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Most retail and wholesale shops are now starting to think about preparing for the Christmas period. Now is a great time to think about your online shop and make sure it is looking it’s very best. Although Christmas may feel like a long way off, it is worth remembering that changes to your website may take some time to complete and need to be properly tested and put live before the beginning of November.
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Watching video on the Internet is now no longer a novelty. People are watching video clips on their desktop computers and their mobile devices as an essential part of their viewing experience. Some website owners are still dubious and have refrained from including video content because they feel it is too expensive or simply not necessary. Website video has a number of advantages and some of these are now just too good to ignore.… Read more
All the search engines have made it very clear that inbound links to your website are essential for good positions in the search results. The biggest problem that most site owners face, is that they see this as a massive task and simply concentrate all their efforts on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) instead. In a way that is not totally wrong, as without proper page titles, good page copy and a decent technical structure, any… Read more
Mobile phones that can view the Internet are not really anything new. The iPhone 3, the Blackberry, most decent Nokia’s and many other handset manufacturers have built in web browsers and the capability to view web pages. Now the iPhone 4 and the latest version of Android (Googles high speed operating system) do something new – they are fast and therefore very usable! Combine handset speed with Wi-Fi access, 3G/4G networks and bigger screens and… Read more
As developers of Actinic for over seven years, we think it is important to to check what else is available and how it might benefit our clients. New software is being launched and improved all the time meaning that new, shinier alternatives might exist. Even better they might be free! So first of all, what are today’s options? osCommerce, Magento and Joomla/Virtuemart are the solutions we will look at compared to Actinic. Lets be clear,… Read more
