Premium Doesn’t Always Mean Supported

One of the reasons that is often touted for purchasing premium themes and plugins is the support, but you shouldn’t automatically assume that will be the case.  One of the biggest market places out there for “paid” aka premium plugins and themes are the Evanto sites including CodeCanyon and ThemeForest.   Here’s the fine print [...]

Categories: Plugins

Association Websites

We love associations and building Websites for associations.  Here are a few links to some of the association Websites we’ve built.   Northwest District Association in Oregon Association for Professional Acupuncture in PA Northwest Cranial Association Montavilla East Tabor Business Association

Categories: What We're Working On

Should We Lie to Potential Clients?

A few months ago we were asked to put in a an RFP (request for proposal) for a potential client’s project.  We were bidding with about a dozen other companies for a new Web site for a city’s association of business associations.  The RFP included a realistic budget and an unrealistic timeline.   Having done [...]

Categories: The Business of Business

WP e-Commerce Security Upgrade December 2011

On December 7th WP e-Commerce 3.8.7.3 was released as mandatory security release. We have requested more information about what went into the hardening, but we’re pleased that WP e-Commerce is working on this issue. If you need help with your upgrade please don’t hesitate to contact us. If you need help with your upgrade, please [...]

Categories: Ecommerce

How SSL Certificates Work with Browsers and Mobile Devices

It’s the browsers that check ssl certs and they include in their software recognition of ssl cert providers. So let’s say a new ssl cert provider comes into existence an older browser, say FireFox 2.5, is not going to have built in recognition of that provider they won’t have the “root” certificate embedded so it [...]

Categories: Ecommerce

SSL Certs: High Assurance Versus Low Assurance Certificates

A low assurance cert validates only that the the ssl cert has been applied to the domain it was assigned to and not some other domain. The process is quick, relatively inexpensive and still provides 256 bit encryption. High assurance requires you to also submit documents proving that the company is a legitimate business entity. [...]

Categories: Ecommerce

Canceling Bluehost Hosting

Unfortunately if you’ve made the mistake of signing up with BlueHost, Inc. they’re going to force you to go to extraordinary measures to get out of your hosting.     Yep, you read that correctly in order for bluehost to let you move your hosting and, probably most important to BlueHost Inc., stop them from charging [...]

Categories: Hosting

WP Ecommerce and UPS Prices

Recently we were asked a question we’ve heard before.  How is weight being calculated for UPS Ground rates in WP e-Commerce? The pricing for this mode of shipping is  too low compared to the UPS site.  Is it a bug?

Categories: WordPress Ecommerce

Transfering Domains Away From Yahoo!

Three cheers for Yahoo!  When it comes to transferring domains no registrar wants to see you go, but some of them make it downright hard to transfer your domain away from the service.  They hide, or at least make it hard to find the instructions on where to find your authorization code, a critical piece [...]

Categories: Hosting

Trying out a new social media marketing tool

We’ll see how this goes, but may be perfect for some of our clients. Православни икони

Categories: Social Media Marketing

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