers 39% of all websites globally and accounts for 63.7% of the global content management system (CMS) market.

However, even such a popular system has drawbacks that don’t have to be tolerated.

We can tell from our experience the trend of switching to other systems is increasing currently.WordPress is by far the most popular CMS out there and for good reason.

However, if you don't like the interface and are not comfortable with having to constantly download and struggle with plugin fixes to achieve the desired functionality, you will be looking for something better than WordPress.Read about WordPress alternatives for 2021

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Maria Crause 2021-02-16
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PWA Magento is the Progressive Web Application technology that is aimed at bringing the experience of native apps and web apps closer.

Practically, online shoppers are going to experience app-like shopping experiences via mobile and desktop devices equally.WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?In general, progressive apps are awesome because they make using the online store more pleasant.

The experience of customers is no more different regardless of the kind of device they use.

Usually, when the website is loading for more than several seconds, the customers just close the tab.

With Magento PWA, the workflow is quicker and nicer.Read the article about Magento PWA development

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Maria Crause 2021-01-06
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The intranet is a kind of corporate site or similar web platform that integrates the IT infrastructure of some company.

Typically, intranets are used in large (and especially in geographically dispersed) companies.

The main idea of intranet development is to combine all the elements of corporate data and simplify the work of employees that usually get access through a web browser.As for tools that could help you build your own intranet in the best way, we can highlight the Drupal 9 platform.

Let’s discuss below why we recommend this CMS for intranet development and which modules we pick for the development process.Three Main Approaches To Build IntranetThere are three main approaches that describe to developers on how to build an intranet:enterprise portals.

Enterprise portals are adaptations of traditional websites to provide employees data access and end-to-end communication within the enterprise;ECM systems.

ECM systems are a kind of document management systems that are focused primarily on organizing access to corporate content;social media networks.

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Maria Crause 2020-12-23
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As soon as the life of Magento 1 is not going to be supported after 2018, all businesses running on Magento needed to migrate to Magento 2.

While the migration process is not that simple as we would like it to be, a clear process flow is helpful to make sure that all-important steps are done and the migrated business is going to thrive.

Of course, the SoftLoft company is here to help you at any step of the way but a brief roadmap is also discussed in this article to help you migrate smoother use best practices of SEO for Magento website migration.MIGRATION SCOPEThe first step is to analyze what you currently have.

In terms of the SEO Magento migration scope, make sure to check if there are any areas of improvement.

If there are any, prepare a category tree for migrating all elements as necessary.

The most frequent areas of improvement are extensions and third-party integrations.

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Maria Crause 2020-11-27
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The advent of digitalization has radically changed social mores and personal habits.

The first hi-tech addiction that afflicted the human race was caused by computers, but in the new millennium, mobile phones and gadgets moved in to top the desktops (the pun is intentional) in the number of users.

Read the article Native App or Progressive Web App

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Maria Crause 2021-02-03
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Migration from Magento to Shopify looks like migrating the entire house from one location to another.

Sometimes, it is a very desired and even necessary thing.

Though, moving the entire house is a huge deal because it needs thorough preparation and large commitment from all members of the migration process.

If you need to migrate your eCommerce project from Magento to Shopify, the best move to decide on is to contract professionals.

Of course, you can do everything yourself but contracting SoftLoft for the deal is going to save you tons of time.

collect
0
Maria Crause 2021-01-06
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PIM is the abbreviation for Product Information Management, and this article is going to briefly describe what PIM stands for and list the benefits of PIM for eCommerce as well as the steps to integrate Production Information Management System with Magento 2.

As soon as PIM needs specific software to be used well, the article is going to discuss the best PIM software that is helpful to establish PIM working well.SourceWHAT IS PIM?When a retailer needs to have an eCommerce site, the company needs to decide on a contractor and develop the entire online store.

Of course, at some point, a developer needs to have content for the eCommerce website.

To make the process of content creation and information transmission easier, the company and the contractor need to have a connector between ERP and Magento.

However, even having a connector does not help much in having the necessary content for the eCommerce website.

The pictures and the product descriptions are often misplaced and the information is lost.

collect
0
Maria Crause 2020-12-17
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Drupal technology is the best option for the Media industry, providing enormous opportunities.

That’s the reason why more than 70% of Top 30 Media & Entertainment companies choose Drupal.

In this article we’ll drive into the prime Drupal distributions for Media & Publishing website: Thunder and Lightning.

These solutions provide numerous modules and ultra-features for the empower editorial processes while reducing the cost of website development.

With the help of these Drupal distributions, you can create unique and easy-to-use publishing tools specifically for your business needs.Drupal Distributions Change The GameThere are many Drupal distributions dedicated to one or another segment or industry.

Distributions save your time and, therefore, money.

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Maria Crause 2020-11-18
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Properly choosing and successfully implementing an eCommerce platform, you can kill several birds with one stone: create and streamline a customer base, attract new customers, start engaging the “sleeper” part of the target audience, and set off in-depth tracking of KPIs and monitoring of work staff.First things first, however – you’ll need to get the most fitting system for your business.

And this is where it’s better to get a grasp on the continuous stand of the industry giants – Shopify vs WooCommerce vs Magento vs BigCommerce.

;MAGENTOMagento is a hugely popular open-source eCommerce platform that comes in both Community and Enterprise Editions.

Today, such popular sites as Helly Hansen, Sigma Beauty, Ford, Vizio, Landrover, Nike, Nestle Nespresso are based on this renowned platform.

In total, today, 170,000 online stores are powered by the Magento platform.

The company’s slogan is “Designed to grow, built for flexibility”.Read the article https://soft-loft.com/shopify-woocommerce-magento-bigcommerce/ 

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Maria Crause 2021-01-19
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Starting your own business is never easy.

Starting a business in a pandemic is even more difficult.

However, if you are up for this anyway, we are here to help you.

First of all, you are going to need the best Shopify Agency that can help you.

So, this article is all about the ways to find the best Shopify experts that suit you and your business perfectly.BENEFITS FROM HIRING SHOPIFY EXPERTSShopify experts are highly qualified professionals who work with the Shopify app and store development.

Thus, Shopify developers provide all services that the beginner online store needs.

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Maria Crause 2020-12-28
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Node.js is an event-driven I/O infrastructure for the JavaScript engine V8 used at UNIX-like platforms.

This is a programming environment that enables building heavy-weight complicated applications by means of a light-weight elegant engine.

Node.js is an open-source cross-platform tool that allows developers to create both web applications and server ones on the go using JavaScript alone irrespective of operating systems.

One of the main capabilities of Node.js is to support and control one or another type of framework.Frameworks belong to the development tools that help programmers scale up their projects while the development process becomes simpler and faster.

Thanks to frameworks a lot of repeating operations can be automated.

Node.js web frameworks offer well-stocked libraries with frequently used elements to make programming procedures fewer.

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Maria Crause 2020-12-09
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During the past six months, our team has received many clients’ requests for the development and implementation of various multi-vendor marketplaces, including Magento.

In the process of working, we have developed a clear vision of the most critical aspects of marketplace development to consider.Oftentimes potential investors do not fully understand how many details they need to be careful about before starting to create an online marketplace.

That’s why we have compiled a guide of what the customer needs to know before starting a technical specification of a project.Read the article How to develop a Multi-vendor marketplace

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Maria Crause 2020-11-12
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Hiring is tough, especially when it comes to candidates with specific proficiencies.

Node.js developers are in demand today since the popularity of Node.js keeps growing.

According to a global survey, the use of Node.js worldwide is expected to be increasing by 76% annually.

Despite computer programming being quite a mature industry with a multi-decade history, a lot of developers are still honing their skills on their own.

About 38% of Node.js developers have informal education based on online courses, while 72% of them get their knowledge from StackOverflow.Read about Node.js Interview Questions to Ask a Candidate

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Maria Crause 2021-02-24
img

Building an eCommerce website is never a cheap and quick venture.

Oftentimes it is expensive and not fast because it requires a lot of skills and knowledge.

However, investing in the improvement of an eCommerce website is crucial for the development of the business.

At this point, the expense to improve an eCommerce website should be perceived as a financial investment in the business venture.

In this article, several components boosting the price tag of the eCommerce website are discussed, so the message of this article is going to be useful to those people, who plan their budget to develop their online store.

Maria Crause 2021-02-03
img

Migration from Magento to Shopify looks like migrating the entire house from one location to another.

Sometimes, it is a very desired and even necessary thing.

Though, moving the entire house is a huge deal because it needs thorough preparation and large commitment from all members of the migration process.

If you need to migrate your eCommerce project from Magento to Shopify, the best move to decide on is to contract professionals.

Of course, you can do everything yourself but contracting SoftLoft for the deal is going to save you tons of time.

Maria Crause 2021-01-19
img

With 2021 underway, K-12 and higher education institutions have a new challenge on their hands – proper remote learning management.

With millions of students across the globe still attending classes and exams from home, schools need to find efficient ways to compensate for it.Based on published data, 7% of the top 10,000 websites use Drupal CMS, with around 46,350 Drupal modules available for free download as functionality extensions.

Drupal CMS can provide educational instructions with a good platform to work with when it comes to student management due to its list of features.According to Drupal Groups, some of the most prolific schools, such as Oxford University, MIT, Stanford University, and UCLA, all rely on Drupal CMS already.

The CMS can provide your school with a combination of time-efficient, cost-effective, and user-friendly features meant to make the students’ learning easier and more engaging.

Let’s take a closer look at what Drupal can do for your school or university and how you can benefit from relying on it.Benefits Of Drupal For Educational WebsitesScalability & AffordabilityAs we’ve mentioned briefly, Drupal CMS is highly flexible in regards to the modules you can integrate into it.

Given the open-source nature of these modules, the Drupal community continually provides new extensions for public use.These modules often come free of charge and can be used to enhance your students’ experience.

Maria Crause 2021-01-06
img

PIM is the abbreviation for Product Information Management, and this article is going to briefly describe what PIM stands for and list the benefits of PIM for eCommerce as well as the steps to integrate Production Information Management System with Magento 2.

As soon as PIM needs specific software to be used well, the article is going to discuss the best PIM software that is helpful to establish PIM working well.SourceWHAT IS PIM?When a retailer needs to have an eCommerce site, the company needs to decide on a contractor and develop the entire online store.

Of course, at some point, a developer needs to have content for the eCommerce website.

To make the process of content creation and information transmission easier, the company and the contractor need to have a connector between ERP and Magento.

However, even having a connector does not help much in having the necessary content for the eCommerce website.

The pictures and the product descriptions are often misplaced and the information is lost.

Maria Crause 2020-12-28
img

Headless commerce is about a different way of coordinating development activities.

Traditionally, there is a front end and back end, and these two are coordinated to produce a great result.

With the headless approach, the frontend presentation (head) has been decoupled from the backend commerce functionality.

This means that the user interface, social commerce, and digital marketplace might be updated individually, without changing the backend accordingly.

Source  WHAT IS HEADLESS COMMERCETo put it simply, headless ecommerce is the separation of the front end and the back end of the ecommerce application.

This separation gives businesses the freedom to build whatever they want and need to build.

Maria Crause 2020-12-17
img

Drupal technology is the best option for the Media industry, providing enormous opportunities.

That’s the reason why more than 70% of Top 30 Media & Entertainment companies choose Drupal.

In this article we’ll drive into the prime Drupal distributions for Media & Publishing website: Thunder and Lightning.

These solutions provide numerous modules and ultra-features for the empower editorial processes while reducing the cost of website development.

With the help of these Drupal distributions, you can create unique and easy-to-use publishing tools specifically for your business needs.Drupal Distributions Change The GameThere are many Drupal distributions dedicated to one or another segment or industry.

Distributions save your time and, therefore, money.

Maria Crause 2020-12-04
img

WordPress is adored and employed by millions of community fans, which is not surprising at all.

This renowned free open-source platform boasts a wide variety of themes and plugins, great performance implementation flexibility, and extraordinary ease of use.These benefits alone explain why WordPress powers 39% of all websites globally and accounts for 63.7% of the global content management system (CMS) market.

However, even such a popular system has drawbacks that don’t have to be tolerated.

We can tell from our experience the trend of switching to other systems is increasing currently.WordPress is by far the most popular CMS out there and for good reason.

However, if you don't like the interface and are not comfortable with having to constantly download and struggle with plugin fixes to achieve the desired functionality, you will be looking for something better than WordPress.Read about WordPress alternatives for 2021

Maria Crause 2020-11-18
img

Properly choosing and successfully implementing an eCommerce platform, you can kill several birds with one stone: create and streamline a customer base, attract new customers, start engaging the “sleeper” part of the target audience, and set off in-depth tracking of KPIs and monitoring of work staff.First things first, however – you’ll need to get the most fitting system for your business.

And this is where it’s better to get a grasp on the continuous stand of the industry giants – Shopify vs WooCommerce vs Magento vs BigCommerce.

;MAGENTOMagento is a hugely popular open-source eCommerce platform that comes in both Community and Enterprise Editions.

Today, such popular sites as Helly Hansen, Sigma Beauty, Ford, Vizio, Landrover, Nike, Nestle Nespresso are based on this renowned platform.

In total, today, 170,000 online stores are powered by the Magento platform.

The company’s slogan is “Designed to grow, built for flexibility”.Read the article https://soft-loft.com/shopify-woocommerce-magento-bigcommerce/ 

Maria Crause 2021-02-16
img

PWA Magento is the Progressive Web Application technology that is aimed at bringing the experience of native apps and web apps closer.

Practically, online shoppers are going to experience app-like shopping experiences via mobile and desktop devices equally.WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?In general, progressive apps are awesome because they make using the online store more pleasant.

The experience of customers is no more different regardless of the kind of device they use.

Usually, when the website is loading for more than several seconds, the customers just close the tab.

With Magento PWA, the workflow is quicker and nicer.Read the article about Magento PWA development

Maria Crause 2021-01-19
img

Starting your own business is never easy.

Starting a business in a pandemic is even more difficult.

However, if you are up for this anyway, we are here to help you.

First of all, you are going to need the best Shopify Agency that can help you.

So, this article is all about the ways to find the best Shopify experts that suit you and your business perfectly.BENEFITS FROM HIRING SHOPIFY EXPERTSShopify experts are highly qualified professionals who work with the Shopify app and store development.

Thus, Shopify developers provide all services that the beginner online store needs.

Maria Crause 2021-01-06
img

The intranet is a kind of corporate site or similar web platform that integrates the IT infrastructure of some company.

Typically, intranets are used in large (and especially in geographically dispersed) companies.

The main idea of intranet development is to combine all the elements of corporate data and simplify the work of employees that usually get access through a web browser.As for tools that could help you build your own intranet in the best way, we can highlight the Drupal 9 platform.

Let’s discuss below why we recommend this CMS for intranet development and which modules we pick for the development process.Three Main Approaches To Build IntranetThere are three main approaches that describe to developers on how to build an intranet:enterprise portals.

Enterprise portals are adaptations of traditional websites to provide employees data access and end-to-end communication within the enterprise;ECM systems.

ECM systems are a kind of document management systems that are focused primarily on organizing access to corporate content;social media networks.

Maria Crause 2020-12-28
img

Node.js is an event-driven I/O infrastructure for the JavaScript engine V8 used at UNIX-like platforms.

This is a programming environment that enables building heavy-weight complicated applications by means of a light-weight elegant engine.

Node.js is an open-source cross-platform tool that allows developers to create both web applications and server ones on the go using JavaScript alone irrespective of operating systems.

One of the main capabilities of Node.js is to support and control one or another type of framework.Frameworks belong to the development tools that help programmers scale up their projects while the development process becomes simpler and faster.

Thanks to frameworks a lot of repeating operations can be automated.

Node.js web frameworks offer well-stocked libraries with frequently used elements to make programming procedures fewer.

Maria Crause 2020-12-23
img

As soon as the life of Magento 1 is not going to be supported after 2018, all businesses running on Magento needed to migrate to Magento 2.

While the migration process is not that simple as we would like it to be, a clear process flow is helpful to make sure that all-important steps are done and the migrated business is going to thrive.

Of course, the SoftLoft company is here to help you at any step of the way but a brief roadmap is also discussed in this article to help you migrate smoother use best practices of SEO for Magento website migration.MIGRATION SCOPEThe first step is to analyze what you currently have.

In terms of the SEO Magento migration scope, make sure to check if there are any areas of improvement.

If there are any, prepare a category tree for migrating all elements as necessary.

The most frequent areas of improvement are extensions and third-party integrations.

Maria Crause 2020-12-09
img

During the past six months, our team has received many clients’ requests for the development and implementation of various multi-vendor marketplaces, including Magento.

In the process of working, we have developed a clear vision of the most critical aspects of marketplace development to consider.Oftentimes potential investors do not fully understand how many details they need to be careful about before starting to create an online marketplace.

That’s why we have compiled a guide of what the customer needs to know before starting a technical specification of a project.Read the article How to develop a Multi-vendor marketplace

Maria Crause 2020-11-27
img

The advent of digitalization has radically changed social mores and personal habits.

The first hi-tech addiction that afflicted the human race was caused by computers, but in the new millennium, mobile phones and gadgets moved in to top the desktops (the pun is intentional) in the number of users.

Read the article Native App or Progressive Web App

Maria Crause 2020-11-12
img

Hiring is tough, especially when it comes to candidates with specific proficiencies.

Node.js developers are in demand today since the popularity of Node.js keeps growing.

According to a global survey, the use of Node.js worldwide is expected to be increasing by 76% annually.

Despite computer programming being quite a mature industry with a multi-decade history, a lot of developers are still honing their skills on their own.

About 38% of Node.js developers have informal education based on online courses, while 72% of them get their knowledge from StackOverflow.Read about Node.js Interview Questions to Ask a Candidate