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The Power of Adaptive Content: Beyond Responsive Design
Forget responsive web design. The key to success at multi-platform publishing is “adaptive content”. In the case of screen sizes, responsive design has been the solutions, but the new kid on the block as far as responding to user behavior is concerned “adaptive content”.
What is Adaptive Content?
The terms “adaptive content” and “adaptive websites” do refer to a website that can be programmed to adjust its structure, content and even its navigation based on user behavior patterns.
Adaptive content is not the same as Responsive Design but it is a necessary component or we can say that it is like starting point for creating a successful Responsive Design
Why is Adaptive Content Important?
- Content is King! It’s all about how you communicate all of the great work you do.
- Your target audiences access your website content from a variety of devices and contexts. It is important for you to offer them smooth visit with pleasant experience.
Where do we start?
If you are thrilled with power of adaptive content and want to get started, you can simply do this by following these steps:
- Content Strategy: You need to Create Content Once, and adaptive content empower you to Publish Everywhere
- Select a CMS (Content Management System) that allows you to set custom content types and fields.
- Identify a Content Strategist who knows your content and platform you have used and has ability to develop a future-proofed structure for your content.
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OpenSource Technologies to Organize Open Seminar on “Responsive Web Design”
Responsive web design is among the hottest trends taking place in web design industry. Analysts are saying that the year 2013 belongs to responsive design. The simple reason for this is hype of various devices having different screen size. Responsive design makes your website and its content compatible to devices of any screen size.
What is Responsive Design?
“Deliver a single flexible design that adopts to display properly on whatever devices are used to view website.
Internet usage is soaring across a wide variety of Screen Resolutions. Won’t it be simpler to have just a single website that could work everywhere? Responsive web design technology does exactly this.
Details about Open Seminar:
We are organizing a seminar to be held in OpenSource Technologies premises tackling a timely and relevant topic in “Responsive Design – A Paradigm Shift in Industry”. We are intent to involve academics, trainees and professionals who have the skills in HTML5 and looking forward to explore.
Topics to Cover:
- Introduction to responsive web design.
- Fluid grid structure.
- Media Queries.
- Flexible media
- Explanation of view ports
- Start building sample web page.
- Debugging and testing with different tools.
- Applying JavaScript for rich user interface.
- Handling flexible media with JavaScript and CSS
- Conclusion
See what the web is uniquely good at and how to adjust your site’s content accordingly. You’ll explore the best way to make your website compatible to various devices (iphone, ipad, tablets and other mobile devices).
If you wish to be a part of this seminar, Please register your seats at:
http://www.opensourcetechnologies.com/free-responsive-html-design-training/
We await your availability.
Joomla 3.1 Beta Released
On 7th of March 2013, Joomla Community has announced the Joomla! CMS version 3.1 Beta1. Open Source Joomla software is available to download for community members. For Quality assurance concerns it is scheduled to launch on or around 25th March 2013. Although, this is a beta release and is not available for use on production sites.
What’s New?
- Tags
- Show logs in debug console
- Refactor installation to use new application and MVC classes
- Add pagination in COM_SEARCH component
- Added triggers on save for com_config
Some More New Features:
- Incorporation of Twitter Bootstrap into a jui media package.
- A new responsive administrator template--Isis-- and interface.
- Use of JFeed for feed management rather than SimplePie
- Saving blank articles allowed
- New administrator statistics module
- Items associations in multi-languages
There are many new features added to this Beta Version. To know about the newly added features and functionalities in detail you may refer to Joomla Community website. http://www.joomla.org/announcements/release-news/5482-joomla-3-1-beta1-released.html
What’s the Status of Joomla 2.5?
Joomla 2.5 is a Long Term Support release and support for it will continue until shortly after the release of Joomla 3.5 scheduled for Spring 2014.
Want to Upgrade Your Joomla?
If you are in need of a developer to migrate your Joomla website from one another version, Expert Joomla Developer at OpenSource Technologies can help you. OpenSource Technologies is prominent open source web development company that offers complete range of web services.
Just drop us a line for any kind of Joomla support at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . We’ll be pleased to serve you.
Spread Your Business Footprint with iPhone Application Development
Every day mobile industry is booming, Apple has become the leading provider of iPhone mobile devices. Apple’s advanced technology has done great job in making mobile devices easy to use. Efforts made by apple has been extremely successful are are widely appreciated. The iPhone is among the prime products from Apple Inc. Every day large number of iPhone devices are been sold every day and thousands of iPhone applications are been developed by iPhone developers.
This latest device is not only a mobile but an entertainment gadget as well. iPhone keeps awesome features including imaging, connectivity, music, gaming, e-mail, surfing, data storage, many more and definitely making calls.
As in today’s scenario businesses are getting trendy, advanced and competitive. Technology is treading over world of business with lucrative iPhone device. These devices have a major use in the processing of various business tasks easily and effectively with the help of business apps development.
So it’s the time to give momentum to your business by launching an app. OpenSource Technologies is web and iPhone application development company with skilled iPhone developers. We focus on making an app authentic, secure and easy-to-use. Our expert iPhone developers have expertise to developing app in various domains and can develop any kind of business app. Apart from complex applications that involve monitoring cash or networking meetings, we also build apps that help business people stay organized. Our To-do lists and organizer apps follow only one basic rule – they are simple but swift.
So, get in touch with us and discuss your requirements and ideas with us. Our developers will consult you and help you in getting an app that could generate profit for your business.
Mobile Apps Testing and its Fundamentals
As everyone know that mobile technology is increasing day by day. Number of mobile devices are flooded in marketing that are been used for accessing the web. As Mobile technology continues to accelerate, application testers will struggle to keep pace without a shift in thinking when it comes to mobile quality, performance and development. Creating effective apps for an increasingly competitive market depends on rigorous testing to minimize errors and failures. However, this is not as straightforward as it sounds as apps today may need to run smoothly across as many different device platforms
The challenges for testers in the new world of the mobile device app are daunting. The products need to work smoothly across many existing device platforms while trying to predict the requirements of handsets currently in development - a sizable challenge for any organization.
Developers and testers are often sitting in silos and are both at times culpable for skipping the testing either at the development or during the lifecycle of apps. It is important to ensure apps continually perform from the moment they go live.
Here are some basic fundamentals that we follow at OpenSource Technologies in order to effectively perform Mobile Apps & web testing services to our clients.
Basic fundamentals for Apps Testing—
Reusability: Mobile app development is a moving environment. The apps should be developed in reusable environment so that changes can be made easily.
Maintainability: Mobile testing scripts need to be easily modified and portable across platforms to avoid rework which results in delays and added costs.
Real world mobile use: While what we perceive as the 'real world' will change, mobile apps should be tested in the same way that the audience will use them.
Multiple devices: The testing should support on multiple iterations of the mainstream mobile development platforms. Accuracy should be maintained on different-different device.
Identify the correct testing subset: It is unrealistic to test your app on every known released device and mobile OS platform so identify your key players - and recalibrate it as required.
If you too want ensure the performance of website or mobile applications, our professional web testers can help you out. Mobile Application & Website Testing Services also helps in performance enhancement so that you might generate more revenue. So, why are you waiting? Drop a line at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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