E-Commerce
WooCommerce Payment Link When Not Logged In
All E-commerce platforms can be complicated and often, with security and other updates, functionality can unexpectedly change. Of course, store owners just want things to work as expected and often are not aware of reasons why something might change. Some of the reasons that functionality of an e-commerce platform can change include: Security issues that…
Read MoreShould You Use Dedicated Hosting Resources?
Over the years, shared hosting plans have become so inexpensive that it’s almost ridiculous for any business not to have a web presence with some kind of website. When we first started our business which included website hosting back in 1998, hosting costs for a website could be $1,000.00 per year or more! And you…
Read MoreSkyScan USA – New E-Commerce Site Launched
Here at The Ian Scott Group, we’re very proud to be enjoying a long term (10+ years) with SkyScan USA, a distributor and retailer of awesome lightning detection devices. SkyScan has been a pleasure to work with over the years, and this week, we launched their new responsive e-commmerce website. Based in Florida, SkyScan USA…
Read MoreTime To Get That SSL Certificate And Move To HTTPS
If you’re serious about your business, you’re probably serious about your website (or you should be). And that means you really need to be thinking about migrating your website to the SSL protocol instead of the “regular” http. Google has been hinting for some time now that in their opinion, SSL is extremely important for…
Read MoreSEO And SSL: Our Own Case Study
For some time now, Google have been recommending that websites use the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol if at all possible. As we discussed earlier in our article entitled “Webmaster Guidelines And SSL,” there are two protocols that websites can run on: Regular unencrypted HTTP, and encrypted HTTPS over SSL. Briefly, HTTPS or SSL creates…
Read MoreResponsive osCommerce & Canada Post Rates (Dimensional Support)
There are a number of online e-commerce shopping carts available, and it seems the number grows frequently. osCommerce is one of the earlier carts and is based on PHP and mySQL (as many are). There are literally thousands of installations of osCommerce around the world today and it’s often a favourite because it is open…
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