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eCommerce Systems Explained
These days, an online shop is a must for any business involved in selling goods and services to customers.
White Label Website Services
This article explains what white label website services are and how, as a professional who deals directly with business clients, you can benefit from these services. The Problem Let’s assume that you are a business consultant. You troubleshoot businesses that have...
Website Design – Facts and Fiction
You've decided that you need a website for your business, or you've already got one that's looking decidedly long in the tooth. You approach a web designer who tells you his company will design the coolest-looking site you could get. It will cost, or course, but it...
The best way to build a WordPress website
These days, most website developers use WordPress as a platform upon which to build their sites. The main reason for this is that WordPress is free to download and use. Also a wealth of add-on software exists in the form of plugins that can extend the capabilities of...
Is your website protected?
In recent years, WordPress has gradually become the ubiquitous website development platform for small to medium businesses. But along with its rise in popularity has grow an increasing population of hackers intent on breaking into it. A WordPress-based website...
How to start selling online
You've got an established website that seems to be bringing in a reasonable amount of leads for you and now you would like to start selling some of your products online. How can you go about it? Here are a couple of principles to adhere to in this situation: Try not...
How much should you be paying for a website?
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question for websites. It all depends on what you want and what you want the website to achieve for you. But those consideration are topics for another blog post. Here I will simply give you some guidelines. For...
Two things to consider before commissioning a website
If you are thinking of commissioning a web designer to build you a website here is some critical advice that may save you a lot of money. Before you even start to think about the design aspects of the site, such as how you want the website to look, what colours you...
Does your website design win awards? Or does it win business?
It’s tempting to thing that both these two statements can be true and that could be so. But in many cases so-called award winning designed websites are ineffective at winning business. Why? Most of these awards are judged by designers and, as such, these people tend...
Website Maintenance & Security
In this article explains I explain why maintenance and security are critical for your website. It explains our approach to addressing this problem and the reasons why you need to have a website protection plan for your website. Website hacks are happening right and...