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Administration module is a valuable one for website administrators and developers. With this module, you can navigate to the admin menu easily through the smart menu bar on the top. This no doubt saves time while working on the website development.

Date:

The Drupal Date module helps in creating a date field type in the Drupal system. It is very helpful especially when you want to create chronological contents, calendar,…

Web Form:

Create a contact form, an event registration, surveys, applications, with none other than Drupal Webform module.

Media:

Drupal media module helps in managing the documents, audio & video files. It is liked by many Drupal developers because Drupal core is harder to handle with files & multimedia.

Context:

The Context Drupal module permits displaying different elements, or contents on the site based on conditions. Like, if you want some blocks to show up at the bottom of the homepage, and change them differently on the products page.

WYSIWYG:

Wysiwyg doesn’t work by itself, instead, it is a tool allowing you to add content editors. Which means you can edit and work with the content fairly easily and more conveniently.

Views SlideShow:

As the name sounds, this Drupal module is used to generate slideshow with Views. Creating slideshow has never been easy before this.

Ubercart:

For a shopping or an e-commerce site, this is an awesome tool. Lots of Drupal websites use this Ubercart module, as it gives tremendous supported in everything from shopping flow to the shopping cart, from promotion to the payment.

Custom Breadcrumb:

To give easy navigation, this custom breadcrumb module gets your breadcrumb path shown on the site. It can be integrated with Views, Panels, Taxonomy Vocabularies and Terms, Paths.

Gmap:

Drupal Gmap module helps to locate your location on Google map. This module is very useful if you want to show your company’s visual address; a property on a real estate website; a restaurant on a deal site. If don’t like the current display, you can even customize the map according to the purpose.

Meta Tag Quicks:

The Meta Tags Quicks module adds meta tags such as title, descriptions, robots to get your page optimized on the search engine. This is a must-have module for Search Engine Optimization.

Internationalization:

Internationalization module is a great extension to the core multilingual Drupal. This allows publishing a multilingual website and translates nearly everything on a Drupal website.

Bean:

Bean module transform the core Blog into a dynamic entity – node, vocabulary, users,… making it easy for you to add multiple fields for your Blog content. You’ll find this module the most valuable one if you use Blog regularly.

So, this is our complete list, well not totally complete. There are some others modules too out there which I haven’t mentioned. I think the top 15 modules makes a long enough list.

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Let’s go through a list of some nice, clean and minimal web designs that really shines in 2017 and hoping that they will be around for many years to come.

1: Stay Consistent

When it comes to creating a brand identity, a minimal brand mark can be incredibly useful. Keep your business logo super simple and the color palette very minimal, make it flexible enough to be used throughout the rest of the branding seamlessly, and helps in creating a consistent and a memorable brand.

This bar branding sign above by Simon McWhinnie is an example of being consistent in your web design.

2: Discover Hidden Relationship

Following minimalism in no way means that your design has to be any less creative. If you’re not trapped down in complex visuals, you often get a chance to explore and play with clever relationships hidden within your design.

Take a look at the branding done by Interband for Opera Australia, a minimalist design to discover a clever relationship between the words.

3: Play with Native Relationship

Minimalism allows considering the spatial relationship of the design in a way you might not have before. Do consider how your design interacts with other elements on the web page to create a wider design.

Check out these above business cards designed by Trevor Finnegan as how their design interacts with other elements to create a wider design.

5: Stay Clever

Minimalism isn’t about the lack of the illustrative elements, but instead of the careful choice of when and where to use them in your website design. Working on an illustrative element that directly relates to your brand name into a logo can help creating a very visual, and yet very minimal design.

The above example by Frame Creative created a very visual yet minimal design by following the technique of being clever.

6: Embrace the Efficiency

Minimalism is about skipping all the unnecessary things and only focusing on the website communication. Display the information neatly and efficiently, no crazy visuals required.

See how Jake Frey displayed the information on his business card (above) neatly and efficiently with no crazy visuals required.

7: Be Functional

Minimalism is just brilliant for functionality. A clean, clear and uncluttered design can make the navigation like a walk in the park. The minimal design and the clear typographical hierarchy makes the navigation of the contents page quick, easy and functional.

The minimal design and typography done by JamesKape have made the navigation of the contents page quick, easy and functional.

8: Find Some Balance

The relationship between visual elements like photographs and typography is important to get just right. A good design is the one in which no element overpowers another with no good reason.

One key trick to follow, the simple photographs should be paired with large, attention-grabbing pull quotes, while the more textured and complicated images should be paired with a small piece of body copy creating a balanced harmony between each page.

9: White Space is Alright Space

White space, aka as ‘negative space’, can sometimes look empty or blank space, but this is not entirely true! If use well, white space can help balance out your design, and help it breathe. The idea of white space results in a classy and minimal design.

10: Be Direct

When there are less visual elements fighting to be seen, designers will able to be a lot more direct with the message conveyed and the overall communication. This can be useful when doing web designing, with a direct and plain message, helps give the viewer an idea of who you are straight away.

Final Words

Minimalism is the vital component to your web design as it has the potential to be timeless. The fewer elements your design possess, the less chance it may get to go out of style or trend.

Let’s take a look on Google. The screenshots above are of 10 years ago and today’s homepage of Google.

Despite the small change, the white space, the focus on the content, and the minimalism of the website keep the design relatively timeless.

Minimalism is about the way of thinking about your design. Typographically, limit the use of fonts to create a more connected and less confusing design. In colors term, embrace monochromatic schemes but don’t be limited to them only.

Overall, consider what can be removed, whether color from the palette or image from the composition. See what can be replaced with something more concise. Reduce them and just keep what is necessary.

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2: Ask Specific Questions:

Some of those specific questions will largely depend on the kind of knowledge and skills your project requires. Write down the list of sample PHP interview questions which will help to evaluate the candidate’s expertise. The list should contain server-side, database, and client-side related topics.

3: Ask About their Past Projects:

It’s important to know what they did on their past projects. However, the project may seem very impressive, but the part they played in them might not be. Ask them their contributions in the project.
Keep in mind that they could have worked under NDA, so if their answers sound little fuzzy, it doesn’t mean you should drop them from the list of your potential hires immediately.

4: Ask them some Non-Technical Queries:

Developers sometimes need to explain things to other developers and non-developers the same, and making them talk about something they find interesting can tell you a whole lot about how they communicate, which is no less important than their PHP skills.

5: Check the Candidate Code:

There are few ways to check their coding style. You can use coding tests available online, but ensure that they are real world coding challenges and not some standard “textbook” problems. And in the alternate, you can take their small trial.
Do remember, it’s not the final code that matters here. You just want to check how your candidate does the task and get the opportunity to review their work before handing them your precious project.

Wrapping Up

You’ll come across many who claim to be the “experts” of PHP, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a good fit for your project.
So make sure you know very clearly what skill set you would like your PHP programmer to possess, what frameworks you are planning to use, and what exactly the ultimate goal of your project is. Use these as guidelines, and, hopefully, hiring the right PHP developers to build your web application will become a little easier.

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Continuous core and module updates

Drupal core and contributed modules are constantly updated to provide the high level of functionality and security for your website. Make sure to run the recommended core and module updates for your Drupal website. Old modules should be removed instantly.

In terms of security for custom code, ensures it is written well and accordingly to the Drupal coding standards.

If your site is running on Drupal 6 or on any previous version, do upgrade them to Drupal 7 or Drupal 8 which are now the only two latest versions supported by the Drupal community and, get regular security updates for better performance.

A convenient user role and permission system

Drupal offers flexible and convenient options for granting permissions to the website’s users or groups of users. Be very sure who you are granting the access to your website. Pay special attention to the roles that are allowed to run PHP code on your Drupal site. It is a safe idea to remove PHP input filter from your Drupal site.

Good news, in Drupal 8, it is no longer even available.

Data encryption

In Drupal, passwords are encrypted with multiple parameters (length, expiration, complexity etc.). Also, a strong database encryption can be configured, with a variety of options to protect the specific information. Make use of it to get advanced security for your website.

Limited login attempts

Drupal helps prevent from intrusions by limiting the number of login attempts from the same IP address for a particular period of time. You can also keep track of all these login attempts through the administrative interface.

Form API

The purpose of Form API is to clean and validate the data before submitting into the database. It tests the data entered by users to match the specific formats and parameters.

The End

Drupal is the most secure, open CMS platform.  Follow these Drupal security guidelines and prevent your Drupal site from cyber attacks.

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About Visual Studio

Visual Studio is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) used to create windows form applications, websites, web applications and web services. It supports a variety of programming languages including C#, C++, Python and Ruby.

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So we now know about these software development technologies, let’s create your first web application.

1- Open Visual Studio 2012, go to “File/New” menu and click on “Project”. A window like below will open

2- In this window, select within the Visual C# options, ASP.NET MVC 3 Web Application.

3- Then in the next window, select the template “Empty”, and “Razor” as View engine, and then click Ok.

You can now see web application project created with the required folders Models, Views & Controllers also the reference, app data, scripts and other files.

4- Right-click on the folder “Controllers” and “Add/Controller” and you’ll see a window, enter the name of your controller. For e.g. “Index”, and for the template option, leave Empty Controller. Don’t remove the suffix “Controller” in the controller name because it’s showing that this one is a controller class.

5- Now, right-click on the folder “Models” and select Add/Class. Name this class as you like because this will be the Entity to show in the View. We name it “IndexModel” (the name doesn’t have to include the word “index”). Then, add some properties to the class. For example add ID, Description and Comments properties.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace MyMvcApplication.Models
{
public class IndexModel
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Description { get; set; }
public string Comments { get; set; }

}
}

6– Right-click on the folder “Views” and create a new folder named “Index” (as the controller). Then right-click on that folder and select Add/View. Name the view as “Index” also and as a result, we’ll have a new “Index. cshtml”.

7- Now we have added Model, View, and Controller. Let’s add some code to the controller which will be like this.

8-Now add some code to the view which will look like this.

9- Run the Project on any internet browser, and make sure you add to the URL the action “Index”.

That’s it! You have built the first MVC Application with ASP.NET, using C# and Razor. It’s is the most basic and simple way in order to learn and create your very first web application using Asp.Net with Razor syntax. Hope it helps you in understanding the easiest way to develop Asp.Net Web Application.

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1: Bundling & Minification Feature

The bundling and minification feature in ASP.Net 4.5 will bundle and minimize the size of the scripts and style sheets used in your application. The feature is a great addition in the performance of any web application. The namespace System.Web.Optimization provides the support for bundling and minification of files. When you create a new project in ASP.Net 4.5, these below lines will appear in your Global.aspx file.

protected void Application_Start()

{

//Some code

BundleTable.Bundles.RegisterTemplateBundles();

}

2: Strongly Typed Data Controls

ASP.Net 4.5 have strongly typed data controls. It gives intellisense, just assign the ItemType property to a model which is going to be associated with the data controls used in the aspx pages. Below mentioned code will illustrate how to use Strongly Typed Data Control feature:

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText=”Name” >

<ItemTemplate>

<%# Item.Name.ToString() %>

</ItemTemplate>

</asp:TemplateField>

 The below code is a complete markup code of the Grid view control which uses Strong typing:

<asp:GridView ID=”GridView1″ runat=”server” AutoGenerateColumns=”false”

ModelType=”Payroll”>

<Columns>

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText=”FirstName”>

<ItemTemplate>

<asp:Label ID=”lblFirstName” runat=”server” Text='<%# Item.FirstName %>’></asp:Label>

</ItemTemplate>

</asp:TemplateField>

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText=”LastName”>

<ItemTemplate>

<asp:Label ID=”lblLastName” runat=”server” Text='<%# Item.LastName %>’></asp:Label>

</ItemTemplate>

</asp:TemplateField>

</Columns>

</asp:GridView>

 3: Model Binding

ASP.Net 4.5 Model Binding feature allows to develop Web forms which are independent of the model that populates the view. The biggest advantage of ASP.Net 4.5 Model Binding is you can easily unit test the methods. Model Binding in ASP.Net 4.5 is supported through the namespace “System.Web.ModelBinding”. The namespace has value provider classes like ControlAttribute, QueryStringAttribute etc. All these mentioned classes are inherited from the ValueProviderSourceAttribute class.

4: Value Providers

ASP.Net 4.5 offers many Value Providers which can be used to filter the data. Here are some:

• Querystring
• Session
• Cookie
• Control Value

5: Support for OpenID in OAuth Logins

ASP.Net 4.5 gives the support for OpenID for OAuth logins. One can easily use external services to login into the application. Like ASP.Net MVC 4, ASP.Net 4.5 also allows you to register OAuth provider in the App_Start/AuthConfig.cs file. This data dictionary is also can be used to pass additional data.

6: Support for improved paging in ASP.NET 4.5 GridView control

Paging support in ASP.Net 4.5 GridView control is improved a lot in this version. ASP.Net 4.5 GridView.AllowCustomPaging property gives great support for paging and sorting through the large amounts of data more efficiently.

7: Advanced Support for Asynchronous Programming

ASP.Net 4.5 gives excellent support in asynchronous programming. Now you can read and write HTTP requests and responses without the requirement of OS threads. Also, now you have the support of two new keywords await and async.

8: Support for Web Sockets

HTML5 web sockets allows to perform duplex communication between the client browser and the web server. ASP.Net 4.5 offers the support for the web socket protocols. Now you can leverage WebSockets in the ASP.Net web applications.

The namespace which supports the WebSocket is System.Net.WebSocket.

9: Support for HTML5 Form Types

ASP.Net gives excellent support for HTML5 form types. The below following list are the new controls available in HTML5.

• Email
• URL
• Number
• Range
• Date pickers like date, month, week, time
• Search
• Color

10: ASP.Net Web API

ASP.Net Web API is included in ASP.Net MVC 4 and ASP.Net Web Forms. This new feature will help you to build and consume HTTP services easily.

Summary

Microsoft ASP.Net is the most successful web technologies till date. It has matured over the past few years and its latest version is ASP.Net 4.5 with amazing new features and advancements.

After all, the success of your business resides on your virtual appearance. So, it is necessary to select your PHP development company carefully. I will tell you here some questions to ask before hiring any professional PHP Development Company if they are good enough for your company or not. Let’s take a look on some of the most important questions.

1. Ask about their experience. How old their company is? What projects have they done? Their staff capacity and which industry they cater?

2. Ask about their expertise. Their PHP developers’ skills, experience, and qualification?

3. What tools and technology they use and will they upgrade the PHP software according to the latest version?

4. Which framework they use and what will be their delivery models?

5. What is their communication mode? Will their developer or project manager be available for any assistance?

6. Ask for them to show their brief portfolio and previous work was done?

7. Provide them with the details for the targeted audience like age group, region, qualification, interests, industry etc.

8. Tell them the nature of your business and what is your plan to achieve through your web development project.

9. Who are your industry competitors and how will they help you stand out among them?

10. Do you have any theme, style, functionalities in your mind or want the web development company to come up with some outstanding ideas?

11. Are you revamping your existing site? If yes then how will they re-create it? Or do you want to develop it from scratch?

12. Where your website will be hosted and will you have the full access to the c-panel and FTP logins?

13. Will they outsource any other developer for your PHP website?

14. How much is your budget and what are their packages?

15. Do they have the right server with enough space, bandwidth, databases etc. capable enough to provide the necessary infrastructure to the website you intend to build?

16. Will you provide them the content for your PHP site or would like to get their content services?

17. What will be the expected timeline for your PHP web project?

18. Do you need a fluid-width website or fixed-width website front end development?

19. Which CMS you need and which e-commerce shopping cart and with what kind of payment mode?

20. Is blogging necessarily for my website?

21. Will they make responsive PHP website which is optimized for mobile devices?

21. Do they give on-going SEO services? Do you want to use any of your keywords to high rank your website in search engines?

There’s more

Apart from all these necessary questions, there are some other important details to ask like payment, post-development support, and security. These questions will surely help you in the filtering process for selecting any offshore PHP Development Company.

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Making a choice is definitely not an easy task. Well bear in mind the definition and purpose of your website, what is your complete budget and what is your own level of expertise or your Joomla / Drupal Web developer.

We hope this guide will clear your head and make your decision be an easier one.

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