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Open Source Shopping Carts

Open Source Shopping Carts to Run Your Ecommerce Business For businesses that rely on online transactions, open source shopping carts are a good alternative to proprietary ecommerce software: They are a fraction of the cost and are supported by large communities of users and developers. Magento Magento offers an enterprise-class ecommerce platform, supported by a [...]

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Why use MySQL for your website database?

1. Scalability and Flexibility The MySQL database server provides the ultimate in scalability, sporting the capacity to handle deeply embedded applications with a footprint of only 1MB to running massive data warehouses holding terabytes of information. Platform flexibility is a stalwart feature of MySQL with all flavors of Linux, UNIX, and Windows being supported. And, [...]

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Why PHP instead of ASP?

Why is PHP better than ASP? 1. Cost No windows license required – run it on your Linux server. Technically you don’t have to buy an IDE to code ASP, however most people do. PHP editors ideally are just a text editor with syntax highlighting, however with eclipse you can still have a free, fully [...]

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Newsletters and email lists…

Newsletters and email lists are one of the best performing marketing methods online. It’s almost strange that email marketing works that well in every market imaginable. The simple fact is that people still use email as their main mean of communication online. Even despite the amount of spam that’s circulating around. In our opinion, placing [...]

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Coming soon pages…

Coming soon pages are a rather young concept on the internet. Back in the day, when a new business was planning to launch a website, one day there was no website, and the next day the thing was live…just like that with no warning. Nowadays, marketing works a little differently. Everything needs to build up [...]

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SEO: What is it?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of changing the visibility of a web site or a webpage in a search engine’s normal/organic or un-paid search results In general the earlier your website is shown on a search results page, and more frequently you website appears in the search results, the more customers you will [...]

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