What is Offshore Development?

In this era of globalization where there is an urge to grow, many corporations around the globe have undertaken the process of outsourcing their projects as a beneficial business strategy. In software outsourcing, one company out-sources its project to a team of professionals, present in some other country. Outsourcing software projects is a smart move, which not only leads to reduction of cost, but also allows the company to enjoy benefits of strategic service and essential growth. Offshore development centers are coming up in various parts of the world, the major ones located in India and China.

What makes India as one of the major favorites?

India is now not only known for its rich culture, but also smart and hardworking IT professionals. Outsourcing is not just about signing a contract between two parties, but it is also about the emergence of a relationship between those parties. Thus good management, intelligent IT professionals and cost advantages makes India competent and a leader in offshore development.

Let us closely understand the major factors making India such potentially strong:

• Cost efficiency: In India man-month cost is very low. Cost in countries like United States, United Kingdom and Australia are 4-5 times higher than that in India.

• IT Knowledge: India is a great source of highly qualified, hardworking and experienced IT professionals. These professionals have key knowledge in various domains and sectors. Along with cost effectives, it provides efficient and reliable services.

• Government Support: Indian government has always supported IT education. Its plan and policies has always lead to great IT growth in the country.

• Communication skills: India as compared to China can communicate efficiently in both written and spoken English. For any two corporations to grow together, nothing is more important than understanding each others requirements. Thus, good knowledge of each others language is very important.

• Outsourcing in India can help the company to concentrate on its basic functions, thus opening greater prospects to grow.

Indian outsourcing industry is expected to grow up 60% by the year 2010.

What is Web Designing?

Web designing is the process of creating web pages and sites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, .Net and various other software languages. It is a process of conceptualization, modeling and execution of electronic media content delivered through internet. It basically involves creating attractive web pages with logistic content for the use of the web site users. There are many designing software which can be used to enhance your website and make it more interactive. Software which plays a key role in creating an interesting website with dynamic content is flash.

What is India's role in Web Designing?

India has grown out to be the largest outsourcing center for web designing and web development. NASSCOM has predicted that India would achieve nearly $60 billion from outsourcing industry at the end of 2010. The U.S. market is primarily served by 250,000 software developers of India. Indian software exports exceeded 17 billion last year and there are more prospects of growth. Indian companies have been committed to high quality to their clients and are highly supported by government's initiative.

Why offshore development companies opt for Java?

Java is a language which derives much of its syntax from C and C++. It is both dynamic and extensible. Java uses 16- bit Unicode characters and is the only commonly used programming language that has overall internationalization features. Offshore software development companies like working on Java as it works well on various types of embedded devices, ATMs, Smart cards etc. It also helps HTML developers add animation, interactions and web customization to their works. Java can also be described as a write once run anywhere language.

Why outsource Web Hosting?

Web hosting refers to storage of web pages so that online users are able to access them properly. A company for its website needs the right kind of software and hardware to host its web pages successfully. But it is very difficult for the companies to equip themselves with the right kind of web hosting software. Thus it's these specialized companies which provide web hosting services. This way one can remove worries related to web hosting and concentrate on other jobs. Moreover the companies providing web hosting also caters to various other specialized services like email capabilities, database capabilities and dynamic content. Thus outsourcing web hosting is an added advantage for your website.

How much important is flash in web designing?

Before the advent of flash, most of the work on web was done using bitmap images. There were two problems involved with bitmap images. Firstly they could not be resized or modified and secondly they used a lot of time to get downloaded. But with flash, came the era of vector images. Unlike Bitmaps, vector graphics were composed of lines and arcs. Thus flash proved to be less complicated. Flash being versatile software can be put into diverse uses. Moreover it does not take much time to be downloaded and can be modified easily. Interestingly, audio effects can also be given to flash creations. Without increasing the download time Flash help create animations which make a website more dynamic and interactive. With flash, a website can become more lively and attractive.

What are the benefits of outsourcing ASP.NET to India?

ASP.NET is used by programmers to build dynamic web sites and web applications. Outsourcing ASP.NET to India, not only saves time but also money of various enterprises. Since India has huge number of qualified professionals, it is ensured that the outsourcing company will get qualitative and timely services. .ASP is one of the fastest growing domains in IT. A large number of students graduate in India having full hand knowledge about ASP.Net. In fact the experienced professionals in India also keep themselves updated with the new international trends in this sphere. Not only Indian professionals but Indian Government have understood the benefits of IT and have undertaken a lot of investments for the growth of this particular sector. With the enhanced communication skills of Indians, India is definitely the right target for outsourcing ASP.NET.

What is the difference between a "Static" and a "Dynamic" site?

A static site is one that is written in HTML only. Each page is a separate document and there is no database that it draws on. What this means functionally is that the only way to edit the site is to go into each page and edit the HTML - so you'd either have to do it yourself using a webpage editor like FrontPage or pay the Designing company to go in and edit the site each time you wanted something changed.

A dynamic site is written using more complex code and can do a lot more. For instance, we can create a log in box through which one can change various parts of the site after he has signed in, such as adding information or products. This is because each page is constructed based on the information in a database, and the information in that database can be changed via another interface.

The dynamic sites usually cost more to develop, as they require more complex coding and a content management utility needs to be developed to help you manage your website information. But in the long run dynamic sites are cost effective and easy to maintain.

Another benefit of dynamic sites is that they allow you to change only the content of the site and not the design, so you will not be able to accidentally break the visual style of the site. They have other benefits when sites start to get very large, as they make data management much more efficient and your site more expandable.

Many clients do a combination, having some dynamic areas such as a product catalog where they have to change information or pictures regularly, and leave other pages such as contact information as static pages.