Responsive web design enables a website to customize to the screen size of the device automatically and deliver unique browsing experience in multiple devices. RWD is built on the principle of designing and developing websites to respond to users’ behavior and the environment – website or mobile. Responsible design is optimized to screen resolution, device and user behavior. It improves user experience of the website viewed on your smartphone or tablet, and creates a huge impact in cross-platform development.

In half of 2012, Apple sold more than 410 million devices while 400 million Android devices were sold, with 1 million devices activated every day. Android has 68% smartphone market share worldwide while Apple has 17% share. Appcelerator Titanium lets you build rich native mobile apps through cross-platform mobile development. There are over 40,000 apps built on the Titanium platform by 300,000 Titanium developers for iOS and Android.

Mobile websites are optimized for touch or large screens and resolve the usability issues that a normal website runs into. HTML5 is breathing down the web, which is falling and taking on native apps. Mobile web developers can leverage the local data, hardware and offline capabilities to build a custom HTML5 app optimized for smartphones and tablets.

Ruby on Rails (RoR) is a powerful open source MVC model web application framework for the Ruby programming language to develop rapid and easy web applications on Mac OS X platform by favoring convention over configuration , which the Rails Developer must follow.

Although Open Source CRM offerings are but a sliver on the total CRM Market Share pie chart, they are gaining ground. I read an article this morning at CIO.com about a 500 employee, $80 million in revenues, financial services company named IMA Financial Group who dumped their commercial CRM in favor of ConcourseSuite 5.0. They went from a 10%-15% user adoption with their commercial CRM to a 90% user adoption rate with ConcourseSuite 5.0. Those are very dramatic numbers and speak well not only for Concursive , but for open source CRM’s in general.

Business Understanding

Understand the client’s business. If the SEO teamdoes not understand what the client is all about then it probably is not going to make a big success. If your client is in the real estate business, then your team should know basics of the real estate business. If they don’t understand the difference between a Realtor, agent and broker, they probably cannot do adequate research on keywords and may not link the site in appropriate places.