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Payment Gateway Mauritius: Why should companies use a Payment Gateway

WHAT IS A PAYMENT GATEWAY?

A payment gateway is a user interface that authorizes the buyer to do the payment online where the seller accepts it. A payment gateway comes with various payment modes such as credit/debit card, net banking, UPI and Mobile Wallet. It can be considered as a middleman which carries out a secure transaction of funds from the bank account of the buyer to the seller’s payment gateway.

HOW DOES PAYMENT GATEWAY OPERATES IN MAURITIUS?

Payment gateway relocates the payment acceptation or decline back to the customer. A payment gateway validates the customer’s card details securely, ensures that the funds are available and eventually allows merchants to get paid. Let us see in detail how it works:

A customer selects item from the merchant’s web site and adds them into shopping cart then click the check-out button.
The e-commerce platform will divert the customer to the secured payment gateway page where he chooses the payment methods and enters the payment card details.
The customer will have to wait for the issuing bank to request transaction authentication .
After authentication the transaction can be successfully authorized or it can be declined by bank or by Master card, visa, Maestro or American Express. This can happens if the card is expired, there is a shortage of funds or the credit limits is exceeding.
The bank fixes the money with the payment gateway which afterwards is settled with the merchant on a basis of the settlement period.
Once the payment is completed, the customer gets a message of confirmation for his order.

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What is 3D modeling?

3D modeling allows you to create 3-dimensional objects on a computer. Thus, it is possible to realize complex objects, environments, characters, buildings, landscapes, etc. from simple shapes such as spheres, polygons, cones or curves that define structures. Everything is possible. To dress the objects, they are covered with textures.

Once done, even if you start having results, the work is not finished. Indeed, it is possible to apply characteristics to each element created to set it in motion, for example, or to assign reactions that will occur in a given situation. Sources of light can also be defined to virtually illuminate objects, make them more real and put them in situation.

Thus, the 3D modeling makes it possible to put in situation of objects before proceeding to their manufacture. This is called CAD, computer-aided design. But of course, it’s not the only application of 3D modeling. Indeed, it also serves as a basis for the production of multimedia or audiovisual content.

How to do 3D modeling?

3D modeling requires specialized software. 3D modeling is a complex area that requires specific training. It is true that today there are tools allowing everyone to do a little 3D, but of course these are limited. The principle is the same as in photo editing: fans will find Paint enough to crop their images while professionals or those who need to make advanced editing will turn to Photoshop.

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Web Development Mauritius: WordPress

The different stages of creating a site are considerably easier under WordPress thanks to its flexibility and its performances. In order to fully understand the benefits of WordPress, let’s detail the steps of building a website in chronological order.

Web development in a nutshell

The specifications: This is the document that takes up the final schedule. It includes functional behaviors and plugins that will bring the project to its final release.

The model (also called “Wireframe”): it is an overview with a tree and a graphical interface.

Integration: this is the phase during which we add content such as articles, images, etc.

Developments: it is the step of the code that it is HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, MySQL…

Delivery of the project

In WordPress, development can take place throughout the entire project.

This flexibility makes it possible to continuously improve the project even if it is already delivered, very simply and quickly.

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SEO Mauritius: PASO, the future of SEO?

What is PASO? This is the acronym for Personal Assistant Search Optimization or SEO for Personal Assistants.

Would the SEO be migrating to PASO?

We are witnessing a subtle, but persistent change in the world of the web. The phenomenon of voice search and personal assistants could greatly modify the field of SEO, but to what extent?

Personal assistants

Personal assistants are taking more and more place in everyday life.

They were already ubiquitous thanks to their integration in the systems of the smart phones. One can think of Siri, widely popular for its, sometimes, surprising answers, but also Cortana, Google Now and more.

Still, the personal assistants have taken a step further to settle in the houses with the arrival of Google Home and Alexa from Amazon. Moreover, the adoption of personal assistants has doubled in the United States between 2015 and 2016 according to a recent study by Parks Associates. The adoption of personal assistants is expected to continue with the addition of new features.

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Web Mauritius: Social Media Trends

Instagram is the second largest social network after Facebook. However, its operation is quite different from this one. So here are some tips s to improve your audience on Instagram.

Publish more images on Instagram

The image is the very basis of the social network and it must therefore be worked accordingly.

Images published on Instagram must be of good quality. However, they do not have to be taken with a high-end camera. The quality of photos taken by smart phones is currently largely enough to provide beautiful shots for the web.

To get an interesting picture, here are some tips:

Have a common thread. Determine the theme and tone to use on your Instagram account.
Think of lighting when you take pictures and enjoy the natural daylight. Use few filters or lower their intensity.
Think of the composition of the image and the framing. Do several tests and test several angles to get the best result.
Do not overload the image! Concentrate on a point of interest or contrast. Let it breathe by not trying to occupy all the space.
Publish regularly! If you lack imagination, here are more content ideas to animate your Instagram account
Get a tripod to stabilize the photo taking.
Practice a lot, publish little. Choose only the best photos.
Make more videos!

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WEB Mauritius: Google Inc. became Alphabet!

Monday, August 10, the Mountain View company announced a major change – and surprise – of its corporate structure. The search engine will become a subsidiary of a new entity, called Alphabet. The latter will be led by Larry Page, co-founder and current CEO of Google. Sergey Brin, the second founder, will serve as president. Eric Schmidt will be executive chairman, a position he already held at Google. The company is publicly traded, instead of the previous one.

Sundar Pichai, New Patron Of Google

“Alphabet is a collection of companies”, Page says in a message posted on the official Google blog. “Google is the largest. But this new Google will be alleviated. Remote Internet companies of our main products are now grouped in Alphabet. “Concretely, this means a clear separation between the business heart of Google and all supplemental projects. This is Google X (futuristic projects), Calico (health), Sidewalk Labs (city logistics), Nest (connected objects) Fiber (fiber) and Google and Google Ventures Capital (investment).

The new Google retain search engine, advertising activities, the YouTube video platform, the mobile operating system Android, the Maps mapping, Gmail and other Internet services and mobile applications. The subsidiary will also have a new CEO: Sundar Pichai, the rising star of the company. Head of Android and the Chrome Web browser, he was appointed last year vice president for products. For many observers, it had thus become the number two of the company.

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WEB DESIGN: Edge the new browser from Microsoft!

Edge is the new Microsoft browser (code name: Spartan). It will be released with Windows 10 whose launch is announced for July 29. The publisher has Edge as a new generation of browser, powerful, innovative, and especially designed for the modern web. It is already possible to test it in beta by downloading the Windows 10 desktop Preview, or Windows 10 beta Mobile (designed for smartphones and tablets). Edge will not replace Microsoft Internet Explorer completely, but will be offered as an alternative to it. It will be integrated with Windows 10 alongside IE that will remain present in the desktop version of the OS.

A browser that is more efficient than Chrome and Firefox

Microsoft insists on the optimization work conducted around the motor of its browser. Objective: To accelerate the implementation of websites, including improved JavaScript JIT compiler Chakra. According to the publisher, the optimization allow Edge to go well beyond the JavaScript execution performance of Chrome and Firefox. In support of its analysis, it highlights the results recorded by the browser during the Jet Stream tests (developed by Apple) and Octane 2.0 (proposed by Google).

The results of the Jet Stream test states that Microsoft Edge runs web applications 1.6 times faster than Internet Explorer 11. According Octane test, it would even be 2 times more efficient in this exercise as its predecessor. Both comparisons were made with a variation of browsers on an HP machine (equipped with Windows 10) with 12 GB of RAM and a next generation processor (Intel Core i7 860 CPU clocked at 2.80GHz).

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Why Web companies is the best web agency of the Indian Ocean?

An unseen confident look never before. Patrick Arnaldi talks about his 20 years at the head of Web companies, the best web agency of the whole Indian Ocean if not the only web agency. Quality Service – Only one keyword for him. To have resisted so long on the web market has not been an easy task. Patrick talks about his experience with fluidity and seems to master every side of the business with acute precision. His love for the job can be seen from his eyes.

Web-companies is the only web agency in the Indian Ocean which seem to still resist.

How did Web Companies evolve?

As a true pioneer of web-based development in Mauritius in 1995, WEB Ltd has evolved into a regional ICT company. Now the recognized leader in web services, WEB Companies Group is a leading independent integrator of medium and large customer accounts in the Indian Ocean.

WEB Companies can now emerge as a global supplier to leading companies through its structure of complementary services.

The constant evolution of existing technologies and the emergence of new technologies make increasingly more complex information systems and require constant change. All services are designed to provide long-term business benefits to our through the use of the Internet.

Web-companies is now represented in more than 3 countries including Mauritius, the Seychelles, Réunion Island and newly set up branch in Vietnam.

What factors has played a crucial role in the development of web-companies as the most flourishing web agency of the Indian Ocean?

It began its operation in Mauritius in the year 1997 and was the only web-agency to operate in the Island. Being the first counseling and internet agency of both Mauritius and its sister island- Reunion.

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Search Engine Optimization: How to?

web-companies.com Search Engine Optimization

What is Search Engine Optimization?

Basically, Search Engine Optimization or simply SEO is all about helping websites rank higher on the organic (or “natural) search results of search engines.

The higher the site ranks, the more visitors and hence the more customers you will get!

Search Engine optimization is the art of building a website in such a way so as to please both the customer and the search engine.

Why do we need Search Engine Optimization?

We live in an internet era in which consumers can tune through the surfeit of information. As matter of fact, 92% internet users use search engines on which a stunning amount of 100 Billion web searches are being carried out every month and 78 % buyers use search engines before buying their products.

Being visible on the internet will have no other effects than increasing your sales and hence your revenues.

Having good content, information, architecture, content management system and website infrastructure are ways of generating traffic on your website.

This is what exactly Search Engine Optimization is about.

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Google Glass: What you need to know.

What is Google Glass?

Google glass is a wearable technology with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD). That revolutionary smart eyewear looks like its buzzing many people around until they experience the awfully nice sensation of wearing it.

It displays information just like conventional Smartphone does but in a hands-free holographic format via a small prism found on the frame. Unlike casual Smartphone information is input through voice commands instead of the traditional input methods (Touch screen or keys).

How does Google Glass work?

Google Glass interface uses voice commands as well as an integrated button which facilitates the execution of certain commands. The message “Ok glass” is the most common one you see, it activates as you tilt your head up or tap the side.

Components inside google Glass

The device runs on Android 4.4.2, has an OMAP 4430 SoC, dual-core CPU with 1GB of RAM and a total storage capacity of 16GB out of which only 12GB are usable.

Google glass also comes fitted with an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor.

Google offers a companion Android and iOS app called MyGlass, which allows the user to configure and manage the device.

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