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Increasing Online Sales: Simple Usability Problems To Avoid
When designing an online store, you have to consider many different types of customers: repeat customers, first-timers, people in a rush, etc. One thing that would help all of them is optimum...
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Website Maintenance Tips for Front-End Developers
One of the biggest advantages of online media over print is the ability to change, update, and enhance online media at virtually anytime, with virtually no negative side effects. In fact, if a...
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Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?
Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate...
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Case-Study: Deconstructing Popular Websites
In our past articles, we've experimented with better ways to engage users on web pages with CSS3. We love getting into the nuts and bolts of web design by showing off some nifty coding tricks. In...
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Getting Started With E-Commerce: Your Options When Selling Online
The world of online sales, whether of products or services, can be daunting at first; the options seem confusing and the information conflicted. Yet as the designer or developer of an online store,...
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10 Ways To Beef Up Your Website’s Security
Hacker attacks across the web are getting more sophisticated every day – after all, they have to. With the increased sophistication of anti-virus protection, firewalls, and application-based updates,...
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10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks
Security has always been a hot topic. Offline, people buy wired homes, car alarms and gadgets to bring their security to the max. Online, security is important, too, especially for people who make a...
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What Is The Worst Design or Programming Mistake You’ve Ever Made?
Mistakes are made every day in the design and development world. It’s nothing to be ashamed of; it happens. In fact, mistakes are one of the most powerful learning tools at our disposal. Our mistakes...
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Common Security Mistakes in Web Applications
Web application developers today need to be skilled in a multitude of disciplines. It's necessary to build an application that is user friendly, highly performant, accessible and secure, all while...
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Keeping Web Users Safe By Sanitizing Input Data
In my last article, I spoke about several common mistakes that show up in web applications. Of these, the one that causes the most trouble is insufficient input validation/sanitization. In this...
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Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout Design
Here is the harsh reality of e-commerce websites: according to recent e-commerce studies, at least 59.8% of potential customers abandon their shopping cart (MarketingSherpa puts it at 59.8%, SeeWhy...
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Taking Credit Card Payments Online: What’s Involved?
If you're looking to integrate a credit card payment solution onto your website, the following steps are a guide to applying for, enabling and taking payments online. At first glance, the prospect of...
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Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins
There are many ways to design sign-up and log-in forms. Most designers are familiar with the conventional ways. But understanding and applying a few innovative techniques could make your forms...
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Securing Your WordPress Website
Security has become a foremost concern on the Web in the past few years. Hackers have always been around, but with the increase in computer literacy and the ease of access to virtually any data, the...
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Backpack Algorithms And Public-Key Cryptography Made Easy
E-commerce runs on secrets. Those secrets let you update your blog, shop at Amazon and share code on GitHub. Computer security is all about keeping your secrets known only to you and the people you...
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Replicating MySQL AES Encryption Methods With PHP
At our company, we process a lot of requests on the leading gift cards and coupons websites in the world. The senior developers had a meeting in late October to discuss working on a solution to...
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Common WordPress Malware Infections
WordPress security is serious business. Exploits of vulnerabilities in WordPress’ architecture have led to mass compromises of servers through cross-site contamination. WordPress’ extensibility...
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A Comprehensive Guide To Firewalls
In the construction industry, a “firewall” is a specially-built wall designed to stop a fire from spreading between sections of a building. The term spread to other industries like car manufacturing,...
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Proper WordPress Filesystem Permissions And Ownerships
When people talk about WordPress security, file permissions and ownership are usually the last thing on their minds. Installing security plugins is a good practice and a must for every WordPress...
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Are You Prepared Against A Hack?
“Danger: malware ahead!” and “This website may harm your computer” are the two sentences that I hate most and that I don’t want any of my clients to see when they open their website. If you have seen...
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