Trials & Tribulations: a blog about running a small UK family business.
-
BT Connect Hosting – poor help files but good email service
I’ve been meaning to update our free domain we use to talk about anniversary gifts that we get from BT for a while now and I just managed to do it with a bit of hassle. We’ve upgraded our broadband a couple of times since we put the original site live and could not access…
-
Adding VPASP ecommerce store to Facebook
We’ve been using VPASP ecommerce software for a number of years, it is open source and uses active server pages (asp) as its software language, this language is very mature and hence knowledge is widely available. With the emergence of social media and Facebook becoming the dominant social media channel we were looking at how…
-
Database Driven Web Solutions
There are many ways of delivering content for your web pages, with a database back end solution it is possible to ensure your web pages are dynamic, interactive and deliver up to date information at a lower cost than having to update static pages. Using a database can significantly reduce costs for your web presence…
-
Web Services
There is much hype surrounding web services at its basic level it is merely opening up the internet as a sales channel using your existing business infrastructure. If delivered properly then the resulting increase in sales will more than cover the initial costs for setting up the services If you would like to discuss your…
-
What is Contextual Content Delivery?
It is the process of delivering relevant content to potential customers to encourage them to visit your web site and convert to a client. Why? People visiting search engines are generally looking for something, if you can delivery their needs efficiently then they are more likely to convert into a customer which delivers a higher…
-
OK who knew this!
Apparently DoubleEscaping means ”+” go figure! %windir%system32inetsrvappcmd set config “Web Site” -section:system.webServer/security/requestfiltering -allowDoubleEscaping:true On an IIS7 server your URL cannot have a plus sign in it otherwise you”ll get a 404 error. Unless you get the detailed custom error you”ll spend pleanty of time wondering why although the page is there the web site dosen”t…
Got any small business recommendations?
