Does your website load as quickly as you — and your users — would like? If not, here’s a detailed set of proven guidelines aimed at improving the speed of your site.

The benefits of speed optimized pages:

1. Your visitors will be happier, and will feel much more engaged on a snappy site than a slow one. User interface responsiveness is a very large contributing factor to how users trust your content and company. Users trust and enjoy fast sites, and are quickly frustrated by slow sites.
2. The faster that you can serve content to your visitors, the faster they’ll be off your servers, leaving them free to serve the next visitor. That means that you can handle greater traffic loads, with less hardware.
3. Smaller overall downloads means lower bandwidth bills at the end of the month.

MagenThemes.Com has recently opened our Magento Themes Club, providing at least two new Magento Themes each month to subscribed members. But what do you need to know before you join our Magento Theme Club?

Vietnam offshoring and outsourcing contract manufacturing services are a late comer to the global supply chain destination stage.

Due to an emergence of a wide degree of sourcing arrangements within, and with, the country, Vietnam’s contract manufacturing opportunities are developing at a rate that was not on the global radar ten to fifteen years ago.

While Vietnam’s wages can be as low as 1/20th of Taiwan’s wages, its labor rates are still not as competitive as China’s. Meanwhile, Vietnam has devised a national strategy for its IT industry that is much different from those strategies adopted by Singapore and South Korea in the 1960’s and 1970’s

In these technologically advanced times, the internet has provided many a business solutions to individuals. Among them e-commerce is fast becoming a highly sophisticated and developed business. Magento is a new generation PHP based open source e-commerce solution which offers a plethora of benefits. It offers merchants total flexibility and power over the appearance, content, and functionality of their online store.

Content Management System (CMS) has become increasingly popular over the years for many Internet Entrepreneurs. If you were like me, who like to use open source solutions for your business, you will find this article useful as I will be sharing with you some of the advantages and disadvantages of commonly used CMS like WordPress and Joomla.

As usual, I had a client with a very specific request for their Joomla website: they had some forms on their website that they didn't want accessible to the general public. Furthermore, they didn't want their clients to have to register. Instead, they preferred to have one password to protect these forms. If they wanted a client to have access to the forms, they would send the password to the client. I did a Google search and found MosPasswort Plugin for Joomla.

So, what are the capabilities of the Joomla software? Actually, the capabilities are endless. Because of the open source coding, variations and extensions to the initial Joomla core components are endless. If you can think it, someone, somewhere can design it and it will work with the core software program.

Yes, this means that you can use this program to create a social networking website. And actually, it can be very easy. You can have all the cool features on your social site as any of the other social sites do. There are actually social sites that have already been developed using this software. And yes, there is an extension of the core software that will help you do this!

Add Free or Paid Memberships to Joomla 1.5, using freely available components & plugins.

For webmasters on a budget Joomla has already proven a very powerful tool. With easy installation through fantastico, an unofficial estimate of Joomla websites is around 5.000.000.

Several times we have received above question from our customer in order that to day we will show you how to redirect your Magento site from a non-www, ex. http://yoursite.com to http://www.yoursite.com. There is a trick there.

1. Enable Url rewriting (Admin Panel → System → Configuration → Web → Url Options → Use Web Server Rewrites → Yes).
2. Now go to your .htaccess file on your Magento folder, (you might need to back up your .htaccess before making your changes.)