Optimize your website for Mobile users

In this current competetive market, each and every business owners should aware the importance of optimizing their web for mobile users. As the smart phone is very popular among the people in Qatar, for accessing a website, everybody depending their mobile only.

People are spending more time than ever on their mobile phones, while by 2014 mobile internet is estimated to overtake Desktop internet use. As per marketing reports, accessing internet via mobile phones will grow drastically with in a year and 40% of them accessing social media content. The rise of mobile browsing is a proof why mobile optimized web design is necessary to enable business with websites who access the internet everyday. I read a statistical report as an estimated 25% of mobile users access the internet at least once daily.

You require a website design, that is optimized for both web and mobile browsers to reach more audiences. If you have a website, the existing website can be optimized for mobile browsers effectively by a solution provider like us. So that you can attract more potential customers and pleases the current ones. If you are not optimized your website for mobile browsers, you may loss lot of possible potential leads in this competetive market.

Now the mobile technology is growing very faster and everybody prefer to buy a smartphone rather than choosing any other options. So mobile site optimization seems to be an important role in businesses to tap into new markets. Over the last few years, Mobile Marketing has become an essential part of the promotional strategy. As a result optimizing your website for mobile devices is very important since more and more users tend to access the internet via their Smartphones, tablets or mobile devices. 


The important thing while creating a mobile website is determining what content you have to include. Given the restricted amount of screen space, it is important to figure out what are the key information your visitors will probably be looking for. Mobile web pages will load slower than traditional web pages, so you have to keep minimum number of pages. In addition, mobile users won’t have the patience to click several pages deep on your site. So keep the site layout as streamlined as much as possible.


You can go through the links below for more reading:



http://www.digitalqatar.net/2012/05/15/ictqatar-gets-a-mobile-technology-makeover/

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/mobile-mania.pdf

Argus Web Development Process Cycle

The internet is becoming part of everybody's life in Qatar, from schoolchildren through to senior executives. Increasing internet access in homes, schools and businesses is a key part of Qatar's economic development strategy, building the foundations for the advancement of its knowledge economy.

I feel the Qatar market is becoming more competitive day by day and most business organizations started to think of taking maximum advantage of suitable latest technologies. Argus is researching the market to know the latest trends and serving our valued customers with most care for the last 3 years. For a business, as you aware, first important thing you need a website. Before developing a website, we know that you set your main objective as - a visitor of your web should get utmost impression or feeling than the one who visit your office/ organization. At Argus, we develop your websites with most care and through well defined life cycle steps.

Like any software, website development also requires standard methodologies and procedures. We would like to engage in a web project after a detailed preliminary study only. Before undertaking any project, there is an introduction and consultation phase, in which we gathered important information about the client’s business and their audience. So that we can set the goals – how can the site best serve the needs of the client and the users?

It is important for you to know and convey the purpose of your website, the intended audience of your website, and the message you want to communicate via your website. These will vary depending upon your line of business and whether you are a commercial business, or are a non-profit or political organization.

We will do a detailed study about client’s needs and how we can create a site that will effectively communicate with the audiences they would like to reach. We will draft a sitemap and discuss with them again with more options and recommendations. We can explain the strategy that we applied in organizing the site and listen carefully your feedbacks for changes and modifications.

Argus website development process can be divided in to different life cycle steps as follows:
1. Requirement Analysis
2. Planning
3. Development Proposal
4. Acceptance & Contract
5. Content Collection
6. Content Writing – optional
7. Concept Design and Approval
8. Development
9. Evaluation and Assessment
10. Final updates and project launch
11. Promotion
12. Maintenance

E-commerce / Shopping Cart web applications in Qatar

E-commerce websites enables great innovation for business owners to start and operate profitable businesses. With an e-commerce web, you’re able to reach your customers easily with targeted marketing. Shopping cart is software used in e-commerce to selling online or looking to streamline your online sales and marketing, your business depends on the right tools to effectively engage prospects and customers.

osCmax is a powerful e-commerce/shopping cart web application. There are many advantages to using osCmax as your e-commerce/shopping cart for your web site. It has all the features needed to run a successful internet store and can be customized to whatever configuration you need.

osCmax is a clean open source commerce program that is loaded with the most popular add-on contributions. It is a good choice for someone who wants more than a basic store, but also wants to be able to customize their store with special add-ons.

osCMax is a powerful and flexible e-commerce shopping cart and inventory tracking system. osCMax is 100% customizable, and supports all the major payment gateways. Tens of thousands of web sites run osCMax already, from small startup sites, to extremely high volume established companies.

Argus developed lot of websites using osCMax and having good expertise on it. See some of our websites shown below:

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Argus offers web development using various open source software: Drupal, Joomla, osCMax, Wordpress, Zen Cart, and Magento.