This is probably one of the most controversial posts I might make. But this question has been coming up with alarming regularity in one form or the other. Typical questions such as: Why is there so much difference in the prices quoted by different vendors for the same work? I saw on TV websites being advertised [...]
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How much should a website cost? Making sense of the wide range of pricing for website design in India.
Posted by Ron on June 24th, 2011
Posted in Web Design, Web Strategy 
Tags: cost of web design, web design costs, web design price 
1 Comment »A career as a web design professional in India. List of web design courses and institutes in India.
Posted by Ron on June 13th, 2011
As a web design professional who runs a web design firm I interview lots of youngsters applying for web design and development related jobs. Overall I am not very satisfied with the quality of web design training in India. However going into a debate about the quality of web design training in India would take [...]
Do It Yourself website design or in-house web design rarely works out. Short terms gains but long term it costs you more.
Posted by Ron on June 4th, 2011
A friend recently called me asking how much a programmer would charge per month to develop a site he wanted created for one of his businesses. Being on a low budget hecould not afford professional web design companies like us. Although I gave him the information he was looking for I also warned him about [...]
List of credit card payment gateways in India. Options for adding a payment gateway to your e-commerce website.
Posted by Ron on May 20th, 2011
Credit Card Gateways in India have multiplied in the last few years providing e-commerce website owners a range of rates, fees and options to choose from. In a cost conscious country like India ultimately the rates are the key. Here is our honest effort at listing all the available credit card gateways in India. Some [...]
The rise and rise of Jquery. What is the future for Flash? Flash v/s Jquery a head to head comparison.
Posted by Ron on May 16th, 2011
I never liked Flash. But as a web designer i had no choice but to use it to deliver certain effects which were required for some sites. I must admit that we did some pretty awesome sites using Flash but remaining reliant on a proprietory technology from one company rankled. The monopoly of Flash and [...]
Indian web designers should reclaim the high ground through best practices which do not come at the cost of innovation or creativity.
Posted by Ron on May 4th, 2011
Whenever I discuss standards and best practices for web design companies in India I am greeted with the same refrain – web design companies are innovative and follow their own paths. The implication is that by applying standards somehow we will loose our creative edge. But are standards needed? A well known member of the [...]
Why doesn’t India have a web designer and developers association? Its high time this industry organized itself and implemented standards.
Posted by Ron on April 29th, 2011
I have been in this business for nearly 13 years. In these years I have seen our industry grow from a fledgling outcrop of the software industry to one which has grown into a huge industry in itself. The web design and development industry in India has branched into many specialities and created many gurus in [...]
Are you taking enough risks with your digital marketing strategy? Breaking out of the conservative Indian website designs mindset.
Posted by Ron on April 24th, 2011
It always happens the same way. The client starts out enthusiastically to create something new and great and we are mandated to design something outrageous and highly creative. We put on our thinking caps and come up with something really out of the box. The client’s first reaction is wow! But as he starts circulating [...]
Online advertising revenue surpasses print revenue advertising in the US. India still has a long way to go though.
Posted by Ron on April 18th, 2011
An interesting piece of news released by Emarketer.com which caught my attention and may be a major indicator of things to come – Online advertising revenue has surpassed Print newspaper ad revenue in the US. Print ad revenue is estimated at $22.8 billion while online ad spend stands at $25.8 billion in the year 2010. [...]
The concept of gamification – Are Indian businesses and web developers upto the challenge?
Posted by Ron on April 14th, 2011
A new concept taking the online industry by storm is ‘Gamification’. The concept of Gamification revolves around rewarding users for performing set tasks in a certain manner and creating a reward structure around the overall performance of the task. Although ‘gamification’ is a new term, the concept has been around for many years under different [...]
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