Tips and Tricks to Optimize a Website's Speed
An online shopper expects a website to load in four seconds. Websites are becoming complex and bigger with each passing day. This is leading to slower loading of websites and ultimately, decreased sales conversions. More ...
Preplanning Your Website, The Secret To Success
I've known several people who put together a website, and within a month or two had to do major redesigns and rewriting of the copy. They wound up spending twice as much time as was necessary just because they didn't preplan. More ...
The Ten Parts of a Business Website
Business owners experience headaches dealing with designers, while the latter too often end up wanting to rip their hair out because of add-ons, or things they learn about their clients after they've started the projects. Why? More ...
Alternative Online Payment Systems
For most businesses venturing into ecommerce, e-payment means accepting credit cards. This involves setting up a complex system including a SECURE order page, shopping cart software, a merchant account, and a credit card processing service. More ...
Your Internet Business and the Law
A growing number of internet businesses end with serious business and legal difficulties. To protect yourself and your investment, it is strongly recommended that you follow a few basic practices and include legal notices in the content of your website. More ...
Copyright Law - Fair Use
A important consideration about fair use is the copyright owner does not need to be and should not be asked for permission. Why? By asking permission you are, in a small way, weakening the law. More ...
Big Data Cloud Providers
Cloud providers come in all shapes and sizes and offer many different products for big data. Some of the cloud providers that can be used for big data include Amazon, ATT, GoGrid, Joyent, Rackspace, IBM, and Verizon. More ...
What is Metadata?
Definition, description, and examples of metadata. More ...
Integrating Big Data Into Your Enterprise Analytics Systems
Big Data storage and Big Data analytics, while naturally related, are not identical. Technologies associated with Big Data analytics tackle the problem of drawing meaningful information with three key characteristics. More ...
Maximizing ROI via Web Site Traffic Analysis
We are clearly well past the innocent "golden age" of the Internet. Darwinian economics have become the order of the day today. Any company worth their salt must maintain a web site as an information resource and/or to generate incremental ecommerce revenue. More ...
Bandwidth Stealing
Bandwidth is limited. Why? Because it actually is a bunch of wires or fibers connecting servers to the global network. And wires can only carry so much data. When someone attempts to get more data than can be handled by the wire, the transmission of the data is slowed down. More ...
Web Design Terms Defined
Web design terms can be confusing for those venturing into the field for the first time. Here is a list of definitions for the most common web design terms. More ...
