Mistakes that stop you converting visitors into subscribers or customers. Let’s talk about your website. Are you spending time and effort marketing your website, trying to drive traffic (visitors) to it? Are you getting visitors? Yes? Great! For many businesses, just getting people to visit is the hard part, so congratulations! Now, before you start […]
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Growing your online business
With January nearly over we’ve had some time to plan our business goals for the coming year and decided our main goal is to help other businesses grow and succeed online. We are going to be launching a “grow your business online” series of blog posts. We’re planning to pack these full of useful case […]
Asterisk Setup and Config Tutorial on a CentOs VPS
As we announced recently we’ve launched business telephony systems for our customers. We understand some visitors to our blog are looking for instructions and guidance rather than something to buy, so here’s a link to the most comprehensive tutorial we’ve found online for getting started with Asterisk and rolling your own Virtual phone system. If […]
Cheaper Business Phone Calls
The increase in Internet availability and speed is encouraging many businesses to stop using their traditional phone lines for phone calls in favour of VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) services. These services often work out cheaper and give businesses far more flexibility over how they handle calls across their organisation. What is VoIP? In basic […]
Mass assigning images to products in Open Cart
Whilst working on an e-commerce project for a client we found that we had to add the same 3 images to over 200 products. Now, compared the Zen Cart, the Open Cart admin dashboard is relatively easy on the eyes and intuitive, but it would still take a fair amount of time to manually assign […]
WordPress and XML RPC – Settings
To use WordPress when you’re not at your desk, you’ll probably want to use the WordPress App on your smartphone. To make sure you’re able to log in and manage your WordPress site from your mobile device, you need to make sure XML RPC is enabled. How to enable XML RPC on WordPress To turn […]
Is Google Chrome Killing Your MacBook’s Battery?
As I mentioned in my previous post, I made the switch to a MacBook Pro for work purposes. After having a chat with some friends and doing some checking around on the web for confirmation, it seems as if using Google Chrome was killing the battery on my Mac. I wasn’t expecting the advertised 7 […]
[Solved] Flash and Firefox on Mac not working properly
I recently made the switch from using a Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) set up to using a 15″ MacBook Pro (Feb 2011 model). For most of the work I was doing, including web design, the mac seems to handle everything fine. However, I had a few issues with the Firefox and Chrome. With Firefox, flash […]