20 February, 2015

Businesses Should Avoid Wordpress, Unless....
By: Matthew Jackson

We do design websites for both big companies and small, and most businesses should avoid Wordpress. Discalimer: We try to avoid developing for Wordpress though if a client insists we can and have developed for them in Wordpress. Sometimes it is a good idea to use Wordpress, but make sure the below do NOT apply to you first. Though this is specific to Wordpress we do believe it applies to any or most CMS.

 

Security

Wordpress sites get hacked alot. As a business this is the...

Tags: Wordpress

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9 February, 2015

SEO: Is it worth spending money on SEO?
By: Matthew Jackson

Should I spend money on SEO?

To be fair, we do sell SEO services here in Toronto, Canada, & abroad. Suprisingly SEO is worth it and not worth it! Surprised?

What NOT to do

It depends on the following: how are you boosting your seo? Is it by using SEO Secrets!? That is really bad! Why? It is simple... Google wants to connect users to websites. If you are cheating your way to google searchers, well that undermines google since searchers might be unhappy. Google might even penalize you;...

Tags: SEO, Business

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28 January, 2015

Creating a Blog with PHPixie, Part 1
By: Matthew Jackson

     We assume that you have a limited knowledge of Phpixie, and you can login (ie: users). You can see how to authenticate and have a user here. You can ignore most of the user code if you prefer to have your blogs editable or postable by anyone.

     Creating a blog first means creating the database layer. We will show you a simple, but we feel effective database table based off not just our own knowledge, but what we found available on the web as...

Tags: PHPixie, PHP, Blog

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15 January, 2015

Prevent Hackers with PHPixie
By: Matthew Jackson

It is important to know when programming how to prevent hacking. Here is another way where PHPixie works great and as expected.It appears to me that PHPixie protects against alot of stanard hacking if used in the proper and expected way:

 

When getting post data, instead of using the standard PHP: $_POST["variable_name"]; (WRONG)

Use PHPhixie:
$this->pixie->post("variable_name");

 

When adding it into the database do NOT use mysql queries... instead use...

Tags: PHPixie, Security, SQL

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