Web development

• 6 reasons why your internet startup should be using Amazon Web Services

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  By Martin Carstens: Senior reporter
  Posted 8 March, 2013
  

  Y Combinator co-founder, Paul Graham, defines a startup as "a company designed to grow fast." The definition highlights one of the hardest problems internet startups traditionally faced at the outset: weighing infrastructure capacity and cost. Amazon changed things up when it launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2006. It used economies of scale to offer services -- many of them developed for internal use and opened up to the public later -- to take the guess-work out of upfront infrastructure investments. ...

  Topics: amazon, amazon web services, AWS, bootstrapping, Startups

• Winners and losers in cloud computing and what your business gains

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  By Mohau Mpoti
  Posted 19 July, 2011
  

  The buzz around cloud computing has been around for a while now, and it doesn’t seem like the frenzy around this new phenomenon will wane out any time soon. This might be due to the realisation that the entire IT industry is on the verge of a major revolution, and we all know that in the midst of a revolution, there will always be winners and losers. The promise Cloud computing promises a paradigm shift in the way that we ...

  Topics: Apple, chromebook, Cloud computing, Google, Mac, Microsoft

• Work the look: 5 tips for online clothing retailers

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  By Basheera Khan
  Posted 9 June, 2011
  

  Clothing is one of the biggest growth markets for online retail, with more people welcoming the obvious benefits of online clothes shopping: no battling the crowds, saving time and often money; not having to faff around in changing rooms; and the confidence of knowing you can always return it if it doesn’t fit just right. And yet apparel is still one of the most difficult things to sell online — a hard truth not helped by the fact that, for ...

  Topics: CollectPlus, Net-a-Porter.com, online clothing retail, Stipple, Tightsplease.com, usability for ecommerce sites

• Web forms: Get them right and make more money

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  By Debré Barrett
  Posted 11 May, 2010
  

  A web form is like a solid wall between you and your customer. The customer wants to buy your product. You want to sell your product. But in between there’s the form… and everyone hates filling in forms. Making your forms easier-to-use can have a dramatic effect on your company’s bottom line. Jared Spool has written about a form redesign that increased a company’s annual revenue by $300-million. At Flow Interactive we have seen as much as a 125% increase in ...

  Topics: form design, form usability, how to design web forms, Usability, web form design, web forms

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