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You read it right. You are telling the world that you have got a website that do wonders and magic for your 'valuable' customers, and when that valuable customer visits your website they are unable to find dunk out of it. Pardon my words, but this is how most people are doing marketing of their websites and web applications. If this is how you are going to do it, then it's better not to do it at all. I always remind my team, marketing begins when your development and design team starts working on your website; it does not start when you start the marketing campaign. The reason: when you announce that you have a website, please visit my website, get benefited from my website before its too late, and all those fancy catchy lines you use for your website, then you better make sure that when your customer visits your website they are able to explore and enjoy your website instead of feeling lost and finally frustrated. If you are not taking care of the user experience of your...

A few years back, 'Web Development' term was used for the process of developing a website. This was when web development just started to gain popularity. However, with the growing need of having browser based experience within the applications, developers started a new venture called web applications. The reason for its popularity was quick development, increased manipulation of media and content, and of course the aesthetics. Despite of its popularity, security remained its main concern for the data-critical organizations. After a while, developers managed to flawlessly handle the security concerns of the organizations. During this time span, Web Development semantically comprised of both website and web application development. During the past few years, into this group joined another term called Mobile Apps. Just recently before this addition, native apps was widely looked for, but now organizations have realized that the power of a native app is achievable in lesser cos...

There was a time when JavaScript was only used for handling events on the webpage. Front-end developers were more interested in learning tables and CSS for designing the layout of the websites. Today, the trend of designing and developing website is a lot more complicated, quick and advanced. Website is no more a static representation of media and content; it is more of a platform where users are interacting with the content, exploring the information, analyzing their businesses; this turns even a simple website into a web application. Achieving this level of engagement and functionality requires not only the skills of  HTML and CSS but also JavaScript. Now, the Jacks of this trade knows that we are not directly using JavaScript, we use frameworks and libraries to design and layout the structure of the websites. One of the most widely used frameworks is Bootstrap, which requires jQuery as its library. JQuery is a JavaScript based library that has created pre-built functions and...

In the modern technological era the skill is not to re-invent the wheel but to amalgamate different things together to form new things. The person who knows how to join things together in the web designing field is the most wanted web developer. Why? The answer is urgency and speed. Organizations spend millions in development not to wait for months for a website or application, and that too with lots of development, deployment and maintenance issues. The ace of web designing industry is the one who can pick different components and join them together. However, to do so you need to understand at least the basics of front-end development industry; just in case, things go wrong you should be able to fix it. Or on a larger scale, most of the times plugging components together isn't the end of front-end development, clients require you to customize their application or website according to their business needs, here you will be looking for some professional web designer who would be doi...

Web Development Labs (WDL) is planning its next foray into the troika of Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things. The whole purpose is to provide the industries with the process automation solutions. This article analyzes what benefits does this trio of AI, AR and IoT could do to the organizations in this regard. In the past few decades, manufacturing industry has drastically grown both locally and globally. This growth is the result of the huge increment in the supply and demand of various products that have gained immense popularity amongst consumers. Ranging from a simple home appliance like a toaster to a space shuttle, the contribution of the manufacturing industry scales largely and has revolutionized into a need rather just a requirement. Various manufacturing industries revolve around different products, hundreds of processes, and product manufacturing cycles. Each stage of these cycles need to be effectively measured and monitored to produce a f...