Does My WordPress Website Need A SSL Certificate?
What is SSL? SSL stands for “Secure Sockets Layer”, a fancy way of saying that data is safely being transmitted to and from your website. Specifically, it means that there is a secure transmission of data between a web server and a browser. Therefore, pretty much any website needs a SSL certificate if it collects […]
An Introduction to Caching
One of the most common things a website owner will hear when trying to troubleshoot a problem is a request to “clear the browser cache”. What is a Cache? The cache (pronounced like “cash”) is a collection of frequently-used data. What caching does is enable a website to load more quickly by storing data most […]
How to Choose a Hosting Company
Updated: November 21, 2019 “You get what you pay for” definitely applies to website hosting. The factors you most need to define when deciding how to choose a hosting company are number of users per month, the size of the website, and if the website is collecting sensitive information such as credit card processing. Let’s […]
Some Deadlines Delayed for Website Accessibility Implementation
Yesterday, September 19, 2016, the Israeli Knesset approved a proposal to delay the enactment of Israeli website accessibility regulations. This comes after months of lobbying for a more balanced approach to the implementation of these intricate regulations. Many concerned website owners turned to the Israeli Internet Association to figure out how to comply wide-reaching laws, which […]
Getting An SSL Certificate Just Got A Lot Easier (and Cheaper!)
Secure websites are marked with an SSL Certificate (Secure Sockets Layer), which authenticates the identity of a website. You’ve seen this on any website whose URL begins https:// Just click the lock icon (on Chrome in this example) and you’ll see further information about the verification of this address. The idea is to assure users […]
Israeli Website Accessibility Guidelines
Updated: May 29, 2019 One of the greatest things about the internet is that it has a democratizing effect – a world of information is at your fingertips online and you can instantly connect with people around the world, exploring new ideas, different opinions, and receive access to services. But it’s actually not accessible to everyone with […]
Grow Your Sales With These 6 Tips
Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg consults for businesses and executives around the world. Yesterday he shared his top tips for growing sales with participants of the Temech Conference, and I think you’ll find them helpful whether you are a freelancer or a large corporation. 1. BIRG : Basking in Reflecting Glory. Ex. when a real estate agent hands […]
Search Engine Optimization for Mere Mortals
The biggest SEO mistakes (by volume) that website content managers make are not because they haven’t hired a fancy SEO firm. That’s at least according to Matt Cutts, who leads Google’s web spam team and regularly blogs and answers questions about best SEO practices. In fact, by following some basic guidelines, you can probably significantly […]
Making Editing Product Variations Simple
We’re currently working on an e-commerce website that sells, among other things, clothing and underwear in a large variety of sizes and colors. Using the WooCommerce e-commerce plugin for WordPress is fairly straightforward, but once you have four (or more) sizes, and five colors, for each product, we found that it started to get a bit unwieldy, […]
Easy Savings on Paid WordPress Plugins and Extensions
Would you be willing to spend 5 minutes of your time to save $16? Five minutes is all I had to spend in order to find valuable discounts on WooCommerce extensions that I planned to buy. Figuring that I see coupons for products that I don’t need all of the time, I thought that a quick Google search […]