Should You go for Development of Your Mobile Website Using HTML5?

"The world hates change; yet it is the only thing that has brought progress!"- General Eric. Was a time then, when we perform our computer operation with a palm sized Calculator having very limited access to our thoughts and of course needs. Last phase of the 20th century was then gifted with a bigger better hardware i.e. "Computer System" by IBM; and Microsoft made it sensible enough with its flagship product i.e. Windows Operating system; an absolutely game changer for the industry. With inception of 21st century, industry conceived with a new generation smart brain based computer system i.e. Smart Phones and was flooded with smart apps and mobile apps to make the user connected to rest of the world. Mobile apps or Mobile websites are nothing but the smarter version of desktop websites and they can be treated as smartsites!! For a smarter device or software we must use even smarter technology for better throughput and user experience- hence the evolution of HTML5. And it is a must for any mobile website design, let's find out why?"

Mobile website, form factor and HTML5: The population of smart phones is increasing at a rapid pace; almost every day there is a new Smartphone getting launched in the industry. These devices are of different form factors like 3 inches to 10 inches diagonally. But the developer needs to develop a common mobile website that can fit to every screen size and resolution and it is really a nuisance for them. With HTML5, web developer can build responsive websites that can impart similar user experience irrespective of screen size and resolution. Things will not break when there is a change in the screen size rather it will accommodate with the resolution. In fact, with HTML5 we can design a page that will render the web content differently in different scenarios and this is the charm of developing mobile websites with HTML5. Features like media-query for viewport are simply awesome. Now, with HTML5, we can use <picture> and it can be directly associated with viewport size, resolution and orientation for efficient delivery of images. HTML5 web developers need not to worry about the size of the image; in fact, he can simply use different images for different resolutions and orientation. This makes a lot sense when we consider Smartphone with many sensible parts like gravity sensor etc.

Truly efficient HTML5 attributes and elements: HTML5 has amazed the whole IT world with its beauty, yes the beauty of efficiency. The things started with its DOCTYPE! Its DOCTYPE is extremely short and simple; you need not to write any URL or any extra stuff to add the HTML5 to your web page. Excluding that, there are many modern and powerful attributes HTML5 posses for its lovers. May it be <audio>, <video>, <container>, <picture>, <form> and others. The front page design becomes much easier with HTML5 with full concentration over the responsiveness of the application. All its features and attributes and elements are truly responsive and hence a web developer needs not to worry about its user experience at the end of day. It has inbuilt form validation feature that used to be a part of JavaScript developers; but now it can be well organized by the HTML5 developer alone. You just need to enter the type of the field and the rest is taken care by HTML5. Imagine for a phone number, you need not to write any JS code for validating if it is filled by numbers only rather it can be done automatically from HTML5 core. Similar fashion is there for email fields, text field, date picker etc. It simply improves the productivity due to its unmatched efficiency.

Memory constraints and HTML5: Mobile websites or smart sites run on smart devices like android or iOS smart phones or tablets. Due to their portable form factor, they have a limitation from the memory point of view. They have few GB (Of course around16 GB or at max 32GB) of inbuilt memory along with 1 or 2GB RAM. Again the speed of the device is often par below than that of a bigger desktop machine. It used to run with less frequency to save the power- which is again another limitation. So, our mobile website should be optimized enough since it needs to run on a limited memory. HTML5 makes it possible with its highly optimized elements. These elements will make your page light and load faster. HTML5 has an improved feature i.e. Local Storage that enables the browser to store some essential data of the user so that he can access the webpage in a smarter way. User is given control to kill the local storage data at any point of time if he wants to release memory.

HTML5 can help you for low Bandwidth operations: If we are considering mobile website then we are targeting mobile devices like smart phones and tablets. These devices usually run on mobile networks like 3G, 2G or 4G LTE. But the penetration of high speed internet can't be expected from every location due to lack of proper and advanced infrastructure in many developing countries; but the major population of mobile website user are from those geographic regions. So, we must consider their bandwidth issue and we must design a mobile website that can give better user experience even at low bandwidth and this is really challenging! HTML5 is there to help us out!! It can create amazing web pages that are extremely lightweight and hence takes less bandwidth to download. HTML5 developer can implement canvas instead of any larger multimedia files. The best part is that, you need not bother about any third party media player to run a media on the browser like Flash or something else. HTML5 does not require any plug-in for playing media instead it does the things itself and hence decreasing the load on the browser. Similarly, with picture element, one can extract an image slowly from the server without impacting the user experience. HTML5 can also help in creating interactive web pages with Games that are light weight using canvas and some help from the lightening fast JavaScript.

Offline access with HTML5 for better user experience: HTML5 has an outstanding cache management system that helps in improving the browsing experience on a mobile browser. The Local Storage can help you in storing a web page data on the client browser and it enables the user browsing those pages while in offline state due to availability of HTML content on the browser itself.

At Mindfire Solutions, we have been developing engaging sites for both mobile and web using HTML5. Our 20+ team of HTML5 developers have been serving our esteemed clients and have developed over 50 HTML5 projects. Please feel free to write to us for all kinds of HTML5 development requirements, we will be glad to assist you. Also, as a limited period offer, you can avail our Risk-Free Trial Offer.
 

Hiring a Virtual Employee Do's and Don’t's

“Money comes from the money invested; but it is not absolutely true. In fact, money comes from a good idea when get executed in a systematic manner!! In 21st century, the buzz for Intellectual property has reached at its best. In fact, the biggest corporate industry of the universe i.e. IT industry is dominated by the intellectual property and there are billions of IT professionals working around the globe to serve the industry in a methodical manner. With telecommuting, the industry has crossed all the geographic barriers and the virtual employees are playing the most important role in the business. Though it is highly productive way of doing futuristic business but at the same time, comes with many risks and shortcomings. It’s not that much simple to onboard a virtual employee for your business for a superior yield”.

Do’s of hiring virtual employee:

Understanding the responsibility level of the Employee: While hiring a virtual employee for your business you must understand all the shortcomings and risks associated with the process. The most important thing is that, you can’t trace your employee’s behaviour all the time when he was on duty. If the employee tries to deceive you, then it may lead to serious hamper to your business. So you must keep your eyes open and always try to know the status of your work done by the virtual employee. You must try to hire a responsible employee for your purpose so that you needn’t to bother much about his progress and you can focus more on your business. While screening the resume of a virtual employee you should try to find out his previous record and how he had performed during that period. Again you can also do some questionnaires with the virtual employee to know his responsibility persona. You must understand that a responsible employee can give you a marvellous end product.

Intention of the Virtual Employee must be considered: Though it is quite difficult to understand the exact intention of anyone but still you have to give your maximum effort to know the intention of the virtual employee; because it can be the deciding factor for the success of your transaction. No matter how efficient or hardworking professional you are going to hire, you must consider his intention because a professional with bad intention is extremely hazardous for your business. Imagine you are going to hire someone with whom you have never interacted before and you are going to discuss all your business policies and ideas with the person that means you are taking an immense risk indeed. Hence you must try to know the intention of the virtual employee and should share the business ideas with him gradually in a professional and responsible manner.

His track record should be considered: The track record of any virtual employee must be well thought-out; because from that, you can at least get some practical information about the employee. His track record will definitely make easier for you to take the decision. From his track record you can extract various personality trends of the employee like responsibility level, honesty, hardworking and result oriented nature etc. For the same, you can contact his previous employer for different information about him.

Don’t’s of hiring virtual employee:

Don’t test unnecessarily: Remember, virtual employees can definitely help you in saving a good portion of your investment but at the cost of risk i.e. cost cutting comes at the cost of risk. Hence you must determine whether you should give priority to risk than investment or vice-versa. If you don’t want to take any type of risk with your business then it is better not to hire a virtual employee. In fact domains like banking and insurance sectors never take unnecessary risks for cost cutting purpose. Understanding this fact, you should be serious enough while deciding for hiring any virtual employee for your business. It is always suggested not to become over aggressive and take unnecessary risks for a healthy business. So stop unnecessary tests if they are not required.

Don’t be hurry in offering the appointment letter: The virtual employee can sometimes turned out as a real threat for your business if not handled with responsibility. A bad intentioned virtual employee can make a serious hamper to your business. So, you must chew over various criterions before appointing a virtual employee for your beloved business. You should make a strict and thorough back ground check of the employee before you onboard him for your business. You can do the same by some reliable third party organization that has very good reputation in the industry. Many private detective agencies can help you in this regard.

Don’t depend upon the Virtual employee without considering his previous dependencies: While hiring a virtual employee for your client you must conscious enough because a small mistake from your end can cause a severe financial loss for your client. Before you put a virtual employee for a project you should thoroughly consider his potential and expertise so that he can serve your client with utmost care. A wrong employee will lead to an imperfect output and hence the dependency of the virtual employee should be considered before projecting him for any project. For the same you can go through his previous work experience and his performance.

Don’t let your client fed up for your wrong decision: Remember client is the most important asset of your business just like your employee. If there is no client, there is no employee and there is no business. Providing better service to client should be your top priority from the very beginning of your business. The profit that you make from your business comes from your client’s pocket. Hence it is your responsibility to provide utmost quality of service or product for your client. For the same you must hire quality resources from the industry for your business partner. The employee who will work for your client should be efficient and effective enough in fulfilling all demands of your client and provide him quality service during the transaction. Hence you should hire a good employee who is not only efficient but should possess effective communication skill to interact with your client. Never let your clients suffer for your mistake and hence you should hire a quality resource for your client so that you can do a smooth business and that will definitely bring good reputation for you in the industry.

At Mindfire Solutions, we have been doing offshore small team software development for our clients since 15 years now. We have dedicated teams for all web technologies like ColdFusion, PHP, PHP Frameworks, Python, ASP.Net and Java and mobile app development teams like iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. We also have senior developers in various popular CMS like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. If you need any assistance in creating engaging web and mobile applications for your target customers, please feel free to write to us. As a limited period offer, you can also avail our Risk-Free Trial offer.