Plan Your Blog For Your Future I have been using Blogger as my blogging platform for 1 year already, and I must say that this has been a mistake all along. Blogger is not as flexible as any other self-hosted blogs or has as many useful widgets like WordPress, and Blogger is not so SEO Continue reading »
Using a Blog Vs Using a E-commerce Website? This is a subject I’ve been exploring over the last week to decide whether or not to use a blog with an add-on shopping cart, or to use an e-commerce system such as Zencart or Oscommerce. I have a few clients who will be using my services Continue reading »
Three Ecommerce Web 2.0 Platforms You Should Know About You’ve built the online shop, found the supplier and set up a cart and accounting system… Now you just need visitors and customers. And it would be nice if they were the same people. It is funny that people swap steady 9-5 jobs for a life Continue reading »
How to Make a Website Fast and Easy Anyone can make a website these days using the services and products readily available to us all. But for a first-time web master, it can be a slow and frustrating process, as you figure out how everything works, what is compatible with what else and how everything Continue reading »
How to Build a WordPress Ecommerce Website Store WordPress is widely held as one of the easiest ways to get your presence onto the web. You can have your own hosting available, so that you choose the name of your website, or you can have WordPress actually host everything for you, at no cost. Because Continue reading »
Thinking of Starting Your Own Ecommerce Website? Starting an online store is never easy. There are a multitude of things to consider before you even think of designing a website. Most people jump into ecommerce thinking it’s a get rich quick scheme and once they have an ecommerce website up and running the money will Continue reading »
Media Player For Web Professionals Discovery #16 – JW Player OK, it’s not a Firefox Extension today but an Open Source Media Player, JW Player (http://www.longtailvideo.com/ ) With over one million active users, the JW Player™ is the Internet’s most popular and flexible open source media player. It can support playback of any format the Continue reading »
What to Look For in a WordPress Ecommerce Plugin WordPress is increasing its reputation as a platform for building ecommerce websites – from a simple blogging CMS, WordPress themes and back-end functionality deliver all the functionality of a dedicated website at a fraction of the cost of a customized site. WordPress’ open architecture has encouraged Continue reading »
Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #15 – SimilarWeb SimilarWeb Discovery Tool https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/similarweb-sites-recommendatio/?src=search Discover useful traffic insights about the websites you visit. Find out how big the websites you visit are on the internet and in their categories. Get instant knowledge on the main sources of traffic bringing users to the website you’re viewing. Instant Continue reading »
Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #14 – Video DownloadHelper Video DownloadHelper https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/ The easy way to download and convert Web videos, audio and picture galleries from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. DownloadHelper is a tool for web content extraction. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites. For instance, if you Continue reading »
Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #13 – Flashblock Flashblock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/ Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won’t get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on the icon. Flashblock takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage Continue reading »
Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #12 – YAWR Yet Another Window Resizer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yet-another-window-resizer/ Yet Another Window Resizer allows you to resize your browser window to the default screen resolutions. As a developer you are probably using a fairly large monitor, but what will your customers see, live on the web. This application will allow Continue reading »
Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #11 – PrintPDF PrintPDF https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/printpdf/ A simple yet powerful utility which allows users on Windows and Linux to print web pages to PDF. This is a really great utility for those who do not have the Adobe PDF addons. Mac users you already have this functionality. Don’t forget, Continue reading »
Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #10 – Screen Grab Screen Grab takes a screenshot of the webpage and saves it as an image file. This saves a ton of time compared to the method I used to use – take a screenshot and open Adobe Photoshop to crop the image. It will capture what Continue reading »
Firefox Extensions For Web Professionals Discovery #9 – AdSense Preview AdSense Preview lets you preview the Google AdSense ads that would appear on a web page. This is incredibly useful if you are considering putting AdSense on a page and don’t want to go through the hassle of signing up for an account and putting Continue reading »
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