Posts by Jeff Collins

Most ecommerce websites are image heavy in that they have multiple products with one or several images per product. There is no getting around the fact that product images improve conversions. Customers want to see what they are getting and a good image is the closest they can get to the offline experience of picking an item…

When making a decision about what web host to use, there are a number of things that will need to be taken into consideration and carefully thought about. Will you need to use a shared hosting plan, a dedicated server, or a different type of hosting plan? Maybe you are considering getting your business started…

Fast page loading speeds means happier visitors who will be more inclined to read your content, make return visits, and buy from your website. A fast web page also improves its ranking in the search engines. Shorter page loading times can be achieved by not asking your web server to work so hard when a visitor views a…

Starting an online business, as opposed to a brick-and-mortar business, is an excellent way to start your own company without a large capital investment, allowing you to take risks without worry. Choosing a web hosting provider is one of the first steps to getting a live website, and making this decision is important because it…

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…

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…

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…

  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…

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…