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The importance of building an entity for e-commerce sites
Continue reading: The importance of building an entity for e-commerce sitesOne of the typical oversights we see with many e-commerce stores, and generally with potential customers who ask us to help them generate more traffic and sales, is the lack… -
How to do eCommerce right: the Silicon Dales guide to UX for online retail
Continue reading: How to do eCommerce right: the Silicon Dales guide to UX for online retailUX or User Experience in the context of online retail, means the ways an online store can be presented, laid-out and linked together to improve User Experience. The most obvious…
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Ensuring Business Security Despite Laptop Ban and Border Password Requests
Continue reading: Ensuring Business Security Despite Laptop Ban and Border Password RequestsMany of the electronics restrictions imposed during 2017 have now been lifted. Read more about the 2017 laptop ban here. How to ensure your business information is secure while employees… -
How to Migrate to CloudWays for Magento
Continue reading: How to Migrate to CloudWays for MagentoSilicon Dales have been very impressed with the Magento Web Hosting offering over at CloudWays. The service includes 24/7 support and free migrations, as well as being reasonably priced for… -
How to Migrate to WP Engine
Continue reading: How to Migrate to WP EngineSilicon Dales have been very impressed with the WordPress Web Hosting offering over at WP Engine. From properly formatted caching through to one-click staging environments and allowing Cron jobs, WP… -
How to get a WP Engine account for under $20 a month
Continue reading: How to get a WP Engine account for under $20 a monthWe’ve spent a lot of time over the years evaluating hosting for WordPress. We’ve seen the good, the bad and the downright ugly (GoDaddy, I’m looking a little bit at… -
WooCommerce Extensions Retired – updated May 2021
Continue reading: WooCommerce Extensions Retired – updated May 2021Just a quick post as we have been changing some things around here to reflect recent changes at WooCommerce. A quick note Silicon Dales are accredited WooExperts, which means we’re… -
Example CodeIgniter .htaccess for mod_rewrite
Continue reading: Example CodeIgniter .htaccess for mod_rewriteIf you are like Silicon Dales, a few years back, you would have used CodeIgniter (CI) probably quite a lot 5-6 years ago, but perhaps not so much “these days”… -
Gsuite / Gmail attachments cannot contain .js files any more
Continue reading: Gsuite / Gmail attachments cannot contain .js files any moreRecent security updates to Google’s mail services mean that Gmail and Google Workspace accounts are no longer allowed to attach files with the .js extension (this includes zip files which… -
Adding a User to AWS with CloudFront permissions
Continue reading: Adding a User to AWS with CloudFront permissionsIf you want to allow someone else (like a contractor, or Silicon Dales) to access your AWS account to add CloudFront to act as a CDN for your WordPress website… -
Give your WordPress website some TLC this Valentine’s
Continue reading: Give your WordPress website some TLC this Valentine’sEvery WordPress website needs tender loving care, to keep up with the latest versions of software, new browsers & devices and the latest security patches. To give your users the… -
Make Gmail Look like Outlook – Add a Preview Pane
Continue reading: Make Gmail Look like Outlook – Add a Preview PaneThere’s a way to make Gmail look like Outlook, even when accessed over the web application – something a lot of our managed Google Workspace clients are often looking for…. -
Big WordPress Problem – Slow WP Admin / Uncached Pageloads Slow
Continue reading: Big WordPress Problem – Slow WP Admin / Uncached Pageloads SlowSome problems are first world problems. Other problems are big WordPress problems. Slow WordPress Admin? Slow uncached pageloads? We deal with some big WordPress customers, and often their sites can… -
Why Your Website Needs a Security Certificate – and How to Get One
Continue reading: Why Your Website Needs a Security Certificate – and How to Get OneIntroduction Users who browse the web using the Google Chrome browser will now be served with warnings whenever they view a website without a security certificate. Google has said this…
