CakePHP is an open source web application framework. The Most Popular rapid development framework for PHP. CakePHP uses well known software engineering concepts and software design patterns, as Convention over configuration, Model-View-Controller, ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping and Front Controller.

Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework. It comes with rich features like MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, L18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.

WordPress is a web software popularly used to create beautiful websites or blogs. It is a free and open source blogging tool and content management system based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system.

HTML5 adds many new syntactic features. These include the new <video>, <audio> and <canvas> elements, as well as the integration of scalable vector graphics (SVG) content (that replaces the uses of generic <object> tags) and MathML for mathematical formulas. These features are designed to make it easy to include and handle multimedia and graphical content on the web without having to resort to proprietary plugins and APIs.

CSS ( Cascading Style Sheets ) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including plain XML, SVG and XUL. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content written in HTML or a similar markup language from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.

AJAX, short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, allows websites to retrieve data from the server asynchronously behind the scenes, without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. It is a technique for creating fast and dynamic web pages.

jQuery is a multi-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML and the most popular JavaScript library in use today. Currently there are thousands of jQuery plug-ins available on the web that cover a wide range of functionality such as AJAX helpers, webservices, data grids, dynamic lists, XML and XSLT tools, drag and drop, events, cookie handling,modal windows, even a jQuery-based Commodore 64 emulator.

These are two of the most widely used content management systems (CMS) in web development. Both of these are open-source softwares, each developed and maintained by a community of thousands.

Drupal is a powerful, developer-friendly tool for building complex sites and Joomla offers middle ground between the developer-oriented, extensive capabilities of Drupal and user-friendliness. Afixi have designed many content management systems using this software.

Magento is an open source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was built using the Zend Framework.The Magento ecommerce system has been widely adopted by online retailers, ranging from smaller ecommerce websites to large multinational businesses.

X-Cart is a PHP shopping cart software used by thousands of online merchants worldwide. It provides a wide range of e-commerce features, easy text content modification using WYSIWYG tools, W3C XHTML 1.0 compliance, SEO friendly product catalog, online payment gateways support, full multi-language support, report management and many more.

With the increasing popularity of smart phones (Androids & iPhones), the demand for greater and enhanced features have gained more importance. With this increased demand, the demand for developers in this segment have increased significantly.