Engineering

We review the pros and cons of popular website builders, from WordPress and Wix to Shopify and Squarespace.

We analysed 53 web hosting companies to find out which services are the best.

When I bought VentureHarbour.com two years ago, I had no idea how popular this website would become. Over the past six months, our traffic has increased tenfold. We’ve seen our…

“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” – Derek Powazak When it comes to domain name registration, there is no such thing as a free lunch….

Why pay $5/month for something that you can get for free? When I began building websites this was my perspective on free web hosting. Since then, i’ve learned that free…

Last night, I ran an experiment to see just how much impact installing a CDN would have on improving page loading times. I’d heard that they can save up to…

With the recent discovery of the Heartbleed bug, a major security flaw that was present in masses of websites including Google, Yahoo, Instagram and Netflix, internet security is something that,…

The right image or photograph can bring an otherwise average blog post, infographic, or presentation to life. But finding images that are simultaneously beautiful, affordable, and easy to license can…

I have a love-hate relationship with WordPress slider plugins. On the one hand, they’re great for adding flare and displaying extra content without having to give away extra real estate…

Having built and marketed hundreds of websites for over ten years now, I’m often asked what is the best, cheapest, or fastest platform to build a website. As many of…