Lots of people consider turning their hobbies into a business, either to bring in additional income or as a way to change their career. For many, the key to making this happen is the creation of a website that will bring their products and services to a wider audience and from where they can sell …
Blogs are a well-established feature of the online landscape enabling people and businesses to publish posts on a wide range of topics and to reach out to a broad spectrum of readers. The go-to platform for blogging is WordPress and, in this post, we’ll provide tips and advice on how to create a truly successful …
To be successful online, it’s no longer good enough just to have a web presence. Competition between companies means that the bar has been raised when it comes to website design. Today’s leading sites do more than simply look good, they are functional, optimised and interactive places that engage readers from the get-go. If you …
If you still run a non-responsive website, your online venture has a serious disadvantage. 60% of the UK’s surfing is conducted on mobile devices, mainly smartphones, where non-responsive websites are notoriously difficult to read. Mobile visitors often abandon these sites as soon as they land, which means you could be losing up to 60% of …
Joomla is a great platform for building websites. It’s free to use, well-established and can create professional sites that are highly functional. However, just like those built on other platforms, Joomla sites can be sluggish and have slow loading times. If this is happening to your site, you need to get the issue fixed before …
Magento is a popular CMS platform with a reputation for powering highly successful eCommerce websites. One of its biggest advantages is the quality of the extensions that are available to extend the functionality of your online stores. In this post, we’ll take a look at eight different extensions which, together, form a suite of exceptional …
WordPress Version 4.7.2 was released primarily to correct three security flaws, including an SQL injection and XSS (cross-site scripting) flaw. Administrators who have yet to update WordPress to the new version put their website at a high risk of piracy. This high-risk is caused by a vulnerability to the REST API in WordPress 4.7. The …
Until the launch of WordPress 4.4, plugins were an essential requirement if you wanted to embed videos from sites like YouTube and Vimeo to your website. Today, you don’t need a plugin to fulfil this basic function, you can simply copy and paste the video’s embed code directly into your text editor. However, using that …
WordPress is without a doubt one of the most popular open source web applications on the Internet. It’s used by websites big and small from countries all over the world. Current stats suggest that 75 million websites are using WordPress; it’s a case of if you’re not using it, then why aren’t you? I appreciate …
Have you created an online platform for your business? If not, then I insist that you create it without further delay. According to retail research, sales in the UK, Germany, France, Sweden, The Netherlands, Italy, Poland and Spain are expected to grow from £132.05 bn [€156.28 bn] in 2014 to £156.67 bn [(€185.39 bn] in …
