Why is it Important to Know If Your Website Was Built in Open or Closed Source Code

Realizing that most website owners are just happy that their site is functioning well and looks great. Have these businesses ever realized that they need to educate themselves about the technology on the back side of their website?

Craig Reardon has some great advice to give on the subject.

There are three really important questions smaller business operators need to know about their website technology: Who recommended the website technology you are currently using? How impartial was that recommendation? And why is it important anyway?

The answers to these lie in a debate the software industry has been battling out for decades now. That of ‘open’ versus ‘closed’ source development code.

Before you click over to something a little more interesting than computer code, it’s important that you read on. Because not knowing the difference can greatly impact your expenses, your sales and even your reputation.

The open source community method

By definition, ‘open’ source means that software and now web developers are able to access the computer programming of the software or website in question and alter it to create new functionality.




The closed proprietary alternative
On the other hand, ‘closed’ source software or technology does not allow ordinary developers to access the development source code in this way. Typically companies create such software and deliberately ‘close’ the source code so that only they can modify it.

This is not just for purely profit motives. Closing the code in this way allows you to control the quality of the software by preventing ‘enthusiasts’ from inadvertently creating faulty or insecure programming code, which of course can compromise the software brand and reputation.

As a result, any issue you have with the software is generally directed back to the company who provided it, sometimes via licensed local developers. As in any manufactured product, warranties and service level agreements cover any fault that might occur to your program.

Packaged, branded technology

The best analogy to this community versus company scenario lies in your standard book-keeping programs. In the very early days of personal computing, you could hire a programmer to develop or ‘write’ a book-keeping program for you. Because ‘off the shelf’ book-keeping systems were still new (and we are talking 25 years ago or more) your only real option was to pay the hourly rate for a programmer or developer to create it for you.

But because computer code can easily be duplicated in much the same way music now can, it made sense for the developer in question to make the software available to others for a price much lower than having to re-create it each time.

So very quickly entrepreneurial developers packaged up their programs and mass produced and marketed them, much like MYOB, Quicken, etc do today.

Whilst you pay an initial and usually ongoing license fee to purchase and use closed software, you also get teams of trained professionals ensuring its upkeep and quality control – particularly in an industry renowned for disgruntled or otherwise meddlesome hackers constantly trying to create havoc.



Famously, this battle of Open vs Closed was fought out between Microsoft and Apple when it came to the way they licensed their operating systems and software. Microsoft’s ‘open’ approach allowed pretty much anyone with any development nous to incorporate its operating system into its hardware, regardless of its quality, and in so doing allowing the market for it to flourish. And it’s the reason why it held up to 94% of the operating system market at one point.

The core of Apple

On the other hand, for all but a few years Apple completely closed its operating system to outside providers so as to control the complete product in much the same way that many car manufacturers do. Whilst this approach came very close to ensuring its demise at one point, it eventually led to hugely successful vertical integration possibilities as is now being realised by its hardware, operating system, iTunes, app store, etc, products.

Actually, Apple may not have happened at all if co-founder Steve Wozniak had his way. He wanted the original Apple 1 to recoup only the cost of the hardware, add a small profit margin and essentially give away the operating system before Steve Jobs talked him out of it – a decision that took the fledgling business out of the hobbyist market into the consumer market, with revolutionary results.

But coming back to website technology, business operators can now choose from an open source website platform or a closed proprietary one – something that few actually realise or are even alerted to by their web professional.

The cost of freedom

But whilst an open approach may provide developers with all the freedom they need to be able to create pretty much any kind of website, it also creates the potential for a number of problems that closed systems don’t.

These relate to quality, upgrades, maintenance, security, other improvements and the cost of each of these.

But whilst an open approach may provide developers with all the freedom they need to be able to create pretty much any kind of website, it also creates the potential for a number of problems that closed systems don’t.
These relate to quality, upgrades, maintenance, security, other improvements and the cost of each of these.

Unlike a license with a closed or proprietary provider, there is no obligation on the part of your web developer to ensure that your website platform is kept up to date with all the various ongoing maintenance requirements web technology require.

So, say browsers such as Internet Explorer or Chrome alter their operational specifications? Your developer must keep up with these (regular) changes and ensure your website meets them; whereas proprietary providers do this regular maintenance as a matter of course – because at some point you have paid for it.

So what has all this background information got to do with you as a smaller business operator? As it now turns out, plenty.

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/technology/34246-is-your-website-built-in-open-or-closed-source-code.html

Amazing Website Testing Tools for Web Developers

As a web developer you would like to be assured that all the problems have been solved in the functionality of the great site before you launch the final product for your customer.  The following top 10 tools for web developers will help in testing for Cross Browser Compatibility, Website Speed Test, Security Test, Responsive Design Test, Accessibility Test, and so on.

Safari Web Inspector

Web Inspector feature is one of the remarkable Apple’s Safari web browser gems. Users can be able to see Safari Web Inspector after turning development tabs. It shows images, stylesheets and scripts on any webpage.

But, the most useful portion of Web Inspector is its Network feature that displays in real-time the order and speed in which documents and scripts transfer to the browser from the server. This tool allows you to find which files, scripts, or images are putting the most strain on browsers. After knowing the strain, you can simply fix it.

Firebug Firefox Extension

Firebug is the most favorite extension of programmers that solves debugging issues with front-end code and CSS. Checking out through Firebug is the best response, if any image or style that’s out of line. Moreover, users can also be able to change styles within the extension to see how a website will truly show in the browser.

UI Parade

UI Parade (Live Tools) is a collection of free online designer applications, allowing easy developing UI elements with some experience of coding. Apart from creating custom elements, users can easily download creations in their applications and websites.

AccessColor

Professionals, who want to test the color brightness and contrast of the background and forefront of all components available in the Document Object Model (DOM), can have AccessColor.

This marvelous tool is best for searching an appropriate combination of color mixtures within HTML & CSS documents instead of developing each value to input.

W3C Validation Services

W3C is one of the best standards in all of web validation. W3C Validator displays errors based on industry standards by looking into the markup of any website.

Users can find more than a dozen languages and a dozen varieties to choose from. One can find numerous assistance related with W3C validation like amplified load speed of web pages, future-proof feature check, cross browser compatibility, easy repairs & fixing, better search engine ranking, etc.

  Selenium

One of the leading open source testing frameworks for web applications, Selenium is based on Java scripting, offering a collection of choices that used for creating a comprehensive automation test suite.

Some of the effective components of Selenium are Selenium Client API, Selenium Grid, Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control, Selenium Web Driver and Marionette.

Browsershots

Browsershots User Interface testing tool is used for checking cross browser compatibility of your website. It is one of the best open source online web applications that make screenshots of your website in diverse OS and browsers.

Solex

Solex is another efficient open source web testing tool that acts as a HTTP proxy. This testing tool used as a plug-in for the Eclipse IDE. The best things about Solex are users can simply record, adjust and replay a client session.

All HTTP requests and responses between client and server are recorded by this testing tool. With Solex, user can also get the result through XML format and an optional XSL format.

Fluidui

If you are searching for a mobile app prototyping tool, then you have Fluid UI that design and test low and high-fidelity app mockups on a mobile device with simplicity. With the help of this tool, you can easily unlock creativity through its simple and UX oriented.

Watcher-mainly, is a Fiddler add-on that used by diffusion testers to determine web safety concerns. Watcher is one type of reflexive susceptibility scanning tool that especially designed for HTTP based web applications. Moreover, it doesn’t dangerous for cloud, hosting & construction locations.

http://www.whatech.com/members-news/web-design/16291-10-useful-website-testing-tools-for-web-developers-and-designers

The Biggest Hurdle for Building the Obamacare Website

Evidently the building of the Obamacare Website was a huge challenge. The question in the minds of developers was "Where do we begin?"  Curt Kwak was hired in August 2012 as the chief information officer to complete the website completion

Richard Onizuka ,assistant director for the health policy for the Washington State Health Care Authority, stated , "Ultimately, the team decided to follow a third strategy. “The eligibility system has all sorts of pieces to it — food stamps, housing, medical, other things like that,” explains Onizuka. “The process was to pull the medical piece out of that system, build a new rules engine, then put the rest back together."

The key challenge in that process, says Kwak, is getting the state medical eligibility data to interface with other databases, especially the federal hub.

Biggest hurdle

While formatting data so that it interacts with other databases can be time-consuming, Kwak says that has not been his team’s biggest challenge. Rather, he says, it’s the challenge of putting it all together without being able to really test the system.

“Our challenges have not been with data formats but rather full availability of the test environments to fully test our functionality,” he says.

What limited testing the team can do is currently under way. Kwak says the portal is now being used on a limited basis by agency staff. “So far it’s going really well. We’ve had a pretty high pass rate and we’ve discovered a lot of defects that we’re fixing.”

“We’re still one of the first states to be where we are,” adds Kwak.

While integrating the relevant state and federal databases has been a huge task, developing a Web interface for consumers has been equally important.

“We didn’t use a cookie-cutter approach,” says Marchand. “We collected a lot of feedback just to make sure that we were getting the necessary comments through the lenses of the stakeholders who would be using it from a consumer standpoint or from a provider standpoint.”

According to Kwak, the starting point for Web development were sets of requirements provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency within the federal Department of Health and Human Services that manages the state exchanges.

“We’re working off a blueprint that was agreed upon between us and CMS,” says Kwak. “It was a step-by-step process that we followed, covering everything from security policies and protocols, to the actual functionality of the application itself.”

At the same time, the feedback the team is getting from consumer groups is to keep the site and its navigation clean and simple. “People really want to see something that is fresh and clean,” Marchand says.



Ready to go?

While the work isn’t finished yet, Kwak is confident everything will be ready to go on Oct. 1.

“I think one of the main challenges was management of the defects that came and are still coming through integrated testing and user-acceptance testing,” he says. “So the challenges were around how we prioritize and fix all of these issues prior to ‘cold freeze,’ which is going to occur in the next few weeks.”

According to Kwak, most of the things they’ve had to fix have been cosmetic. “The wording here and there, the look,” he says. “And some things around the navigation of the tool. There are some concerns about some of the buttons and drop-down menus.”

One of the major tools the team has been working on is a health-plan rate calculator that estimates users’ monthly costs based on household income, number in the family, ages and, if appropriate, subsidy payments for those with household incomes below 400 percent of the federal poverty line. That calculator, of course, is being adjusted to reflect the insurance plans and rates certified for the exchange.

And the team is considering working in additional features. The calculator, for example, doesn’t factor in county of residence, and plan costs can vary significantly by county.

There are some other capabilities Kwak says may have to wait for a Version 2 to meet the Oct. 1 deadline, including an online chat capability. “We’d like for customers to be able to access customer support through this service on Washington Healthplanfinder,” says Kwak. “We also want to build out our mobile experience, which would ease access, data look up, and status checking for mobile users.”

What the team is working on most now is getting all the different pieces to work well together. The state eligibility system is still running on a mainframe computer, for example, while the Web interface is an Oracle-based application. Getting those two pieces to interact well takes some tweaking.

And since the Healthplanfinder has an Oracle-based back end, while the Web application is Java-based, they also need to be aligned and synchronized.

Finally, coordinating efforts among all the staff at all the different agencies and departments at the state and federal level is an continuing challenge. “When you deal with organizations that are not your own, you’re going to have different jargon, different acronyms, different understanding of level of expertise,” says Kwak. “That’s been the hardest part — maintaining proper and continual communication to make sure we’re all on the same page.”


Read more : http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2021826998_acawebsitebuildxml.html

What Businesses Should Know When Hiring A Website Developer

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Have a plan

Before the first meeting, take time to think about your company’s wants and needs in terms of website functionality. What is your grand vision? Look at other sites to illustrate your vision. The better your explanation, the better the developer can plan and execute a functional web site.

Listen to the developer’s ideas


After sharing your plan, listen and consider the developer’s suggestions. As the expert, he or she will know the most effective way to deliver an outcome. The developer’s enthusiasm in the project can also be a good indicator of the type of work to be performed.

Add strategically

Often times, developers get over excited about projects and suggest additional items you may or may not need. Make sure additions bring value to the user experience. If you feel the developer is trying to increase the price of the project by recommending items you do not need, look elsewhere.

Consider maintenance

With any website comes maintenance. Ask the developer upfront if you’ll be trained on how to use the site, if you will be able to make changes yourself, and if there are any limitations in terms of content. All this information will be beneficial to know at times when you need to change text, add pages, update products, or add new items to the site. Also, ask if the website can be transferred to another developer in the future.

Don’t pay for everything upfront

Some developers ask for full payment upfront and then fail to complete the project. It is common practice to require 25 to 50 percent up front, and the rest after key milestones or when the work is complete.

Remember: Don’t be afraid to ask “interview” questions, just like you would when hiring a full-time employee. Ask for references, examples of “live” sites, and credentials.

Do you think a developer’s personal appearance is important? Would you feel more comfortable with someone wearing glasses and a pocket protector, or someone with piercings and tattoos?

- See more at: http://www.bbb.org/blog/2013/08/checklist-for-hiring-a-web-developer-to-manage-your-site/#sthash.UEToPPMP.dpuf

Whether running a big business or a one-man shop, having a strong presence on the Internet is important. For this reason, enlisting the help of a qualified web developer can help ensure a website’s functionality and effectiveness.

Business owners looking to hire a web developer should consider the following five tips to ensure they obtain the desired outcome:

Have a plan

Before the first meeting, take time to think about your company’s wants and needs in terms of website functionality. What is your grand vision? Look at other sites to illustrate your vision. The better your explanation, the better the developer can plan and execute a functional web site.

 Listen to the developer’s ideas

After sharing your plan, listen and consider the developer’s suggestions. As the expert, he or she will know the most effective way to deliver an outcome. The developer’s enthusiasm in the project can also be a good indicator of the type of work to be performed.

 Add strategically

Often times, developers get over excited about projects and suggest additional items you may or may not need. Make sure additions bring value to the user experience. If you feel the developer is trying to increase the price of the project by recommending items you do not need, look elsewhere.

Consider maintenance

With any website comes maintenance. Ask the developer upfront if you’ll be trained on how to use the site, if you will be able to make changes yourself, and if there are any limitations in terms of content. All this information will be beneficial to know at times when you need to change text, add pages, update products, or add new items to the site. Also, ask if the website can be transferred to another developer in the future.

Don’t pay for everything upfront

- See more at: http://www.bbb.org/blog/2013/08/checklist-for-hiring-a-web-developer-to-manage-your-site/#sthash.Qngvl1Tz.dpuf

Whether running a big business or a one-man shop, having a strong presence on the Internet is important. For this reason, enlisting the help of a qualified web developer can help ensure a website’s functionality and effectiveness.

Business owners looking to hire a web developer should consider the following five tips to ensure they obtain the desired outcome:

Have a plan

Before the first meeting, take time to think about your company’s wants and needs in terms of website functionality. What is your grand vision? Look at other sites to illustrate your vision. The better your explanation, the better the developer can plan and execute a functional web site.

 Listen to the developer’s ideas

After sharing your plan, listen and consider the developer’s suggestions. As the expert, he or she will know the most effective way to deliver an outcome. The developer’s enthusiasm in the project can also be a good indicator of the type of work to be performed.

 Add strategically

Often times, developers get over excited about projects and suggest additional items you may or may not need. Make sure additions bring value to the user experience. If you feel the developer is trying to increase the price of the project by recommending items you do not need, look elsewhere.

Consider maintenance

With any website comes maintenance. Ask the developer upfront if you’ll be trained on how to use the site, if you will be able to make changes yourself, and if there are any limitations in terms of content. All this information will be beneficial to know at times when you need to change text, add pages, update products, or add new items to the site. Also, ask if the website can be transferred to another developer in the future.

Don’t pay for everything upfront

- See more at: http://www.bbb.org/blog/2013/08/checklist-for-hiring-a-web-developer-to-manage-your-site/#sthash.Qngvl1Tz.dpuf

Whether running a big business or a one-man shop, having a strong presence on the Internet is important. For this reason, enlisting the help of a qualified web developer can help ensure a website’s functionality and effectiveness.

Business owners looking to hire a web developer should consider the following five tips to ensure they obtain the desired outcome:

Have a plan

Before the first meeting, take time to think about your company’s wants and needs in terms of website functionality. What is your grand vision? Look at other sites to illustrate your vision. The better your explanation, the better the developer can plan and execute a functional web site.

 Listen to the developer’s ideas

After sharing your plan, listen and consider the developer’s suggestions. As the expert, he or she will know the most effective way to deliver an outcome. The developer’s enthusiasm in the project can also be a good indicator of the type of work to be performed.

 Add strategically

Often times, developers get over excited about projects and suggest additional items you may or may not need. Make sure additions bring value to the user experience. If you feel the developer is trying to increase the price of the project by recommending items you do not need, look elsewhere.

Consider maintenance

With any website comes maintenance. Ask the developer upfront if you’ll be trained on how to use the site, if you will be able to make changes yourself, and if there are any limitations in terms of content. All this information will be beneficial to know at times when you need to change text, add pages, update products, or add new items to the site. Also, ask if the website can be transferred to another developer in the future.

Don’t pay for everything upfront

- See more at: http://www.bbb.org/blog/2013/08/checklist-for-hiring-a-web-developer-to-manage-your-site/#sthash.Qngvl1Tz.dpuf

Kentico CMS Desk Content Management Gives Kudos to Terradon Communications for Their Greenbrier Resort Website

Terradon Communications Group of Charleston,W.V. has been honored for its work on The Greenbrier Resort's website.
Kentico Content Management System named the resort's website one of the top 10 sites for August that uses Kentico's website management system. Terradon produced "a visually rich website" that includes "beautiful changing backgrounds," Kentico said.

The staff of Terradon Communications developed great websites for many businesses,colleges and governmental institutions.

Check out the website @http://www.greenbrier.com/

Bootstrap 3 Introduced This Week Expediting the Development of Responsive Websites

Bootstrap, the wildly popular front-end framework for web development, launched version 3 this week, promising to make it easier to develop responsive websites that look great whether viewed on a phone, tablet or desktop screen.

For web developers familiar with Bootstrap, version 3 is a fairly major change. They’ve totally revamped the grid system and gone all-responsive. The fixed grid is gone, replaced with four new grids for phones, tablets, desktops and large desktop screens, enabling a seemingly endless variety of layout possibilities as your screen size scales up or down.

Bootstrap 3 has also jumped on the “flat design” bandwagon with a new look and feel for its buttons, navbars and other components. They’ve jettisoned support for the problematic IE7 and Firefox 3.6 as well.

Bootstrap has only been around for two years and originally started as an internal project at Twitter by Mark Otto (@mdo) and Jacob Thornton (@fat), who have since left the social media giant. It has rocketed in popularity to become the most watched/forked open source project on Github. If you’ve visited any “modern” looking responsive websites lately, chances are decent that you’ve been to a site built with Bootstrap. Meanpath actually measured that 1% of the 150 million websites they index use the framework.

Bootstrap has its detractors, many of which lament the “sameness” that it spreads across the web when folks don’t customize it. However, it is hard to deny its utility, and it’s not that hard to customize it to stand out from the crowd.

In a fit of frustration (and cheapness) in trying to find a new web developer, I adopted it for ourreal estate site and ended up being able to do a bunch of web design independently. The last thing I had time for was worrying about CSS for a responsive grid, media queries, breakpoints, menu bars, etc. Looking forward to trying out version 3 for some better layout options for small screens, but unfortunately, this launch has just burned a few of my weekends.

You can check out the latest version at getbootstrap.com.

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/bootstrap-3-launches-easing-development-responsive-websites/
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Best Tips for Better Search Engine Listings and Increased Conversions

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Developing a website and implementing a few key words does not guarantee good rankings in search engines. Loren Doren ,Creative Director, of IFM shared some great tips to stay ahead of the competition.

Len says. “When a prospective client comes to us to develop a new website for their business, they don’t ask us to help them understand the technology and their options, just offer them solutions to their current site quality issues. However, although we manage many client sites, the technology available today can now allow clients to manage some parts of their web presence.”




For good ranking for any website, on any search engine, here are some key pointers to follow:

Website layout – keep it simple. Make sure important information is “high” on the page and less important information is at, or “below the fold” (below the viewing portion of a website at bottom of your computer monitor screen).
Content – Make sure content on web page is “to-the-point”, covers all or most aspects of the topic at hand, but does not run-on forever. Make sure pictures have the proper “alt tag” descriptions and the page font has an adequate contrast from the page background so it’s easy to read.
Forget about keywords, and make sure to use “key phrases” on company web pages. Many people over-stuff the keyword meta tag code and page content, which could be perceived by some search engines as unnatural and poor rankings could be the result. So it’s not so much the keyword tag that can be a negative thing, as very few search engines actually use that meta tag for ranking these days, but more the page content.
Ask for the sale! Make sure there are more than one “Call to Action” items on all site pages which lead visitors to sales page or at least a contact page.

•Lastly – all search engines have “guideline” pages. It doesn’t matter if it’s Google, Bing or any other engine – they all have guidelines. If the site owner is managing the website, read those guidelines. Otherwise have the site developer or manager read those guidelines to make sure all is well.

In Front Media designs Responsive WordPress websites and also offers Social Media Optimizing, Search Engine Optimization and standard Web Design services. For more information visit IFM at http://www.ifm.ca.

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Vivid Learning Systems Has Developed a New Redesign of Four Industry Websites

Why was this redesign needed for MSHA,Electrical Utility Safety, Healthcare and OSHA Compliance?

New design for these industries websites has provided benefits to safety professionals,from safely directors to those workers in the field of their specific industry. The new websites have provided content for education on the benefits of learning technology for safety programs.

“Our goal was to build a scalable and responsive multi-site content platform, that will allow us to easily implement new assets from game-based learning to videos and infographics" said Liz Bormida, Marketing Manager at Vivid Learning Systems. “The result is a new, mobile friendly website for each industry to help students and visitors have access to educational information and resources in an effort to help increase safety awareness in the workplace. Our vision is to bring mobility and convenience to occupational health and safety.”


“Our online visitors and students will now experience a more vibrant and seamless view of safety related content, from online training and best practices, to industry news and regulatory updates,” said Shawn Simon, Utility Manager for Vivid Learning Systems. “In the same way that the creation of Vivid Learning Systems Electrical Training Worker 1910.269 library brought top industry experts for an on-demand training solution for electrical utilities, the redesign of the Utility Safety Online website creates a new home in cyberspace for wide-ranging utility safety resources, making virtual visits to Utility Safety Online more exciting and informative than ever."

View the following websites and see what you think of the new changes made by Vivid Learning Systems.

http://www.utilitysafetyonline.com
http://www.mshatrainingonline.com
http://www.healthecaretrainingonline.com
http://www.complianceatwork.com

Great Tips on Producing a Mobile -Friendly Website

Businesses need to realize that a mobile friendly website is a must to promote their products or services. The trend to mobile devices for consumer usage is high. Web developers need to be ready to update existing website to be mobile friendly. Mobdev has some very helpful tips for developers in this process.



1) Make sure mobile users are automatically redirected to the mobile version of your website.

2) Choose the foremost information to include: direct means of communication (e.g. phone numbers, click-to-call function, online booking); main information about services; locations on a map. Longer bios and other texts of secondary importance should be left solely for a desktop website. Include only the things your visitors are most likely to look for.

3) Remember that the user must access the needed pages as quickly as possible, with minimum actions. That's why the fewer pages stand between the user and the action he/she wants to accomplish, the better. To navigate through the website, the buttons should have enough space to prevent users from tapping the wrong button, or trying to hit a minuscule button to make it work.

4) While reducing the number of pages, avoid placing too much information per page. This will inevitably make navigation aggravating, which is by no means acceptable. Make sure that the design allows users to tap and swipe around your website easily. You should also avoid excessive number of images, avoid popups and Flash.

5) Avoid too much text input for users. Typing too much is not a very convenient option on a smartphone.

6) Essentially include the branding elements of your desktop site (e.g. logo, design style or colors) into the mobile website. It may seem a natural decision, but one must think how to do it in the best way to make the mobile site as recognizable as the desktop one.

7) Keep in sight a link to the desktop website. Many visitors may want to proceed there for the information that is left out in the mobile version.

8) Check how your website works on a number of mobile devices: smartphones and tablets running various platforms. Screen size is a crucial issue in any branch of mobile development.

http://www.pr.com/press-release/479670

Website Templates by MotoCMS

Moto CMS Now Include a Wide Variety of Customizable HTML Templates.

 MotoCMS, creators of the simple and intuitiveMotoCMS website builder, proudly announces the addition of HTML templates to its already extensive collection of beautiful and user-friendly templates. Featuring both HTML and Flash options, users can browse the entire selection of website templates by MotoCMS or select only the template type they wish to use.

Designed for both the seasoned professional and the newbie creating his or her first website, the website templates powered by MotoCMS are created with the principles of simplicity and functionality in mind. However, what users gain in ease of use, they do not lose in style and design. Each MotoCMS template is sleek, cutting-edge, highly professional, and creates a website that customers can be proud of that showcases their products, designs or services in a beautiful way.

According to an article on the website, "Since the moment we started developing complete solutions for website development and management, all our efforts were directed at building a truly convenient and user-friendly content management system for websites, starting from online business cards to complex portals. And we want our customers to get a real masterpiece in the end, but not a template half-finished product created only for profit."

The drag and drop website builder makes creating a website simple, with widgets available with every template. These highly-functional choices include Google Maps, drop down menus, photo and video galleries, Buy Now button, an advanced contact form and more. In addition, the built-in mobile editor allows users to build and create a mobile-friendly version of their site easily and quickly. With over 1,500 designs in a wide variety of categories, MotoCMS has the right design for anyone looking to make a website their own.

Now with the choice of searching Flash templates, HTML templates or both, customers can find exactly the type of site they want by look and feel as well as design. Each template is available to preview, and customers can build and try their website for free for 30 days.

About MotoCMS
Moto CMS is the powerful and feature-rich website builder that allows its users to make professional, beautiful and mobile friendly websites. Each template has an integrated admin panel through which users can easily customize and manage their MotoCMS websites in a matter of clicks. The templates collection includes more than 1,500 templates in a variety of categories.