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The page load speed of eCommerce pages makes a big difference to revenue. Silicon Dales have been optimizing WooCommerce for page speed for years, but explaining the importance to clients is also a key task. In steps Amila Welihinda (formerly of Amazon and Uber) with this great thread explaining a little about just how crucial …
Silicon Dales have just been named as AMP Experts, recognising our work in the field of speeding up WordPress & WooCommerce installations. See the listing here. We have a depth of experience in speeding up WP sites using AMP as well as harnessing a slew of other techniques and approaches to make sure users get …
Stores using Magento on Commerce 1 (Enterprise Edition) or Open Source 1 (formerly known as Community Edition) will have their software supported by Magento until June 2020. For those store owners looking around before deciding on whether to upgrade to Magento 2, here’s an introduction to how WooCommerce provides a convincing alternative. Scheduling a change …
Over the past 12 months, the team at Silicon Dales has developed across a number of specialized B2B areas. Notably performing WooCommerce integrations with Ometria and Sage 200 (on-premises) as well as setting up full Purchase Order & invoicing systems for a number of enterprise B2B clients. Take a look at the new services: Ometria …
Silicon Dales are big fans of EWWW Image Optimizer and use it frequently for clients. It’s also referenced in our guides for handling images and speeding up a WordPress website. EWWW are running two offers this Thanksgiving: Premium Compression API The Premium Compression API from EWWW Image Optimizer is a service which can be used …
We have opened an office in Manchester, UK, which will be our administrative Headquarters. This office is purely administrative, and the team is distributed, so in-person meetings remain by appointment only, and should be booked in advance. Silicon Dales contact information: Address: Silicon Dales Ltd, Lowry House, 17 Marble St, Manchester, M2 3AW Telephone: 0161 …
Over the next few months, a lot of companies will potentially instruct their teams to work from home or from remote hubs. Here, we pull together some useful tips for setting up teams for remote work: Email We’re a little biased here, but after several years working with Google Workspace we’ve never had one complaint …
As the alliterative title suggests, this is a very quick post to confirm that WordPress 5.0, which was released last night, works really nicely with WooCommerce. Go to WooCommerce 3.5.1 (at least) first You should be aware, though, that you need to run WooCommerce version of at least 3.5.1 before you update to WordPress 5.0. …
A new look Silicon Dales website has just launched. If you like the new website and would like something similar for your own website, simply get in touch to discuss your ideas. Update – March 2018 To keep you posted on this, since going live on this version we have: Restructured our URLs Updated the …
Migrating an online store to Open Source can be a great way to bust out of vendor lock-in and take back control of your business functions and costs. Benefits Open Source is a great way to future-proof your eCommerce requirements. Here’s how it can offer improvements to the bottom line: Customization Take Open Source code …
