Last Saturday we attended the OpenWebCam conference organized for those who want to know more about in new trends in the domain of client-side web development. Top speakers from Google, Mozilla, Yahoo etc. had been invited to share their knowledge about new technologies they were using these days as well as to talk about their future expectations and forecasts on the evolution of web.

Here this article we will outline some interesting information attendees of the conference had a chace to learn.

We have recently joined a meetup about the best deployment practices for hosting thanks to Serena Software Inc. (btw they also have an engineering team in Ukraine). It was a very interesting discussion and we really loved some ideas we would gladly borrow for our future work. Continue reading

We are happy to announce that, beginning July 1st, QuartSoft will be an official technical partner for Sphinx Technologies Inc. – a developer of a unique open source full text search server.

Before launching our project we always check whether the website is prepared for the business on the World Wide Web.

During our development process we try to take care of a lot of things to get your website ready for successful online sales. Among other things we make sure that the sites we built are SEO friendly and they are easy to be optimized for search engines by either our customers themselves or by our company or any other company specializing in SEO.

Having even the most amazingly looking website with a lot of customer-oriented features and functionalities is not enough and it does not guarantee that your online business will be a success unless the website can be easily found by customers. This is where search engine optimization (SEO) comes in handy. SEO is deemed to be increasingly important for any kind of online business as search engines are able to bring the most targeted and the cheapest traffic to a site, thus ensuring a decent conversion rate without spending a single dime for PPC or advertisement.

Innovations are the driving force for a lot of new services emerging each day in the digital era we are living in today. Here in the SF Bay Area we observe hundreds of entrepreneurs coming to the Silicon Valley with the hope of becoming another Google or Apple.

Our company is proud of working in the very center of the Silicon Valley where a lot of innovative ideas are generated and brought to life. We do our best to be involved in this process of technological evolution by providing our support to startups with all our skills and experience acquired over years of working in the domain of web development.

Our team with a huge expertise in building robust fully-featured web platforms for emerging startups is always open for cooperation with aspiring entrepreneurs who are looking for IT professionals providing the cutting-edge support and assistance in their ideas implementation at the best rates and on attractive conditions beginning from the concept stage through the seed stage and to the beta release of a product or service.

Every business has its own specific requirements to make its workflow run fast, smooth and efficiently. There are a lot of business applications which are designed to provide entrepreneurs with all kinds of benefits to make their business easier to manage or to make it more attractive and convenient for customers.

There are a lot of business applications around which have never gone beyond desktop models. Such applications are loosing their flexibility and usefulness with the advent of massively used web services which made a lot of desktops obsolete. Using Internet for business, shopping and entertainment has become a part of today’s society culture. After ordering goods and services online has grown from a habit to the lifestyle of millions of people all around the world, businesses can no longer ignore their web presence if they have even a slightest desire to be successful. Therefore business owners started transferring their activities online including their most important business applications. The Internet had allowed companies of all sizes to operate globally and they had to adjust their business applications to the opportunities the web could offer. Thus web-based business systems and SaaS solutions are in high demand in a new era of online business.

QuartSoft employs a team of professional web developers and web designers with a lot of experienced in building customized web-based business applications as well as in transferring existing desktop software to online versions.

For over 7 years QuartSoft has been creating corporate websites for customers from all over the Untitled States and numerous other countries. When building corporate websites the team of QuartSoft goes extra miles to analyze the business to be represented online through a new website as well as its customers and competitors.

Based on our experience we can divide our customers into groups by the type of websites they hire our web designers and developers to build for them. If an expertly designed and built website is something you are looking for, please, spare a few minutes of your time to explore some examples below and let us know what your business is about for us to be able to send you our proposal specially customized for you to better serve your needs.

Promo sites for a specific event, place, destination

Go Tahoe North - this is simply an information portal for one of the best vacation locations near SF. An easy-to-use content management system allows controlling and editing content on every page of the site. The website offers just enough information and a number of great photos to give visitors an idea about how beautiful the place is. The site has a simple and elegant navigation area. This type of sites is perfect for any event promotion as well as for a general public place, a non-profit organization etc.

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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