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If your business has entered the exciting but turbulent world of ecommerce, you’re undoubtedly aware of how challenging it can be.
Running a website and fishing for those sales in an ever-changing environment means that ecommerce websites have to constantly update themselves to remain relevant and compete with
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When thinking about websites and how they’re designed, it’s useful to differentiate between static and dynamic sites. Generally, static sites display HTML-based content stored on a server, but can only be updated by a developer changing the source code. Dynamic websites, by contrast, are much easier to
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Databases are a key tool for anyone who wishes to organise their data
efficiently. Relational databases are a simple and intuitive method of
formulating information into tables that can be linked, based on data that is
common to each. They enable a user to easily apply data from many different
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Well thought-out navigation can make the difference between a visitor spending
30 seconds or one hour on your website. If your navigation is too complex or
poorly designed, visitors will be put off quickly and may decide to stop
exploring your site.
In other words, properly planned navigation is
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If you’ve recently built a new website, or you’re still tossing around the idea,
there’s one topic you should definitely brush up on: SEO. In a nutshell, search
engine optimisation is the process of making certain changes and optimisations
to your website to help it rank higher
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Everyone hates spam. Not only is it annoying, but it’s also potentially
dangerous.
When your phone vibrates and you wonder who the email’s from, often it’s some
company that you’ve never heard of trying to sell you something that you don’t
want. Even if you
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It’s been long established that an online presence is crucial for a company in the modern business environment. So when you come to building an ecommerce website, you need to get off on the right foot (not to brag, but our Ecommerce Website Builder is super easy to use!
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Email is both an important and cost-effective way to reach consumers and market
your business. In today’s environment, there’s so much unsolicited mail sent out
daily that it’s crucial to adhere to best practices in order to give your
legitimate mail the best chance of being
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The world of Linux is different from Windows, and can be daunting for new users. Where Windows uses a graphical user interface (GUI) for the majority of the OS, Linux relies much more heavily on Terminal, a type of command-line interface (CLI) for UNIX-based OSs.
While daunting at
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When we browse the internet, a lot is happening in the background to deliver web pages and services. As a foundation, we have a domain name system (DNS) that helps us convert uniform resource locator (URL) links like www.fasthosts.co.uk into IP addresses. In our case, Fasthosts has
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When we go to use a computer, the vast majority of the world uses their devices locally. This means that you are physically interacting with the device, either via mouse and keyboard or through the touchscreen on your phone. There are many benefits to native device usage, including minimal input
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Hypertext Pre-processor (PHP) is an open-source coding language that is typically used during web development. It is easily embedded into HTML code, and is executed on the server side rather than the client side. Before using PHP, you should have a basic working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and
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The internet connects billions of users to over 1.7 billion websites – but how those connections actually happen is a mystery to most. Behind every website visit is a hidden process of translating human-friendly domain names into machine-friendly IP addresses, made possible by the Domain Name System (DNS)
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The internet relies heavily on server infrastructure to deliver the websites, videos, and audio files we consume daily. These servers can be used for personal file hosting or service delivery in the enterprise. In some cases, you may wish to add a middle-man server into the equation to protect
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Whenever you connect to a website over the internet, what you are doing is connecting to a server using an IP address. While you can type www.fasthosts.co.uk and reach the website right away, many things are happening in the background.
Since each server on the internet has
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