Good Web Design Makes the Difference

A custom CMS is like getting a custom suit tailored, from scratch. When working with your trusted tailor, you know that when he has finished his work, your suit is going to fit perfectly. Using a free, open-sourced CMS is like buying a new suit, and then having it adjusted to fit your unique body. It still fits, and may look good, but it's just not the same. The pockets might be a little low, shoulders a little tight, fabric may be bulging on the waist...

Custom CMS vs the free platform. Let us look at the differences in; Speed, Stability, Security, Cost, and Flexibility.

Speed

Working with open-sourced platforms will provide you with the tools you need to succeed, and a whole bunch more that you do not. This excess can increase database calls, slowing down page loads, site navigation and various dynamic processes. With the user base you envision for the project, speed needs to be optimized. A custom fitted CMS allows us to optimize the speed of your website. We will build you exactly what you need, avoiding anything extra that can get in the way.

Stability

We hope to work with you during the life cycle of your business, and like your family doctor, the more we know the easier it is for us to provide advice, tune-ups and new additions to the system. Working with Wordpress will give you access to the largest plugin library for a single platform. 100's are added each week. At this volume, how can you predict the ones that are going to last? How do you know the developer won't disappear in 12 months, leaving you with no support? How can you ensure that Plugin A is compatible with Plugin B, when you connect Plugin C to the mix? How do you know if a future mandatory Wordpress update will work with these plug ins, or disable them? Unless you hired a firm like Inchol Solutions to develop a custom web system, with custom plug-ins, none of this is guaranteed. Having 1 solid development team, will enable everything to work together in perfect harmony. This will also allow you to get support directly from a consistent and reliable source (the actual developers).

Security

There are a huge amount of open source options out there, one factor that most businesses do not understand about these tools is that they commonly get hacked. The reasons for this is that hackers have access to the original source code, and this makes it easier for them to take advantage of anything they may find in the code. Besides the basic issue that your are at a greater risk, it is also important to understand that we, Inchol Solution, are not responsible for any security holes that this software may have - after all, the software was not created by us. With a custom framework and CMS, your websites security is our full responsibility. Our team of developers are constantly monitoring and addressing security risks. You automatically get these updates for free. These updates are guaranteed to work with your any plug ins connected to the website.

Cost

Although Open Source Solutions may initially be cheaper, one must weigh up the long term effects of choosing this as a solution. Technology is changing at such a rapid rate, that most business owners are finding that they are having to update their website every 2-3 years. Occasionally, these updates can be mandatory. In the case of open source solutions, this typically means either paying someone to upgrade your version of the product (if it is even still in development) or starting from scratch. It also means that older plugins may become obsolete, producing 'holes' in your system. Inchol Solution's clients on the other hand receive updates and upgrades at no extra cost. We re-invest heavily into our website tools, to ensure their clients are at the forefront of website technology. Although 'free' open sourced platforms may seem cheaper now, it is important to way up the long term costs.

Flexibility

Having a complete understanding of the make-up of your framework allows us to do anything with it. We own it, and we can do what we want with it. This just isn't the case with Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal.
 
A website project of your scope needs to optimize it's speed, security and development flexibility. Launching a new venture requires an in-depth analysis of expendures, budget and cost control. In order to achieve success, you need to for-cast the present and future impact of your decisions today. Our custom framework and CMS, provides a solution the address each one of your needs.

The Internet is changing constantly and quickly. There have been things that some of us have grown to love and hate. One of those has been the Adobe Flash Player. The Adobe Flash player allows the user to watch video through a web-browser but Flash software and up to date plug-ins must be downloaded to view. The times of constantly having to download plug-ins to watch a short 10-second video is coming to an end. Things will be streamlined very soon!

The next big thing coming to the Internet is HTML5 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5), it will bring a whole new level of user experience on the internet.  It allows web users to take full advantage of web media – audio, video and other multimedia without having to download third party software, such as Adobe Flash, to get them to work.  This means the end of those annoying ‘pop-ups’ asking you to upgrade to the latest version so you can play the file you want to see or hear.  The new HTML5 will be integrated into all the major web browsing applications Mozzila Firefox, Google Chrome and Microsoft Explorer.

HTML5 will become the standard in web development. If you are thinking of having your business website re-developed anytime soon you should make sure that your web design company is up to date with this key development.

Mozilla, developers of the highly regarded Firefox Browser, are very upbeat about HTML5, which is a prominent feature of their new Firefox 4, which launches in the next few weeks. Whilst this will no doubt be welcomed by the 450 Million users of Firefox it is unlikely to be greeted with such enthusiasm by Adobe, who could see a sharp decline in the usage of one of its premier products.

Is this the beginning of the end of ‘Flash’ then?  Mozilla certainly think so.  Their view is that once the latest versions of Firefox together with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Google’s Chrome browsers include the functionality needed to make best use of available internet technologies, including mobile web, people will have no need to download any external plug-ins.  It does seem to make perfect sense – especially for mobile web, where it seems almost ludicrous that you have to download a full version of Adobe Flash in order to play a simple 10-second movie clip!

As i-Phone users will know Apple has already done battle with Adobe when it banned ‘Flash’ from its i-Pad and i-Phone devices.  HTML5 will be a much more viable and reliable option across all platforms – Mozilla advise that ‘flash’ is the biggest single reason for crashes of its Firefox browser, the problem became so severe that in June of last year they introduced a ‘crash protection’ to try and combat the issue.

Adobe is trying to cover some lost ground by releasing their new tool “Wallaby” that will allow Adobe Flash designers and developers to export their Adobe Flash file into HTML5. Yawn. Wake me up.

Unfortunately this ‘hail pass’ effort by Adobe to have Flash stay relevant in the emerging Mobile landscape will fail. Note: HTML5 is the only way to get interactivity on HTML pages viewed on mobile devices like the Apple iPhone and iPad. The bottom line is the tool has major gaps and will basically export the Flash file into a generally unusable HTML5 file. Yes, it will work on simple Flash-to-HTML5 conversions like animations, but for those robust Rich Media Flash banners converting into a HTML5 banner with a simple touch of a button? Nope, never gonna happen.

Lets raise our glass to another fine example of the rapid evolution of our one and only World Wide Web!

Facebook may begin to offer a video-conference application for its 600+ million users. The largest social networking site in the world could make a partnership with Skype for this. Facebook declared for the American publication that the discussions and negotiations between the two companies started since early 2010.

Skype was founded in 2003 by the Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström and Dane. The Skype software was developed by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu and Jaan Tallinn, the same individuals who together with Niklas and Janus were also behind the P2P file sharing software Kazaa. In April 2003, Skype.com and Skype.net domain names were registered. In August 2003, the first public beta version was released. Right now, their membership base is more than 650 million people, pretty much the same figure that Facebook has.

Introducing a video-conferencing service would be considered as an answer from the social network to Google and Apple, companies that are already offering this feature through their software platforms. Currently, the video-conferences represent 41% of the total connections being made using Skype.

Some Facebook functions are already integrated in the newest versions of the client-program Skype and if this partnership will come to an end, the video calls will be done directly using the browser.

Facebook announced last year a new communications platform which will grant unified access to the instant messaging system offered by the company and an email account based on such addresses as user@facebook.com

The new video-conference system could be integrated in the platform that Facebook will released and which isn’t yet public, being still tested.

This whole thing makes us wonder a bit, will Facebook take over the internet. With a merge like Facebook and Skype the user ship could reach 1 Billion easily. What does this mean though? I think the question we really need to be asking is how do partnerships like this affect a daily lives? How do new innovative technologies like Skype and Facebook manipulate the way we place our attention in life. In this regard one question remains, is it us the people who are using Facebook/Skype or is it the other way around?