Customer Service
Live Chat on your Website
Many people hear the words ‘Live Chat’ and think ‘Expensive’. However, it is possible to have a live chat service installed on your website that will allow you to communicate directly with your clients, and potential clients. The costs do vary depending on the business and the level of customization involved. That being said, with [...]
A Digital Office
In this time of economic turmoil everyone is feeling the pinch. Your customers are spending less money, which in turn leaves your business with less money to spend. No company can stop spending entirely even in the most dire of times, which leads you to reanalyze what you are spending your money on. Where is [...]
Internships
Interns can be a very powerful tool for any business. Most interns are highly motivated, driven, and up to date with the goings-on of whatever area they are applying for an internship in. The fact that they are green when it comes to your specific business, and perhaps your area of business in general should [...]
Portfolio
Our portfolio is very important. It helps our clients and potential clients to get an idea of what we are all about at Storm Code. We try to keep our portfolio fresh, with our most recent projects and our crowning achievements. We have just updated our portfolio with four fresh websites. How did we decide [...]
PHP Code Optimization
In the past ten years computers have become so powerful that small performance tweaks and good coding standards and practices are overlooked. The reason for this is because coders have very little reason to care about coding standards and practices these days. It used to be that if you wrote sloppy code or didn’t take [...]
Content: Be prepared.
Content is the most important part of any website. It can be the text, audio, video and images that appear on each page. At a very basic level Web Design can be broken into two different parts. On one side you have the development of the actual pages, be it HTML, JavaScript, PHP, ASP, AJAX, [...]
Creeping Functionality
Creeping Functionality, also known as Scope Creep is often described as “Death by a thousand cuts.”. It occurs when new functionality and features are constantly being added to a project that is already in progress. It can increase cost, push back the completion date, and severely damage development strategy for a project. How does Creeping [...]
Upgrading to PHP 5
The biggest reason for upgrading from PHP4 to PHP5 is the end of life announcement made. As of December 2007 only critical security fixes will be made to PHP4. No support is being offered for PHP4 after August 2008. Now is the time to migrate from PHP4 to PHP5. You do not want to wait [...]
Price Versus Quality
Getting the best possible service for your money if very important. However, thinking that the lowest price means the best deal will land you nothing but headaches. One thing you should ask yourself before taking the lowest price service or product is why is it so cheap? Let me use Linux as an example. You [...]
