As a small business owner, you were a lot of hats. This requires you to be an expert in a lot of areas you're probably not an expert. The good news is you don't actually need to be an expert. You just need to know enough to have an intelligent conversation with someone who
Reading time: 4 minutes. Your website is your face to the world and the host you select will affect its performance. Slow, insecure and unavailable are not the words you want your prospects or customers to use in describing your website. A good website host is important. Your website has to be hosted by
Reading time: 3 minutes. When you have a website, the files and images that makeup your website are stored on a computer somewhere. The details and specs of that computer are your website hosting plan. Web servers are computers designed specifically for serving up websites. Because of this, many of the same rules that
What is PHP? PHP is a server-side software language used in most websites, including WordPress and Zen Cart. Like all software, it is continually updated, fixed and improved. Why Should I Upgrade? Security - older versions are no longer receiving security patches. If you are not using PHP 7, your site is at risk.
Webmaster Tools are offered by both Google and Bing (edit: Google now calls theirs Search Console). They are easy to set-up and can help identify and fix issues with your website. What kind of issues? Recommendations to improve the ranking of your website. Problems accessing your website. Tips for helping them index all your
Beginning in October 2017, Google's Chrome will display a "NOT SECURE” warning when users enter a page on your site that has a form. This is just another move by Google to encourage website owners to use https site-wide. They already give a boost to site rankings for https pages. The Chrome browser controls 59%
A new One Page Checkout for Zen Cart makes checkout faster. Website businesses are always looking to make things easier for our visitors. That is most true during the checkout process. Once a visitor has found something they want to purchase, the checkout should be as quick and painless as possible. Reducing clutter and distractions,
I'm happy to announce that we are now offering a free SSL when hosting with Wheaton Website Services. Encryption with an SSL is quickly becoming the norm. Why? Google gives higher rankings for SSL pages. An SSL is required for e-commerce sites. They give enhanced customer confidence. Browsers will soon warn about any site without
When your business just starts out, order processing automation is one of those things you'll get to when you need it. For many business owners, orders start out slow and can be handled one by one manually. As your business grows, the time devoted to this task increases. If it's not your time, it's the
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay You've probably heard the phrase, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” When it comes to your business website, that couldn’t be more accurate. Disasters happen (server crashes, hacking, outages, corrupted files) and when they do, the consequences can be devastating. According to
