Neptune recently migrated a large, multilingual, international web site to Amazon CloudFront. Charlie gives a few tips he picked up along the way.
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Here is a sample of the OSS Consulting services we provide:
- Open Source Technology Strategy
- Open Source Application Development
- Custom Open Source Programming and Integration
- Open Source Web Performance
- Open Source Web site Security Analysis
- Integration with Windows and Open Source Systems
- Open Source Mail systems Setup/Integration
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Using Amazon CloudFront to Improve Global Web Site Performance
Monday, March 18th, 2013
Posted by Charles Dalsass in New Technology Multiple Language CMS | Comments (0)
How Web Developers can Build Apps in HTML5 (and natively on Android )
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
In June, Neptune Web launched a new version of T-on-Time, the web app which takes advantage of MassDot’s new real-time data feed for the commuter rail. This article describes some of the techniques used in that app, and explains how to get rolling your own apps using web technologies you already know.
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Posted by Charles Dalsass in Mobile Applications | Comments (2)
Batch Find and Replace for the Neptune Web Edit CMS
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Neptune Web's content management system, Neptune Web Edit (TM), has both free-form static content and dynamic content built into the design. However, static content can leave redundant copies of content if it was not structured properly to begin with, or if requirements of the site change. This is where Batch Find and Replace comes in...
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Posted by Charles Dalsass in Neptune Web Edit CMS Open Source | Comments (5)
SEO Module Launched
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
One of the challenges we face at Neptune Web when optimizing a site is collecting and keeping track of the myriad of reports and integrity checks we perform. Our process involves more than just keyword positioning and page optimization. We also validate a number of on-site and off-site metrics and even review the user interface to insure a complete optimization, not just tweaking what search engines see.
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Posted by Adam Lucas in SEO Neptune Web Edit CMS | Comments (0)
Add Extensive Video Capabilities to Your Site - for Free!
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
YouTube is an excellent, free tool for giving your site video capabilities. Its administrative interface is a snap to use and standard features making uploading, hosting and presenting videos a very simple process.
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Posted by Carl Tortola in Design New Technology | Comments (0)
Problems with Order Reporting in Magento
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
We've identified a possible bug in Magento Enterprise 1.8 which is causing the order report to become inaccurate under certain conditions after performing the last day refresh. The issue is causing orders not to be included in the report.
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Posted by Arek Jankowski in E-commerce | Comments (0)
Generating EDI 850 Purchase Order Documents in Magento
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Quite often we need to generate EDI purchase order files (850) and accept EDI ASN files (856) to exchange data between a web store and an external system when processing orders.
Working with EDI files may be quite involving especially if support for all possible scenarios and data elements is required.
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Posted by Arek Jankowski in E-commerce | Comments (1)
Improving Magento Checkout Performance with Large Number of Cart Rules
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
This is the fourth of a series on the Open Source e-commerce software, Magento. In this post, we show how to solve a problem we experienced with a client of ours - the cart and checkout process would get extremely slow if there are a large number of cart rules.
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Posted by Charles Dalsass in E-commerce New Technology | Comments (0)
Identifying Magento Performance Problems with the Magento Profiler
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
This is the third of a series on the Open Source e-commerce software, Magento. Neptune recently launched 2 major web sites using highly customized versions of Magento.
The Magento Profiler is used to identify performance problems on the server side. The Profiler can help you find PHP functions which use up too much CPU or functions with slow database queries.
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Posted by Charles Dalsass in E-commerce New Technology | Comments (1)
Using CSS3 to Embed Fonts on Web Pages
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
We explain a cross-browser-supported method for embedding fonts into web pages to add flair to designs without the use of any graphic/CSS tricks.
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Posted by Carl Tortola in Design | Comments (0)
Solving Magento Unirgy Drop Ship USPS Flat Rate Shipping Problem
Friday, December 10th, 2010
This is the second of a series on the Open Source e-commerce software, Magento. Neptune recently launched 2 major web sites using highly customized versions of Magento. This article explains how to fix a specific problem with the Drop Ship module and USPS Priority Mail Flat Rates.
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Posted by Charles Dalsass in E-commerce | Comments (0)
Getting Magento Enterprise Full Page Cache to work on your Store Home Page
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
This is the first of a series on the Open Source e-commerce software, Magento. Neptune recently launched 2 major web sites using highly customized versions of Magento.
This article explains how to get the Magento Full Page Cache (from Enterprise version) for the home page of your store/site.
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Posted by Charles Dalsass in Design | Comments (0)
Google Font API Gives Developers More Page Design Options
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
One of newest APIs out of Google Labs, the Google Font API, allows designers and developers to use more than just the standard 'web safe' fonts as part of a page's look and feel. This tool helps promote SEO without limiting a site's look and feel.
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Posted by Carl Tortola in Design | Comments (0)
How PCI Compliance and MA Data Standards are Affecting Web Developers in Massachusetts
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
There are two important standards which web developers and their clients in Massachusetts need to know about. They are: Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00 and PCI Compliance.
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Posted by Charles Dalsass in E-commerce New Technology | Comments (0)
6 Reasons Small and Mid-sized Businesses should be Participating in Social Media
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Social media is a powerful tool that can, and should, be used by small and mid-sized companies to grow their business. It is a cost effective method for engaging with customers in the more personalized space of Web 2.0 and building strong relationships while also increasing reach.
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Posted by Shannon Quinn in Social Media | Comments (0)
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