by Matt Dorman | Development, Performance
Your ecommerce website’s loading and rendering speed affects everything from your store’s rankings in search engines to the user’s final checkout conversion. And with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing more shoppers online, analysts predict that this...
by Meeky Hwang | Development, Technology
It’s increasingly common to run databases in the cloud. Whether you run a self-managed instance or use a managed service, it saves much of the trouble of running it on-premises. Amazon’s AWS offers three major options, trading off control against...
by Meeky Hwang | Development, Technology
Amazon Lightsail gives virtual private servers (VPS) full cloud flexibility. You can set up all the instances, databases, and load balancers you need and add more as your requirements grow. You can set one up as a Linux server and use it however you like....
by Matt Dorman | Development, Technology
WordPress is the leading choice for websites. It’s an excellent way to manage dynamic content. It’s open-source, so you can add third-party code or write your own to enhance it. It has some issues, though. You have to keep up with updates to maintain...
by Matt Dorman | Development, Planning
When your website isn’t doing as well as you’d like, you have options. You can live with it. You can invest in a full redesign. But the best choice may lie between these extremes. You can get a site refresh, giving it a better look and snappier...
by Meeky Hwang | Development, Performance, Plugin
A good content management system (CMS) does many things out of the box, but harnessing its full power requires add-on software. WordPress calls these additional units plugins. Magento calls them extensions. In Drupal they’re modules. In each case, they work with...