August 18, 2018 in Amazon India, Tips and Tricks

20 Most Demanded & Hot Selling Products in India Online

Online shopping is a growing trend in India and the numbers of both sellers and buyers are increasing daily by whopping percentages. According to a reliable source, India’s total online sales figure is estimated to reach the US $100 billion by 2020, and apparels would be the largest segment. Clothing even now is a major product of online sales. Other items that are in high demand of online buyers are mobile phones, consumer electronics, footwear, food and health supplements, beauty products, kitchen and home furnishings, fashion accessories, jewellery, books, toys and video games, handmade goods, and online subscriptions.

Products that are most in demand and selling online in India are:

Apparels – Dresses constitute the largest segment of all products sold online in India. Close to 35% of entire revenue generated from online sales comes from apparels and dress materials. Apparels include ladies clothes, men’s clothing, and children’s dresses.

Mobile Phones – Mobile phones are very popular items for sale on eCommerce sites. All brands and models available in the open market are also sold through online sites. For buyers, it is easy to compare among models online before buying a handset of choice.

Books – Buying a book could be really time-consuming if bought from the open market. It is easy for a buyer to locate a seller of their selected titles across eCommerce sites. Educational, fictional, and reference books from Indian as well as overseas publishers are available across eCommerce sites.

Consumer Electronics – eCommerce sites are excellent platforms for buying/selling consumer electronic goods like laptops, tablets, and digital cameras. By 2025 India is expected to become world’s 5th largest consumer durable market.

Footwear – Online is perhaps the best place to search for and buy footwear. The varieties are exhaustive and include shoes, slippers, sandals, and snickers for both ladies and gentlemen. People get to choose among leading brands from across the world.

Jewellery – Buying exclusive jewellery items is often a tough task when bought across counters. The entire process of selecting preferred items and buying from global leaders is done conveniently through eCommerce websites.

Fashion Accessories – It is obvious that after jewellery items, fashion accessories is a popular product category sold online. Belts, hand bags, purses, wallets, head bands, and watches are some of the items bought widely online by Indians.

Beauty Products – Skin care products like cream, lotion, face masks, moisturisers, and perfumes are demanded items that are sold online. Hair care products like gel, cream, colour, shampoo, dryers etc. are widely hot selling products through eCommerce sites.

Computer Hardware, Software, and Accessories – Desktops, disk drives, storage devices, printers, scanners, mouse, and switches are some of the computing devices and accessories that people buy online in India. Market’s leading brands are available to customers at hugely discounted prices.

Video Games – eCommerce sites in India are used to buy video games especially as gifts to children. Games ranging from FIFA World Cup, Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, and so on are all available on online sites.

Toys and Games – Online sites are a paradise for kids’ toys. Be it traditional games like snakes-n-ladders, scrabble or current generation remotely operated cars and helicopters, eStores offer every toy of your choice.

Home Decor Items – Drapes, cushion covers, furnishings, flower vases, table mats, tea coasters, rugs, carpets, wall-hangings and so on are available in online stores.

Kitchenware – Online marketplaces are widely used for buying kitchenware like utensils, crockery, cutlery, storage jars, and so on.

Household Appliances – This category of goods including burners, microwave ovens, pressure cookers, washing machines, electric irons, electric kettle, rice cookers, induction plates, etc are popularly sold online.

Sports Goods and Fitness Equipment – Recently these commodities have a lot of online buyers. Cricket bats, tennis and badminton rackets, football and basketballs, carom boards, football boots, cricket gear, hockey sticks, and so on are readily available online.

Baby Care Products – Baby care items is a huge revenue generator when it comes to online sales. Products like soap, powder, cream, oil, linen and diapers are sold extensively on online retail sites. Items like feeding bottles, teether, soothers, and pacifiers are also widely sold.

Food and Health Supplements – A recent addition to online supplies are food and health supplements. Changing life pattern has prompted many Indians to opt for food and health supplements triggering an increased demand for such items. eCommerce sites are the best option for buying such products.

Provisions – Items of daily use like rice, pulses, salt, sugar, cooking oil, spices, and toiletries are now sold online at a lesser price compared to market rates. For people with little time for visiting market regularly, such an online option is splendid.

Handmade Items – Handcrafted items such as costume jewellery, artefacts, scarves, footwear, table mats, purses etc. are gradually gaining popularity as items for online sale in India.

Subscriptions – Subscriptions to digital media like music channels, sports channels, films, and entertainment channels is a new kind of online service being offered to buyers.

eCommerce business in India is thriving and newer items are getting added to the list of commodities every day.

August 10, 2018 in News, Tips and Tricks

Seven Awesome New Features In Visual Studio 2017

Microsoft developers have been using Visual Studio for their IDE since before .NET was even a thing. Visual Studio is twenty years old this year, and on March 7th, 2017 Microsoft released the latest version of it’s flagship developer product, Visual Studio. With this release are a bunch of new features, improvements, and exciting changes for the beloved Microsoft developer environment. Here are seven features in the new IDE that will excite developers using the development environment.

1. EditorConfig Built In

The EditorConfig project has been available for Visual Studio 2015, but it required you to install a plugin to take advantage of the code-style configuration tool. With the release of 2017, EditorConfig is now built into the IDE. This means you can simply create an .editorconfig file in the root of your solution and check it into your source control. This will get your whole team using the same code format rules (once you can all agree on what they should be).

2. New Visual Studio Installer

Visual Studio 2017 also comes with a new installer. The new installer lets you put together an install of Visual Studio customized to the type of development you’re doing. You can install only the features you will need every day and leave out things that you might never need. This is a great way to keep the IDE small and snappy.

3. Manage Visual Studio Performance

The Manage Visual Studio Performance (under the Help menu) allows you to view the performance of your Visual Studio IDE and can even give you suggestions about extensions that might be impacting the performance of your environment! This includes turning on Lightweight Solution Load, which doesn’t load all the projects in a solution when you open the solution, only when you begin to work in that project. You can still navigate through the code, but the project won’t be loaded until you actually start to work with that project. Awesome!

4. Mobile Development

With Microsoft’s acquisition of Xamarin a few years ago, .NET developers have been enjoying the Xamarin for free as a plugin to Visual Studio 2015. In Visual Studio 2017, it’s now one of the install options when installing Visual Studio! This is a signal that cross-platform, mobile development is now a first-class citizen in your Microsoft development toolbelt!

5. Live Unit Testing

Unit testing has been permeating every development stack over the last decade and Microsoft has followed the trend by making Live Unit Testing available. This means as you change your code, Visual Studio will let you know if your changes will break unit tests, or if they will not be covered by unit tests; in real time.

Running unit tests has almost always been an extra step of your development workflow, but with the Live Unit Testing indicators in your editor popping up as you edit code, it just happens. You can also click on an indicator in the editor and it will show you which tests are exercising that line of code. Unit testing for the win, anyone?

6. Better Javascript Support

With the proliferation of Javascript and Javascript frameworks like Angular, React, Ember, and Vue, it’s no surprise that VSCode has really gleaned a lot of support from the developer community. VSCode has excellent support for Javascript (ES5 and ES6) as well as framework support for Angular and React, including JSX.

Building on that win, Microsoft used the Javascript engine built into VSCode in Visual Studio 2017. This means that all the great support in VSCode is now available without switching out of your Visual Studio editor!

7. Docker Support Built-In

With the adoption of containerization, microservices, and Microsoft’s own work with Docker to help support Windows Containers, it’s no surprise that developers are looking for tighter integration with Docker for their development environments. In Visual Studio 2015 (Update 3), you could install the Visual Studio Tools For Docker and get integrated support for Docker containers. Visual Studio 2017, builds this feature in and when choosing the application template from the File -> New menu, you can choose to turn on Docker support, giving you all the goodness of the plug-in, built in to Visual Studio!

Visual Studio has always been the editor of choice for those writing .NET applications and tapping into the Microsoft ecosystem. It has always had all the tools developers need to be their best, most productive selves. Now Microsoft has done some outstanding work to include and integrate with non-Microsoft tools that developers love to use, as well as help developers discover problems in their code, and improve the performance of their IDE. With the new additions and improvements in Visual Studio 2017, developers should love it even more!

August 3, 2018 in Tips and Tricks

What is an Ecommerce Privacy Policy?

A privacy policy is a statement that explains how a company collects, handles, stores, shares and protects customer’s personal and often sensitive information gathered through their interactions with a website. For an ecommerce store, this is crucial as it not only seen as a sign of credibility and trust, but also ensures that website owners are protected, along with their customers, whilst also adhering to their legal obligations. In the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, a privacy policy on any website that collect data from it’s users is required by law.

Why do you need an Ecommerce Privacy Policy?

Ecommerce store owners need to both limit their risk as well as manage the expectations of their customers to avoid any misunderstandings.

As an ecommerce store, you will undoubtedly be collecting personal information from customers and visitors to your site such as name, age, address, email and credit card details. For obvious reasons, many will want to know that this information is in safe hands so an accessible privacy policy on the website will demonstrate your commitment to security whilst helping to build confidence in your website and business.

A privacy policy also serves as protection from potential lawsuits from customers as well as other businesses. If your ecommerce site is sued, you can show that you have in place a publicly stated privacy policy that clearly declares what you do with the sensitive information collected.

Also, If your store has a payment gateway, they will likely require that you to have a privacy policy before approval is granted.

What should an Ecommerce Privacy Policy include?

A privacy policy should be written in a straightforward language so that it is easy to understand and helps to instill a sense of trust. A policy that is complex and full of technical jargon may scare off visitors to your site. Making your statement easy to read helps build trust. Ensuring that your policy addresses any questions a consumer may have about doing business with you and also addresses any issues that could potentially be of a concern.

A typical privacy policy on an ecommerce site might include:

What kind of information is collected from the visitor/customer and why it is required e.g. an email address is required for communication.

How the visitor’s/customer’s information is collected and securely stored.
Explain if data may be left on a user’s computer, such as cookies (which is often used to track the viewing habits of visitors, make it easier for returning customers to log in and remembers what products were added to the shopping cart. If you offer the option of avoiding cookies, inform them of the website features that will not be available to them as a result.
What you will do with the information collected and in what circumstances will it be released.
How, if any, of the collected information, is shared or even sold. If shared, it should include an opt-out option for those customers who don’t want their information disclosed to third parties.
How customers can review the information a website has collected from them and how they are able to change or delete that information
For what period of time is the information held for and who has access to the collected data.
The policy’s effective date and a description of any changes since then

How to Generate an Ecommerce Privacy Policy?

If you have the funds, you can hire an expert or a lawyer to help you draft your privacy policy. Many will often look around at competitor sites and tweak the policy to suit their own business. For those that barely have the time on their hands let alone the finances, there are many sites out there that provide privacy policy templates which helps businesses owners to generate one rather quickly and pain-free.

An eCommerce Privacy Policy should be accurate, clear, concise and easy to find on a website. Not only does it serve as a means of protection to the your online business in terms of addressing misunderstandings and potential lawsuits, it acts as an effective means of being transparent and credible, keeping you accountable for the sensitive data you collect, and building trust with your customers and visitors to your site.

August 2, 2018 in Tips and Tricks

How to install missing woocommerce pages

First Method

This can be done by:

Go to the “System Status” tab on Woocommerce
Click on the “Tools” tab at the top of the page
On that page, the sixth option down is called “Install pages”.
Clicking that will “install all the missing WooCommerce pages. Pages already defined and set up will not be replaced.”

Second Method

WooCommerce > 2.1.x Shortcodes:

[woocommerce_cart] – shows the cart page
[woocommerce_checkout] – shows the checkout page
[woocommerce_order_tracking] – shows the order tracking form
[woocommerce_my_account] – shows the user account page

WooCommerce < 2.1.x Shortcodes:

[woocommerce_edit_account] – Edit account pages
[woocommerce_change_password] – shows the change password page
[woocommerce_view_order] – shows the user account view order page
[woocommerce_logout] – shows the logout page
[woocommerce_pay] – shows the checkout pay page
[woocommerce_thankyou] – shows the order received page
[woocommerce_lost_password] – shows the lost password page
[woocommerce_edit_address] – shows the user account edit address page

Step 1.

Create new page and call it Cart. If cart page already exist WP will automatically call it cart-2 or whatever.

Step 2 Add [woocommerce_cart] shortcode on the page.

Step 3. Publish this page.

Step 4. Now go to woocommerce–>settings—>checkout—> look for check out pages—>under cart looku for cart page . Now save changes.

July 26, 2018 in Tips and Tricks

Zipping and Unzipping Files in UNIX

There are several methods of archiving files and retrieving archives. I recommend using the “zip” function to compress your files for its ease of use and portability. (Files zipped in Unix can be extracted using various tools on various platforms including Windows).

Below I have provided various “unzip” methods. The “right” unzip method depends upon the method used to zip the file. You can tell the zip method by the file extension (e.g., .zip, .tar, .gz, etc.)

Zipping Files Using ZIP

This Unix program is compatible with the zip program for Windows and most other operating systems. To zip files, first have the files uploaded to your server, then log into your account with SSH. Navigate to the directory where the files are that you want to zip (for instance by typing cd www then cd sounds to move to your/www/sounds directory). Then type:

zip myzip file1 file2 file3

This puts the files named file1, file2, and file3 into a new zip archive called myzip.zip.

Unzipping Files

Please note that the unzip method you use is defined by the filename you are trying to unzip. For example, if you are trying to unzip a file called file.tar – you would use the method described in “tar“. Files ending in .gzip or .gz need to be extracted with the method described in “gunzip“.

Zip

If you have an archive named myzip.zip and want to get back the files, you would type:

unzip myzip.zip

Typing zip or unzip by itself will give you a usage summary, showing nearly all the options available.

Tar

To extract a file compressed with tar (e.g., filename.tar), type the following command from your SSH prompt:

tar xvf filename.tar

Basically, this command means that you will see the file “explode”, so don’t worry when you see your screen scrolling wildly. It also means that you will see any errors in the archive.

Gunzip

To extract a file compressed with gunzip, type the following:

gunzip filename_tar.gz

then if you receive no errors, type:

tar xvf filename_tar

Example :
$ zip -r backupimg.zip profileimage (Make zip of profileimage folder and subfolder)
$ zip -r backupimg.zip . (Make zip of current folder and subfolder)

July 25, 2018 in Tips and Tricks

Install Latest Git on Centos

Download with yum.yum install git
If you need the latest, try to remove git first.yum remove git
Change directory to tmp.cd /tmp
Download the latest git https://github.com/git/git/releases. Example we use 2.16.curl -O -L https://github.com/git/git/archive/v2.16.0-rc2.tar.gz
Extract tar.tar -zxvf v2.16.0-rc2.tar.gz
Execute as root.cd git-v2.16.0 make clean make configure sudo make install
Check git version.git --version

July 25, 2018 in Tips and Tricks

how to uninstall git in centos

If you were smart enough and used some non-standard prefix when configured Git so that it has been installed under a specific hierarchy, like under /opt/git, then just delete that hierarchy, recursively.

If not, then you could go like this:

1) Fetch the source tarball of exactly the version you built and installed, unpack.

2) Configure it exactly like you did with the original install with regard to installation locations (prefix, exec-prefix etc); supposedly you should just not override anything.

3) Create a temporary directory to perform installation, like this: $ mkdir /var/tmp/git

4) Install Git passing a proper DESTDIR variable to make: $ make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/git install The Git hierarchy will end up created under that temporary directory.

5) Use the created hierarchy to decide which files to delete under the real hierarchy (“/” itself).

The last step is where “the magic” happens so it bears more explanation. For instance, you could run

$ find /var/tmp/git -type f -printf '/%P\n' | xargs -n 10 rm -f

(as root) do delete the files installed by the first mis-installation into the root filesystem. The encantation above uses the /var/tmp/git hierarchy to print the list of files found, but it replaces the “/var/tmp/git” prefix in them with “/”, so that the “/var/tmp/git/usr/bin/git” in the output will end up listed as “/usr/bin/git”. This list is then piped to xargs which runs rm on the file names it reads in packs of ten (just to reduce the number of invocations of rm by one order of magnitude).

After dealing with files, run

$ find /var/tmp/git -type d -printf '/%P\n'

to inspect the list of installed directories. These require manual approach so just look at the generated list and think which of them you could safely rmdir from your system (these will be the directories like “/usr/libexec/git” or something like this; you wouldn’t probably want to delete “/usr/share/man/mann” or something even if it’s empty).

P.S. In the future never install anything into a system by running make install! Most makefiles these days do not support “uninstall” target as they are used to either installing into a private scratch location for testing or to make a package (.rpm, .deb etc) and then the package manager takes care of cleaning up. If you need to install something, try to find an official package or try to backport another official package from a more recent version of your OS, if available. As the last resort, try using the checkinstall tool which tries to create a binary package out of your make install run. This sucks, but still better than bare make install.

July 25, 2018 in News, Tips and Tricks