website development

Gone are the days of trying to wow your website visitors with over-the-top visuals that look nothing like anything their eyes have seen before. The…

Costs to develop a website increase as the project nears completion, because once website developers get involved, costs go up fast. Planning and research during the discovery phase is invaluable to launching or relaunching a website on time and under budget.

I’ve been working on upgrading a client’s form autofill options. Right now, they have server side ip sniffing, and forms I’m unable to cache because of the defaulted information. So, blank forms with client side geolocation through the the javascript navigator object is required. I’ve done this kind of thing before, but it’s always been on the page, assuming everything would work. This time around, I’m doing things a little differently, anticipating using this over and over for their many forms.

As just about everyone in web development knows these days, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become one of the preferred cloud hosting services in the US. Why? Because it’s relatively easy and cost effective to set up robust yet flexible web sites and applications. And because it lets web devs large or small use the same kind of hosting as the biggest companies on the market.

When you start getting into scalability, you want to be able to use your web server (EC2) instances with your virtually limitless storage bucket (S3). That way, you can boot up as many EC2 instances as your traffic demands and they can all access the same files.

The close of 2011 brought the announcement of hundreds of brick-and-mortar locations closing for stores such as Sears and Kmart. Business owners both large and small have every reason to feel a bit rattled. Just as marketers must integrate new media into traditionally-based marketing channel models to survive, business owners with storefronts on the ground must adapt their strategies to appeal to consumers in the digital shopping space as well.