Facebook filed its IPO this week and confirmed what many of us already know: Facebook makes most of its money by selling ads on its site. In fact, in 2011, 85% of their revenue was made via advertising; the remaining 15% made by payments and other fees. Compared to Google, which gets 98% of its
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How much of your recent shopping have you done online? Does this have your brain churning with entrepreneurial ideas? It should. Consider the following statistics: 186: amount (in billions) spent in 2010 online transactions 81: percentage of Internet users who research a product online 26: percent of people on the Internet who have used online
The newest version of Magento in some cases has a problem working correctly with PayPal Standard payment option. After completing the checkout fields and clicking the buttons to process payment via PayPal, you can experience the error message ‘Unable to process payment.’ There is a trick to solve this issue. The error message looks like
On Tuesday, January 24 President Obama will speak in his annual State of the Union address. Interesting thing is going on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/whitehouse) where you can ask President Obama the questions that are on your mind. He’ll answer several of top-voted questions. By submitting your question, you can win an invite to join a Google+
A website wireframe is a visual guide that shows a website’s framework. You may have also heard it called a page schematic or screen blueprint. By giving the website’s content layout, a wireframe gives the reader a skeletal framework of interface elements and navigational systems, as well as how these work together. What the wireframe
This is possible to use the wpdb object to access any external database and query any table within your WordPress installation. You can even use all the wpdb classes and functions such as get_results. Example: $my_external_db = new wpdb(‘username’,’password’,’database’,’localhost’); $rows = $mydb->get_results(“SELECT * from MYTABLE “); foreach ($rows as $result) : echo $ result ->Title;
Does your small business take in private information such as contact information or payment that needs to be secure? If so, you are in need of SSL on your small business website. SSL is an acronym for Secure Sockets Layer, an encryption technology originally created by Netscape. SSL creates an encrypted connection between your web
We have recently faced an issue with setting up an additional server for WHMCS. We have servers from wiredtree (those buys are amazing, outstanding support!), but nobody could help us. Also, if you google this problem there are not really any good advice about this issue. After 12h of testing many options and searching for
WordPress is touted the best web platform for small business websites. Here are a few reasons why. Ease of use WordPress is designed to be effortless, especially for those with the most basic computing abilities. If you can operate MS Word, you have enough skills to utilize WordPress. From the moment it is set up,
