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Your Guide to Planning Your E-Commerce Website

E-commerce has quickly become one of the best business models available today. It’s more convenient for your customers, you don’t have to deal with customers in person, and in many cases, you may not even need to handle the stock yourself. If you are thinking about starting an e-commerce website,

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Programming Is Like Jazz

Jazz is all about breaking the rules in ways that enhance the music and make it come alive. Jazz is hot; it swings, it jives, it improvises, and it bucks convention to do this. Programming is like Jazz in a sense, sometimes you need to break the rules or improvise to make a harmonious website.

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Six Principles for Basic Email Etiquette

Crafting professional emails is an essential skill in today’s information-based and highly competitive world. Understanding proper conventions and avoiding internet faux pas makes a huge difference in how others perceive you and your business so your emails are taken seriously and don’t get ignored or dumped in the spam folder.

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What Can You Do About Website Security – Part 3

Many website owners think it would be nice to be able to manage their own website content but in reality don’t take the time to learn how to do it or to do it well. Many websites are riddled with security holes because of an outdated CMS and the owner isn’t even using it because they don’t have the time or know how.

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What Can You Do About Website Security – Part 2

Depending on the technical abilities and time availability of a company’s internal staff, many clients want to be able to manage the content on their website themselves. This is really the main reason why small business website security has become an entire industry.

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What Can You Do About Website Security – Part 1

Website security is a hot topic. It seems that everyone everywhere is having issues with insecure websites, hosting companies, website developers, hackers and knowing how to interpret it all. This is not a topic that is going to disappear anytime soon, if anything it’s only heating up!

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Pros and Cons of a Content Management System (CMS)

First, let me introduce you to the Wikipedia definition of a Content Management System or CMS. Wikipedia says that, “A content management system (CMS) is a computer application that allows publishing, editing and modifying content, organizing, deleting as well as maintenance from a central interface….”

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The Pesky Doorknob

My family and I are having a nice new house built for us out on the other side of town but we’ve sold our old house already and are now living with my in-laws. So far it’s a nice experience for everyone, most of all for my four-year-old daughter who can now spend endless hours prizing treats and iPad games from her Grandma.

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