Amazon Web Services EC2 t2.micro instance combined with Bitnami Cloud Hosting Developer plan, both free products will get you free and terrific WordPress hosting for a year with less than an hour to set up. No command line knowledge actually required, something that usually discourages some developers from touching cloud-based hosting.
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I have shared a simple tutorial to integrate your web page with MailChimp subscription API. It is intended to give the most basic direction and then you can expand the design and functionalities to your preference. Some of you however might prefer to use a more “plug and play” approach. Therefore I decided to list… Continue reading
I have shared my experience ordering using AmazonGlobal and so far it has been positive. If I may add about one of the main difficulties at the time, it was a bit hard to know whether a product would be eligible or not from the catalog list. It was only until you go to the… Continue reading
Within short few years, soundbars have become very popular amongst home users to replace 5.1 or 7.1 speaker set to create a good home theater experience. The idea of getting surround sound while watching movies from a single block of speakers without all the cable clutter and complicated setup is a genius concept. The biggest… Continue reading
Apple is making it ever harder to create a custom HTML email signature on its native Apple Mail app with the latest OS X 10.10 (code name: Yosemite). But this detailed tutorial by Matt Coneybeare will allow you to customize it, with some HTML knowledge.
I have to admit that I used to be pretty skeptical with the potential growth of e-commerce in Indonesia. Despite the wave of investments made by local and foreign companies to be top players in the country, I was not completely convinced the market would mature in a short time. My experience first time ordering from Lazada Indonesia (lazada.co.id) sort of confirms it. But not because of the market, but Lazada itself.
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What is eBay Global Shipping Program? It is eBay’s answer to AmazonGlobal, an added service to allow International customers to order from a US seller and have applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees calculated upfront.
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You had waited, waited, and then waited so more. Finally Apple announced an update for their Mac Mini line after over 2 years, yeay! Then like many customers who had prepared to splurge the saving to buy the latest release of Apple’s “most affordable desktop”, you ended up disappointed. The only good news is now… Continue reading
You can find market sites offering templates for popular platforms like WordPress, Joomla, Magento, etc, but if you want to build a static site or using different CMS then the options are pretty limited. Worry not my friend, I have searched and I am going to list a number of sites you can visit to find nice and modern HTML site templates that allow you to customize and apply them into whatever platform you prefer.
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Out of the box, WordPress is already great in terms of SEO. Set up your blog, use a well-built theme, consistently publish new posts, then you are very likely to see traffic to your site. Taking the last word from Search Engine Optimization, there is no end result to it really. You can keep on… Continue reading