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Contributions from Year: 2021

WooCommerce: Shipping costs - and packaging per bottle

A surcharge on the shipping costs of an online shop, depending on the number of items of a certain type of packaging - is that even possible? At the request of a customer, we found out how this can be implemented in WooCommerce. We present the result in this article.Read

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Use favicons correctly

Favicons are small graphics that serve to symbolise a website by displaying e.g. the company logo. Originally used for display in the header/tab area of the browser window or in bookmark and favourites lists (hence favicon), these icons now fulfil many other functions. We show you what they are and how to use them.Read

A dry tree in a barren landscape. It symbolises the importance of a climate-friendly co2 footprint.

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The Co2 footprint of your website

Now I want my website to contribute to global warming - how? For example, if your website contains lots of moving graphics, then your web browser needs more computing power to render the animations. The more moving images, the more videos, the more power it consumes and this power has to be generated somewhere. Read

Also biscuits: delicious biscuits. A stack of oatmeal biscuits is symbolic of cookies on the internet.

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What are cookies on the internet?

Cookies are small text sequences of information that are stored directly in your browser. They are mainly used to store useful things like your login or the current contents of your shopping basket. Why is this necessary at all?Read

A facial recognition viewfinder is pointed at passers-by crossing the street. The image is symbolic of the question: What is tracking?

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I know what you did on the internet

Again and again we receive questions like "Why do I get suggestions for my private hobbies and likes on Instagram, even though I'm registered there with my business email?" or "How does Amazon know about my purchase preferences before I even search?". The answer is data tracking. A little pub crawl shows roughly how this happens.Read

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A new website for ESSEN WISSEN Foundation Eildermann

We proudly announce the addition of another beautiful website garden to our garden colony. The website Essen-Wissen.de was rebuilt with our page builder. The primary customer wish was that the content could largely be created and changed by the foundation's staff themselves.Read

New bait on the hook: phishing mails with the mailbox full scam

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Current phishing scam: Your email inbox is full

Recently, more and more phishing e-mails have been circulating, purporting to come from large Internet providers such as Strato or 1und1 and informing the addressee that his e-mail box is full. Of course, there is no lack of requests to log on to a linked website to solve the problem. If you don't do that, you'd better read this article.Read

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Why are links actually underlined and blue?

The "link" is so burnt into the brain as a design element on the internet that it is only perceived subconsciously. But when did these things actually start to exist? A journey back into uncharted territory on the Mozilla blog.Read

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Attention! Rip-off attempt on the phone by threat: "We will delete your search on Google".

In the light of recent events, we would like to warn you about a new scam by rip-off artists on the phone. One of our customers reports a call from a dubious company threatening to delete her website from Google's search index if she does not react immediately and enter into a rescue contract (for a fee, of course). What is behind this?Read

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WordPress beginner tips

A few beginner tips for daily (or occasional) work with WordPress. No secret hacks, but the little settings that help especially with the first steps with WordPress, but are easy to overlook.Read

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WordPress Security. Which measures are secure and pragmatic

Above all, the wide distribution and its open architecture with numerous third-party extensions make Wordpress, which is basically not conspicuously insecure, a worthwhile target for hackers. Therefore, in addition to regular updates of the system and add-ons, some security tips should be taken into account.Read

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Gerry 👩🌾 becomes Lottie 💃

If you want to breathe a little more life into your website, you don't always have to reinvent the wheel. You can also conjure up wonderful animations from existing graphics. We show you the possibilities.Read

Pagespeed: Fast pages are as important as ever

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List of measures for optimising loading times of mobile pages

This article contains a list of measures you can take yourself to make your site load faster. A fast website is another factor to get a better ranking in Google. Read

A clock. It could also measure website loading times.

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Pagespeed and user-friendliness: Core Web Vitals as a ranking factor

Increasingly, so-called experience factors, i.e. user-friendliness parameters, are playing a decisive role in Google's ranking. In particular, the Core Web Vitals, a series of measured values for the loading time of websites, are being taken more into account. Thus, beyond the content of the respective homepage, another purely technical factor, the loading time, is moving into the centre of attention.Read

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Caution: SMS parcel notification

A current security issue with high explosiveness are currently circulating SMS messages with alleged parcel notifications including links to - alleged - shipment tracking. Under no circumstances should these links, or links in SMS messages in general, be called up.Read

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