Austin Web Design Archives

Replacing Your Blogger Blog

by Jacqueline Sinex
Friday, February 5th, 2010

Have you heard? Blogger, a popular community blogging tool, has discontinued FTP support. What does this mean? It means that you will no longer be able to publish your Blogger blog directly to your website – you will be forced to migrate to a “Blogspot” address instead. Never fear, there are other options. Your web […]

Most Valuable Business Expense

by Jacqueline Sinex
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Recently I replied in a discussion forum asking the question, If you could only have one marketing expense for your business what would it be. Naturally, I replied with a great website! Reflecting on this more, what I should have said was, A good professional web designer. When you hire a professional web designer/web developer, […]

Setting Up Online Transactions

by Bobby Martinez
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Here’s a quick tip for a first-time e-commerce project. If you plan to support real-time automated credit card transactions, you will be setting up a merchant banking account with a payment gateway (such as Authorize.net, LinkPoint, YourPay, etc.). If this is a new merchant account or a new gateway service, at some point the bank […]

Holiday E-Sales

by Jacqueline Sinex
Friday, December 11th, 2009

Despite that the average American is dreaming more about their upcoming vacation than their business, December is a time when website owners seek out opportunities to drive sales. And it isn’t too late to take advantage of the holiday buying frenzy. Things you can do to make money with your website this holiday season: Add […]

Photo Gallery Tools

by Bobby Martinez
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Thinking of adding a photo gallery to your website? There are a plethora of great gallery management tools available these days, some for quite a low cost or even free. Sometimes the free tools are enough to get someone by for a while, such as Google’s Picasso or Photo Bucket. These member-based photo communities are […]

Unique Website Backgrounds

by Jacqueline Sinex
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

With the wonderful flexibilities of CSS (style sheets), we are able to create attractive backgrounds with minimal coding and without compromising the efficiency of a website. Adding an elegant background element can help the website to stand out from the crowd, or it can even send a message about what your website is trying to […]

What’s Great About Drupal?

by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

My favorite feature about Drupal content management software is how easy it is to edit a content page. With the top toolbar administration setup, you can simply stay logged in and browse the website as if you were a visitor. When you find a page that needs revising, there is a handy Edit link right […]

What’s Great About Authorize.net?

by Jacqueline Sinex
Friday, October 30th, 2009

In our years of e-commerce development, we have worked with a variety of payment gateways to integrate a business’s credit card processing service with a website. Authorize.net is currently one of the most popular gateway services available, making it very easy to install for almost any shopping cart. Most software already has a module available [&

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