Ask any sample group of web gurus what makes for a great business website and you’re guaranteed hundreds of different answers. Conflicting information all over the web makes it very difficult to know what to trust, but by doing away with wild theories and plucking out only what’s been tried and tested, it becomes easy … Read more
There’s always a good excuse for putting off a major website overhaul for another day – the prospect is about as appealing as shutting up shop and kissing goodbye to a fair bit of business. However, there’s really no excuse whatsoever for overlooking the importance of a few minor tweaks here and there that pretty … Read more
The e-commerce market is right now moving at a pace that hardly anyone can realistically keep up with. It wasn’t too long ago that the idea of an online store was rather far-fetched to say the least – a few big businesses and highly-innovative entrepreneurs had them, but very few others. Since then, building an … Read more
We’ve reached a point in time where the vast majority of webmasters and business owners are fully aware of the importance of mobile. What’s more, most also know to some extent that mobile SEO exists, matters and is different in many respects from standard SEO. Whether a business goes the SEO outsource route or takes … Read more
It’s as exciting as it is from time to time nerve-wracking – setting up and launching your own website is a bit like watching your own baby walk for the first time…sort of. The thing is though, where so many newbies end up selling themselves short is by failing to give sufficient thought to the … Read more
So you’ve probably heard a ton about the new ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ initiative laid out by the European Union, which for the most part simply means that anyone now has the right to request Google to remove anything they choose that concerns them or is their property. It sounds like a pretty colossal and … Read more
Joomla is one of the world’s favourite platforms for building eCommerce websites and all manner of other online business ventures. However, there are certain common mistakes made particularly by newcomers that have the potential to put a serious dent in the outfit’s potential for success. Here at Pivotal Hosting, we’re always being asked to advise … Read more
For webmasters, business owners and most hobbyists alike, there’s little worse than discovering their website has been hacked into. This of course counts double if the damage done has been severe or the security of the data is compromised, but even if little to nothing untoward has happened, knowing that an unauthorized party violated your … Read more
The problem faced by the vast majority if newbies to eCommerce right now is the way in which each and every online business sector hasn’t just grown, it’s exploded right off the scale. No matter what kind of winning idea you come up with, what you plan to sell or how you plan to sell … Read more
It’s rare to find Joomla being assessed on its own merit these days as each and every time a CMS is brought into conversation, comparisons with WordPress are bound to follow. This is the same with every content management system on the market right now as there’s no denying that WordPress sets the bar as … Read more