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The Most Popular Free and Open Source Shopping Carts

A shopping cart is a system that is set up on a website with the sole focus of listing and selling products via the Internet. These systems will integrate into the main website and generally provide a back-end or dashboard area that lets the owner do all of the administrative work involved. This [...]

5 Reasons to Choose Australian Web Hosting

If you are a business based in Australia, then the best hosting option for you is with an Australian company. Here is a list of 5 reasons why you should choose an Australian web host as opposed to hosting overseas.

Support – There could possibly be a huge time difference when dealing with an [...]

Will changing web hosts cause any SEO concerns?

Many people often feel trapped with their web hosting company once they have established a website and built up a presence with it on the Internet. Basically their concerns lie in the question of whether a change of web hosts will affect their SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), and it is a phone call our [...]

Gravatars – Globally Recognised Avatars

Anyone that has left a comment on a blog or participated in an online forum has probably come across the word “Gravatar” before. If that word seems unfamiliar, then you actually might be more familiar with this little gray image of a mystery man that is so commonly displayed when no Gravatar is available. [...]

How to Integrate Twitter With Your Website or Blog

In order to get the most out of Twitter, it is a good idea to integrate it with your current website or blog. While using Twitter on it’s own is a method for building up your online brand and making business contacts, integration helps to increase awareness of this other forum for web visitor [...]

Content Management Systems
– The 12 Most Popular Requested by Our Customers

Many people phone Digital Pacific to ask if we can run a particular type of content management system (CMS), even ones not listed on our Extended Support page. Generally speaking, if the CMS runs using PHP and MySQL it can be hosted by Digital Pacific.
To technical, PHP is a scripting language used [...]

SSL Certificates Explained

For the normal person looking to get online, searching through a web host’s website can simply be a confusing list of technological terms and abbreviations. Just one quick look at the Digital Pacific site and you will probably encounter a number of them, such as Gb, VPS and MySQL, right off the bat. [...]

Five Fantastic Add-ons for Firefox

Firefox is definitely Digital Pacific’s web browser of choice, and we gladly recommend it to any of our customers. Like Internet Explorer, Firefox retrieves website files and then renders them together to present the website that you view on the screen before you. Mozilla Firefox works in true open source fashion by [...]

Blog Hosting

It seems that we often talk about blogs around here as being an added benefit to an existing business, or other, website. The truth is that blogs are for everyone – with or without that existing website or business. In reality, many individuals will often choose to have a blog website instead of [...]

Getting your business online with ecommerce

When it comes to selling goods and services, you need to make sure you are tapping all possible markets in order to fully realise the success of your business. Today, the online market is practically taking over, meaning that if your business is not taking advantage of the possibilities of being online, then [...]