Blog Entries - August 2007

How can you tell if your site is too slow?

sales@oscworks.com.au — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0100

If you are having trouble accessing your website, how can you tell if it is just something that is wrong with your Internet connection or there is a real problem that could be affecting your customers and orders.

Here are a few ways you can test your website's performance to check where problems are occuring.

External speed testing sites - Australia

If you're an Australian business, there are a number of performance testing tools you have at your disposal. O [...]

Paypal or Payment Gateway?

sales@oscworks.com.au — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0100

If you are opening an online store, one of the big questions you will need to answer is how are you going to get paid. Should you use a third party payment provider like Paymate, Paypal or Paymex, or instead should you use a payment gateway like eWay?

What's the difference between them and what are the benefits? Here's how they work.

Third party payment providers like Paypal, Paymate etc

When customers go to make a payment they are redirected from your store to [...]

Waiting to launch: how do you hide pages from search engines?

sales@oscworks.com.au — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0100

A support ticket recently came into the team from a customer wanting to know how they could block Google. With no other information, the tech support staff member thought this was an unusual request as it would be an exceptionally bold and baffling move to block the world's biggest search engine from visiting your site. When looking into the request, it turned out that the customer wanted to prevent Google from indexing their site before they had finished loading all of their products and [...]

What are your legal rights as an online store owner?

sales@oscworks.com.au — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Wherever you do business, you can never escape the law. If you're an Australian or New Zealand business selling online where can you go to find out what your legal rights and obligations are?

Naturally there is your business solicitor, but if you are looking to do some reading yourself, here are some useful resources you can consider:

The ACCC website. The ACCC administer Australia's main fair trading law, The Trade Practices Act 1974, which applies no matter whe [...]