SonicBlog - techeducation tag

Under the Hood of Your Website

Thu, 22 May 2008 04:04:05 GMT

Like a lot of things out there, there is a right way to build something and a wrong way. The troubling thing is that sometimes the website that is built incorrectly looks great! So then why should you care what's under the hood of your website? As long as it looks good, who cares? Right?

WRONG!

Having your professional company branding is only half of the battle when it comes to web development. You have to care how your website is built because from the small business owner to the corporate business - a poorly built website will WASTE money and time!

The Myth of The Simple (and Cheap) Business Website

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:55:25 GMT

I just want a simple website for my company. Why does it cost so much?

As a web development company, we hear a version of this statement time and time again. We share the frustration of that statement. Unfortunately the answer to this queston is "just not that simple". This article explores the myth that there are cheap short cuts to an effective web presence, and helps establish the value by which to measure the proper cost.

Parts of an E-Commerce Website

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:37:00 GMT

Just like a basic informational or marketing website, an e-commerce website has several parts that need to come together to make it work. In this article, we focus just on the physical parts of an e-commerce website. These parts alone will give you a functioning website, not necessarily a successful one. For that, you need to add marketing and business strategy components.

Web 2.0

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:34:56 GMT

Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003 and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004, refers to a perceived second-generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. O'Reilly Media titled a series of conferences around the phrase, and it has since become widely adopted.

SEO

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:10:00 GMT

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the optimizing of your web site so that it is more visible to search engines.

Learning and Preparing for Safe Web Browsing.

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:11:00 GMT

Browsing and shopping the Internet: viruses, spyware, trojan horses... what is a person to do? Shut off the computer?

How Does Email Work?

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:25:00 GMT

SonicSpider-managed domains use the email system provided by Enom.com. This system provides Pop and SMTP services for all of our customers that have their domains registered with us (via Enom.com) Following is a brief discussion of how this system works to help solve various problems that may occur from time to time.

How to Minimize Spam and Virus Attacks

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:49:00 GMT

There is no perfect "solution" which can eliminate all spam. This is because there is no perfect way to determine if a given email is spam or a desirable email. Spammers change their email headers, domain of origin, and all other source flags daily, and sometimes hourly. Fortunately, there are ways to keep it to a minimum.

10 Ways to Promote your E-Commerce Web Site!

Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:27:00 GMT

The goals of having an e-commerce web site are to sell your products online, streamline your current business, and increase profits. There are many ways to promote your new e-commerce web site that are proven methods for small businesses.

Keeping perspective on web technology

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:48:00 GMT

Over the last three to four years we have seen an explosion of online (web based) technologies that are available to the small business owners: shopping carts, customer management, resource management, staff management, online support tickets, and the list goes on.