Blog <E-commerce, Software>
Comparison of 5 Ecommerce Platforms for Small Business
Traditionally, most buying and selling was done in person in a brick and mortar store. But today’s increasingly digitalized age has caused a significant shift from an in-store to an online shopping experience.

Blog <Software>
Multiple Inserts with Prepared Statements in Symfony 1.4
Using Prepared Statements in Symfony1.4 instead of other methods such as doInsert or creating an object in a loop.

Blog <Software>
The “What” of MySQL ENUMs (as well as the “Why”?)
An explanation of the MySQL Enum (“enumeration”) data type including a discussion of its practicality, advantages and disadvantages, usage examples and alternatives.

Blog <Design, Marketing, Software>
Add a Website to Your New Business
Discussion of the process involved in adding a website to a new business including one-size-fits-all versus customization, collaborative process with website developers, waterfall and agile development methodologies and potential goals of a new business website.

Blog <Design, Software>
4 Tips for Positive User Experience
Four tips for a positive user experience (“UX”) on your website including accessibility to services, “social proofing”, clickable logos and analyzing and using site metrics.

Blog <Design, Marketing, Software>
A Users Guide to WordPress Plugins
A Users Guide to WordPress Plug-Ins for beginners including discussion of All In One SEO Pack, Aksimet, and WooCommerce.

Blog <Software>
Gherkin – It ain’t just a Pickle!
Gherkin is a simple programming language that you’ll frequently find used in many of the more popular Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tools and across programming languages (e.g., Cucumber/Ruby).

Blog <E-commerce, Software>
The Truth About Magento and Entity-Attribute-Value
Magento is a serious e-commerce solution, built from the ground up for the kind of business logic that e-tailers use day in and day out.