If you listen to the chatter regarding global markets today, the two power-houses to watch are (drum roll, please), India and China. Although e-commerce is still booming in the US and Europe, year over year growth will, at some point subside and match other ‘brick and mortar’ industries. Internet penetration (i.e. the percentage of users with Internet access) in the US is nearing 70%, followed closely by Australia and Europe. What really fuels the growth of Internet sales now is a shift from retail sales to online sales. So, savvy marketers have their sights set on new game, with the same potential for growth that the US and Europe had nearly a decade ago. (more…)

Beyond providing a fluid user experience, intuitive navigation, search engine friendly source and a secure transactional environment, website operators also need to concern themselves with preventing the unimaginable - hacking. Every day, new vulnerabilities in server operating systems and software are found - and used, to compromise commercial websites. Although your ISP should provide daily security scans and frequent audits on all of your servers, it behooves every e-commerce company to put its best foot forward by ensuring the security, uptime and redundancy of it’s servers. (more…)

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As a webmaster, the above message should bring a chill to your bones, and have you reaching for your security blanket. Yet, on August 28th, 2004, thousands of webmasters woke to find this message glaring back at them from their computer screens. (more…)