Marketing tips for your website
You’ve launched your web design – what next? The final web design has been signed off, the launch button pressed and your website is now live but now what? Time to get marketing like a pro. Web Design Marketing You need to start driving user traffic to your website and drawing attention to it. There’s […]
Preparing for an eCommerce Website
You’ve decided to move ahead with an eCommerce website so you need to start preparing the content. Nobody knows your products better than you so with a little bit of help you should have no problems. Overall Site Structure The first thing to start thinking about is the overall site structure. An eCommerce website is […]
What is a website cache?
Website data (or ‘source data’) is often stored and split across multiple sources and database tables. If a website page loads without a cache, many sources might need to be gathered and collated. This can be time consuming and costly for server resource. A website cache is a way of resolving this issue and compiling […]
Hosting a Website
Hosting is a loose term used to describe the storing, processing and serving of your website content. It is a critical part of running your website. Hosting is typically measured in the following ways: Processors and Cores (Numerical) Drive Storage (Gigabits) Memory or RAM (Gigabits) Drive Storage The server, used within your hosting, operates in […]
Creating a Web Design Brief
You’ve determined that you need a new website design, or to develop your current site, but you don’t know where to start? We’ve put together a helpful brief and specification guide to assist you for success. This will help you communicate your objectives to the web design company you’re working with and ease the full […]
eCommerce Website Software
Selecting the right e-commerce software is an important decision and one you should not take lightly. You’re likely to be working with the same shopping cart software for years to come and factors like ease of use, maintenance and support should all be considered. We typically use Woocommerce and Magento to design and develop on. […]
Google Analytics For Your Website
You’ve signed off on your web design project, you’ve launched and now what? Understanding how users come to your website and how they interact with it are important factors to the success of it. It’s critical you know what sources are driving the traffic and which are not. Google Analytics is a free and extensive […]
Understaning PCI Compliance
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) What is it and do I need it? When you make a purchase through an eCommerce website and input your card details, your details should be protected and the funds should reach the intended recipient. By following certain protocols, the operator of the eCommerce website is responsible for […]
eCommerce and Convenience
Convenience… The big box supermarkets brought it to us with car parks for our bags, a one-stop shop with all we needed and they stacked products high and sold them to us cheap! eCommerce is the next step in evolution. The growth in smartphones has brought with it great opportunities for smaller sellers. An opportunity […]