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You don't need a new website. You need to make your current website more effective! How can you do that? There is no single answer -- websites are part of a larger system, and you need to consider many different aspects to make your site effective. We've been making websites since the start of the web, and know what makes them work -- as well as not work. Take what we have learned to make your site better!

Website Conversion

While a website that finds new customers is certainly compelling and worth exploring, a website that finds those customers and helps them understand y

Delivery

When you’re running a business, especially a small business, there are a lot of moving parts to pay attention to. Filling orders, staffing, budgeting,

Website Engagement

Website Engagement While a website that finds new customers is certainly compelling and worth exploring, a website that finds those customers and h

Do people who visit your website become your customers?

The reality is that a website visit does not necessarily actually lead to more money in your cash drawer, unless you are conducting e-commerce or sell

Does your website provide your staff and partners with all of the information they need to do their jobs?

While most of the attention that a website gets is how much it brings new customers, new partners, and new employees into the fold, a powerful website

New Year, New Website!

It's only taken two years since the release of Drupal 8 for us to get our own site updated... Cobbler's children and all. But finally, we are proud to unveil our shiny new site!

But wait, don't you tell your clients you don't need a new site?

Sustainable/Open Business

Getting hands on with Drupal Commerce 2 - Onsite payments and Sales Tax

We're nearing launch of two new Drupal Commerce sites, one of them being this one. It turns out Freelock.com has some relatively sophisticated commerce needs: some taxable products, some non-taxable products. Recurring subscriptions. Arbitrary invoice payments.

Sustainable/Open Business

A custom quantity price discount for Drupal Commerce

We're in the midst of a Commerce 2 build-out for a client, and a key requirement was to preserve their quantity pricing rules.

Dev Corner

2017: The year of encryption

January 2017

Starting this month, Chrome users are going to start seeing a lot more sites flagged as insecure. Google is firmly on the technologist side of the encryption war, and it wants to make encryption something regular people care about. Why?

Not using encryption is like sending everything you visit/everything you do, scrawled upon postcards, with stops in all sorts of places, passing by people you would not want seeing everything.

Cryptography: the foundation of e-commerce

Money is the very definition of motivation for many criminals. At least in the movies... In real life, there are plenty of criminals looking for ways to drain money out of bank accounts, buy stuff on other people's credit cards, intercept bank transfers, and more.

Ask Freelock: What e-commerce platform would you recommend?

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Bitcoin: the future of e-commerce?

I've long been a Bitcoin skeptic, not necessarily seeing the point of it. While I've kept passing tabs on its progress, I did not think it was viable, or worth much beyond pure speculative game play, a forum for making bets that today are up quite a lot.

Sustainable/Open Business

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