PSD to OpenCart

Opencart is a popular e-commerce platform, that allows merchants to create an online store. Being open source, it allows developers to customize the code and provide a better and enhanced shopping storefront for customers.

Moreover, to enrich the web layout for your Opencart online, there are options available like converting your store using PSD formats.

This would enhance your store layout and improve the user experience.

To transform your Opencart using PSD you simply have to provide a design theme in the PSD format which is customized to the Opencart theme.

The benefits of converting your Opencart theme using PSD are vast. Apart from a better user experience, it also improves the responsiveness of your opencart web pages.

Hire Webkul Design agency for complete UI/UX design services for e-commerce templates, custom themes, mobile app designs, PWA themes, headless frontend, and more.

Want your website to be accessed on smartphones and mobile devices? Well, I believe that is important too.

Imagine carrying a desktop or laptop each time you travel. This is something next to impossible.  Therefore, a mobile phone is an important aspect of today’s e-commerce world.

To make your online website mobile-friendly, online store owners must keep in mind the responsiveness factor. 

The responsive layout of a website or application increases the accessibility of your application to a large array of devices.

For example, if you create a website, which runs on a desktop or a laptop, but is not mobile-friendly.  There are chances that it is accessed by less number of people because the number of people using smartphones is more.

Let us consider a case- when a website runs on a laptop or a desktop.

It utilizes more resources of the system and may not take time in loading the pages, but utilizes more resources when it runs on a smartphone.

To sort out this scenario, making the web pages responsive is an important concern. This can be done by introducing AMP to your website.

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a major aspect of any e-commerce website.

A well-created and designed website shall not be visible in the search results until the SEO guidelines are met. It may be a major setback for any online website when it is unable to generate a decent amount of traffic.

To improve the SEO of any website, one may majorly focus on the Meta Title and Meta Description.

These two factors play an important role in improvising the ranking of a website on a Search Engine Result Page (SERP).

When discussing SEO, the concept of CTR dives in! CTR or the Click Thorugh Rate is nothing but the number of times your link was clicked and is visible to a user.

The popularity or success of a website depends on the number of times your website link is clicked by the user and the number of users that clicked your link, became your customers.

If a website link on a Search Engine Result Page displays rich snippets then its Click Through Rate shall be more.

Therefore a good SEO would draw more customers, thereby, increasing the CTRs for a website. Hence, more traffic would be generated, increasing the conversion rates for a website.

Domain Name Servers are similar to a directory which stores the IP addresses of websites.

For example, If you want to visit webkul.com, the system would receive the IP address of the website through the DNS.

You may visit the website by simply typing the IP address.

The DNS shall transform your web address to a machine-readable IP address. Though the IP addresses are a bit difficult to remember, humans can easily remember the names of websites like-webkul.com.

The DNS Prefetching concept is best explained by the following example. Your Google Chrome browser may perform DNS Prefetching when there are multiple hyperlinks present on your webpage.

It obtains the domain names and rectifies related IP addresses of the links. As the term suggests, prefetching means collecting data beforehand.

Prefetching allows the browser to fetch the resources, which may be used in near future.

It requests the DNS to collect the resources already, even before the browser hits the element that actually needs to utilize the requested resource.

DNS Preload loads the content or resources which may be required for the present operation. It fetches resources from the browser which have a high priority.

As per the name, one can easily depict the general idea about this heading. When the image loading of any content does not take place at the same time, it is called an image lazy loading process.

The main benefit of image lazy loading is that it preserves the integrity of the content.

A similar concept of minification may be taken into account while talking about Image Lazy Loading.

For instance, suppose a code is written in 1000 lines; it is obvious that the pages developed through this code would take time to load.

At the same time if the code is optimized and developed in just 200 lines, shall deliver faster page load results.

Minification is simply a way of removing unnecessary resources or elements from a script or file without changing the functionality of the file or script.

A document object model is a logical layout which defines a way to recover or manage a document or script. Image Compression decreases site load time and reduces bandwidth consumption.

To improve the performance factor of a website, image compression plays an important role. What if a user visits your store and has to wait for the page to load?

That definitely is increasing the bounce rate for your website. Therefore, inculcating techniques like mod_gzip and mod_deflate compression may be a good idea.

mod-deflate- This option compresses the data before sending it to the user. The server compresses the data before making it available to the user. This would decrease the bandwidth of the data.

mod_gzip- The mod_gzip compression is a way which serves to compress the size of the webpages to 60-70%.

Okay! but it uses more resources of the system, is more powerful and allows pre-compression of the data. This would enhance the user experience.

The idea behind Speed Optimization is the time any web page takes to download from a dedicated web server.

A user will always visit the website which shall load faster. A real-life example shall better explain it. If our internet speed is not good, the idea of porting our mobile phone sim to another network provider strikes our mind at that instance.

The same is the case with our websites. If any user will experience a bad page load time, he would instantly close your website and may start looking for options.

This scenario may increase the bounce rate for your website which means less ranking on the Search Engine Result Page and if this continues, your website shall not be visible in the SERP.

Better Speed Optimization techniques may help in better user experience and better user experience may help in customer retention for your website. This shall increase conversion rates for your website.

CSS Sprites

As discussed above, the main purpose of optimizing our websites is for better user experience and retention. CSS Sprites is one such feature.

What if we want to process multiple images, suppose ten? The browser would send ten HTTP requests to process those images. This would increase the load time and slow down the page.

Using CSS Sprite, multiple images process with a single HTTP request.

The browser limits the number of HTTP requests and also saves bandwidth with the CSS Image Sprite feature.

Expire Headers tells if you can request a file element from a source or may obtain it from the browser’s cache. Let us see the following example.

If you visit a website, like Amazon, you may view a few products on the first visit.

If expire headers are set for these products, the product page loads faster; because the element was saved in the browser’s cache.

Apart from a better user experience, this would again boost the site speed and decrease the bounce rate for the website.

The Bounce rate may be directly proportional to the page load time. The faster the pages of any website load shall be the bounce rate.

General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is the privacy and data protection legislation of the European Union (EU).

It is applicable to all the members of the EU and has come to force on 25th May 2018.

The basic concept behind GDPR is that businesses which process a large amount of data must ensure the protection of the default data and that it should not be available publicly without clear consent.

Reliable Hosting, as the name suggests, is a way to provide the best of our services to our customers. Your services or hostings leave no customer unhappy.

The only mantra to a flourishing business is more customers because it’s the customers who will transform your conversion rates positively.

From the customer’s perspective, it is obvious that if a customer is investing his money in your product, he may expect that when he is facing trouble with the product, you would be available for the customer and why not?

It is our duty to serve our valued customers and serve them in their time of need if the customer is spending a precious chunk of his money on your website or product.

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