Website hosting – what you need to know

At some point in our lives we all hope our websites get popular enough to generate some traffic and get us some exposure. No matter if you have built a small family website, or a large corporate site you will hope to have a lot of people view your site.

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If you are new to website building you might be a bit confused about what type of hosting is best for you. You now have to worry about your sites security, running backups and keeping things running smooth.

For example if your site gets hacked or goes offline and you don’t know about it, or know how to fix it, all your hard work is wasted. Here are some tips anybody who works on websites for a living needs to know. (more…)

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Taking Joomla’s page suffix feature to new heights

This blog post is written in relation to this previous blog post: “Rational Magic and new menu system” The page suffix feature in Joomla! is one that is often under-utilized. The idea behind page suffix is to give you additional control over an individual page of your website. An example of this could be setting a custom background image on a specific page. The way the default Joomla page suffix is setup, this wouldn’t actually be possible, but the theory is there ;0)

Problems with default page suffix in Joomla

The problem with the way the default page suffix is setup in Joomla is that when you add a custom page suffix for a page, some of the elements on that page get messed up (i.e. the content heading and what not). The other problem is that, in order to really take advantage of this, the page suffix actually needs to be set on a much higher element on the page, i.e. as a class on the body element. (more…)

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Smooth the way for buyers

I am still amazed at the number of sites that make it difficult (some really, really difficult) for you to buy something from them.

Are your buyers falling at the first hurdle?

If so, the answer’s simple. Remove the hurdle! There are all sorts of barriers to buying, outside of price and availability. Here are a few that you can easily fix on your site:

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