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Let us call you back to the issue of website security, you may not be aware that your website is constantly being hacked or hacking attempts made regularly. Sometimes i wonder why some people would own websites and abandon their sites. Some of these sites were designed with high budget and it’s painful when you see such sites being neglected by their owners.

Start by checking your site today for malicious codes and blacklisting,  if you are an active webmaster  it is very difficult to get your site hacked with malicious codes   because you would be doing the following;

• Visit your website regularly or several times a day
• Back up your home directory and databases daily or  weekly

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Recently i had problem with an oscommerce shop that belongs to one of my clients, It is so disturbing these days how oscommerce based shops are being hacked. One major advice i would give any shop owner running on oscommerce platform is to make sure you have a clean copy of your files backed up and be very careful not to mix that copy  up with subsequent backups.

Actually this is the second time i have had this problem with an oscommerce script, but just incase you want to use oscommerce, do not forget to use any good available security that has been provided as an approved contribution.

One good security for people is to try and use the oscommerce security pro,  but if you find your oscommerce website hacked, just don’t bother looking for the malicious codes as most times the hacker must have corrupted a lot of  files with malicious codes like mixing javascript in php codes etc. Just go ahead and re-upload the whole site again(home directory) you must be careful about re-uploading the database file, if it’s not harmed , just leave it.

Afterwards try to test every aspect of your site , and lastly do not forget to change your passwords again both at the site admin and server.

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After searching for while i finally found comm100 free live chat software. One of the biggest problems with live chat software that runs on your own server is the amount of resources it can take out of your server. If you are a small business trying to offer live chat session on your website, then you had better consider comm100.

There are many others offering this services but they limit non paying users in so many ways but comm100 is completely free and unlimited access to all services they offer. It loads fast and runs on their server so you do not need to worry about live chat taking up your server resources .

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I just stumbled on this  interesting article on SEO and felt i should share it with you.

The issue of search engine and page ranking seems to remain a big secret in the internet world. Achieving a high page rank and high traffic through search engines is a huge task for web masters, getting up there is not easy but it takes a lot more to maintain the status quo once a site hits it big with the search engines. Please see an excerpt from a blog below;

“The original PageRank algorithm was described by Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin in several publications. It is given by

PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + … + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))”

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Thanks for your continued presence on our blog, please note that we are continously calling for articles from members to hep us build a solid online presence that will serve all.

Now getting straight to business as usual, we would like to introduce you to some good virtuemart modules that would help enhance your shop. Please note that there are so many open source ecommerce platforms out there but if you are somebody that uses joomla virtuemart, please take a look at these two modules.

1. VIRTUEMART PRODUCT SLIDESHOW: This module helps give your product display that bright and animated touch that would attract a visitors attention. It can be customised and postioned anywhere. Putting it at the top is always the best. This is non-commercial.

2. MAGIC ZOOM VIRTUEMART COMPONENT: This component helps visitors and customers to zoom out a product image as a clear bigger image  by placing the mouse on the image itself . This would help to enhance the look of your products. This is commercial.

It is advisable tp present product images in white backgrounds. Please contact MDS if you would like to set up a store online.

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Recently i had an arguement with a friend concerning the best open source  ecommerce softwares  to use , at the end of the day we agreed that they all serve different purposes but he actually made a case for wordpress ecommerce solution which i have never really been convinced about. After reading his wonderful article, i decided to publish it here as he has made a strong case for wordpress.

“Building Successful Store is very difficult Process But with wordpress its become easy. Recently the wordpress market folded with Free and premium E-commerce plugins and templates with quality function and easy management.  Today I will write about some of quality Plugins and wordpress that’s can help you to start up your online store not only this but also some premium service provided by E-commerce experts Like Shopfiy and Others.”

You can read from his personal  blog here .

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Somehow this is not included in the editor of your wordpress post but can easily be added through switching to a html mode. Switching to html mode would allow you to insert appropriate html tags to change things in your text. For you to be able to do this  you must have a basic idea of how to write html.  With common sense, a html novice can google this solution,  copy  and paste the right code into the right place, please visit a very good article about this here.

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Recently a visitor was trying to comment on this blog and also posting some codes for us to help out, he was having problems with his joomla template and when we asked him to post his code here for us to see, he became frustrated after posting it so many times with the codes being converted into characters  like  &lt; and &gt;. The thing here is that wordpress would normally interprete anything inside < and > as if it's html. For a quick guide on how to solve this please visit this article here.

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