So whether you need web hosting support at 3am or have a sales question at 3pm – you can call us free any time of the day, and day of the year.

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For the first time, stock image users are able to search and download photos, vectors, and videos from their desktop with Fotolia’s powerful Adobe AIR Application. Compatible with Mac OSX and Windows, the application puts Fotolia’s collection of over nine-million images directly and conveniently at the fingertips of designers and artists.

Free and easy to install from www.fotolia.com, the Fotolia Desktop application has features currently unavailable through a web browser platform, including:

• One click image buy and download
• Drag and drop lightbox, gallery and shopping cart interface
• Bulk image download capabilities
• Unlimited gallery creation
• Enhanced advanced and quick search
• Instant credit and subscription purchase support

“With Fotolia Desktop, nearly two-million Fotolia members have an innovative way to search and manage stock images downloaded from Fotolia.co.uk,” says Thibaud Elzière, Co-founder of Fotolia and VP of Product Development. “We’re constantly thinking outside the box to evolve products and services for our customers.”

Months in the making, the Fotolia Desktop application is the first of its kind in the microstock industry. The company’s objective is to enhance user-experience for existing clients, as well as to attract new buyers and business partners. Already in 2010, Fotolia has teamed up with Microsoft and Adobe, and shows no signs of slowing down.

Simply register with Fotolia and receive a 10% bonus on your first purchase of credits using the exclusive simplewebhosting.co.uk promotional code: YHIA9045

For more information or to download the free Fotolia Desktop, visit: www.fotolia.com

OpenSRS has over 10,000 resellers in 100 countries who have sold over 10 million domain names and you’ll have full access to all their products and services including their market-beating pricing.

An example of how your domain name reseller Storefront could look

If you’re just getting started you can setup your own ‘Storefront’ – a fully hosted domain name sales and management website that will have you up and selling domain names in no time. You can sell every Global Top-level Domain (gTLD) and Country-Code Top-level domain (ccTLD) we offer as well as Premium Domains from the portfolios of our aftermarket domain partners. OpenSRS Storefront also allows you to offer domain and email forwarding, along with WHOIS Privacy. All at no additional cost to you!

All OpenSRS reseller accounts include full access to the OpenSRS API – a powerful set of integration tools that automate the provision of domain names, DNS, email services and SSL certificates.

Websites that are encrypted using SSL can be identified in several ways. Firstly, the prefix of their web address is usually “https://”, signifying that they operate over a secure server. Also, the website can be identified as secure by the fact that there is a padlock symbol in your browser’s status bar. If neither of these signs is present, then the website is insecure and it is not advisable to put sensitive personal information into that website as it may be possible that an unauthorised third party could obtain access to the data.

Protecting your website using SSL encryption is definitely a practice that we recommend to all webmasters who regularly ask their visitors to input sensitive information. Of course, the most obvious benefit to you as a webmaster is that it ensures that all of the data that your customers enter is safe, secure and inaccessible to anyone other than those who are authorised to have access to it.

Encrypting your webpages in this way ensures that you, as a webmaster, have peace of mind and know that the data provided by your customers is secure and protected against unauthorised access.

As well as the peace of mind for you, the fact that there are visible signs of how secure your website is means that customers will feel more comfortable. If they can visibly tell that your website has a layer of security protecting it, then they will be far more likely to input their details and thus they will be more likely to buy products from you online.

This in turn means that you will earn more money and sell more products, which is exactly what any online business wants. SSL encryption for your website will definitely pay for itself after a very short time indeed, making it a worthwhile investment for the security-minded webmaster.

Reputation is another aspect of your web presence than can be improved by adding SSL encryption. If your website asks people to enter payment details, then it cannot be reputable unless it is secure. A website that is clearly secure will instantly have a better reputation than one which appears to be wide open for cybercriminals.

So to conclude, in this security conscience online age, SSL encryption is something that is definitely worth the investment for your website. Without the padlock symbol, potential customers will not have enough confidence to input their sensitive personal information into your website and thus they cannot purchase any of your products. However, the addition of encryption quickly puts their minds at rest and soon your SSL encrypted website will have the customers flying in.

It is a comprehensive library of information that enables both everyday people and governments to ensure that they have data and a means of contact for the millions of people who currently run websites that are live on the internet and, more specifically, those that are making money from online enterprises, much like you.

However, having all of your details in plain view to anyone with access to the internet does present very obvious risks to you. The first of these risks is obviously that having your full name, address and other contact information is a bit of an intrusion into your privacy. It means that anyone will be able to find you and that you could be subject to malicious communications of various kinds, as well as simply being consistently sent junk mail.

An example of this is spam programs that harvest email addresses directly from the WHOIS database in order to spread malware. As these addresses are provided in plain text, it is trivial for software to crawl the WHOIS database and obtain email addresses to send spam too. This is a great source of annoyance to those who often have to trawl through pages of spam to get to the emails they actually want.

Also, the fact that your home address is part of your WHOIS listing could open you up to, aside from junk mail, worse problems such as burglary. If someone can see that you are the owner of a website that makes a lot of money, then this makes you a prime target for burglaries and muggings. The fact that people who may see you as a target can access your location makes you very vulnerable.

Another issue that can arise from your personal details being so readily available is that you could be subject to consistent pestering from marketers. After harvesting your contact details from the WHOIS database, they can continuously send you both postal and email advertisements, perhaps even sending salesmen to visit you personally. All of these things contribute to diverting your attention away from your actual business and could cause you to lose a lot of money.

Every factor outlined above mean that being on the WHOIS database is very dangerous and can be detrimental to your business and your life in general. Many hosting packages, including those offered by simplewebhosting.co.uk, enable you to opt-out of being included on the WHOIS database in order to safeguard your privacy and your information.

As you can see, this is definitely a wise choice and will save you from a lot of unnecessary difficulties and wasted time. An opt-out means that you have more time to spend on what is important: ensuring that your business is successful and prosperous.

Although we’re pleased that we’ve been able to exceed our uptime guarantee, we’ll be aiming for much more than this in June.

Any business worth its salt now has (or will soon have) an ecommerce system embedded within their online presence in order to provide an extra stream of sales for their company. A well-crafted ecommerce system guarantees you the ability to bring in far more sales than a shop on the high street would, also allowing you to reach a far wider audience eventually.

Unfortunately for the less technically able webmasters amongst us, ecommerce systems are rather complicated to implement. For those who do not have the technical expertise required to code and maintain such a system, it can be a difficult process and any system they design may be inadequate for its purpose. A lack of technological and design skills can lead to the system not functioning at all or being far too basic for the complex purpose that it needs to serve in order to be effective.

However, there are now huge numbers of professional developers who specialise in producing bespoke ecommerce solutions for businesses. These people have spent years honing the technical skills required to create the systems that sell your products to a massive online audience. They will provide you with an excellent, easy to use system that makes it easy for customers to buy from you and also find information about the products before they make a decision as to buying them.

An ecommerce system should contain a simple, yet attractive shopping interface whilst also maintaining comprehensive information about the product. This allows the user to ensure that they can access all of the information about the products on offer before they make a decision on whether to buy your stock or not. The more information you have, the better and products with more information are more likely to be bought as the user knows exactly what they are paying for.

A professionally designed ecommerce system should also contain an interface that allows webmasters to maintain the system themselves. Developers put these in so as to allow the users to keep the system up to date on their own, without having to have the developers repeatedly carry out updates. This ensures that the system can carry on being effective over time as the products and prices the company offers changes.

So to conclude, ecommerce systems are now massively important to any business that wants to maintain its sales into the future. Professionals are now located all over the internet that will ensure the quality of your system and so you should certainly go to one of these instead of trying to cobble together a system yourself.

Ecommerce certainly is the future and your company can be at the forefront of this wave.