Changing a website over to secure SSL (https)


This article was written as a resource for the Xara community but equally applies to many websites/hosting in general. Of course if you have software installed such as blogs or e-commerce, they require additional configuration….

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Fraudulent Activity on Ebay and Paypal


Hacked!?! The panic that sets in when you realize one of your accounts has been ‘hacked’ is not very pleasant. How, where, what else? all come to mind. Its all very humbling. When the initial…

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Google Pagespeed Image Optimization Updated 2017


2017 – Google Updated its criteria for optimizing images for Google Pagespeed Insights … And didn’t tell anyone! I noticed several people on other sites that thought, like me, that they were either going crazy…

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My thoughts on SEO URLs


The reason for this article I originally compiled this in response to a question relating to the merits/pitfalls of including directories and subdirectories in paths relating to SEO on Opencart shopping cart software. “You may…

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Optimizing a Xara Website For Google Pagespeed


  About Google Pagespeed Insights and Xara By default, websites generated by Xara Web Design or Xara Designer Pro software are not server optimized. Quite correctly, in order to be universally compatible, there is no…

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Overview of Google Pagespeed Insights Ranking Criteria


As I am writing several articles about Optimizing websites for Google Pagespeed, rather than repeat this section in each article, I am including it here as a standalone article. The Google Website page is https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/…

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Optimizing Opencart website for Google Pagespeed


Optimizing your Whole Opencart Website for Google Pagespeed This article assumes you have read and applied my previous article on optimizing your Opencart front page for Google Pagespeed Optimizing an Opencart front page for google…

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Optimizing an Opencart front page for google pagespeed 100/100


About Google Pagespeed Insights and Opencart Out of the box, Opencart 2 is mobile friendly and is one of the better performing shopping carts out there, but since page speed is increasingly being taken into…

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Top 3 Tips for People Setting up an online business


Running several websites since 2004, I wanted to share some tips that may be of benefit to other Small online businesses! Get Decent Website Hosting! Its really not worth getting budget hosting for a website…

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Sculptex Opencart Support


I will be sharing my knowledge and experience here for everyones benefit! I have been programming since the 1980’s and I have a wealth of experience of many different platforms and types of programming. Since…

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