It is not that difficult to manually install an SSL certificate on DigitalOcean and ServerPilot stack. Although you need to have basic knowledge of running UNIX command lines and text editor.
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In past two years, I have been exposed to Magento consistently through different projects and started to fond it. Having working through many e-commerce platforms before, Magento is certainly a much more complex software and I can honestly say it is not for every person/business.
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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.
Continue readingThis morning I received a message on my LinkedIn inbox from a Community Builder at G2 Crowd. It is a startup for reviewing business software, by real users. Just last week I had stumbled into TrustRadius which generally has the same concept, so it got my attention. My take of it? It’s great. With new… Continue reading
First of all, do not get it wrong. “Transaction email” here does not refer to only financial transactions. Quoting from MailChimp blog post: …think of it as “anything that isn’t bulk“. Basically, it is email sent to an individual based on some action. In my own words related to e-commerce, transaction emails are all notification… Continue reading
Case Study #1: How Bluelounge got over 2,500 email entries in 6 days
Had the interview back in October 2012, but have not been able to share it here. Check it out, I can honestly recommend ViralSweep if you are thinking of running a giveaway on your website.
When you go to a really cool website and want to contact the person or company who runs it, what is your most preferred method? Email, instant message, social media (Twitter, Facebook), or via the contact form? Either one is good, but for most people contact form would probably the most convenient one.
Interspire Shopping Cart (ISC) is one of the best self-hosted e-commerce system in the market. It has most of the features that you will ever need. Another big plus with ISC is it is still actively developed. Interspire regularly releases minor updates every few months to fix some bugs and a major one in 6-12… Continue reading
Either you work in creative or multimedia industry, you probably want to showcase your work online. If not, then I suggest you to. You usually get discouraged when you need to set up the website for it, you would feel that you need to spend a lot of money to have someone to build or… Continue reading