To take a break from the usual blogging trend of writing about installing, reviewing, using, abusing and otherwise working in and around the Internet, we thought we’d post a few of the things that we’ve done over the last few months to lighten up the NuBlue office.
Web Hosting, if tarred with as broad a brush as possible, is split into Shared and Dedicated Hosting. There are those who purchase a space on a server for their own use, and then there are those who just buy the server. A bit like buying a plane ticket, or buying a plane [...]
As a budding ‘surfer’ (back in the days when surfing the web still seemed mysterious and vaguely appropriate), I never took to Internet Explorer. I think it was because every time I opened a link in a new window it always managed to position it somewhere annoying on the monitor. Then again, maybe [...]
So now we carry on with Part Two of our guide to different kinds of Web Hosting, kindly illustrated by the adventures of a man called Dave*.
In the last part, Dave has had experience with Free and Shared Hosting, but he’s now looking at getting advanced Web Hosting to offer him greater control and performance [...]
There have been more than a few updates to Magento in the last 2 months or so, and unless you’ve just installed it or haven’t worked on it, an update is going to be a bit of an annoyance. You certainly don’t want to reinstall Magento and copy or, even worse, add all your [...]
Choosing the right Web Hosting package for you can be a bewildering task. With so many packages, prices, terms, conditions, companies and countries vying for your business, it’s important that you understand what you need, so you can choose a company who can give you what you want.
So here’s a list of the major [...]
Google AdWords. Love it or hate it, there is no denying the potential marketing power that having an advert placed next to a given search term in the most popular search engine in the world can give you.
I’ve been running several campaigns myself for a few months, and it’s certainly been a learning process [...]
This is the first part of what will be a series of guides on using the new eCommerce system, Magento. The best place to start is always the beginning, so the initial subject will be Installing Magento in your web space. This guide will include the Installation Guide, a brief Troubleshooting Section, [...]
While comparing our new PHP5 Magento Hosting we found this speed test site. Although UK based Magento eCommerce Hosts are, for the moment, few in number, we thought we would create a Spreadsheet Tool to use the Internet Supervision speed test to compare our speed against other Hosting providers. The calculator allows [...]
There can be two very different schools of thought when something new comes out. On one side, you have the people who have to have the latest as soon as it arrives, and will happily be out with the old in favour of the new. Then you have their opposites, the people who [...]