Open Source Solution

Open Source Software or Application is the one that can be used free of cost, can be integrated into other platforms, can be redistributed, modified and above all free to use. The license for anybody to use has been attached to it. Open Source is a certification mark owned by the Open Source Initiative. Developers of software that is intended to be freely shared and possibly improved and redistributed by others can use the Open Source trademark if their distribution terms conform to the OSI's Open Source Definition.

 

Open Source does not restrict the users from following things:-

 

  • It is for free distribution
  • Source Code Availability
  • It does not violate the integrity of the authors Source Code
  • No need to worry about the distribution of license
  • Licenses are not specific to the product
  • Licenses do not contaminate other software.

 

Why SEOgist?

We have always encouraged the use of open source platform. It has not been long, however we have been using open source platforms in the developmentof website and its back end applications:

 

  • General Functionality: Compatible with all PHP 4 versions, all features enabled by default for a complete out-of-the-box solution, completely multilingual with English, German, and Spanish provided by default.
  • Design / Layout: Allows layout changes to be adaptive, easy, and allows easy integration into an existing site.
  • Administrative / Backend Functionality: Supports unlimited products and categories.
  • Customer / Frontend Functionality: Customers can view their order history and order statuses and can maintain their accounts.
  • Product Functionality: Dynamic product attributes relationship and HTML based product descriptions.
  • Payment Functionality: Accept numerous online payment processing (PayPal, 2CheckOut, Authorize.net, iPayment etc.
  • Shipping Functionality
  • Tax Functionality

 

Content Management System (CMS) and the open source options available are very attractive (especially the price tag). If you're considering either of the open source solutions mentioned in this article, WordPress , Drupal or Joomla there are a few considerations you'll want to have in mind. Namely, keep in mind that WordPress was designed to be a blogging platform and is therefore somewhat limited in flexibility (although for most sites WordPress is a solid solution - even when you don't need a blog). Drupal offers much more flexibility and power, but it tends to require a more extensive and costly set up phase.