This is a common question I get from a lot of clients. Oddly enough, the question is never “Will my site be down?” but instead “How long will it be down?” It’s as if it is generally expected that a site has to be down to move it from one place to another.
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Passwords are everywhere. We have more passwords in our lives than friends (at least good friends). And it’s inevitable if you are in business to need to share a password with someone. Maybe it’s your business partner that needs access to something. A technical person that is going to help you set something up. And the hacker [...]
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Just about two months ago, 4,800 Aussie sites disappeared. Yeah I said it, disappeared. Government conspiracy? Aliens? Terrorist attack? No, just a good example of lack of backups. In this case a hacker decided to attack an Australia domain registrar and web host. The hacker brought down 4 of their servers. Brought them down to the [...]
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The above usability critique covers SaxStation.com. A friend of mine runs the site, Neal Battaglia. He has been looking for ways to improve the site and decided to add a “Start Here” section. I’ll go over some ideas for making a start here section as well as a few additional areas of improvement that I [...]
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W3C is in it’s basic form an organization that sets the “standards” of the online web language. It’s basically the rules in how to format your code. But is being 100% compliant important for your SEO? Will you end up at the bottom of the SERP’s for not being compliant, and number one for been 100% compliant?
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In this video I’ll explain a little bit about setting up bulk and wholesale pricing in X-Cart under the Wholesale pricing section. X-Cart handles both types under the same section. If you want to provide special pricing for a certain membership level you would do it in the wholesale pricing area. If you want to [...]
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If you believe in your business, it might be wise to consider offering visitors with the ability to print pages of your website. But how do you do this? Do you need to create those little printer icons on your pages so that people can go to a special version and print? Is there an easier way?
Read & Discuss »I am a big fan of A/B Split testing. You never can tell when somewhat minor changes and tweaks can really make a difference. When the overall design is destined to stay the same, but you want to squeeze every ounce you can out of your traffic, this is where A/B Split testing can help.
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Sometimes working with Wordpress it is just easier to do things from the MySQL Database than to do something inside Wordpress. In fact depending on what you need to do it might be the only way. Here are a few of my queries that I keep on hand just in case.
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I visited a website today. I wanted more information I tried to fill out their contact form. It had one of those lovely CAPTCHA fields on it. You know the ones, they take text in the form of an image and scramble it to the point where a computer can’t read it and automatically fill out the form. Are there better options?
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