Web Tips & Tricks
5 Quick Tips to Improve Web Performance
What does it mean to have a well-performing site? A well-performing site can mean many things to many people, but generally it is the amount of time it takes for the website to load for a customer. How important is this? Very important. If you read our eGuide: 6 Steps to Increase Web Performance and…
Read MoreTop 10 Issues Plaguing your Website Performance
Did you know that your website performance can actually be losing revenue for your business? Your website may be plagued with issues that are impacting your customer’s experience and ultimately costing you money. If you have an ecommerce site, your website performance is critical, and downtime can be very costly for your bottom line. Shoppers…
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Keeping Your Data Secure with Windows Cloud Hosting
The proliferation of software into the business world has made companies more productive and efficient. Simple word processing and spreadsheets have magnified the productive output of office workers over their counterparts of thirty years ago. ERP software allows companies to coordinate their vital business activities in ways not possible in the past. Web sites today can…
Read MoreTop 5 Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Ecommerce Website
When you’re selling a product or service online, the most important thing you can do from a sales and marketing perspective is clear—drive more traffic to your site! The more traffic you attract, the more likely you are to make a sale. There are several steps you can take to draw more visitors to your…
Read MoreBest Hosting for High Traffic Websites on Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday – The marketing term coined for the Monday after Thanksgiving in the United States. The online world’s version of the brick-and-mortar’s Black Friday, the unofficial kick-off to the holiday shopping season and our busiest online day of the year. It’s an online retailers’ blessing, but without the best hosting for high traffic websites…
Read MoreCooking Up New Traffic: How Inbound Marketing Can Bring New Visitors
Inbound marketing is all about creating and sharing content with the world – digitally. Since 2006, inbound marketing has been the most effective marketing method for e-commerce businesses. When you create tailored content designed to appeal to your dream customers, you attract qualified leads for your business and keep them coming back for more. Learn…
Read MoreThe Pros and Cons of using Plug-ins and External Code Libraries
When you install a plug-in, theme, or module into your web application, you are in effect allowing additional, custom code to be placed in (or run from) your web site. In a perfect world, this additional code is safe and does what it says it does – but there is always a risk that the…
Read MoreBasic Tips for a Secure Cloud Hosting
Moving to the cloud. It seems like everyone’s doing it. So it must be safe and secure, right? With any type of server, security should be a priority and when moving to the cloud there are a few things to note to make sure you’re as secure as possible. Choosing Cloud Products Virtualization software. By…
Read MorePassword Security 101
We understand that most of our clients are business-oriented and not security-focused, and so many don’t realize the true implications of a password compromise. For example, a client recently asked us to reset a password for one of their user’s email accounts and provided us with a very weak password to use (in fact, the…
Read MoreIntegrating Facebook Open Graph with your Website and Why you want to do this
We’re getting ready to launch the beta of the new awesome.net windows cloud hosting platform. I was showing the new awesome.net site to Will Strohl (DotNetNuke guru and all around good guy) and he said “Jess, make sure you get facebook on there and you integrate it with the open graph api so you…
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