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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…

To Outsource or Not to Outsource?

Photo Source / Desaturated from original That is the question almost every business asks at one point or another: Should we outsource some of our operations? If the answer is yes, the next question is likely to be which services to outsource. In a recent Elance survey of more than 800 US businesses, three out…

5 Ways Managed Cloud Hosting Saves You Money

The cloud computing industry is an overwhelming force in IT these days, with a $32 billion predicted market by 2016 in SaaS products alone. You may be holding off on any sort of cloud computing due to the resources involved in switching over to new products and infrastructure. Even if you wait to adopt…

Gartner:’scalability’ is one of the main reasons why businesses are moving to the cloud.

Businesses who are making plans to use a cloud hosting service in 2015 may have already discovered it is not an all-or-nothing processes. For the most part, a large percentage of businesses use what is referred to as the ‘hybrid’ approach: part on-premise, and part cloud. In fact, according to a recent Gartner report, the…

Disaster Recovery plans may use a Risk Assessment analysis; ‘incident response manager’ may be needed.

A lot of business owners have different ideas about what a disaster recovery plan is all about. To some, it’s backing up to a tape, external drive, or hosting service. Regardless, behind most any recovery strategy is the notion of getting the company back up and running in an efficient manner. Usually, this is successful…

Awesome.Net Cloud Hosting Has Officially Launched!

Did you hear? We launched Awesome.Net, our newest brand at DotNetNuke World in November. Awesome.Net is an elastic, shared cloud hosting offering that provides customers with dynamic load balancing so sites automatically scale across multiple webservers as needed. Built on top of Applied Innovations Hyper-V Cloud, the platform allows clients to scale from 1…

MerchantTribe – A New Open-Source Ecommerce Platform Integrating Social Analytics

For more than a decade, BV Software has been building and selling commercial .NET shopping cart software. Now, they’re releasing an open-source project – MerchantTribe – based on the award winning BV Commerce software. Applied Innovations met with Marcus McConnell, founder and president of BV Software, to talk about this exciting new launch. Applied…

5 Tactics for Converting Visitors to Customers

Congratulations. Your site traffic is up. You have worked hard to get this traffic using an array of paid search, social media, directory listings and online marketing programs. You’ve optimized your site for search engines by applying all the industry best practices and white hat optimization techniques. But you’re not seeing the pay off… what’s…

Comparing 5 Popular Shopping Carts

Wondering which eCommerce application is right for you? Take a look at this handy matrix comparing 5 of the most popular shopping carts. We have included ASPdotNETStoreFront (ASPDNSF), BVCommerce, nopCommerce, osCommerce, and Zen Cart. While this feature list is by no means comprehensive, it does provide a good sense of how these apps measure up. …