Site Management

Hey I took a day looking for Godaddy coupons to renew one of my sites and I was disappointed after trying about 12 of them that did not work. I finally found a list of coupons and I know the .com renewal one works from this list. Its $7.99 not as good as a new […]

Whether you are deploying a store for yourself or your design customers what you need in a Shopping Cart system is the ability to quickly manage products, inventory and allow for a variety of different payments and calculate shipping and handling costs based on one or more carriers. The osCommerce Online Merchant store continues to […]

Whether you are setting up a store for one of your customers or designing a payment method for your own customers one of the easiest ways to accept credit card payments online is PayPal. PayPal offers two basic ways to let your customers pay for products and services. The first which we will cover here […]

I  just saw an image tweeted by Tim Storm of FatWallet.com showing their new server rack and thought it would a good time to think about the requirements of hosting a high traffic website verses a shared account that most people or businesses start off with. The fact is your site may never need a […]

As a designer you may depend on your Web Host to setup and manage the servers and software that runs the backend of your website but there are ways you can replicate much of what you need on your home or work computer to allow you to prototype changes locally and keep your main site […]

Most website developers or even end users that don’t dive deep into code are at serious risk when it comes to depending on third party tools to distribute content. The risk comes when a main tool that you depend on is no longer supported by the developer or when upgrades are delayed making the current […]

When evaluating your websites visitor traffic you are likely to find that a large portion of your hits are generated by webbots.  Many of the bots are nice ones and they are indexing your website for inclusion in a variety of online search sites. Unfortunately there are times when you may need to reduce the […]

In the past three to 5 years we have seen an explosion in the use of social networks to promote web content but how much time is lost by fostering a social network child instead of building your own site into a valuable resource. This seems to be a very hot topic on Twitter among […]

Microsoft just announced a new program for Technology Business Startups called BizSpark. The BizSpark package is more of a backend package including Windows Server all versions, SQL Server, Visual Studio Enterprise and a number of other tools that businesses would spend thousands of dollars putting together on their own. Although the package does not from […]

The process of moving from the free WordPress.com website to your own self hosted or paid hosted site is a pretty easy process. Depending on your Website host you may be provided with everything you need in one place but if not we have you covered there too. Domain Name The first thing you need […]