PHP is now on version 7.3 with 7.4 coming around the corner in November of 2019. 7.0 has been the shining light that kept PHP alive. Several alternatives threatened to make PHP 5.6 obsolete and with version 6 being skipped these alternatives almost did. But PHP came back strong with version 7. Improving virtually every…
Category: WordPress
5 Quick Ways to Improve WordPress For Better User Experience
Everyone wants their website to be popular, but there’s tons of competition among WordPress sites. Considered the most popular content management system (CMS) on the planet, it now runs 34% of the entire internet and has over half of the CMS market. So, how do you make your website stand out from the crowd? The obvious answer…
5 Tips to Market the Content of Your Website Successfully
Whether you’ve just started out with content marketing or have been producing content online for some time, your strategy should be as economical and effective as possible. Your business needs to attract the attention of people searching online for products and services, and the stakes are high. According to recent figures, more than 4 million…
WordPress finally bumps up security in version 5.2
WordPress is a great way to build a website. So great about a third of the Internet uses it now! Unfortunately though it is also not the most secure way, actually not by far. In the latest version 5.2 WordPress finally starts to address much needed security issues. We just hope this is the first…
MySQL 5.5 is officially dying this week
cPanel announced yesterday that it will block all updates to the server if it still uses MySQL 5.5. This means if you have been putting off upgrading your MySQL server wide, now is the time to do it. Not getting updates mean security and performance issues will soon follow. If you have a password warning…
Good online user experience wanted
Having a website is a great thing, it’s really a must-have nowadays for most businesses as well. But just having a website is rarely good enough to tap into its full potential. You also need to provide a good user experience. It’s becoming more and more common that your website is your business’s first impression…
What is SSL? A Beginner’s Guide to SSL Certificates
One of the primary reasons for putting up a website is so that it can be found and accessed by others. Whether you have a site essential to your business or a personal blog, you want potential visitors to be able to locate you and feel that they are entering a trusted environment. This is…
What is a responsive website?
Back when mobile phones started showing websites, bandwidth was a major concern. Mobile carriers would charge a ton of money for even watching a five-minute video (Like $40!). As a webmaster, most of us decided the best way to avoid pissing customers off when trying to see our website on their phones was to create…