November 27, 2013, was a day of joyous celebration across the UAE as the country won the bid to host Expo 2020. From being the first World Expo to be held in the MEASA region to having the highest ever country participation (192) in the history of Expos – Expo 2020 is home to many […]
Continue readingCOME, CELEBRATE THE SEASON OF JOY IN THE CITY OF GOLD
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Christmas season has taken over the country. The stars in the night sky are twinkling with the distinctly vivid brilliance of the season – all the way from Abu Dhabi to Fujairah, and from Al Ain to Ras al-Khaimah. Shops and homes are bustling with the Christmas excitement, engulfed in the ether of the ever-floating […]
Continue readingBUILDING YOUR WEBSITE ON DRUPAL. PROS AND CONS
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When it comes to building an advanced website, Drupal takes precedence over WordPress and Joomla. Why? Ask any web developer, they’ll say Drupal is flexible, scalable and feature-rich but in the same breath, they say that the platform is a tad complex!
Continue readingSHOULD YOU THINK TWICE BEFORE IMPLEMENTING AMP?
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What is AMP? AMP (or Accelerated Mobile Pages) is the brainchild of Google. An open-source HTML framework, developed in 2015, it was created to enable faster mobile browsing. Unlike the standard HTML page, AMP pages are scaled-down versions, created using a special coding language called AMP HTML. This ensures that your website no longer carries […]
Continue readingSITE KIT BY GOOGLE, A COMPLETE WORDPRESS WEBSITE SOLUTION
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Google’s Site Kit is a WordPress-exclusive plugin. It gives you access to a plethora of Google products for optimizing and monetizing your website from a single window. If earlier you need to jump back and forth between different dashboards and your website for stats and figures, the latest offering from Google clearly eliminates it. As […]
Continue readingSite-Wide SSL: Is It Really Needed?
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Is it really necessary to secure your entire website with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) ? Before we begin answering that question, let’s remind ourselves why SSL is used in the first place. SSL is used to secure connections between a user’s computer, and the server of the website they’re browsing. This is a very simplistic explanation, […]
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