Website development has changed a lot, even in the last 5 years, and there are two major ways you can save money on your website. The first is re-using existing tools to get some great results; the second is keeping your site safe. Let me expand on these in the following article. The first – […]
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Saving big money by using modular WordPress development concepts
Website development has changed a lot, even in the last 5 years, and there are two major ways you can save money on your website. The first is re-using existing tools to get some great results; the second is keeping your site safe. Let me expand on these in the following article. The first – […]
3 key web trends you need to know about right now
There are three major changes that it’s critical for people with websites to know how to deal with, and this article covers those changes – SSL conversion, site loading time, and the prevalence of hacking. This article is aimed at providing a management-level overview of these three issues so you can address them before they […]
Why there’s no substitute for Magento Full Page Caching
It’s worth knowing that probably the single key performance improvement that can be done to a Magento site is to install a good caching mechanism so that website pages do not have to be recomputed regularly. These caches are often called Full Page Caches, or FPCs in abbreviated form, in Magento lingo, and are also […]
Free https access now available! Secure your site now!
Over the last few years, there has been an evolution in the concept of SSL, with a number of initiatives aimed at making websites everywhere more secure against having their traffic “snooped” by third party organizations whose ethics you might have concerns about in the long term. Or understandably, you might just find the concept […]
Website encryption and the dawn of a new era
Some interesting developments have been emerging in the SSL space, so we wanted to spend a moment to introduce these. They pose some new options for business sites, but also some new potential requirements. This is particularly relevant to you if you’re a business-focused website owner as they can affect your Google ranking as well as […]
Making your Magento eCommerce site perform fast
Speed is a particular problem with Magento sites, caused by the heavy “object-oriented” internals of Magento, and Magento site owners often struggle with performance particularly as a site grows and becomes more popular.
The points in this article, of course, apply equally to sites of any type; but more so to Magento where load times on shared servers can easily balloon out to 20-30 seconds for a home page.
ClickFrenzy or ClickFail? How to keep a large traffic site online under killer loads
Many of you would have heard of the recent ClickFrenzy event, dubbed a 1-day Australia-wide internet marketing sale.
Many of you would also have heard of the widely reported fact that the website went down within minutes of the start of the sale.
It also remained down for nearly all of the Tuesday evening.
eCommerce payment – taking money on the web
One of the most important functions of an eCommerce site is accepting payments on the web. Surprisingly, very little is written about this and it seems very hard for beginners to find basic information needed to outline the possibilities, and to clarify the benefits and costs of the various approaches.
10 tips for keeping your enterprise eCommerce website secure
It's every eCommerce website's owner's nightmare – getting hacked! Some of the real-life examples of what can happen when your site is hacked: credit card numbers stolen – your customer's card details can be stolen and sold to criminals. transactions intercepted – silent interception of your customer's details transactions completely stolen – you never see […]