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Websites are key in the contemporary world. Not only do they have the ability to inform, but works of web-design wizardry have proved that they can provide strong, memorable experiences to their users. This makes a good...
January 7, 2022
Customer Management is a critical element of any business. Therefore, proper customer management for the enhanced customer experience is an aspect of business every entrepreneur does not want to leave behind.
October 7, 2021
A study by the Boston Consulting Group found that the internet contributes to about 2% of greenhouse gas emissions per year. And, as more people across the world gain internet access, this figure is set to rise. As of...
August 11, 2021
You run a small business. You want to have a website. You search on the internet how to build one.
‘You must learn how to code,’ states every article. However, you know nothing of coding. Thus, you pay a web...
June 14, 2021
When it comes to having an idea of a website's overall structure and navigation flow, a wireframe leads the front.
April 24, 2021
With what seems to be the bulk of mankind forced to work at home and operate through cloud-based solutions, the Covid-19 outbreak smashed traditional perspectives regarding how people work. The cloud saved hundreds of...
March 5, 2021
Before you make a stunning website that will wow your visitors, you have to choose the right VPS hosting service for it.
November 13, 2020
In a world where cyberattacks and malware threats can unexpectedly cause your site to crash, or worse, put your customers’ private information at risk, a secure system can be the make or break of your business. It is...
October 30, 2020
It's crucial to create a good first impression for visitors coming to your website. If your website has been around for a while and you haven't changed a thing, there's a good chance it's outdated.
Now is the right...
October 21, 2020
Virtual private network services, or VPNs, allow the user to create a new path for their online activities to connect to the Internet. Instead of directly connecting to the web, the VPN directs the traffic through one...
January 24, 2020
As a website owner, some of the mistakes that you make are negligible, while there are those than can wreck your business inside out.
From these very mistakes, you could lose thousands of sales, destroy your brand...
November 15, 2019
Any business that is hoping to upscale their presence in the World Wide Web should adhere to the rules of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). With Google owning about 92 percent of the search market, ranking high on SERPs...
October 29, 2019
The number of people interested in developing a website grows by the minute. Whether it is a simple blog outlining a person’s day-to-day activity, or an enterprise-level website with all the bells and whistles, there...
May 22, 2019
Mobile apps have become ubiquitous. It doesn't matter whether their phone is driven by Android or iOS, mobile phone owners are increasingly passionate about apps. Of course, Facebook, Google and similar huge...
January 4, 2019
Over the last couple of months, you may have noticed an increased number of news articles related to ‘GDPR’. It seems everywhere you look there is someone telling you that GDPR is upon us and that you need to “act...
May 7, 2018
The cloud has certainly been a disruptive technology and it has radically changed how companies of all sizes do business. The bulk of businesses have moved to the cloud in some way, and for those that have not the...
May 7, 2018
You had a great idea for an ecommerce website and unlike most people, you didn't just leave it there - you got your act together and actually created the site you had in mind! Of course, that's a major achievement, but...
May 7, 2018
These days, you simply can't be too careful when it comes to the security of your data. Unfortunately, attacks happen every day, and websites of all scopes and sizes are being targeted. If you have a dedicated...
January 24, 2018
Email hosting has been around for a long time. Not many may be aware of it, though, since most email users rely on free email services like Gmail, AOL Mail, and Yahoo! Mail. Businesses and professionals, however, may...
December 28, 2017
Many companies have diversified their product and service offerings that they have outgrown their business classification. Web hosting companies, for example, are no longer just web hosting service providers nowadays....
October 18, 2017
In July 2013 we wrote an article about what we thought were the five best free alternatives to Microsoft Outlook at that time.
We had no idea that the article would prove so successful, and we thought it might be a...
September 15, 2017
The web hosting industry has gone through many changes and along the way encountered a number of innovations that have caused considerable disruption. None of these have caused as much disruption as the 'cloud' and its...
August 17, 2017
If you keep up to date with the web hosting industry news you might have come across ‘Bitcoin’. It seems that hardly a day goes by without another web host announcing that they have adopted Bitcoin as a payment...
June 14, 2017
At the beginning of this year we took a look at some of the free forum software which allows developers to add forums to websites. To balance the equation we thought we might have a look at some of the premium (paid)...
May 19, 2017
When we first published this article back in August 2013, we had no idea how popular it would prove to be. Many thousands of people have read it since then and looked at the solutions we suggested might be viable...
April 18, 2017
Remember the days when every website had a forum? Those were the days, weren't they? Unfortunately, with social media on the scene, these days many website developers just don't bother adding a forum anymore, instead...
January 16, 2017
Remember the days when the only domain names available ended in .com, .net or .org? Things were easy back then. You either got the exact name you were looking (like 'web.com') - or you got the next best. Back in those...
December 20, 2016
Over the last decade there has been a revolution in access to the internet. Whereas once building websites was the sole domain of developers and coders, these days you don't need any programming skills to setup even the...
November 9, 2016
Let’s face it - everyone and their brother has a blog or website these days. While many people manage blogs and sites for the love of it, still more are hoping to get rich from their efforts. You might have the...
November 3, 2016
Whether you run a web hosting business or any other type of business, the chances are that you are pretty much running everything through a mobile phone. Arranging meetings, doing deals, contacting customers -...
June 17, 2016