Monday, April 29, 2013

Will Snapdeal’s Deals Affect Shopping At Indiatime

Will Snapdeal’s Deals Affect Shopping At Indiatimes?

Tastes differ and so do customers’ preferences when it comes to buying. Catering to the needs of all people is indeed a great task, as the stores need to have a wide range of products that address the varied fancies of the shopper. Online stores offer a great advantage to prospective buyers as they provide stunning product range. The ability to compare products and services offered by various online stores encourage people to seek these stores for their purchases. Every online store that hits the market tries to outshine others and gain a steady market for its products. Snapdeal is one such online store in India, which aims at producing a wide range of products to its customers. Let is see if its deals can affect Indiatimes chances in the market.

How Versatile Are Their Collections?

Snapdeal is selling products online since 2010. The wide range of products in Snapdeal includes apparels, books, cameras, computers, mobiles, footwear, jewellery, sports goods, automotive products and many more.

Indiatimes Shopping has been operating online from the year 2005. Belonging to Times group, Indiatimes has established itself with a very good product range. The collections at Indiatimes Shopping include apparels, toys, baby products, bags, watches, mobiles, computers, home appliances, kitchen appliances, books and many more.

Where To Look For Better Options?

In books and electronic items, Indiatimes shopping offers a wide range of collections. In fact, the collection of books is outstanding. In apparels, footwear and in a few other categories, Snapdeal does better. You could make your choice on the website based on your purchase. Take into account the product you want to buy and choose the online store based on it.

Where Quality Is Not Compromised

One of the reasons why you might hesitate to try shopping online is owing to your concern for quality. We see a general trend where customers’ spending spree has increased and they do shell out some money by way of experimenting something new. However, they are sure allergic to receiving defective products and you cannot blame them. You would as well not prefer being a target, right? Hence, it is quite natural to look for quality and with Snapdeal and Indiatimes Shopping you can get quality. Both online stores deal with branded items that have been in the market for an impressive period of time.

Where You Need Not Dig Deep

Online stores offer products for lesser price and hence generally you need not dig deep into your pockets to shell out the money, unless you make heavy purchases. Both Snapdeal and Indiatimes Shopping offer products for lesser than market price. Using Snapdeal and Indiatimes Shopping coupons, you could avail greater discounts on their products.

Where You Have Ears To Listen To You

Having someone hear your complaints after the sale is over is refreshing. Your mind is already weighed down by the quality of the product or the type of the product you have received. You would not want to get further depressed by making unattended calls and writing endless mails that do not get a reply. You have trusted the store enough to make a purchase online and it is not fair if all you get in return is silence when you have a complaint. However, this is what most of the online stores offer and this offer is the one that is not in their list of promises.

As far as Indiatimes Shopping is concerned, it makes obvious attempts to address the complaints of its customers. However, it is true that the complaints should have been avoided in the first place by providing quality services. You can at least be thankful that they do not disconnect you once you have made the payment. Snapdeal snaps the door shut once the deal is over. There are many customer complaints about the quality of products it has delivered in spite of the branded items it has and non-delivery of products on scheduled time.

In spite of all the complaints, Snapdeal has indeed managed to earn recommendation from many. The reason could be the deals it offers. However, if the customer is not dealt properly, deals may not favor the company for long. Hence, Snapdeal has to improve its customer service if it aims to make its deals more powerful.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Ecommerce Themes for Drupal 7


Drupal has a great reputation for being a robust CMS. Many global businesses trust Drupal for their online businesses and ecommerce functionality. For those looking for ready-made designs, great looking themes for Drupal are often hard to find, and ecommerce themes are even fewer in numbers. With the release of Drupal 7 last year, developers have had to wait until extensions and themes to be upgraded from Drupal 6. A lot of progress has been made in this area, although are only a few Ecommerce themes are ready for Drupal 7. The following are some Ecommerce themes that are compatible with Drupal 7.

Metropolis
Metropolis is a free and very simple theme, which supports IE6. It is suitable for all types of sites from personal to business and ecommerce sites. It supports tableless layouts, Superfish dropdown menus and custom login and logouts. At the last count it has had 1,299 downloads. This theme is best if you are looking for a very basic design.

IC3 Clean
IC3 Clean is another free theme from Litecommerce. It is a charming and fresh 3-column tableless design. It is compatible with IE6, Firefox 3.5, Chrome 10 browsers and above. It supports the IC_connector module and includes a drop down menu. This is likely the best choice among the free options.

Free Ecommerce Themes in Development
There are other free themes available, although they are at various stages of development and have not reached full release stage yet. These include
Acquia Prosper, at development stage, AT Commerce at release candidate stage and Black Piano at beta release stage. It is worth keeping an eye on these, as they are in active development and are likely to reach full release for Drupal 7 in the near future.

Ecommerce Pro
Ecommerce Pro is a theme from Themesnap offering 5 colors, social media tabs, category featured products, homepage slideshow, and product page slideshow. Product pages can show ratings and it is compatible with IE6. This theme is updated every 2 months. This is a decent ecommerce theme with a great set of features and is available for $59.

Shoppica
Shoppica is certainly the most feature rich and customizable ecommerce theme for Drupal 7. Also from Themesnap, this theme offers infinite color options, front page slider, and it built on the 960 grid framework. Category pages can display slide shows. Grid products view can be sorted by category e.g. price or model. It is also Jquery enhanced, social media integrated and the list of features is very extensive. This is also being offered for $59. If you are looking for the most fully featured ecommerce theme for Drupal 7, Shoppica is the definitely the one to go for.

This is a guest post by Mitchel Xavier who works as a Drupal developer and creates Drupal website design and Drupal cms solutions for businesses in Sydney Australia.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Samsung Galaxy S II

On 21 July I buy My second Samsung Galaxy phone i.e. Samsung Galaxy S II ( gt-i9100 ). I already had Android phone "Samsung Galaxy i7500". My new phone have 1.2 GHz Dual Core processor and 2 GB of RAM. 8MP Camera and much more. This is one of the best Google Android phone in Market. Even on various sites or blogs people are claiming that this is the Best Phone in Market. Have a look at these photo. It is so slick. Screen is 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus.
Cost: This is contract phone. i.e. I get post paid Star Hub service.
Every month I have to pay 100$ for next 2 years. Normally it should cost 28000-29000 INR in India and 800-900$ in Singapore.

More:
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxys2/html/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-3621.php

Friday, July 08, 2011

Google Plus (Google+) will stay here

I will use G+ because I like concept & use of circles. I have more 500+ friends on FB and I am not able to update my self with my real friends.
If on FB anything similar to circle please let me know. Lets say I want to read updates only from my school friends or IT Milan member or PLUG member. Currently I prefer "List" concept on twitter. I prefer to read only twits which I think are informative for me.
I think Google Plus (G+) will stay here & will give good fight for FB. But it wont beat FB. I use Buzz as my primary two way communication social networking. Though I have account on 20+ social networking sites and 3-4 blogs. I like small community/network which is active around me on buzz, on which I daily spend more time than Twitter or FB or Posterous. I as actually very excited with Wave but it was difficult for my small brain ;)  But buzz catch very well. Overall I am big fan for Google & its products. I used my gmail for 40% to compare my overall computer use, which include 5+ mails ids, 20+ mailing list and 30+ newsletters. From there I compose my all blogs and post to blogspot or posterous and from there it get auto posted on FB, Twitter, Wordpress and 10+ social networking sites . Even some time I post my buzz or twits through gmail :D
So overall Google understand social networking, web environment, human psychology. And thats why "Google Plus (G+) will stay here".

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Installation Moodle 2.0

This is Quick Guide/ How to for "Installation Moodle 2.0" on Linux operation system.
My System: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid with Apapche, MySQL, PHP.
Downlaod Moodle 2.0 from http://download.moodle.org/
All other steps are same which we used to install any LAMP ( web based ) Open Source application.
Just for Note:
Create database. While creating database create it with "Change Collation: utf8_general_ci" in phpmyadmin.
or
After created database using following command you can alter it for unicode support.
ALTER DATABASE moodle DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;

Also you have to install php extentions php5-curl, php5-intl, php5-xmlrpc.


Reference:
http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Installing_Moodle

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Samasung Galaxy S II - Top in Mobile/SmartPhone

Last many days I am reading many reviews about Mobiles, specially latest smartphone. I can conclude that the most promising smartphone is Samasung Galaxy S II. You can compare Samasung Galaxy S II with Apple  iPhone 4 and HTC Sensation only. I will prefer GSM Arena site for any kind detail study, in case if you want any India Market specific information then you can refer Fone Arena.

For More Information:
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-review-597.php
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9100_galaxy_s_ii-3621.php

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9000_galaxy_s_vs_apple_iphone_4-review-500.php
and
http://www.knowyourmobile.com/comparisons/864821/htc_sensation_vs_samsung_galaxy_s_ii.html




Thursday, April 07, 2011

Panda Board availability in India by IDA Systems

I have seen many community members from India asking about the availability of Panda Board in India. For several months there was only one vender - Digi-Key (World-Wide) and so was not an easy job to buy Panda Board in India. Panda Board community used to point to a website page which only showed a link about Digi-Key & Special Computing. Because of the advent of IDA Systems, there would now be great relief for the Indian Panda Board community. In my opinion the community would now get good support from IDA Systems in India.
IDA Systems is pre-booking Panda Board at Rs 14500/- inclusive of CST and
shipping( fully Insured Via Blue Dart). Shipping will start in the First week of May. Stocks are limited and will be shipped on first come first served payment basis. To pre-book please send an email to zoheb@idasystems.net

For More Information: http://idasystems.net/products/pandaboard
Also you can mail for further inquiry sales@idasystems.net

To know more about Panda Board check following links:
http://www.amitkarpe.com/
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/10/introduction-to-panda-board.html
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/08/introduction-to-beagle-board-in-brief.html
http://www.amitkarpe.com/2010/10/update-on-pandaboard-now-you-can-order.html