eCommerce Website Blog
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A picture tells a thousand words and this is especially true when it comes to photos on your website. Even though the internet is bursting full of beautiful photographs and as tempting as it may be, you just can’t copy and use all the photos you love on your own website or blog. Copyright laws mean that both text and photos online are the property of the person who created them and even crediting the owner when you use the photo, may not be enough to prevent you getting into hot water.Posted: Wednesday 8 June 2016
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Podcasting is a term coined by Ben Hammersley in a 2004 article he wrote for The Guardian newspaper when trying to create a term to identify the online audio recordings being made for MP3 players and iPods. Ben blended ‘Pod’ from the iPod and ‘Cast’ from the end of the word Broadcast to form podcast, which has made Apple jump for joy at all the free marketing of their iPod.Posted: Sunday 8 May 2016
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Website.world are offering free websites for all playcentres in New Zealand, plus a further grant for resources.Posted: Monday 11 April 2016
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Everybody loves a Facebook giveaway, except Facebook when you get it wrong. No longer is hosting a giveaway as simple as having a prize and giving it away to a winner because there are specific rules you need to follow to prevent your giveaway being shut down.Posted: Friday 8 April 2016
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We take great effort to keep your website and data private and confidential. Our servers, applications and databases are all very secure. We encrypt passwords stored in our databases. However, there are some considerations you should take into account.Posted: Tuesday 5 April 2016
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If you use a free email address like gmail or yahoo or similar for your business, then you could be missing lots of notifications, and your customers might be missing order confirmations.Posted: Tuesday 5 April 2016
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So someone has posted something negative on your business Facebook page? Rather than panicking, deleting the comment or hiding in a cupboard, take the time to turn what could be a PR disaster into building some positive publicity instead. A complaint dealt with professionally, respectively and which provides a solution to the problem can do wonders for your business.Posted: Tuesday 8 March 2016
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We often get asked why we charge a setup fee for configuring DNS services for a third party web hosting service. And this is why. It's like taking your own food into a cafe, buying a coffee,
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Facebook engagement has always been around, but has become more important recently because it is one way to increase the number of people who see your posts, without you paying to promote them. Facebook is now deliberately showing less of your business posts to your fans and using the engagement rate on each of your posts to choose which posts they push through and which they don’t.Posted: Monday 8 February 2016
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When you have a lot of traffic, there can be some big risks in SEO strategies. We recently redirected all our SEO might at a single domain name, www.websitebuilder.world, away from www.websitebuilder.nz, with a hope that any traffic we may lose from NZ, we would gain on international ranking, with all else being equal. What happened?Posted: Sunday 26 July 2015
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We are currently implementing tests of new web server nodes in several locations around the world. Previously we supported Auckland, Sydney, Ireland and California. We are now extending this to Tokyo, Singapore, Frankfurt, and San Paulo.Posted: Wednesday 27 May 2015 -
Some users may see a phishing warning when entering the CMS. Please ignore that message, or use a different web browser for the next few days. The issue was dealt with quickly but we need to wait for google staff to disable the warning mesage. Do you need to be alarmed? No, it's ok to proceed through that warning. Learn morePosted: Saturday 23 May 2015
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Sometimes the technical jargon confuses, so i'll use some simpler terms today.Posted: Friday 24 April 2015
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Today we have launched our new global content delivery network (CDN). Our CDN delivers your websites to your end users from the closed node. We serve your website content from 4 separate locations around the world to ensure the fastest download times.Posted: Wednesday 22 April 2015
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As of today we no longer use the Fastly CDN service. Website Builder is now hosted on the largest most powerful cloud platform AWS (Amazon Web Services). AWS provides a superior speeds for us to host our website builder powered websites at multiple locations around the world.Posted: Wednesday 4 March 2015
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We will shortly be migrating our web services to a new data center. This data center is provided by Amazon Web Services, and provides a fantastic infrastructure for us to manage our existing customers, and grow bigger, and provide faster access to our CMS service from around the world.Posted: Wednesday 7 January 2015
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At the end of last year we added address auto completion to various forms and shopping carts. Address auto completion is powered by Google using data from many different providers around the world. This speeds up data entry for users, and encourages auto completion and use of post codes. However, sometimes issues with address layout or odd choices of province name may occur. In addition, there are issues with rural delivery numbers not provided by google.Posted: Tuesday 6 January 2015
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As usual we give to charity rather than send Christmas gifts to customers. Please see an update of where your money goes. This update is from Oxfam to whom we gave $10000. We also committed to give $4800 annually to Fred Hollows foundation. We also give to various children s charities.Posted: Tuesday 16 December 2014
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We have recently added google auto complete features to most of our address forms, like checkout, and membership registration.
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Reuben reviews the nz telecommunications industry and tv subscription services.Posted: Thursday 21 August 2014
