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Web Hosting

Cloud Hosting Resources

Clouds hosting are dedicated pools of resources built from any NetLink dedicated server configurations, and can be scaled in two ways: by adding more dedicated resources to the Cloud and by scaling within the already allocated resources.

Cloud hosting works by virtualizing the resources within an isolated dedicated server or group of servers. This allows scaling, but only within the allocated resources. To scale outside these resources, additional dedicated servers must be added to the Cloud preference.

Because privacy and security are two of the biggest attractions in Cloud servers, as you would be the only one with access to its contents. This configuration is ideal for larger businesses in need of high security, but without immediate need for high-resource scaling.

CMS Hosting Solutions

NetLink CMS Solutions a Dynamic Way to Maintain Your Website.
Our Content Management Systems (CMS) provide a dynamic solution for maintaining your website quickly and easily. The CMS Hosting tools provided by our interface use text and pointers to other forms of data contained in a database in order to dynamically create and present your requested content. This allows you to easily administer large complex websites with a single click and have those changes automatically reflected throughout the entire website without the need to edit hundreds of individual files.

Customize Your Site Templating allows you to control and change the look and feel of your site without affecting your site's content.
Control of your Content NetLink CMS Hosting enables you to publish and change your content quickly and easily. A Variety of Usages

• CMS are used for a variety of applications; online publications, business websites, even portals. Expandable Features
• Use open source add-on modules to easily expand the functionality of your site. Save Time & Money
• With a CMS solution, reap the benefits of increased control, efficiency, and content value. Page Caching
• Page caching improves performance on busy sites, enabling your site to perform faster.

Dedicated Server with Great Performance

Get a Dedicated Server with Great Performance and Technical Support @ NetLink

Our managed dedicated servers give your websites the highest level of speed, security and uptime.

Our each server comes with CentOS which is performance built, specifically for a server environment. CentOS maximizes CPU, RAM, and the network interface card for to increase speeds. We increase performance of your application or website by increasing the efficiency of the MySQL database. Our Dedicated Servers utilizes SuPHP to give your website added security and functionality. Changes to the php.ini can also be made to allow customization of specific functions.

When it comes to maximizing how MySQL retrieves and stores data, we are the pros. If you are going to be running a large multiple data set database, our CPU selection utilizes threaded processors and high clock speeds to call or write data faster.

We utilize RAM to decrease data retrieval times by fine tuning the my.cnf file. Here we are able to create a table cache that pulls directly from RAM and not the physical hard drive.

With every Dedicated Server we sell, our priority is to ensure you have the best high performance machine. We understand what you need and we do our best to give you and your customers the best experience.

eCommerce Hosting

NetLink eCommerce hosting solution includes shopping cart, product pages, inventory management, web hosting, SSL, reports and more. Reach thousands of customers with your own online store running on our eCommerce hosting.

Our powerful servers are especially optimized to ensure the best performance of your eCommerce website. We set a new standard for website and data transfer security and speed.

• Customized server setup
• Great network connectivity
• 24/7 live server monitoring
• Industry-leading hardware

Along with being extremely fast in solving general hosting issues, our support team also provides some eCommerce specific services.

• Free shopping cart installation
• Professional setup of SSL certificates
• 24/7 professional customer service
• Faster ticket response time

Email Hosting

Our professional email hosting service is ideal for businesses or individuals looking for a reliable email solution featuring webmail, IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. We offer spam & virus protection, archiving and a host of other features. Our email hosting service is compatible with Outlook and other third party email clients as well as most mobile phones.

GET YOU@YOURDOMAIN.COM

Get professional email hosting for you or your company. You can even register a domain name through us and have email service through the registered domain name.

ROBUST SPAM & VIRUS PROTECTION

Configure your settings to ensure a spam and virus free mailbox.

RELIABILITY WITH 99.95% UPTIME

All of our business email hosting plans come with a 99.95% uptime guarantee

Mail Clients COMPATIBLE

Use Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail or other third party email clients with our service. Setup is simple BLACKBERRY, IPHONE & PDA SUPPORT

Conveniently use your mobile device to check your email on the go. Enjoy wireless email access from anywhere. IMAP, POP3, SMTP AND WEBMAIL ACCESS

Access your email, calendar, contacts, and more from any computer anywhere.

Shared Hosting

Shared hosting, sometimes called shared services or virtual hosting, is simply when multiple web sites share the same server, thus reducing the cost for everyone.

With a shared hosting account, your site will usually be on a server with hundreds of other web sites. That may sound like a lot, but it usually works out extremely well because most sites don't generate enough traffic or use enough resources for it to become a problem.

Share hosting is suitable for personal sites, small businesses, and even medium sized businesses if their hosting needs fit within the parameters of a small business.

Most shared hosting providers offer substantially more disk space, data transfer, and email accounts than most people or businesses need. If every site used their quota, shared hosting would not work. But since few do, it actually works out quite nicely.

Because most people and businesses don't use most of the features they have available to them, using feature lists to choose a web host doesn't usually narrow the field much. What should be the criteria used to choose a host is harder to measure, so most people end up making uneducated choices and hope for the best. NetLink never overselling or overloading in a CPU/Server when you choose shared preference.

VPS Hosting

Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting is an innovative approach to partitioning physical servers into several virtual machines. It is the future of modern hosting as it provides the power and functionality of a high-end dedicated server but at a much cheaper price. By purchasing a VPS you get a 100% individual machine with root access and your own dedicated CPU and RAM.

Each Virtual Server can run under its own operating system (Windows, Linux, BSD, CentOS or Solaris) or have custom configurations of its own.

NetLink's VPS Hosting is an ideal bridge between shared hosting and dedicated servers. VPS plans can be completely customized to match your specific hosting needs and upgraded anytime as your site grows. It's a great way to start small but still have the ability to scale up very quickly.

With full root access, you're able to install advanced software and completely customize virtually anything as if your VPS were a dedicated server without the cost of one. For easy administration, cPanel is available.

Hosting Control Panel

NetLink love cPanel as web hosting control panel.
cPanel is a Unix based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site. cPanel utilizes a 3 tier structure that provides functionality for administrators, resellers, and end-user website owners to control the various aspects of website and server administration through a standard web browser.

In addition to the GUI interface cPanel also has command line and API based access that allows third party software vendors, web hosting organizations, and developers to automate standard system administration processes.

cPanel is designed to function either as a dedicated server or virtual private server. The latest cPanel version supports installation on CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and CloudLinux. cPanel 11.30 is the last major version to support FreeBSD.

Application-based support includes Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Perl, and BIND (DNS). Email based support includes POP3, IMAP, SMTP services. cPanel is commonly accessed on port 2082, with an SSL-secured server operating on port 2083.

We assigned SSL access to all ports at our servers.

cPanel Reseller Hosting

Reseller hosting helps you to resell to accommodation in case you own a hosting firm. As you do not need to own the firm, you need not take tension because of the hardware, IT problems and bandwidth which are handled by the web host.

Simple to use control panel thus makes reseller hosting a great solution. You will easily be able to make web host accounts for the customers you have and keep them intact without any hassles.

Using reseller hosting, you do not even require any web servers, DNS servers, mail server as well as an Internet connection that works great. Most of the reseller host plans are available with all essential tools to let a webmaster to serve as a reseller organization.

Some offer templates as well in which you can get a site with your own name so that others do not know that you are a dealer. This is known as private labeling. At NetLink you can use your own brand, name server, logo, package which increase your hosting business images to end users.

Security

Application Vulnerability

Hackers today have an ever increasing list of weaknesses in the web application structure at their disposal, which they can exploit to accomplish a wide variety of malicious tasks.

New flaws in web application security measures are constantly being researched, both by hackers and by security professionals. Most of these flaws affect all dynamic web applications whilst others are dependent on specific application technologies.

In both cases, one may observe how the evolution and refinement of web technologies also brings about new exploits which compromise sensitive databases, provide access to theoretically secure networks, and pose a threat to the daily operation of online businesses.

NetLink scanned so many popular applications and detect serious exploits. Specially old plugins or application using a very bad practice in web arena which violate system security.

Clean Local System

Malware includes applications that spy on you, corrupt your data, destroy your hard drive or give control of your machine to someone thousands of miles away. No matter what form it takes, it's bad business. And since there are a lot of examples of malware in the wild, it may only be a matter of time before you become the victim of a malware attack.

The most important advice we can give anyone who believes he or she has a computer with malware on it is this: Don't panic. Also, don't assume that you need to wipe your computer clean and start from scratch. Often you can remove malware without having to erase everything else. You may lose some data in the process, but you probably won't lose everything.

First you need to determine if your computer has a virus at all. You might suspect your computer of having a virus if it seems to be sluggish. If your Web browser suddenly looks different or automatically goes to a site you don't recognize, that's a good indication that you've got some malware. If your computer is unstable and crashes fairly often, you may have a problem. And if you try to access files but receive a message saying they're corrupted, that's another sign.

If you do think your computer has a virus, you need to run antivirus software to weed it out. Some viruses disable antivirus software, they're clever that way. If you do not have any antivirus software, its a good time to purchase or download an application. A few malware variants will try to block you from downloading antivirus software. If that's the case, you may need to download the software on another computer and transfer it to disk or a flash drive.

After install antivirus software should update regularly and perform automatic scan or protection.

eCommerce Security

Having strong security options must be a priority when you're working with dozens of online payment options. Find applications that offer fraud protection and Secure Socket Layer protection.

Many other security features include requiring customers to enter the CVV2 code from the back of their credit cards. Also, look for password protection before entering administration panels or other business-related information.

We provide world famous provider’s SSL certificate also installation service to keep your eCommerce business secure.

Maintain Domains Security

The security of domain name registrations is an increasing concern for domain name registrants and registrars. However, there are steps you can take to increase the security of your domain name registrations.

Domain Name Security is often neglected by most organisations. Infact a large number of hacking attempts do not really need to happen at the Web Server level. Most hackers can fairly disrupt your business by simply hijacking your Domain Name. Most Registrars assign paramount importance to Domain Security. Its important you choose the RIGHT Registrar and who has implemented several security measures and safety locks to prevent your Domain Name from getting Hijacked or taken over.

There are basically TWO basic options offered by Registrars

Password Based Security

All Domain Names have a password based security. All Domain Names belonging to a particular Customer can only be modified through the right Username and Password combination of that customer.

Domain LOCK:This is a MUST have for all due to the recently announced TRANSFER Policy by ICANN (Visit : http://www.icann.org/transfers/policy-12jul04.htm)

Several TLD Registries have the ability to create what is known as a Domain LOCK. Most Registrars offers this feature to Customers whereby you may place a LOCK on your Domain Name. Once a Domain Name is locked NO modifications can be made to the Domain by ANYONE. The Domain Name may not even be transferred to another Registrar. The Domain will remain in a LOCKED status until you yourself choose to remove the LOCK. This feature is by far the most powerful feature to ensure that none can make any changes to your Domain Name without your express approval.

NetLink assigned auto locking system when register a new domains names also ensure that a strong password must be input by clients.

Keep Email Security

As the range of email threats has grown, systems for email security and encryption have become ever more complex. Users demand ever higher levels of protection while at the same time expect more business enabling functionality. Businesses are left spending significant amounts of money trying to secure email systems, even in the face of industry consolidation and gateway commoditization. NetLink is bringing the value of the Secure Email Gateway back.

NetLink Email Security provides the most comprehensive, cloud-based email risk mitigation available in the market today.

NetLink Email Security allows end users to manage their Secure Email Gateway, as well as manage their safe and blocked senders list, or even report spam, all from directly within Microsoft Outlook.

We protect against inbound and outbound email-borne threats. This includes malware, spam, phishing, DHA & DDoS attacks, deliberate or accidental data leaks, outages, and social engineering attacks.

Email user benefits

• No more unwanted email
• Users never leave Outlook to manage email
• Interactive email quarantine digests from Outlook
• Minimal administration for users
• End user Secure Email Gateway policy actions for encryption, email routing and email stationery
• Direct access to block and allow lists within Outlook
• Spam reporting and blocking from directly within their inbox

FTP Security Issues

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) provides the capability of transferring files between a client (a user on another system) and your server. You can also use the remote command capability to submit commands to the server. Consequently, FTP is very useful for working with remote systems, or to move files between systems. However, the use of FTP across the Internet, or other untrusted networks, exposes you to certain security risks. You must understand these risks to ensure that your security policy describes how you will minimize these risks.

You may want to consider using Anonymous FTP to provide a convenient way for users to access non-confidential material easily. Anonymous FTP enables unprotected access (no password required) to selected information on a remote system. The remote site determines what information is made available for general access. Such information is considered to be publicly accessible and can be read by anyone. Before configure Anonymous FTP, you should weigh the security risks and consider securing your FTP server with exit programs.

A hacker can mount a "denial of service" attack with your FTP server to disable user profiles on the system. This is done by repeatedly attempting to log on with an incorrect password for a user profile until the user profile is disabled. This type of attack disables the profile if it reaches the maximum sign on count of five.

NetLink keeping brute force protection system means untrusted activities will be blocked to maintain its security.

Secure Password

Passwords based on personal information easily obtained from the net -- such as account name, actual first or last name, initials of the name, system name, etc. -- are extremely easy to guess and should never be used. Hackers are also on to all the usual tricks, such as spelling a name backwards or simple substituion of characters. Certain easily-guessed words are also commonly used as (poor) passwords -- such as "guest", "password", "secret", etc. -- and should never be used as passwords.

Hackers also have easy access to very powerful password-cracking tools incorporating extensive word and name dictionaries. Passwords should never be dictionary words or names. The cracking tools will also check for simple tricks like words spelled backwards or simple substitution of certain characters (i.e. "mouse" becomes "m0us3"). Pass phrases of several words are often OK, as long as the combination is not too obviously guessable.

Using the maximum number of characters (more than 16 mixed characters) greatly increases the complexity of guessing or cracking passwords and change password time to time.

Our system maintains security rules, some time we force to change password and allow only more than 80% or 95% strong password.

Server Security

Once upon a time, the World Wide Web was a relatively static place. The Web server's sole function was to simply deliver a requested Web page, written in HTML, to a client browser. Over time, developers started looking for ways to interact with users by providing dynamic content -- that is, content that displayed a form or executed a script based on user input. Thus Server Side Includes (SSI) and the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) were born.

A Server Side Include page is typically an HTML page with embedded command(s) that are executed by the Web server. An SSI page is parsed by the server (a "normal" Web page is not), and if SSI commands are found they are executed before the resultant output is delivered to the requesting client. SSI is used in situations that demand a small amount of dynamic content be inserted in a page, such as a copyright notice or the date. SSI can also be used to call a CGI script; however, there is a performance penalty associated with SSI. The server must parse every page designated as SSI-enabled, which is not an optimal solution on a heavily loaded Web server.

The CGI is a standard for communication between a program or script, written in any one of several languages, and a Web server. The CGI specification is very simple: input from a client is passed to the program or script on STDIN (standard input). The program then takes that information, processes it, and returns the result on STDOUT (standard output) to the Web server. The Web server combines this output with the requested page and returns it to the client as HTML. CGI applications do not force the server to parse every requested page; only pages containing CGI-recognized arguments involve further processing.

This article is targeted at Webmasters and system administers responsible for securing a Web server configured to provide dynamic content to clients. It details general security issues related to SSI- and CGI-enabled content, reducing CGI risks with wrappers, and some brief language-specific caveats. This article does not cover the configuration steps required to enable SSI or CGI. Configuration examples provided are based on the latest 1.3 version of Apache, which at the time of this writing is 1.3.26. In addition, the following is assumed:


• Your network is secure, behind a firewall, and the server itself is in a controlled environment.
• The operating system has been properly secured and all unnecessary services are disabled.
• The Apache user and group directives are correctly set, and appropriate permissions assigned.
• The ServerRoot and log directories are protected.
• User overrides are disabled.

Default access has been disabled, and access opened for only those system directories designated "public". For example, on a system configured to host user Web pages from /home/username/public_html, Apache's httpd.conf configuration file should contain the following directives:

NetLink has good working knowledge of general Web server security, installing and configuring Apache, Apache modules, Apache's key configuration directives, the role of Apache's .htaccess file, how to read log files, UNIX file permissions, and basic system administration.

Spam Protection

We enebled Apache SpamAssassin Project to protect spam. Know its basic features as follows:



• Wide-spectrum: SpamAssassin uses a wide variety of local and network tests to identify spam signatures. This makes it harder for spammers to identify one aspect which they can craft their messages to work around.
• Free software: it is distributed under the same terms and conditions as other popular open-source software packages such as the Apache web server.
• Easy to extend: Anti-spam tests and configuration are stored in plain text, making it easy to configure and add new rules.
• Flexible: SpamAssassin encapsulates its logic in a well-designed, abstract API so it can be integrated anywhere in the email stream. The Mail::SpamAssassin classes can be used on a wide variety of email systems including procmail, sendmail, Postfix, qmail, and many others.
• Easy Configuration: SpamAssassin requires very little configuration; you do not need to continually update it with details of your mail accounts, mailing list memberships, etc. Once classified, site and user-specific policies can then be applied against spam. Policies can be applied on both mail servers and later using the user's own mail user-agent application.



Monitor The Security

To maintain security of network and data resources, continuous monitoring of network activity becomes mandatory. Our system administrators detect anomalous readings by the automatic notification during monitoring.

We at Stylus have effective secure procedures that are based on the computer security policy. Procedures address topics like retrieving programs from the network, connecting to the site's system from home or while traveling, using encryption, authentication for issuing accounts, configuration, and monitoring. We ensure the integrity of system software on a regular basis.

We have a security policy and a clear high-level document plan for organization-wide computer and information security. It provides a framework for making specific decisions, such as online credit card use and how to configure merchant account services etc.

Internet/ecommerce security isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. The two arms of website security are firewall and encryption, which when combined can guarantee safe transaction and secure transfer of information to the right place. The monitoring of tools that will maintain vigilance on your hardware and software security has to be of primary importance. The security policies and procedures are the salient processes that any software corporate must consider. As the business use of the Internet increases day by day, network security will become crucial to the development of the Internet.

eCommerce Fraud Protection

Fraud is exploding on the internet. Every day fraudsters are exploiting unwary merchants and stealing millions. And, it’s not just thieves. “Friendly fraud” comes from real buyers who simply know how to work the credit card system in their favor. They deny receiving merchandise or say it was never ordered in the first place.

It’s crucial that any eCommerce merchant have a rule-set based fraud management utility that allows merchants to configure extensive filters to help them in detecting fraud and screening suspicious transactions. Extensive reporting systems give merchants a quick and easy way to review transactions, block suspicious activity, and zero in on malicious users.

A good fraud protection system is easily controlled by the merchant who has complete control over the system. Through a control panel, merchants can:


• 1. Maintain good and bad customer lists
• 2. Create and edit processing controls
• 3. Restrict or allow access by banning IP addresses, counties, zip codes or any other geographic variable
• 4. Set controls to filter for email address, transaction count, dollar amounts, velocity checks and a variety of other parameters.

Properly set fraud filters eliminate the majority of fraudulent transactions in real-time. The selected filters can be customized for each merchant, which are continuously updated to keep the merchant one step ahead of the fraudsters.

Encryption & SSL Certificates

Using a Digital Certificate (Digital ID) in conjunction with SSL encryption provides complete security for all parties involved in a transaction. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is again a service that is universally accepted on the World Wide Web for authenticated and encrypted communication between clients and servers.

The most commonly used agencies are Thawte and Verisign. Both have online applications to speed up the process. Also, usually hosting companies have a tie-up with these companies.

Firewalls

Firewalls are tools that are used to enhance the security of computers connected to a network, such as a Local Area Network or the Internet. Firewalls deny or accept all messages and sites based on a list that is stored in the system. This is usually decided by a system administrator.

The two kinds of firewall mechanisms are namely packet filtering and stateful packet inspection.

The former does not check the content of a message where as the later checks the content, thereby providing more security.

Payments Security

Lets assume that you have a website of your own. Your website allows transactions online. You type in your website's domain to see those lovely articles, beautiful pictures that you meticulously engineered to put on your site.

You see unfamiliar things. Things that you have never intended to publish have come up on your monitor. Something has gone haywire. Did you type the domain name wrong? You check with the network administrator and to his dismay, he too looks at the page with the same amount of astonishment as you feel. Where did things go wrong? Did you think of hackers, viruses and lurking cyber goons?

Enough to give you an aversion. How do you prevent this? An efficient firewall is the armor your network needs to combat most of these threats.

Does your website offer online transactions too? You may have been wondering about the safety and security aspects involved in online transactions.

Just consider a scenario where you stay at a hotel and pay your bill through credit card - there is nothing to stop the clerk to make a copy of your credit card information. For any kind of transaction, all that is important is your credit card number and the expiry date. Keeping this in mind would you stick with the myth of avoiding e-commerce? You will be looking for greater security for that golden number that you hold.

Enabling online transaction on your website is not all that simple. Let me describe what it would mean.

Email Marketing Legal Issue

Spamming is a huge problem with emails; a ‘spam’ email is an unsolicited commercial email that is sent without the person giving permission. So is email marketing to your address list spamming? The simple answer is no; if someone has agreed to receive emails from you then providing you follow legal guidelines it is not the same as spamming.



Unsolicited Messages

Is someone has not given you their email address directly, and you have not got it from a verified list; it is against the law to send them commercial messages. Un-requested (Unsolicited) messages are spam, and you must not send them; even if you think the person would be interested in the contents.

The only possible exception is if you have a long standing business relationship; if for example, the customer purchases from you every month for a year. However, the rules and guidance on this exception are not very clear.

If you consider sending messages under this rule, you need to carefully weigh up each business relationship on its own individual merits; if you even suspect that they may not want to see it then it is best not to send.

Opting-out
Even though someone has given you their email address, they still have the right to opt-out and prevent any further emails. You must make it easy for people to remove their name from your list, and you need to include easy instructions on how to do so. If they choose to remove themselves you must remove their address and not send any further mails.

Frequency
If you sign people to your email list, you must give them an accurate idea of how many emails they will get. You don’t have to say “one email every 18 days”, but you should differentiate between regular (Approx daily to weekly), occasional (Approx fortnightly to monthly), and rare (Approx less than once a month) communication to prevent irritating recipients. If you say ‘occasional emails’ and then send 3 a day, people will get fed up and remove their addresses very quickly, but if you say one a day then send one a month people may forget about you; so be realistic with what you plan to send.

Sending
When you send your emails you MUST make sure that each person only sees their email address. This may mean sending each email separately, or using the ‘BCC’ function in your email program/facility. BCC hides the email addresses that each email is being sent to, this way people cannot steal other peoples addresses by reading it. Do not use the CC function, otherwise everyone will see all the email addresses.

Privacy
You must not give away anybody’ s email addresses to other companies or people. You can ask for permission to pass on their details to other reputable companies (I.e.: Companies that you believe are trustworthy and of interest to the customer only), but most people will not want to do this. You should make sure that your customers are aware that you respect their privacy; you should state “We do not give your details to anybody else.” As long as you actually do this, it will help to build trust in your business by showing you are honest and respect their privacy.

Facts
Every email that you send must make it clear who you are, and give the recipients genuine contact details to respond through. You should have a regularly checked contact email at the very minimum, and preferably a contact telephone number and mailing address. If you include details of a special offer, you must include details of any terms or conditions that apply. e.g. If the offer is only valid on weekdays you must state this.

NetLink connect with some online users with a valid permission based mailing system.

Ecommerce

eCommerce Administrative Features

Managing your business can be time consuming, but with the right tools and features, this type of Application will save you time and frustration.

Many applications place a limit on the number of products you can sell, so look for an eCommerce solution that offers plenty of inventory space. Look for Application that allows you to sell both physical and downloadable goods. You also want a product that allows you to create a wide variety of custom reports.

In addition, having a shopping cart that offers a wide variety of payment options will help you satisfy your customers. PayPal, eChecks and credit cards are just a few of the popular types of online payments that you will want to ensure the eCommerce application you choose supports.

When we start development process, we keep it in mind and use best idea to provide a full featured administrative area.

eCommerce Affiliate Programs

Affiliate Partner Research/Recruitment, Affiliate Program Marketing to Webmaster communities and Affiliate Community Management via periodic newsletters and on-going Affiliate Monitoring to ensure greater accountability in the program.

We support individual high-performing online-affiliate-programs via custom micro site design (charged on a per-project basis).

We can add an exciting new dimension to your online-affiliate-programs. Imagine creating a set of web pages promoting your product that integrates seamlessly with a chosen partner site's 'look and feel’ we place a banner ad, small graphic or ordinary text which links from your site or newsletter to the vendor.

If someone clicks on the link and buys a product or service from your Web Site, you pay a commission. This preserves the integrity of the user experience on your partner site…and allows the site's regular user community to continue shopping in a familiar atmosphere of trust.

It's a measure that is likely to earn a higher response from the audience in the process.

eCommerce Application

When choosing the best eCommerce Application, you need an application that will get the job done right. Everyone’s business is different, so you need to find a product that has the tools and features you need to create, manage, secure and advertise your business easily.

By choosing the our eCommerce application, you can get your online business up and running in no time. Our application will eliminate the hassle and the frustration of the complex process of setting up and running an online store, and will give you the tools you need to make your online business a success.

The best eCommerce solution offers tools that provide assistance with hosting, website design and SEO integration. We looked for applications that encompass all aspects of creating and maintaining your website. eCommerce companies that offer large amounts of online storage space and bandwidth are ideal. Also, if you are unfamiliar or not completely comfortable with HTML, you can find an eCommerce Application solution that offers a large number of website design templates and customization tools to ensure that the design of your website is unique to your business.

Our design and develop methods and procedures that simplify and expedite important aspects of your business operation.

B2B Ecommerce

Grow Your Business-to-Business (B2B) eCommerce Channel While Streamlining Your Business Processes

NetLink's B2B eCommerce solution provides all the tools you need to run a successful eCommerce channel. With capabilities that include a full-featured web store, online registration forms and customizable website building and hosting, NetLink will help you grow and manage your online business across multiple sales channels, websites and international regions. NetLink provides the customer-specific process, product, pricing, invoicing and billing capabilities needed for the complex world of B2B transactions and relationships.

NetLink helps you manage both new business and ongoing relationships across multiple channels, including webstores, in-house sales, retail distributors, brick-and-mortar stores, and channel partners. You can even publish separate B2B and B2C website with its own pricing, content, promotions and purchase rules.

eCommerce Concept

Enabling your business in an e-commerce solution requires a solid concept using established methods following a logical development life cycle.


• Explain to us your exact business requirements and let us create Business Specifications by defining processes and rules
• These Specifications will be mapped to function - and data - models
• These models will be implemented through Script programming and Database creation
• All components will be functional tested and afterwards integrated into your web page
• The complete page will be integrated and acceptance tested
• Finally your business goes live by installing your new page on our or your provider's server

Required to determine the feasibility of whether the project should proceed or not. Produces a high level overview document of the project which relates to the project requirements and scope.

Defines what, when, who, and how the project will be carried out. This phase expands on the high-level project outline and provides a specific and detailed project definition. A project development is team chosen and a Project Manager appointed.

Required to understand and document the user's needs for the system. Documents in detail the scope, business objectives and requirements of the system. Emphasizes what the system is to do Describes how the proposed system is to be built. The design is specific to the technical requirements the system will be required to operate on and the tools used in building the system. Impacts the build and implementation phases of application. Describes movement of data between operational databases and the data warehouse.

Deals with the development, unit testing and integration testing of the system modules, screens and reports and data replication to the data warehouse if required. Carried out in parallel with the development of user procedures and user documentation from the implementation phase.

Prepare for and carry out the implementation of the developed system through user acceptance testing to full production and warehouse population.

eCommerce Customer Portal

Customer self-service is now the channel of choice for today's customers. They expect a customer self-service portal that provides a convenient way to post service issues, place new orders, or view their order histories.

A customer portal lets you stay open for business 24/7 around the world and delivers a high-quality, high-touch experience for customers while reducing the cost of customer care.

With NetLink CRM customer portal, you provide your customers with highly personalized, interactive service on the Web. Your customers will be able to receive answers to their questions, complete transactions, submit support issues, or query your knowledge base. And with an open line of communication and a range of self-service options, you'll boost customer satisfaction as well as long-term retention—both of which translate into greater profits.

eCommerce Effective SEO methods

When we develop an eCommerce site, considering SEO and online marketing is as important as what you develop as the end product. Normally, People who wants to develop an eCommerce site for get to plan for making the site ready for SEO during the development, But making a plan for SEO readiness is as importent as developing the eCommerce site functions.

Unlike content sites driveing traffic to ecommerce sites which are database driven and quite often the products might be changingand hence may not get a good place in the search results. But the good news is an eCommerce site can be optimized the same way as a content site by adding related keywords. By identifying some of the key issues in a dynamic site that keeps the site away from Search results, we bring the eCommerce site also in better positions in the search result pages.

The first is to create a front-end site separate from the shopping cart. You will create a number of pages that can be easily spidered (assuming that they’re well organized and optimised for Search engines). The drawback to this course of action is that your website will forever be limited to the size of the front-end site, managing such sites with large number of products would be painful.

SEO-friendly shopping cart system is far easier said than done. There are many factors that have to be taken into account including the spider ability of the pages themselves, the customization capacity of the individual pages, the ease of adding products and changing the pages down the road, etc.

We also care for Dynamic Title & Meta Tags, Logo and Image alt tags, Header tags, SEO friendly URL and much more…

eCommerce Help Center Integration

Questions and concerns will likely arise while you're running an online business. The best manufacturers provide several options for reaching a customer representative, such as telephone, email and live chat. The manufacturer should also provide a variety of additional resources, such as extensive FAQs, user guides, a knowledgebase and even a support forum.

We integrate help and support center for eCommerce website. It is good idea to manage customer quarry and solve the issue.

eCommerce Marketing Budget

After you have identified your market demographic, fixed your goals and decided on a promotional strategy for reaching potential customers, the next step is to figure out how to maximize your budget and get the job done without over spending. Even though the exact process will vary from business to business, the principle remains the same.

You want to expose your product or service, as often as possible, to consumers who will derive the most benefit from it. Studies show that the average consumer will see a promotion about five to seven times before taking action on the offer.

So instead of blowing your budget on a single opportunity to reach your select group, it is much wiser to get everyone's attention with repeated promotions. Use as many different forms of advertising as you can afford and squeeze the most out of your marketing dollars.

Website Analytics to track your website visitors and search engine traffic and sales in real-time. Watch each visitor as they arrive at your website and navigate your site and learn ways to improve your online business. Using both your general website statistics and traffic will be the key to understanding how your online business works and ways you can increase traffic.

We received promotional offer from different provider also use own promotional plan that can help your business grow day by day.

eCommerce Marketing Tools

Your website will do you no good if customers can’t find your store online. Many of the best eCommerce solutions offer marketing tools to attract customers and keep them coming back for more.

Many of the popular marketing tools to look for include coupons, gift-wrap capabilities, daily deals and loyalty programs. Also, affiliate programs and strong social networking tools are advantages that many of the best eCommerce solutions boast.

Analytics, Email Blasting, Ads Sharing, Link Sharing, Social Sharing and other Express Marketing Tools We use to get best marketing performance.

Order & Billing Management

A best-in-class order management process results in a faster path to recognized revenue, improved operational efficiencies, and higher customer satisfaction and renewals.

NetLink fast-tracks your order-to-cash process, by eliminating manual bottlenecks and errors and establishing a smooth flow from sales quote to approved order, successful order to fulfillment, and timely invoicing to payment. NetLink's order and billing management capabilities integrate your sales, finance and fulfillment teams—improving quote accuracy, eliminating billing errors, strengthening revenue recognition processes and driving fulfillment accuracy and efficiency.

Flexible billing management adapts to your billing needs and market demands, and improves cash flow.

Give your organization, from sales and service reps and finance managers to fulfillment specialists and executives, role-based real-time visibility into orders and invoice aging, as well as detailed order status and history—allowing them to identify issues, reduce turnaround times and resolve customer queries with unprecedented speed.

eCommerce Virtual Assistant

This is an opportunity to outsource various redundant tasks to someone who is capable, reliable and trustworthy. The big advantage to you is you'll have more time to devote to activities that generate income and help you grow your business.

A virtual assistant works from his or her office as an independent contractor and is responsible for whatever administrative or operational responsibilities you assign. Compensation can be agreed upon at an hourly rate, per assignment or by retainer.

If you are not yet at the stage where you can afford to pay a virtual assistant, you can consider a suitable barter arrangement with a subscriber or a customer. You can also ask a family member or a friend for help. You can't do it all yourself and you shouldn't even consider that option for the long-term.

NetLink provides expert service to off load your work burden. Whether it's updating website products and content, managing and/or providing your marketing and advertising campaigns, or just providing consultation to your business; we provides service second to none in both expertise and affordability.

Website Development Issues

Developing a website is like building a house. To bring a web project to a successful conclusion (not the best word since website building is a task without formal end) one must start by asking the right questions. A home builder or architect might ask if you plan to build a primary home? What is the size of your family? Your lifestyle? Your space requirements? Your budget? A web developer should ask:

What is the goal of the site?
Obvious on the surface - but you'd be surprised how many projects are launched without goals being adequately defined. Simply put, you need to spell out your objectives. Are we going to be selling a product online (an ecommerce website)? Are we instead selling a service? Is the website going to serve in a sales support capacity – a place you can send pre-identified prospects to? Is its primary objective to improve customer service or support? In all probability, your website will have multiple objectives, which should be listed in order of priority.

How does the website fit within your overall business activities?
If your site is going to generate leads or sales, how important is it as a source of same given your other marketing/sales activities? If you have a traditional retail business, how will the website work together with your shop (inventory, shipping, advertising, etc.)? If you have a service business, how will the site augment your current efforts and what portion of leads over time do you expect to come from your online marketing efforts?

What is your overall Internet budget?
While we know how difficult this is to talk about to a vendor, much less a prospective vendor (so if you can't, at least have this conversation with yourself), it's critical nonetheless. Remember to include your longer term marketing and operating costs in your budget. To be successful today you will invariably spend more time and money promoting, changing and servicing the site than you will on building it in the first place. If budgets are limited (which they should be, even if you are loaded) promotion and operations should get more of your budget than development.

NetLink beside of you to fulfill your complete requirement within cost competitive financial budget.




Programming

Compiled Programming

These programming languages make use of a compiler for the execution of code. Compilers can translate source code into machine code and thus bring out the implementation of the programming language instructions.



Ada

It is a statically typed, structured, imperative programming language that is based on Pascal. A team of CII Honeywell Bull that was led by Jean Ichbiah developed Ada. The Ada compilers are validated for mission-critical systems. Ada is an internationally standardized computer programming language.



ALGOL

Algorithmic Language, as it is called, is actually a family of imperative programming languages that was developed in the middle 1950s. It proved instrumental in the creation of programming languages like BCPL, B and C. Simula, representing Simula I and Simula 67 is a superset of Algol 60. Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard of the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo were the brains behind Simula.



C

Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories developed C to be used on the Unix platform. It is a general purpose, cross-platform, procedural, imperative programming language. It is used for implementing system software and application software and is one of the most-used computer programming languages of today. The development of C++ and C# was influenced by C.



C++

It consists of a combination of high-level and low-level language features and is hence considered as a middle-level programming language. Bjarne Stroustrup of Bell Labs developed C++ as an extension of the C language. Originally known as 'C with Classes', it came to be known as C++ from 1983. It is a multi-paradigm language that supports procedural programming, generic programming, object-oriented programming and data abstraction.



C#

C Sharp is a multi-paradigm programming language that supports imperative, generic and object-oriented programming. It is a part of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is similar to C++ in its object-oriented syntax and is also influenced by Java and Delphi. Polyphonic C# extends C#. MC# is an extension of Polyphonic C# that can work on the .NET platform. C-omega is an extension to C# that succeeded Polyphonic C#. It enables access to data stores and includes constructs that support concurrent programming.



CLEO

It is known as the Clear Language for Expressing Orders and is a computer language for the LEO computer.



COBOL

The name stands for Common Business-Oriented Language that is designed for the business and finance domain. COBOL 2002 standard supports object-oriented programming. It is one of the very old programming languages that are still in use.



Cobra

It is an object-oriented programming language that runs on .NET and Mono frameworks. Chuck Esterbrook developed it. Its design is influenced by languages like Python and C#. It supports static and dynamic typing and is suited for unit tests. Today, it is an open source project.



D

Originally designed as an enhancement of C++, it is also influenced by Java, Eiffel and C#. It is an object-oriented, imperative, multi-paradigm system programming language developed by Walter Bright of Digital Mars.



DASL

Acronym of Distributed Application Specification Language, it is a high-level, strongly typed programming language that was developed at the Sun Microsystems. It was created with an intent to be used for developing web applications.



DIBOL

Acronym of Digital Interactive Business Oriented Language, DIBOL is a general purpose procedural imperative programming language. It is fairly similar to COBOL as is best suited for the development of Management Information Systems.



Fortran

It is a procedural, imperative, general purpose computer programming language that works well for scientific computations and numeric operations. After IBM developed it in the 1950s, it soon gained popularity in programming. It is very popular in the field of high-performance computing. It is a structured and compiled programming language that is a subset of Fortran95. Fortran 2003, a revised version of Fortran supports object-oriented programming.



Java

Sun Microsystems developed Java and released it in 1995 as a part of the Java platform. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which can run on any virtual machine, thus making Java programs platform-independent. It is very popular language of the modern times. Groovy is an object-oriented programming language for the Java platform. It is a dynamic programming language, which can also be used as a scripting language. Join Java is a programming language that extends Java by adding join methods, asynchronous methods and order class modifiers to Java. X10 is a computer programming language developed by IBM that supports parallel programming, arrays and concurrency. It is seen as an extended subset of Java.



JOVIAL

It is a high-order computer programming language similar to ALGOL. It is best suited to the design and development of embedded systems.



Objective-C

It is a reflective object-oriented programming language that adds messaging services to C.



SMALL

The name stands for Small Machine Algol-like Language. It provides the programmers with abilities to write an ALGOL-like code that can be run on small machines.



Smalltalk

It is a reflective, object-oriented programming language that supports dynamic typing. Alan Kay, Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, Scott Wallace, Ted Kaehler and their associates at Xerox PARC developed Smalltalk. They designed it for educational use and it soon became popular. VisualWorks is a prominent implementation of Smalltalk. Squeak is a programming language that is in the form of an implementation of Smalltalk. Scratch is a visual programming language based on Squeak.



Turing

It was developed by Ric Holt and James Cordy of the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1982. It was named in honor of the British computer scientist, Alan Turing. This Pascal-like language is a freeware since 2007.



Visual Basic

It is an event-driven programming language that is packaged with an integrated development environment. It inherits many of its features from BASIC. Its graphical development features make it easy for beginners to learn VB.



Visual FoxPro

It is an object-oriented and procedural programming language derived from FoxPro. It is integrated with a relational database system of its own and does not require an additional programming environment. It supports dynamic programming.



XL

It is created with an intent to support concept programming, a programming paradigm that focuses on how concepts residing in a programmer's mind can be transformed into code constructs. Programmers can reconfigure XL's syntax and semantics.

Concurrent Programming

The concurrent execution of multiple tasks is known as concurrent programming. It is implemented by the means of processes or threads spawned by a single program. Communication between the concurrent components of a program occurs either by means of shared memory or through message passing mechanism. Java, Ada and Erlang are some of the well-known concurrent programming languages. Concurrency is achieved in Java by means of shared memory and concurrency-based monitors. Here is a list of the other concurrent programming languages.



ABCL

It is actually a family of Actor-Based Concurrent Languages, which was developed in Japan during the 1980s and the 1990s. ABCL/1, ABCL/R, ABCL/R2 are some of the members of the ABCL family.



Afnix

It is a multi-threaded functional programming language. Its interpreter is written in C++. Its runtime engine supports both 32 and 64 bit platforms.



Cilk

Created at the MIT Laboratory in 1994, Cilk supports multithreaded parallel programming.



Concurrent Pascal

Per Brinch Hansen, a Danish-American computer scientist created Concurrent Pascal for writing operating systems and programming real-time systems.



E

It is an object-oriented programming language that supports distributed programming. Mark Miller, Dan Bornstein and associates at the Electric Communities developed E in 1997. Its syntax resembles that of Java.



Joule

Joule is a concurrent dataflow programming language that preceded the E programming language. It is used for distributed applications.



Limbo

Developed at the Bell Labs, Limbo is used for programming distributed systems. Its striking feature is its compiler's ability to generate architecture-independent object code. Limbo is used for applications running on Inferno operating system. Alex that was initially a part of the Plan 9 operating system is the predecessor of Limbo.



Pict

It is a statically typed programming language, which is in the experimental stage today.



SALSA

Short for Simple Actor Language System and Architecture, SALSA supports concurrent programming, message passing and distributed computing. It uses Java code for portability.



SR

Acronym of Synchronizing Resources, SR is a concurrent programming language.

Functional Programming

These languages define every computation as a mathematical evaluation. They focus on the application of functions. Many of the functional programming languages are bound to mathematical calculations.



Charity

It is a purely functional, not-Turing-complete language, which means that all its programs are guaranteed to terminate. Charity was designed at the University of Calgary, a public University in Canada.



Clean

It is a purely functional programming language that supports portability across platforms, automatic garbage collection, multiple data structures and referential transparency, which means that a function with a given input will always give the same output.



Curry

It is a functional logic programming language that implements functional and logic programming as well as constraint programming, wherein the relationships between variables are stated in the form of constraints.



Erlang

It is a concurrent programming language that includes a sequential subset, which supports functional programming. Ericsson developed Erlang as a distributed soft real-time and fault-tolerant language and released it as an open source computer programming language in 1998. It is one of the most popularly used functional programming languages.



F#

It targets the .NET Framework and supports both functional as well as imperative object-oriented programming. Don Syme at the Microsoft Research developed this language, which is now being developed at the Microsoft Developer Division. F Sharp, as it is called, will soon be integrated into the .NET Framework and Visual Studio.



Haskell

Named in honor of Haskell Curry, a logician, Haskell is a standardized purely functional language. It supports pattern matching, definable operators, single assignment, algebraic data types and recursive functions.



Joy

It is a purely functional language that is based on a composition of functions. Manfred von Thun of La Trobe University in Australia developed this language.



Kite

It came up in 2006 with a feature set consisting of a blend of object-oriented and functional programming features. It is a fast-running language. Interestingly, Kite uses the pipe character for functional calls rather than using the period or arrow characters in other languages.



ML

Robin Milner and his associates at the University of Edinburgh came up with ML in the 1970s. It is an impure functional language as it supports imperative programming. Standard ML is popular among compiler writers and is a modular, functional programming language. Alice is a dialect of Standard ML, which supports distributed computing, multithreading and constraint programming. Caml is another dialect of ML and is a statically typed language that supports automatic memory management. Ocaml is the implementation of Caml that is developed as an open source project. JoCaml is a version of Ocaml based on join-calculus.



Nemerle

It is a statically typed programming language that is designed for the .NET platform. Programs in Nemerle are compiled into an intermediate language bytecode. It supports functional, imperative and object-oriented programming.



OPAL

The name stands for Optimized Applicative Language and is a functional programming language developed at the Technical University of Berlin.



OPS5

It is a rule-based production system computer language that became the first language to be used in an expert system.



Q

It is called Q for being an equational programming language. It is an interpreted functional language that was designed by Albert Graf at the University of Mainz in Germany. It can be described as a set of equations used to evaluate expressions.

Interpreted Programming

The programming languages that are implemented by means of an interpreter are known as interpreted languages. Interpreters execute the source code directly by translating the source code into an intermediate representation.



APL

It is an array programming language. It can work simultaneously on multiple arrays of data. It is interpretive, interactive and a functional programming language.



AutoIt

It is a freeware automation language for Microsoft Windows. It's main intent is to create automation scripts that can be used for the execution of certain repetitive tasks on Windows.



Basic

The name is short for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It was developed by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth in 1964. It was designed with intent of giving the non-science people an access to computers. It became popular in the 1970s and the 80s. Microsoft Visual Basic is based on Basic. Some dialects of BASIC are compiled computer languages.



Eiffel

It is an object-oriented programming language that is ISO-standardized and used to develop extensible and reusable software. It is a development platform for many industries such as finance, aerospace and video gaming. Sather is a computer programming language that was formerly based on Eiffel and has now evolved to include many functional programming features. Ubercode is a high-level platform-sharing language. Its design is derived from Eiffel and BASIC.



Forth

It is a structured imperative programming language, which bases its implementation on stacks. It supports an interactive execution of commands as well as the compilation of sequences of commands.



Frink

It was developed by Alan Eliasen and named after Professor John Frink, a popular fictional character. It is based on the Java Virtual Machine and focuses on science and engineering. Its striking feature is that it tracks the units of measure through all the calculations that enables quantities to contain their units of measure.



ICI

ICI is a general purpose interpreted computer programming language. It supports dynamic typing, flexible data types and other language constructs similar to C. It was designed by Tim Long in 1992.



J

Ken Iverson and Roger Hui developed this programming language that requires only the basic ASCII character set. It is an array programming language that works well with mathematical and statistical operations.



Lisp

It is the second-oldest high level computer programming language that has a fully parenthesized syntax. The name, Lisp is derived from 'List Processing Language'. One of the important data structures that Lisp supports is linked list. Lisp programs deal with source code as a data structure. Lush is an object-oriented form of the Lisp language. It can be used for network programming and administration tasks. Common Lisp, Dylan, Logo and Scheme are the dialects of Lisp. Common Lisp is a language specification. It supports multiple paradigms and is a general purpose programming language. Dylan is another multi-paradigm dialect of Lisp that supports both functional and object-oriented programming. Logo and Scheme support functional programming. Guy Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman developed Scheme as a multi-paradigm programming language. MultiLisp is a dialect of Scheme that supports parallel programming and shared memory.



Lua

Members of the Computer Graphics Technology Group developed Lua in 1993. It is an imperative and procedural programming language that was designed as a scripting language. It is known for being simple yet powerful.



>M

M is short for MUMPS, a programming language created for the health care industry. Neil Pappalardo, the founder of medical information technology and his associates developed the M language.



Pascal

It is a procedural programming language that was intended to use data structuring and structured programming. Niklaus Wirth, a Swiss computer scientist designed this language and it was named after Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher. Object Pascal is a branch of the object-oriented derivatives of Pascal. It later came to be known as Delphi.



PCASTL

It is a high level language developed by Philippe Choquette and falls under the class of interpreted computer programming languages. It is specially designed for self-modifying code.



Perl

Perl is a high level interpreted programming language that supports dynamic programming. Larry Wall, a linguist who served as a systems administrator at NASA developed Perl. It provides the programmers with text processing facilities and has a blend of features adopted from various languages like C, Lisp and Awk.



PostScript

It is used in the desktop publishing field and is known as a page description language. It is a dynamically typed stack-based programming language developed by John Warnock, an American computer scientist and Charles Geschke, a notable figure in the field of computer science. These developers went on to found the very well-known company, Adobe Systems.



Python

It is a high-level programming language that supports imperative, object-oriented and functional programming paradigms. In its features like the dynamic type system and automatic memory management, it is similar to Perl. Originally released in 1991 by Guido van Rossum, a Dutch computer programmer, Python is an open community-based language whose development is managed by the Python Software Foundation.



REXX

Short for Restructured Extended Executor, REXX is an interpreted language developed by IBM. It was designed with an intent to be an easily learnable and readable language. CMS EXEC and EXEC 2 were the predecessors of REXX. NetRexx is the IBM's implementation of REXX that offers object-oriented programming. Object REXX is an object-oriented scripting language that is based on REXX.



Ruby

The efforts for developing this language initiated in Japan in the 1990s. Similar to Perl, it has a dynamic type system and an automatic memory management. It supports multiple programming paradigms and is a dynamic object-oriented language.



S-Lang

Originally developed as a stack-based language, S-Lang has evolved as a language similar to C. It was developed by John E. Davis.



Spin

It is a multitasking object-oriented programming language whose compiler converts the Spin code into bytecodes. Multiple Spin code threads can run at a time, thus enabling multitasking. Spin was developed by Chip Gracey of Parallax.

Logic based Programming

Logic programming is the use of mathematical logic for computer programming. Logic-based programming languages specify the attributes for a solution and also the steps to arrive at the solution.



ALF

Algebraic Logic Functional Programming Language is a multi-paradigm programming language that is a combination of functional programming and logic programming. ALF program statements are compiled into instructions of an abstract machine. An emulator written in C executes the programs of the abstract machine.



Fril

Fril language was designed by Trevor Martin and Jim Baldwin at the University of Bristol in the 1980s. It is for first-order predicate calculus. It supports fuzzy sets and metaprogramming and is based on the Prolog syntax.



Janus

Janus supports concurrent and constraint programming.



Leda

This computer programming language is a blend of logic-based, functional, imperative and object-oriented programming. It is thus one of the multi-paradigm languages.



Oz

It is a multi-paradigm language that supports functional, logic-based, imperative and object-oriented programming. Oz also supports concurrent and distributed programming. Constraint programming that is supported by Oz is one of the strengths of this language.



Poplog

It is a powerful multi-paradigm software development environment whose core language is POP-11. All the languages of this development environment share a common language editor and are incrementally compiled programming languages.



Prolog

It is a general purpose programming language that supports logic programming and is often linked with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics. The language is declarative and the program logic is expressed in the form of relations. Mercury is a functional logic programming language that is based on Prolog. Strawberry Prolog is a dialect of Prolog, which is supposed to be easy to use. Visual Prolog is a strongly typed extension of Prolog that supports object-oriented programming. It is a compiled logic-based programming language.



ROOP

It is a multi-paradigm language that is built on C++. It is intended to be used with artificial intelligence systems. Its features offer a blend of procedural, logic-based and object-oriented programming.

Markup Languages

A markup language is an artificial language that uses annotations to text that define how the text is to be displayed.



Curl

It is a reflective object-oriented programming language. It is a markup language similar to HTML. Curl is an object-oriented programming language supporting multiple inheritance.



SGML

Standardized General Markup Language (SGML) has descended from IBM's Generalized Markup Language. It is an ISO standard metalanguage that can define markup languages for documents. It was designed with an intent of sharing machine-readable documents of large projects that had to be retained for long years.



HTML

Hypertext Markup Language, abbreviated as HTML, is the most prominent markup language that is used for web pages. It is written in the form of HTML tags that are surrounded by angular brackets. HTML tags describe the appearance of the text in a document and can be embedded into certain other code to affect the web browser behavior. HTML uses the SGML default syntax.



XML

The name stands for Extensible Markup Language. It is extensible because it allows the users to define their own XML elements. It supports the sharing of structured data over the Internet and the encoding and serializing of data. It originated as a subset of SGML. XPath is the XML Path Language that is used to select nodes from an XML document. It supports the computation of values. XQuery is used to query the collections of XML data. Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) is an XML-based language that is used for the transformation of XML documents into human-readable formats. Apache Ant is a tool for the automation of software build processes. It uses XML to describe the build processes.



XHTML

It is a markup language that is similar to HTML and follows the XML syntax. It is midway between HTML and XML. XHTML documents allow automated processing of data.

Object Oriented Programming

Object-oriented programming languages support the object-oriented programming techniques like encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance and polymorphism. Object-oriented programming makes use of classes, objects and the interaction between objects. Many computer programming languages of the present times support object-oriented programming. Some of the widely used programming languages that offer object-oriented programming features are C++, C#, Java, Perl 5, PHP, Python and Ruby. Look at the other object-oriented programming languages.



Agora

It is a prototype-based object-oriented programming language features message passing mechanisms.



BETA

It is an object-oriented programming language wherein classes and procedures revolve around the same concept and classes are defined as attributes of objects. It has strong abstraction mechanisms. BETA also supports nested classes.



Cecil

This object-oriented language was created by Craig Chambers at the University of Washington. It is similar to Objective-C and Modula-3.



Lava

Lava is a visual object-oriented interpreter-based programming language.



Lisaac

It was the first compiled object-oriented programming language that was based on prototype concepts. It also supports system programming.



MOO

It is a dynamically typed prototype based programming language that supports object-oriented programming. It supports exception handling mechanisms and looping constructs.



Moto

It is an open source server-side programming language that comes with state and session management objects and database connectivity.



Object-Z

It was developed at the University of Queensland, Australia. It extends the Z programming language by adding object-oriented features to it.



Obliq

It is an interpreted computer programming language that offers object-oriented programming features. It supports untyped variables and was designed for distributed and multithreaded computations.



Oxygene

Based on Object Pascal, Oxygene is an object-oriented programming language with a rich feature set. Previously, it was known as 'Chrome'.



Pliant

It is based on a dynamic compiler and comes with a unique ability of supporting low-level instruction lists as well as high-level expressions.



Prograph

It is a visual object-oriented multi-paradigm language that uses symbols to signify the actions to be performed on data.



REBOL

REBOL is the acronym given for Relative Expression Based Object Language. It is designed for use on distributed platforms and in network communications.



Scala

The name Scala stands for Scalable Language. It is a multi-paradigm programming language, which offers object-oriented and functional programming features.



Self

It is an object-oriented prototype-based computer programming language. NewtonScript is used to write programs for Apple Newton and is largely influenced by Self.



Slate

This object-oriented programming language that is based on the concept of prototypes. It derives some of its features from Smalltalk and some from the Self language. The Slate design is intended at providing the programmers with an operating system-like environment.



XOTcl

It is an object-oriented extension of the Tool Command Language that supports metaclasses and dynamic classes and methods.



IO

It is a pure object-oriented programming language having a prototype-based object model. It is small in size and can be executed on small portable virtual machines.

Procedural Programming

Procedural programming is synonymous with imperative programming, which implies specifying the steps that the programs should take to reach to an intended state. It is a programming paradigm that involves procedure calls. A procedure is a group of statements that can be referenced through a procedure call. Procedures help in reuse of code. Procedural programming makes the programs structured and easily traceable for program flow.

Apart from the very well-known languages like COBOL, BASIC, Fortran, Ada, C, C++, C#, Visual Basic and Java, there are many other languages that follow procedural programming. Take a look at them.



Bliss

It is a system programming language and was one of the best-known languages of this type till C came up. W.A. Wolf, D. B. Russell and A. N. Habermann of the Carnegie Mellon University developed Bliss. It includes exception handling mechanisms, coroutines and macros while it excludes the goto statement.



ChucK

It is a concurrent and strongly timed audio programming language that runs on Mac OS X, Linux as well as Microsoft Windows. It is especially known for the ability it gives to the programmers to do some modifications even in the running programs.



CLIST

It is a procedural programming language in the form of a set of commands that need to be executed in a sequence like that of a batch file.



HyperTalk

It is a high-level programming language that was intended to be used by programmers at the beginner's level. The programmers of this computer language were known as authors and the act of writing programs was called scripting. HyperTalk was designed by Dan Winker in 1987. Structurally, it resembles Pascal.



Modula-2

It is a general purpose procedural language created in 1978 by Niklaus Wirth at ETH. It is similar to Pascal and has systems programming and multiprogramming features.



Oberon

Niklaus Wirth, the man behind Pascal and Modula came up with Oberon in 1986. It was designed as a part of the Oberon operating system. It is similar to Modula-2 but smaller than it.



Component Pascal

It is a programming language that seems to be related to Pascal, but is actually incompatible with it. It is actually a variant of Oberon-2. Lagoona is an experimental programming language that supports component-oriented programming, a paradigm of decomposing a system into logical or functional components. Michael Franz, a student of Niklaus Wirth developed Lagoona. Seneca, better known as Oberon-2 is an extension of the Oberon programming language.



MATLAB

It is a numerical computing environment and a programming language that enables matrix computations, function plotting and algorithm implementation. It can also be used for user interface creation. MathWorks created MATLAB.



Occam

It is an imperative procedural language that was developed by David May and his colleagues at INMOS. It is similar to Pascal. Occam-pi is a variant of Occam that has been extended to include nested protocols, recursion, protocol inheritance, array constructors and run-time process creation.



PL/C

It was developed for being used to teach programming. It was created at the Cornell University in the 1970s.



PL/I

It is an imperative computer programming language targeted at scientific and engineering applications. Mainly intended to perform data processing, it also supports structured programming and recursion.



Rapira

It is a procedural programming language that was used in teaching computer programming in Soviet schools. Developed in the USSR, initially this language had Russian-based keywords. English keywords were incorporated later.



RPG

This programming language is used for business applications. It is available with the IBM's System I midrange computers.

Scripting Languages

Scripting languages are programming languages that control an application. Scripts can execute independent of any other application. They are mostly embedded in the application that they control and are used to automate frequently executed tasks like communicating with external programs.



AppleScript

It is a scripting language that is built into the Mac OS.



Awk

Awk was born in the Bell Labs in the 1970s. It is used for processing text-based data in data streams and files and uses the string datatype, arrays and regular expressions.



BeanShell

It is a java scripting language that is syntactically similar to Java and runs on the Java Runtime Environment along with scripting commands and syntax.



ColdFusion

It is an application server and software development framework that comes with an associated scripting language known as ColdFusion Markup Language. It is known as CFML and is similar to HTML in terms of its syntax.



ECMAScript

It is a scripting language from the Ecma International specification. It is widely used on the web. ActionScript that is used in the development of websites and database applications is based on ECMAScript. DMDScript scripting language is the Digital Mars ECMAScript engine. ECMAScript for XML extends ECMAScript by adding XML support to it. JavaScript is used for web development at the client's side. It is a weakly typed, prototype-based dynamic language. Jscript is another dialect of ECMAScript, which is Microsoft-based. Both these dialects are widely used in web development.



F-Script

It is an object-oriented scripting language that is closely similar to Smalltalk with an additional feature of array programming.



JASS

It is an event-driven scripting language that provides the programmers with an extensive API.



Maya Embedded Language

Abbreviated as MEL, it is a scripting language that is used to support tasks on the Maya software. Its syntax resembles that of Perl.



Mondrian

This scripting language is aimed for Internet use and is looked upon as being a combination of Haskell and Java.



PHP

PHP is one of the very popularly used general purpose scripting languages. It is developed for creating dynamic web pages and supports a command line interface capability.



Revolution

It is a rapid application development language that is based on HyperTalk. It is a cross-platform language that supports dynamic typing.



Tcl

It is a scripting language, which is believed to be easy to learn. It is used for rapid prototyping and has found utility in embedded systems.



VBScript

It is an active scripting language that Microsoft developed as a variation of Microsoft Visual Basic. VBScript is a default component with each of the Desktop releases of Microsoft Windows.



Windows PowerShell

It is Microsoft's command line shell and a scripting language. Released in 2006, it is available with Windows XP, Windows Vista as also with Windows Server 3003 and Windows Server 2008. It works in collaboration with Microsoft .NET Framework by means of executables, forms of standalone applications, regular .NET classes, cmdlets that are specialized .NET classes and scripts, the compositions of cmdlets and imperative logic.