This article aims to do what it says in the tin! 1. Email Marketing Pull out all of your email contacts from your back-office and create an email shot to attract past customers back to your website. The lead up to Christmas can be a very busy time and human minds usually need refreshing. 2. …
The future of the internet and web standards has arrived. HTML 5! But what does that mean to you and I? What should we be doing differently now? Should I even bother with it? HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, AJAX…….. The internet world abounds with acronyms each one making less sense than it’s predecessor. If …
Ideas! Ideas! Ideas! An experience we all share is coming up with ideas for gifts.What will I get them? What will they like? What do other people say? Once we finally have the idea, great! Sometimes we are happy with the idea sometimes we get that feeling that we are taking a risk! We then …
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Internet Explorer – IE. From its controversial naming and early development days since its first release Microsoft’s flagship web browser has been ever present for the vast majority of computer users whenever the internet is mentioned. In fact, many, many people assume that the blue “e” is in fact “the internet”. The symbol synonymous with …
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Next year, design will be the difference between winning and losing customers. The internet will no longer be calm waters. Storm clouds are gathering. Where it used to be easy to cast your net and get a decent return, next year will involve trawling deeper to land a good catch. Make no mistake, the fight …
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What is a malicous code attack? Does the image to the right look unfortunately familiar? If so then you (your website) have most likely been the victim of a malicious attack on your website. Malicious attacks on your website usually happen when someone or something has compromised the HTML and files on your website and …
Google have just launched “Google Instant”, a new predictive method of finding search results. Currently this is only available on the google.com domain or on other domains e.g. google.co.uk whilst logged into your Google account. Usually when Google make a change people tend to hold onto the desk fearing another “Florida update” (the now almost …
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SagePay has recently rolled out an upgrade to its payment service provider protocol; version 2.23. This has raised some particular nuances of setup for Ecommerce customers, however in this post I’d like to cover the main changes required to ensure the Actinic Ecommerce program, which with version 10 now supports the 2.23 protocol. NOTE: Users …
What is a custom 404 page and why do you need one? When you go to a website and see a page saying that the link requested was not found, the message will say something like “404 error, the page was not found.” This may happen because you have misspelled the URL, the page you …
SSL Certificates are an effective way to make your customers aware that your site has the stamp of approval from a leading global Certificate Authority, thereby gaining a competitive advantage by appearing more trusted and more legitimate than sites without one. Displaying the SSL seal on your website can increase visitor-to-sales conversions, lower shopping cart …
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