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Reminder - E-commerce is the way to go for all businesses

Recently i was able to convince one online skeptic to take his business online. Imagine a business man with a full shop selling household items has never thought about establishing an online presence. After setting up his e-commerce shop, it took about 4 months to get the first order from a foreign country but these 4 months was not without him asking me everyday when the sales would start coming in. Actually for somebody with no web / e-commerce knowledge and also not willing to invest in his online presence to make a sale after 4 months of setting up a basic e-commerce website was quite lucky. I think its enough evidence to look more into e-commerce. Please see the article below; Benefits of E-commerce Solutions and Online Shopping Cart Systems
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A word on Freelancing

From experience i have found that most working people on 9-5 jobs always nurse that ambition to go into Freelancing. We know that one of the biggest steps to take in life for any individual with a regular job is that step into your own business and finally have the opportunity to be your own boss. The opportunities offered by freelancing in today's internet world is second to none for anybody that has that little skill to offer. No matter what level of skill you have, it can be put to use to earn money. Please read up a little article on freelancing by clicking on the link below. A Freelancer’s Life – Who Are You?
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The Importance Good Web Design

As a business, if you are not making use of the web, you are missing out big time. I recently spoke to a web designer who told me he has no personal website to show his business. The first thing that came to my mind is doubt. Is he really a web designer? where would your potential clients see your portfolio ? How do you reach out to your clients ? The article below supports our view on this. Why The Correct Web Design and SEO Are Essential
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Phoca Gallery

We cannot deny the fact that Joomla is one of the best Content Management Systems on the internet today and even the best for some people. Extending Joomla is quite easy with loads of free and commercial Components, Modules and Plugins. Phoca Gallery stands out as one of the best extensions with an active online support. For those wishing to publish pictures online, you may wish to consider Phoca gallery. As you go through the Phoca gallery extensions parameters, you would discover how easy it is to configure your gallery into anything you want it to do. One of the problems you would find after installing Phoca gallery is how to remove the ' Powered by Phoca gallery link'. Dont worry, just search the forums or make a donation, contact the phoca team with your donations details and you would be sent files that would remove the link.
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SEO - Content is King!

Recently there have been much talks about the changes being applied by Google on their search engine. Whether it is Panda or Penguin, every ordinary webmaster would understand that all these boils down to content. Google has always emphasized the use of quality content and gone are the days where you can simply employ some black hat SEO and you are made in the search engines. Now Webmasters would have to work hard and be as genuine as possible. Please read an article here on how content and SEO works. How to Reap Rich Rewards with the Latest Algorithm Updates
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Product disappears from cart in Prestashop 1.5

Prestashop 1.5 version is really pissing users off but this is just because there are so many problems here and there . We find that some of these problems are also due to the fact that people are still not used to the new features added in Prestashop 1.5 and also lack of simple documentation. The problem below is not a feature problem but we cant call it a bug also since it has not been raised as a bug. We regard this as a work around and not the final solution. Problem: Once product is added to the cart, it disappears if you want to view the cart. Solution 1: For the moment, the work around would be to go to BO > SEO/URL and remove the www prefix in the shop url. (this would reduce the font-sizes in your shop) Solution 2: If you have enabled Layered Navigation module in the header block, this may be causing the problem. Check this and if it is the problem, you do not need solution 1.
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Video on Website

Recently i made it a must to include video in all the websites we develop for clients at Master Digital Services Ltd . We were actually very surprised how this feature annoys some of our clients. They would complain that they do not want any video on their website. While some would complain about the video on their website, some would just pretend as if its not in existence on the website. Let us remind website owners that there are many advantages of having an active and relevant video on your website. Please see the article below; Three Benefits of Video Marketing
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Hiding the 'Details' word from the Joomla article in 2.5

For those that prefer not to use the default Joomla Templates and decides to code theirs would find some common problems associated with custom templates. One of the problem is the word 'Details' sticking out above the article parameters. While some may struggle to adjust this from the Article options parameters in the backend, one of the best ways is to adjust it in the template CSS file. Adding this CSS syntax .article-info-term {display:none;} would remove it. Enjoy!
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Horizontal pagination list in Joomla Custom Template.

Custom templates in Joomla for newbies comes with their own problems. One of the problems after successfully publishing your Joomla custom template is how to adjust the pagination list from vertical to horizontal. As usual, this can be achieved with CSS. Adding the following CSS code in the template CSS file would solve this. Here is the code ; .pagination ul li{ display: inline; padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px; }
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XCOPY Invalid Parameters Problem

If you are trying to use Command line language for the first time, you may find it very difficult to comprehend but as usual, in everything you do in life, Practice leads to perfection. One of the best uses of the command language in MS-DOS is to help copy files quicker and securely . This is especially good for large files. COPY or XCOPY is your language to copy files with different switches attached to XCOPY particularly. Please see a complete xcopy description here. The common problem you would face using xcopy is getting the invalid parameters error. For invalid parameters error, please make sure that you put your source or destination path in quotes (" ") if any of the path files or folders has a space. Lets say your source or destination folder looks like this - C:\My Documents you would get an invalid parameters error with that but if you do this - "C:\My Documents" you should be fine.
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Master Digital Services. LLC.
Founded in 2008, we have gradually built from bottom to top and we are still building. MDS is fully committed to its clients and exercises conscience in our business dealings with clients.

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