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5 Benefits of a WordPress Blog

Since its launch in 2003, WordPress has evolved into one of the most popular blogging platforms available, claiming over 25 million users. As an open source project, it’s not only free to use but it has a community of thousands of contributors all over the world creating themes, plug-ins and widgets, as well as offering…

8 Basic Steps to Starting an Ecommerce Business

Thinking about launching an ecommerce business but didn’t quite know where to start? We thought we’d break it down for you. Here are eight basic things you need to have in place before you can open your virtual doors for business. 1. Ecommerce-Capable Hosting Plan At Applied Innovations, you can host an ecommerce site on…

The Pursuit of GreatER Customer Service

In the highly competitive (and dare I say commoditized) web hosting industry if you speak to any hosting company and ask them what makes them different from their competitors I guarantee you’ll get the same response: Customer Service, it’s our people, it’s how we treat you, it’s that we’re you’re business partner, we’re there for…

Hosting Demystified

Even experienced developers can find themselves baffled by some of the intricacies of web hosting. At Applied Innovations, we make it our business to take care of all the little details so you can focus on what you do best. But we also believe that knowledge is power. And the more we can empower you,…

Mimic your production Web environment, locally for free

In January, Microsoft announced the WebMatrix tool at CodeMash in beautiful Sandusky, OH. Our own Cara Pluff left south Florida and headed up to Sandusky. Now, as you can imagine not many people leave south Florida in the middle of January for Sandusky but she did and was kind enough to send back photos of…

Announcing a Newer, Better Backup Solution with R1Soft

Applied Innovations has launched a new backup service offering through a partnership with R1Soft. R1Soft Continuous Data Protection 3.0 Enterprise Edition is a high-performance, disk-to-disk server backup software for Windows servers. CDP will be used as the default backup solution for all Shared web hosting accounts, and available as a premium add-on for VPS and…

7 Elements of an Aesthetically Pleasing Website

What makes a website pleasing to the eye? What usability factors improve visitor engagement and stickiness? Here are ten of the most critical elements to consider when you are designing a site, or assessing a current site for maximum impact. Color One of the most powerful subliminal visual tools is the deliberate use of color…

AppliedI Announces 2011 Giving Innovations Calendar

The community has spoken! We asked you who we should support in 2011, and we listened. Here’s the 2011 Giving Innovations Corporate Responsibility Program Calendar. January – Habitat for Humanity February – American Heart Association March – Make a Wish Foundation April – amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research May – Boys & Girls Clubs…

13 Free Online Analytic Tools

Here are some of the best FREE online analytic tools around. Are you taking full advantage of them? Many of these tools also offer a more robust paid service or subscription, but you’ll be amazed how much value you can get from the free offering alone. Also, you can consider the freeware to be a…

AppliedI’s outlook on 2011 and where we’re heading

With 2010 behind us and 2011 well on the way, I thought it would be good to share Applied Innovations plans for 2011. I know that the economy is recovering at a very very very slow rate and that the mantra businesses adopted 2 years ago of “do more, with less” continues to be the…