Travis, Author at Apps 4 Schools

07Jul 2019 by Travis No Comments

10 Major Causes of Slow Loading Website Pages

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If you want your website to succeed, it must be able to load every page in the shortest time possible. Studies suggest that one of the major causes of people abandoning a website is the slow page load times. Yes! This often overlooked aspect prove to have far-reaching implications that can eventually affect the brand that you're trying to build up and your overall revenue. Long loading times aren't healthy for business. It can cause customers to abandon your site and look for a better alternative that offers the same products or services that you're offering. A loading time of 2-3 seconds isn't ideal at all. Any sluggish performance on a particular page or a group of pages on your website gives that you are not good enough and makes…

21Jun 2019 by Travis No Comments

Magento or Shopify: Which One is Best For You?

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E-commerce is one of the booming industries of our time. With the plethora of stuff that can be sold in this kind of business and with its worldwide reach which can be further targeted using a variety of online marketing tools, e-commerce truly is the future of selling and shopping. If you've been into e-commerce lately or you're still in the planning stage of building your own online store then you should now be thinking on which shopping cart to use. Two of the most popular choices include Shopify and Magento but which one is the best fit for the online business that you want to set up? In this article, we'll be going through some of the features found on both platforms in order to help you choose the…

15May 2019 by Travis No Comments

8 Optimization Tips To Help Boost Your App Downloads

Apps, Tips

The days when an app for your business is considered a luxury is long gone. Nowadays, the wheels have turned for every app as the platform gets filled with more and more every single day. When your app gets released, it has to compete with 7 million other apps already in existence. Yes! That's how much apps are there and the number is increasing by the day. So as a business that's looking to succeed, you need to make sure that your app gets as many downloads as it can to shoot itself to the top and make yourself boom! That's the reason why you need to learn how to optimize your app in the app store. If you hired a professional app development company to create an all for…

19Apr 2019 by Travis No Comments

4 Essential Quick-Actions To Do After Launching Your First Mobile App

Apps, Tips

So you now have your very first mobile app and you've just launched it. Now what? Your baby is going to be exposed to a world that's full of love, joy, wonder, and thrill but if not managed well, it can also be a sorrowful one. Yes! your app needs some meticulous care if you want it to succeed and reach its fullest potential. So before calling for a celebration, you need to take quick and rapid actions that will significantly help your baby as it starts to mingle in a world that's crowded with apps. The very first and the most important thing that you need to learn to do is to avoid treating your app as just an app. From the point you launched it onwards, you'll need…

07Mar 2019 by Travis No Comments

The Latest Mobile Trends That’s Shaping the Future

Apps, IT

In recent years, the popularity of smartphones has skyrocketed due to the availability of apps that make these devices more useful in almost every aspect of life. These devices have become more useful not just in sending the classic SMS but also in accessing social media apps that provide entertainment, recreation and other channels for more effective communication. Checking your emails, catching up with the latest in news and sports and watching YouTube videos has become a breeze and with the development of project management apps, keeping up with your employees becomes easier! Because of these multiple tasks that can be done through smartphones and mobile devices today, innovation and development of new ideas leading to more exciting trends are becoming more and more possible. Coping up with the rising…

14Feb 2019 by Travis No Comments

5 Useful Tips for a Faster WordPress Blog

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The World Wide Web is developing at a rapid pace. New technologies enable website operators and content producers to deliver richer, immersive content without compromising the user experience. In fact, sites now focus on the user experience for the right reasons. Search engines prioritize Web pages that provide good UX, while users now have a shorter attention span and generally require better experience. There is no doubt that speed plays a large part in this user experience. A website that is well designed will only do so much if it is not loaded in a timely fashion. Luckily, there are some good tips that will help keep your WordPress page fast and optimized. We'll look at 5 of these tips in this article. Take Advantage of Browser Caching Browser caching,…

17Jan 2019 by Travis No Comments

The Pros and Cons of Moving Your Business to the Cloud

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Many companies weigh the potential gains and consequences of moving to the cloud. This can be a difficult decision because the introduction of a cloud infrastructure brings many advantages, but also some disadvantages. Business owners need to consider how migrating to the cloud will benefit the company and then consider whether these benefits outweigh the potential disadvantages. Some companies can reduce costs by moving some important processes to the cloud, while other services operate internally with physical servers. This article discusses some typical pros and cons, and you can decide whether moving to the cloud is appropriate for your business or not. What Exactly is Cloud Computing? It's probably one of the hardest things to get over it, to understand what exactly "The Cloud" is. The name itself reminds of…

13Dec 2018 by Travis No Comments

The Effects of Website Uptime to Business Sales

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If you invest a lot of time, effort, energy and money to create a responsive website with a nice design, you may think that your work is over. That is not the case. It's great that you put your site together and look good, but if it doesn't work, how can anyone see it? In this article, we will talk more about downtime, what causes it and how you can reduce such troubles. We'll also discuss why it can negatively affect your sales. How Does Downtime Look Like Have you ever gone to one of your favorite sites just to get a bug that prevented it to load properly at one time? No doubt you were pretty upset, but you probably didn't think too much about it when you clicked refresh…

02Nov 2018 by Travis No Comments

How To Save in Office Expenses and Avoid Spending Too Much

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We all know how much it can cost to run a small business. When we start a new business, we generally underestimate how much money it takes to get a new idea on the way, and we're equally guilty of forgetting how much a company costs to run. If you keep these costs to a minimum, you can create the basics for your business and no longer worry so much when you look at the monthly expense sheet. In the following, we describe some business areas that are worth a look to see if savings are possible. With a little ' cost-cutting ' here and there, the savings can rise, and let's face it, saving money in business can be almost as important as making money, especially in the beginning.…

22Oct 2018 by Travis No Comments

Building Enterprise Apps That Really Engage

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An enterprise application is a modern approach to increase employee productivity and optimize the overall workflow. It is not surprising that the need for enterprise applications is on the rise. In fact, building a successful business application is a daunting task for any company. The challenge is to develop a truly appealing app that your employees want to use on a regular basis. We have reviewed the essential elements that are an integral part of the successful development of enterprise apps. In the list below, you'll find the most basic things that need to be considered when planning to develop an engaging enterprise app. If you want to learn more about how to develop an engaging enterprise app, you'll find five tips for building a successful app strategy in our…