Whether you are developing a standard blog, corporate website, e-commerce store or just making your presence known on the Web, the days of hand-coding HTML-based pages and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) have passed. To setup a website, you will need to purchase a domain name, set up web hosting and install a content management system (CMS) to the server. Within minutes, you can have a simple website that can display your content. Of course, your new website can be used a number of ways from displaying images, to your latest insights on your special niche, to operating a technical support page or advertising services. Due to their flexibility at being able to manage all of these tasks, the use of CMS platforms will only get bigger.
There are over 1200 content management systems out there. Three of the biggest CMS platforms for building websites are WordPress, Joomla, Drupal. We’ll also take a look at Magento, an e-commerce CMS. These CMS offer the versatility needed to appeal to a range of requirements. The biggest advantage of these four CMS platforms is their ease of use. A newcomer to creating pages can have a basic website created in only a few minutes. Continue reading
In the last couple months several people have asked me what WordPress plugins are the best, which do we use on our sites, and what each plugin does. There over 31,000 plugins in the WordPress repository, and thousands of paid plugins and add-ons available on the web. It can be hard to figure out what to use. So to get started, here’s a list of our top 10 plugins that we use on our latest sites. 
WordPress brute-force attacks are a nuisance. Not only that, they are potentially dangerous, especially if one of your users is using a not-so-great password. The amount of damage that can be caused by a cracked 
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