Designing Professional Web Pages
If your Web site doesn't project a professional and polished image to your visitors, your credibility and that of your products and services will suffer. Image is everything, especially online where your competitor is only one mouse click away. 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 ...
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 ...
White Space in Web Design
Inexperienced designers focus too much on the text, images, and photos on a webpage design. Deliberately constructed white space, not to be confused with unconstructed or empty space, is often overlooked. More ...
What is a security certificate?
I bet one time or another you've surfed the web and suddenly found a pop-up window in front of you, demanding your approval for a security certificate. I occasionally see these on shopping sites, usually the smaller, less-well-funded companies. More ...
OpenCart is an Open Source Online Store Management System
You have several ecommerce options to choose from. Unlike other ecommerce platforms, OpenCart is open source and free. Hence, you can use this online store management system to build and run ecommerce websites without paying any monthly fees. More ...
How to Help Your Customers Speak
Strange as it may sound being a web designer does not only mean spending hours in front of the computer. Once you receive an order, you have to create a bond with your customer to be able to understand completely his vision of the web site. More ...
The Five Biggest Mistakes Almost All Web Designers Make
Huge Mistake Number 1: Creating a Website with Flash. In a recent study, top internet marketers discovered that a website created with Flash DECREASED the response from prospects and customers by as much as 370 percent. More ...
Test Your Webpage's Load Speed
Most mobile web users will wait only 6-10 seconds before they abandon a webpage. Fortunately there are several free websites that will not only measure the load time of your webpage, but also analyze it and recommend improvements. 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 ...
Amazon Web Service's Software Infrastructure Strategy
Amazon Web Services offers a set of cloud-based products that include compute, storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile, developer tools, management tools, IoT, security and enterprise applications. More ...
Your Own Name Servers
Registrars require at least two name servers. My site only had one. I could have defined two by asking my dedicated hosting company for another IP address, but this had a problem. The reason for requiring two name servers is redundancy. More ...
