Archive for 2012
All About User Experience – Part 1: Evaluation
Wikipedia defines the User Experience or UX as follows: “The way a person feels about using a product, system or service. User experience highlights the experiential, affective, meaningful and valuable aspects of human-computer interaction and product ownership, but it also includes a person’s perceptions of the practical aspects such as utility, ease of use and…
Read MoreGoing Mobile: Considerations for Reaching an Audience on the Move
It’s no secret that we’re a society on the move. Mobile devices, from smart phones to tablets to mobile computers, have dramatically changed the way we consume information, share experiences and make purchases over the past 5 years alone. Some interesting facts, figures and projections: Of the world’s 4 billion mobile phones in use, over…
Read MoreHow our IPS Protects our Customers
When we hire a new cloud hosting support engineer the first thing I like to let them know is that their job is exciting as they’ll be involved in cutting edge technologies. It’s a challenging job as every day they’ll be faced with a new issue they probably haven’t handled before and also a rewarding…
Read MoreThe Easy DNN Site Migrator–DotNetNuke Hosting Migrations Made Easy!
Let’s face it, switching hosting providers sucks! There’s no better way to explain it, it’s a royal pain and when you add an advanced web application like DotNetNuke into the mix it goes from hard to nearly impossible …. until now! In the past when switching DNN hosting providers it would go something like this:…
Read More7 Marketing Tactics for the Small Business Owner
Even if you don’t have a marketing degree, much less a Marketing Department, here are 7 simple things you can do to be a more strategic and effective marketer. Every small business owner struggles with the challenges of balancing their business-critical expertise and knowledge base with the need to market and sell their services and…
Read MorePut the Internet to Work for You with ifttt: “If this, then that”
Have you heard of ifttt? It’s a pretty clever—and FREE—service that puts the Internet to work for you by allowing you to assign simple, useful tasks based on a simple premise: If this, then that. Pronounced like “sift” without the “s”, ifttt provides a menu of “recipes” for tasks to do all kinds of smart…
Read MoreEnter to Win a Trip to DNN World 2012
Recently, we went to “Day of DotNetNuke” in beautiful Charlotte NC where we announced our new Easy DNN Site Migrator and launched our contest to win a trip to DotNetNukeWorld 2012. This is a great event for anyone interested in learning about DotNetNuke, the world’s largest .NET based open source framework. This event attracts many…
Read MoreMeet Wayne Lansdowne, Chief Systems Architect for Applied Innovations
Fearless Editor was delighted to have a chance to interview Wayne Lansdowne, Chief Systems Architect and 10 year veteran at Applied Innovations and West Palm Beach Florida native. A Renaissance man: technologist, photographer, and connoisseur of coffee and Coca-Cola black Fearless Editor: So what was it like, way back BA? (Before Appliedi!) Wayne Lansdowne: In…
Read MoreThe Pros and Cons of using Plug-ins and External Code Libraries
When you install a plug-in, theme, or module into your web application, you are in effect allowing additional, custom code to be placed in (or run from) your web site. In a perfect world, this additional code is safe and does what it says it does – but there is always a risk that the…
Read MoreMicrosoft Windows Cloud Servers and Microsoft WebMatrix
Combine Wordpress, WebMatrix and Microsoft Windows Cloud Servers to make web development easier, faster and more efficient and spend more time building web applications and less time managing web servers!
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