Picture this: you are a freelance designer who is just starting out. You don't have much of a reputation yet. You have some great ideas buzzing in your head. And you really would like to start reeling in some clients-the bigger, the better. The worries don't end even after you land a project. What comes next is that your design fulfills their requirements and adds a shining edge to the solution.

A design can be labeled as good when it turns a few heads while successfully solving a problem. But it becomes sensational when it can twirl your client by the pixel. What you need to keep in mind is that, design is not just about creativity, but also about presenting and consequently, selling it effectively to your clients. And situations like this turn into roadblocks for those who are doing it wrong.

Do you own a business? Want to sell something? Then the internet surely seems to be the best place for that. In fact, the internet is often rightly dubbed as the largest marketplace. So, if you want to sell stuff, you need to have a proper presence on the internet. And if you have a retail business, you can sell your products and services directly through the internet. All you need is a good ecommerce website.

eCommerce is everywhere these days. Even Facebook has entered the world of ecommerce. So, it is essential to have an ecommerce website for your business as well. But if you are creating an ecommerce website, you will need to design it properly, keeping in mind a lot of things.

Selecting a hosting provider could be tough, especially for SMEs because they need a server with a broad range of functionality. When deciding on a server, the customer needs to consider all the pros and cons because it’s pretty much pointless handing over a giant sum of money to rent a server, and then regretting over that decision.

More so because hosting providers know how to lure customers; the strategy they apply is shouting out loud so voices of their competitors couldn’t be heard. That’s why you as a customer need to show prudence and look beyond the marketing gimmicks, so the true potential of a hosting company could be recognized.

Designing a website isn’t an easy thing. You need to keep a lot of things in mind. The website is surely your identity on the internet. And it’s your store at times as well. So, it’s the design of the website on which your business performance will depend to a great extent.

But there’s one problem with web design. It’s essentially a dynamic one and never remains static. So, no matter how well you have mastered a few skills now or have become aware of the trends, you will have to remain abreast of the new trends that arrive. And along with it, you will also need to reject the things that do not hold any importance in the field of web design anymore.

Once a giant segment of the web development industry was dominated by php. Sites like Facebook and Wikipedia are built on php. But php has recently been losing out on popularity owing to the arrival of newer programming languages such as python, ruby, lua, etc.

In this article we’ll discuss whether or not php is dead and if it’s still alive, then what is its future. To start with, php doesn’t seem to be dead. At the time of writing this article, nearly 75% of the web is powered by php. Most popular content management systems such as Wordpress, Magento, Drupal, etc are built on php. Php frameworks such as Zend, Symfony, CodeIgniter, etc are highly sought after.