August 2015 - Page 8 of 8 - Best Managed Cloud, IT and Cyber-security in Florida

Why More Than Half Of All U.S. Small Businesses Don’t Have A Website

While the statistics vary, most indicate that better than fifty percent of all small businesses in the United States don’t have their own website. This means a website with its own domain name and web hosting. This excludes Facebook pages, business directories, or any other presence on a site they don’t own. In this day…

Why Using WordPress for E-Commerce is a Good Idea

If you are thinking about starting an E-Commerce business, one of the first things you need to take into consideration is how you are going to get your website live and visible to potential customers. While it is possible to use separate software that helps you create an E-Commerce website, you can also use a…

Bandwidth Theft Victim? Your Web Hosting Provider Can Help

Are you getting unusual bandwidth usage on your website that seems all out of proportion to your traffic levels? If so, you may be a victim of bandwidth theft. In general terms, bandwidth theft occurs when files on your site are being accessed remotely from another website. This is commonly referred to as hotlinking. If…

How To Safely Update The WordPress Content Management System

The WordPress content management system has a dynamic open source community that makes constant improvements to WordPress. For the website owner, this activity means regular WordPress updates. However, if any amount of downtime will cost your business money, you should exercise care when updating. If the theme or plugins you use are not compatible with the WordPress…

How To Create An Effective About Us Page For Your Ecommerce Website

When you walk into a small store where the owner can be seen working alongside his employees, you get a sense of what the store is about as you watch them working together and interacting with their customers. However, this personal element is lacking on ecommerce store websites and anything you can do to create a close…

WordPress Content Management System: Why You Should Use Child Themes

Do you find yourself making frequent changes to the code of your WordPress theme? Perhaps changes were made to reverse the order of your blog post comments or to change the size and color of your main navigation bar. While making incremental code changes like this is a good way to start learning about theme…

Ecommerce And Cloud Computing: A Match Made In Heaven

Plenty has been said about the cloud, and using the software as a service. There has been many things mentioned about the benefits and disadvantages. What about Ecommerce? Can the cloud be applied to electronic commerce? The concept of the cloud is not difficult to grasp. Why would you go through the trouble of storing…

CryptoPHP Backdoor Threatens Popular Content Management Systems

Besides being illegal, using pirated software is risky business because they can be infected with backdoors, Trojan horses, spyware, and keystroke-capturing software. Those who use pirated themes and plugins for the WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal content management systems are at risk of infection with CryptoPHP. At present, over 23,000 web servers are infected with this…

Using Theme Frameworks With A Content Management System: Good Idea?

These days it seems that website creation amounts to little more than picking the right content management system (CMS) and theme to suit your needs. Given that many of the best content management systems are free, even price is no longer a consideration. If a quality CMS such as Drupal or WordPress suits your needs, there’s little…

Five Usability Tips For Your Ecommerce Site

When building an ecommerce site, getting too absorbed in your own requirements is very easy. However, one must always keep the requirements of the end-user in mind. What are these? That your ecommerce site be easy and enjoyable to use. As with offline stores, a good shopping experience guaranties repeat customers. Use the following tips to improve…