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We have been asked the same question, again and again lately, so we are writing this blog post to try and weigh up the facts as to which system is most suited to your eCommerce requirements, Magento or Shopify. Lets begin by weighing up the pros and cons on each system, which I have put into a simple table below. MAGENTO PROS VS SHOPIFY PROS Extensively customisable with support from huge Magento open source community which integrates with many other systems For non professional end users this may be a...

We are very proud to have been awarded a TrustPilot Excellent rating, built up recently from 40 happy client reviews, who all gave us a 5 star rating. Trustpilot.com is a website founded in Denmark in 2007 which publishes reviews for online businesses. The site lists and promotes registered businesses for free but charges fees for additional promotion. Since this is probably the leading word on company reviews its important to be found on it, see our own excellent listing results HERE. Our clients have been very kind to take the...

In recent days there has been a lot of stir in the online community in particular WordPress, to do with the new GDPR privacy law which is coming into affect on the 25th of May 2018. Owners of WordPress websites are urged to take action to be compliant before this date. So what exactly do you need to do to make my WordPress compliant with the new GDPR laws? Additionally, there is a document that has been prepared by ICO (information commissioners office) which has an easy to follow 12...

Often emails sent by WordPress can end up in your spam folder, because it isn’t setting the message envelope properly. So the actual message envelope is using the server hostname which is just not correct, it will work but it is not ideal. To fix this issue, you should setup WordPress to send emails properly and set the full message envelope correctly. What does this mean? The best way to explain this problem is with an example. Let’s say you have your WordPress website (let’s call it, mysite1.com) on a server with Fully...

When it comes to choosing the right web design company to create your website, you have the entire world to choose from. This is one of the best aspects of the internet; you have the opportunity to work with people from all around the world. If you are a company, you have a genuine opportunity to engage with customers who would never come to your physical store and sell products to virtually anyone. Of course, that is the theory of the internet but in reality, it is very different. The vast...

Perfect for the Christmas season we have a special gift for you: A free responsive HTML template! You can browse a demo here or by clicking on the picture. This template was created using the CSS preprocessor Sass and its framework Compass (if you are new to this you can read a little bit more about Sass and Compass on their respective websites). Don’t worry if you don’t know what to do with all this Sass and Compass business, I have included a normal CSS file for easy editing. The template is perfect for a small...