Cheap Advertising
Anyone here ever used their life savings on a google adwords campaign? It is eventually needed but if your just a small business starting up, you want to try keep your overheads as low as possible. I’ve found a unused trick of the IT industry for getting cheap advertising and willing to share but you must contact me ^^
Interspire – Ecommerce Solution
As a web developer I’m asked to edit or create websites using a lot of different ecommerce solutions. Just recently I was asked to edit Interspire Shopping Cart, I had previous experience but not for a year or two. Simply after one day of usage I would reccomend most small businesses to go ahead with using Interspire shopping cart. It’s unbelievebly user friendly for the lesser tech saavy and has some very stylish default templates you can choose from. While your looking at Interspire shopping cart also have a look at Email Market Direct, its amazing piece of...
Joomla 1.5 – FTP Layer – Una...
Once again I came across this problem I didn’t document it last time which was a stupid idea because it took me about 30 mins to fix again. If you receive any of the following errors JFTP::write: Bad response An Error has occurred! Unable to open configuration.php file to write! You have probably encountered the same problem as me. How I fix it each time it happens and happens quite alot is locate your configuration.php. Usually in the root directory of your joomla installation and find the line var $ftp_root = ‘/’; and change it to var $ftp_root =...
Website Analytics
A successful website has to be monitored, as you grow you need to cater your website to meet user needs. There a lot of tools out there to give you a statistical analysis of your visitors and a lot of them are free. For example google analytics is possibly the most powerful and sometimes it can be overwhelming. Thats why I have found a tool which suits my needs more. I find myself just having to check small things like daily visitor count and bounce rate and where the latest visitors are coming from. getclicky is a tool which shows nearly everything google does and in some...
Very Cheap Laptops
Wouldn’t usually post things like this on the blog, but if your interested in buying a laptop for your kids or one for the grannies. Take a look at this link below http://www.reboot-it.com.au/refurbished-laptops-dell-laptops-c-14_44.html Checked out my friends and seemed pretty good value for money. Loaded it up with linux and it was just a complete bargain.
Google Position Tracking Tool
Ever wondered where your page is when typing different terms into google search. Such as seaching for “bobs plumbing in perth” but you don’t appear on first page so you spend a while finding out what page of google your website appears on. I wrote a tool which detects what page your website is listed on for certain keywords and then stores that data so you can generate a report of your ranking on google and to see if its going up or down. http://navuhome.com/google/rank/?domain=cpricelandscapes.com Pretty useful if your going to be paying somebody to get...
