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Providing a shopping cart system for your web site – An Overview

A basic function of a commercial website is the marketing and selling of products. Products can be tangible, physical products or items such as file downloads. Providing these services to your customers is an undertaking that takes careful planning and preparation to avoid headaches for your business and your customers down the road. The most daunting challenge of providing a shopping system for your site is to decide how to implement it. There are a multitude of options to choose from, including:

6 Things You Should Do Now to Defend Yourself from CryptoWall

The CryptoWall Virus has been making its way through hundreds of thousands of computers and earning cybercrooks literally millions of dollars. This new breed of virus, called ransomware, takes all of your computer files hostage by encrypting them with military level encryption. Unencrypting the files manually would be impossible. To get the key to unencrypt and recover your files, you are asked to pay a "ransom" in BitCoin, an untraceable form of digital currency.

New Deadly Computer Virus: CryptoWall

If you’re in IT, you know that your family and friends will often rely on you to help out with some of their computer problems. This weekend I spent quite a few hours helping a distraught family friend who’s computer was suddenly telling them that they no longer have access to their files and that they have to pay someone $500 to get the access back!

Have You Updated Your Drupal Site Lately? Time To Show It Some Love.

Like many other thing in life, websites are not maintenance free. There is some tinkering that has to happen on a regular basis to keep the site tuned and secure. Drupal takes the guess work out of the maintenance process by literally telling you when and what needs serviced.

CAUTION! Don't Upgrade That Drupal or WordPress Site Quite Yet!

One of the strong upsides to using Drupal or WordPress for your website, is the fact that an open source community is constantly tinkering away, making the platform better and more secure. Keeping up with core updates and module or plug-in updates is important. Updates for both of these platforms come out fairly frequently and with a little knowledge can be completed fairly easily...assuming nothing goes wrong. If you're in the tech industry and work with websites or code, you know the cardinal rule is to backup your site before you begin.

What is Responsive Layout, why do I need it and why does it cost so much?

It’s no secret that our world is going mobile, and not just mobile, but also tablet crazy! Full sized tablets, mini tablets, big phones, small phones, laptops and desktops. There are so many screens out there now, that a website might be viewed on, that it’s no longer a ‘one size fits all’ proposition, when you create a website.

How to find inexpensive (sometimes free!) help managing your website

So you have a new website and you are all jazzed up about keeping your content fresh and staying active on social media. It doesn’t take long before the reality of running your daily business tasks puts your website on the back burner! Enter the interns.

Many community colleges who offer Web Development programs often have an internship requirement. Students need to spend a certain number of hours working in the real world for a real client.

Common misconceptions of the Open Source CMS

There are a lot of articles out there that will talk up how awesome a particular CMS is and another article with an equal number of complaints. A CMS is awesome, provided you‘ve chosen the right CMS for your end goals and have a professional helping you make the most of the software. While it’s nice to think that you can easily use a site CMS bundle right out of the box, the fact is that your site will be far more valuable to you if a professional assists in building it.

Here are some of the top CMS complaints and how to avoid their pitfalls.

Dissecting the 3 most common open source CMS systems; WordPress, Joomla! & Drupal

There are three major open source content management solutions in a field of hundreds of options. These are the most robust, widely installed and supported (community as well as commercially) content management systems: WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.

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HTML5 Audio Players and Internet Explorer Don't Play Nice

Recently, while building a page full of audio snippets for a client, we ran into a show-stopping bug. The page was comprised of 12 blocks. Each block highlighted a voice artist and included a pure HTML5 player to allow users to hear voice samples. In the initial testing, we had just 3 of these voice artist blocks on the page. We had successful playback in Internet Explorer 8 and 9 as well as Chrome, Sarfari and Firefox.

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