Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC 2013) took place in Beijing, China, on May 7th and 8th. Pursuing new horizons in mobile applications development, our company could not miss this global event gathering over 10 000 industry professionals from all over the world. Continue reading

Cross selling is another eCommerce trend that has boosted customer acquisition to another level. No wonder it has become so much popular with online store owners as any time a buyer want to purchase something online, a number of related accessories or similar and complementary products are immediately introduced to his or her attention. As a result customers who have already made up their mind on a purchase want to buy more or at least they’ve got seeds planted in their minds that there are other products that can go with the current purchase. Continue reading

Last week QuartSoft’s marketing managers had a chance to attend the LOGIN conference that took place in Vilnius, Lithuania. This was the 7th LOGIN event bringing together the largest international tech community in the Baltic States to discuss IT technology and innovations.

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Time is money. This is especially true for tech startups when every extra day of product development can cost entrepreneurs not only extra money but also loss of strategic positions in their never-ending struggle with competitors. As you can imagine time is a crucial success factor when it comes to development of web applications. Fast and professional development helps preempt markets and reap fame and fortune before startup’s rivals can do it. Continue reading

Editor’s Note: As in any web/mobile design and development agency, we have quite a few geeks in QuartSoft’s staff. We would not be a successful IT company if there were no geeks who pretty much strengthen the overall expertise of our team. But you know what? Geeks are very useful in a much larger scale. Our today’s guest writer, being geek herself, believes that geeks help society even through video games they create, play and enthusiastically promote. Continue reading

Do you know that working with QuartSoft as your outsourced web design and development service provider can actually bring you a lot of benefits? The QuartSoft team has been practicing the cloudsourcing model of implementing our customers’ projects for years to deliver cost-efficient and high quality online business solutions. You can learn more about how our cloudsourcing model works and how it differs from traditional outsourcing in the infographics below (click to enlarge the image): Continue reading

Our team of Magento developers has recently introduced a new update for the Address Validation extension – one of our most popular extensions designed to help Magento store owners automatically check the validity of billing and shipping addresses specified by customers during the checkout process. Continue reading

The constant evolution of technology has led to a huge demand for qualified specialists in the field of web and mobile development. At the same time, companies began incurring higher costs associated with building infrastructure and forming their own IT-departments. In addition, even search for an IT savvy employee sometimes requires a tremendous amount of time and money. When opening its office in Silicon Valley, QuartSoft Corp. Continue reading

Out team has recently joined the Software development group in the San Francisco Bay area and we had a chance to talk to local software developers about different topics related to their trade.

So, based on these conversations, we would like to share a few tips on some useful project management tools used by software and web developers.

Here are some quotes from software developers we were honored to interview along with some thoughts and comments of the author of this article regarding suggested PM tools:

"Basecamp is really not a project management tool in the same category as MS Project. Not even close. OpenProj is free PM software. Not as powerful as MS Project but pretty adequate for my needs."

Based on a huge experience we gained over the years of working with numerous individual customers and companies we can say that quite a lot of people are seeking to save on web design and development services even if such savings bring nothing but poor look and performance of their sites. Sometimes it’s really hard to explain the reason why a website needs professional revision and re-vamping, but we are going to try it anyway.

Let’s take a car as a quick example. Many thousands of Americans change their cars every couple of years. The reason is that they want to keep their vehicles up to date! They love to enjoy new available services, new technologies and a higher level of security ensured by newly developed features and equipment.

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