Web development and safe internet browsing http://www.smooth-step.com/blog Smooth Step blog talks about web development techniques, internet browsers and free email software - Articles written by web designers. en contact@smooth-step.com (Linas, Smooth Step) Smooth Step CMS Educative website design for an international college based in Marbella http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/portfolio/aloha-college This huge educational website has been developed on Wordpress content manager using our custom plugins. Large part of website content has been imported from the old website; we had to develop the importers. This generates over 3000 unique pages for search engines.

Apart of clean and fresh design we have implemented various innovative techniques, slideshows and special effects based on Jquery and Javascript in general avoiding Adobe Flash on client request.

As soon as the website has been released visits from Google search have doubled, mainly due to our SEO friendly static page production that was not implemented on the old website.

Website designed and developed for and international college based in Marbella
]]> contact@smooth-step.com (Linas, SmoothStep) Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:40:00 +0200 Web design http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/portfolio/aloha-college Prestige Car Transfers - Web design and marketing http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/portfolio/transportation Smooth Step content manager is no match to Wordpress or other open source solutions where complex content layout is involved. This high quality transportation website has been produced using content in mixed columns, a feature that is easily handled with our manager.

The website is very successful generating many airport transfer requests due to our elegant design and SEO services.

]]> contact@smooth-step.com (Linas, SmoothStep) Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:02:00 +0200 Web design http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/portfolio/transportation Ecommerce website designed and developed for an online clothing shop http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/portfolio/lipiblu We have been developing an e-commerce website that required extensive online shopping services, also a blogging support. To accomplish these features we have combined two powerful tools – Prestashop product manager and Wordpress blogging system. After long and complex programming both engines have been integrated seamlessly into each other so that shopping cart would be available blog section, also latest news would be displayed with online products.

This online shop has a dynamic Ajax based shopping cart, product search and listings, different payment forms, client accounts with order tracking and billing services, stock management and monthly sales reports - all that is needed for ecommerce business.

Online shop based on Wordpress and Prestashop with all blogging and e-commerce features
]]> contact@smooth-step.com (Linas, SmoothStep) Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:12:00 +0200 Web design http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/portfolio/lipiblu Creative artistic video built using advanced image processing http://www.smooth-step.com/blog/artistic-video-production Working with photo retouch, video editing and post production for various projects we have developed various custom artistic image filtering techniques.

After reviewing large amount of saved filters and recorded footage our team has decided to release Sky Jazz artistic video and a new site focused on photo retouch, filming and post production.

]]> contact@smooth-step.com (Smooth Step) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:30:00 +0200 Services http://www.smooth-step.com/blog/artistic-video-production Dynamic website development advantages http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/dynamic-websites Dynamic web development opens possibilities to build highly automated websites that can be easily managed using content and product management software while static ones are simply a bunch of HTML documents on the server.

Without any administration static sites give little benefit to site owner as websites that provide interactivity and fresh content tend to rank better.

Difference between static and dynamic sites

Article comments main benefits that can be achieved using dynamic development approach.

]]> contact@smooth-step.com (Smooth Step) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:02:00 +0200 Web design http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/dynamic-websites Website has been upgraded to version 2.0 http://www.smooth-step.com/site-redesign Web designers are never happy with their own website… New ideas and techniques are appearing every day incrementing urge for renewal…

We have been looking at our old site for a long time writing a list of what could be made better. After a while the list got so long that we have decided to go for complete redesign. Several new things have been implemented these include: tag cloud with results ordered by relevancy, product section, dynamic slideshows and others.

]]> contact@smooth-step.com (Linas, SmoothStep) Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:16:00 +0200 Web design http://www.smooth-step.com/site-redesign Web application performance tuning http://www.smooth-step.com/hosting-platform-tuning Here we will try to present first steps one should take to analyze web application performance. This is very important as it is a basic foundation on which other actions are based.

Server and web application monitoring

We will stress here on monitoring the behavior of web application as it is vital to understand how it works.

]]> contact@smooth-step.com (Martin, SmoothStep) Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:53:00 +0200 Web applications http://www.smooth-step.com/hosting-platform-tuning How to use server side cache engine to increase website performance http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/applications/caching Chapter comments how to improve web application and overal website performance using server side caching.

Here we talk about several caching models with their pros and cons and examples, also where they have been used on Smooth Step CMS.

]]> contact@smooth-step.com (Linas, SmoothStep) Fri, 02 May 2008 14:18:00 +0200 Web applications http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/applications/caching URL rewriting technology - Static pages on your website http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/choosing-page-names Static URLs are very important to achieve best possible search engine positioning and to increase web site performance.

Static and dynamic URLs

Article comments main difference between static and dynamic page names (URLs) and how to convert them using URL rewriting technology.

]]> contact@smooth-step.com (Linas, SmoothStep) Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:36:00 +0200 SEO http://www.smooth-step.com/web-design/choosing-page-names Popular web browsers, their pros and cons http://www.smooth-step.com/web-browsers/popular Free major web browsers to choose; their advantages, security and supported operating systems.

Make sure that you are using latest version of your web browser installed, especially if you are still using Internet Explorer 6 as it has serious security and rendering flaws.

Major web browser logos
]]> contact@smooth-step.com (Linas, SmoothStep) Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:38:00 +0200 Web browsers http://www.smooth-step.com/web-browsers/popular