Using Amazon CloudFront to Improve Global Web Site Performance
Neptune recently migrated a large, multilingual, international web site to Amazon CloudFront. Charlie gives a few tips he picked up along the way.
SEO Module Launched
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.
Improving Magento Checkout Performance with Large Number of Cart Rules
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.
Identifying Magento Performance Problems with the Magento Profiler
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.
Enabling Magento Enterprise Full Page Cache on your Store Home Page
This is the first of a series on the Open Source e-commerce software, Magento. Neptune has launched two 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.
How PCI Compliance and MA Data Standards are Affecting Web Developers in Massachusetts
There are two important standards which web developers and their clients in Massachusetts need to know about: Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00 and PCI Compliance.
Update to command line HTML search and replace tool
An update to "dwreplace" -- a UNIX command-line, open source search-and-replace utility for performing searches against free-form HTML files
Neptune Web Edit CMS Multilingual Capabilities
How the Neptune Web Edit CMS enables you to work with multilingual content.
Why I like Adobe AIR
I recently had time to experiment with Adobe's AIR technology and was very optimistic about its potential.
Dreamweaver's GUI search-and-replace on UNIX
How Neptune Web wrote Perl program to replicate the functionality of Dreamweaver's GUI search-and-replace on UNIX.