How to choose a web developer?

Published on 16 June 2009 by Chris in Development, General

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We are lucky to already have a web developer on board for this project (me ), but if we didn’t have this experience in house, then we would need to look elsewhere. Choosing a web developer will depend quite heavily on your budget, expectations and the scale of your operation.
Once you know what your [...]

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Choosing a technology

Published on 04 June 2009 by Chris in Blog, Development

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If you are building your own eCommerce site, then very early on, you will make a decision on the technology that will make the basis of your site.
Your first decision is to determine if you wish to develop your own system from scratch, or do you want to use readily available open source software and [...]

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Our eCommerce server infrastructure

Published on 02 June 2009 by Chris in Blog, Development

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In order for our eCommerce site to run smoothly and have good load times, we need to start with a good infrastructure to work with.
We will be using our own hosting solution, which will be hosted in a Data Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The hosting infrastructure comprises of the following:

Mail Server: This [...]

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Content management within an eCommerce site is often quite difficult to get right.

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Development from the beginning

Published on 22 May 2009 by Chris in Blog, Development

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We have always used our own software for our ecommerce sites from the beginning. Since then the system has been added to and modified as and when required to add or improve functions on a very ad hoc basis. We had been planning various upgrades to the system in order to improve it’s functionality and [...]

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