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Five Ways Oracle has Improved MySQL Database Since Acquiring it From Sun
Oracle’s acquisition of Sun systems – and MySQL – in 2010, left many web developers wary of the MySQL path. At the time Sun had major concerns with their hardware sector, but the MySQL application was becoming ever more popular. Currently, MySQL is a significant tool in the management of website database information, and is [...]
Five Wireframing Tools to Help You Prototype Your Website
Before building any product, designers first produce a prototype (or a wireframe, as some call it) of how the real thing will look. As a website designer, you should also build a prototype of your website before finalizing the code and releasing the actual site on WestHost servers. Check out these 5 wireframing tools for [...]
PayPal takes aim at television sets. Will your website shopping cart one day appear on Comcast Cable?
Well, it’s finally happening albeit in dribs and drabs: E-commerce is now not only swallowing up mobile devices — it’s about to spread to television sets! In the last few years, cloud computing and Smartphone adoption have been accelerating at dramatic rates, often fuelling each other in terms of both consumer and business requirements. Website [...]
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eCommerce Web Hosting Guide
What do Circuit City, Hollywood Video, and Borders have in common? All of them lost their market share to direct competitors that successfully employed an online storefront, or eCommerce: Best Buy, Blockbuster, and Barnes & Noble. Clearly, the capability to sell your product online is essential. It lowers your overhead costs and provides greater convenience [...]
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8 Tips & Resources to Increase Site Speed
Web site speed has now become a more important factor following Google’s recent announcement that page load speed will be introduced to their 200+ factor algorithm. In a video interview with WebProNews software engineer for Google, Matt Cutts, said “It should be a good experience, and so it’s sort of fair to say that if [...]
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The Top 5 Secrets of Professional Online Video
Online video is becoming more popular and fundamental to business success every day. YouTube.com is actually getting more search traffic than Yahoo!’s search engine. It is important that you feel comfortable producing your own media. Depending on your goals, you can produce a great video without spending a lot of money and without a professional [...]
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AutoMOD: Customization Magic for phpBB3
One of the many site applications we offer is phpBB3, which claims to be “the most widely used open-source bulletin board system in the world.” Using phpBB3 you can create everything from large discussion forums to small game clan meeting rooms. It offers the tools necessary for moderation teams to maintain control of your site. [...]
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Improving Apache Web Server Performance
Even to most Internet professionals, the Apache web server software can be as perplexing as it is ubiquitous. Although not as comprehensive as the official 685-page documentation, this post outlines two useful features you can enable in the httpd.conf file to improve the performance of your web server: persistent connections and gzip compression. Important note: [...]
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Customizing Zen Cart, Part 2
In part one of customizing Zen Cart (found here) we covered changing the color scheme of your store to better fit your needs. In part two we will be discussing changing some of the main images that Zen Cart uses in the design.
Customizing Zen Cart, Part 1
One of our more recent Site Application additions has been Zen Cart. This e-commerce solution has many robust features and this article will give some detailed information, giving you the ability to modify the cart with your own look and feel.