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Setting Up SharePoint for Small Businesses

Setting Up SharePoint for Small Businesses

SharePoint, like most Microsoft products, is rich with built-in tools and features. While these features are a boon to users, making the program a powerful system for collaboration, they can also make the program difficult to master. Getting started with SharePoint doesn’t require learning what every menu and button has …..

by May 28, 2013 0 comments Software
Web Design Basics

Web Design Basics

A website serves two purposes: to deliver information to potential customers and to turn those readers into actual customers. A jewelry website with a tiny button to purchase in the bottom corner will lose customers who don’t want to spend time searching for a checkout. Flashing images and sound will …..

by April 22, 2013 0 comments Internet
VPS: Advantages for Small Businesses

VPS: Advantages for Small Businesses

In every company there’s this ongoing conversation about how to make things run smoothly. Efficiency is often measured by how well business processes are executed. In the modern business world, how we measure efficiency is almost invariably linked to the technology we implement to execute our most mission-critical business processes. …..

by April 15, 2013 0 comments Business
Cloud and Traditional VPS: It’s Not a Zero-Sum Game

Cloud and Traditional VPS: It’s Not a Zero-Sum Game

For better or worse, there has always been a war waging in the VPS hosting space. On one side of the debate is traditional Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting that has businesses of all sizes have relied on for years. On the other side of this debate is cloud VPS hosting, which …..

by April 11, 2013 0 comments Internet
Website Addtions Leading to Conversion

Website Addtions Leading to Conversion

A well-organized website will help your small business succeed by obtaining hot leads, making many sales, growing your client base and so much more. The layout and design of your website is the key to helping you turn those who are “just looking” into buying customers, which is known as …..

by April 8, 2013 0 comments Business
Site Marketing: Web Design Tips for Small Businesses

Site Marketing: Web Design Tips for Small Businesses

As a small business, the first impression you make on potential customers is one of your greatest opportunities to convert viewers to buyers. For most small business owners, their website is a vital part of that first impression. Within seconds of landing on your website home page, a viewer will …..

by April 1, 2013 0 comments Business
Web Hosting Just Isn’t the Same Without Support

Web Hosting Just Isn’t the Same Without Support

By Jennifer Marsh Jennifer Marsh is a software developer, programmer and technology writer and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. Although web hosting support is a part of most contracts, each host has its own fine print and definition of good support. For this reason, new webmasters searching for the best …..

by March 13, 2013 0 comments Business
SharePoint Deployment: Have A Plan!

SharePoint Deployment: Have A Plan!

Have you decided to implement SharePoint into your technological setup? You’ve made an excellent decision — and one that is sure to serve you well both on the financial and organizational front. However, a new SharePoint system can go from something full of potential to a complete flop if you fail to put …..

by March 5, 2013 0 comments Software
Picking Out the Right DSLR Camera

Picking Out the Right DSLR Camera

A DSLR camera offers more control over the exposure, focus and composition of your snapshots. For family photos and travel pics, it’s a must. Yet with so many digital SLRs on the market, picking the right model can be difficult. Prices are relatively high, so there’s a lot at stake. Consider this …..

by March 3, 2013 0 comments Gadgets
Moving SharePoint to the Cloud

Moving SharePoint to the Cloud

When projects require collaboration, your business requires an interface that makes that collaboration simple for your team. Microsoft SharePoint provides just that kind of solution for your business needs, giving everyone on your team access to databases, reports, files from company websites and applications in a user-friendly format. If your business is …..

by February 5, 2013 0 comments Business
Error Handling in Your PHP Cloud Applications

Error Handling in Your PHP Cloud Applications

By Jennifer Marsh Jennifer Marsh is a software developer, programmer and technology writer and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. Error handling is an often forgotten part of application development. PHP developers can test for days, but typically, users will find a way to cause an error in an application. To …..

by January 28, 2013 0 comments Software
The Ultimate Guide to Ultrabooks

The Ultimate Guide to Ultrabooks

One of the newest types of products to hit the personal computer market is the ultrabook, a streamlined laptop   designed for people on the go. Intel has set specifications that manufacturers must meet for all devices marketed as ultrabooks, which means that there’s a distinct set of benefits these devices …..

by December 13, 2012 0 comments Gadgets

Cloud in the industry

By: Patrick Burke Patrick Burke is a writer and editor based in the greater New York area and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. Cloud Saves Health Care Industry Time And Money The cloud’s prognosis is looking more and more positive. The immense computing power of the cloud is making it …..

by November 19, 2012 0 comments Business, Internet, Software

Wide Open Future: Creating New Opportunities with Drupal Sites

By Sue Poremba Sue Poremba is a freelance writer focusing primarily on security and technology issues and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. Drupal is positioned uniquely in the open source content management platform sphere as both an out-of-the-box product, ready to operate a full-featured website, as well as having a …..

by October 18, 2012 0 comments Business, Internet, Software
The interactive brand: Inviting educated consumers to shop with mobile apps

The interactive brand: Inviting educated consumers to shop with mobile apps

ow paramount are mobile devices to retailers? According to Motorola, 39 percent of shoppers used smartphones to influence their decision to walk out of a store. Additionally, 55 percent of consumers were better informed than store associates, all due to the ubiquity of mobile apps and online shopping tools. Gone …..

by October 1, 2012 0 comments Business