Is Your Website Legal?

Did you know that all business websites must adhere to rules set out under UK law? This article addresses the legal requirements placed on commercial websites that must be met to operate within the law – and the possible consequences of failing to comply.

Here are7 important legal requirements your business web design must address to be legally compliant:

1.    Company Information
2.    Web Accessibility and the Disability Discrimination Act
3.    The Data Protection Act
4.    Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations
5.    Electronic Commerce Regulations (EC Directive)
6.    PCI DSS
7.    The EU Anti-Spam Laws
8.    The EU Cookie Directive

Registered information: For a UK registered business, the website needs to display the Company Information i.e. the business name, place of registration, registered number, registered office address and if it is a member of a trade association.

Cookies: Recent legislation changes have meant that websites must require user consent to leave cookies on the visitor’s computer unless the cookie is a necessary requirement for the website to function.

Privacy Policy: A Privacy policy or data protection notice must be displayed on the website if data is processed and must inform the user what the data is used for and that it is compliant with the Data Protection Act 1988.

Disclaimer: This document should state that the website owner does not accept any liability that may arise from using or downloading information from the website.

What are the risks of not complying?

If a website fails to comply with some or all of the rules listed above, it could generate two kinds of legal liability: civil liability and criminal liability. Civil liability may lead to injunctions and damages payments; criminal liability could mean a fine and a criminal record, and possibly worse.

There are various organisations that may be able to help on issue you want to complain about.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ (Anti-Spam Laws)

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/ (PCI Compliance)

https://ico.org.uk/ (Data Protection, Cookies, Spam)

http://www.dls.org.uk/ (Disability/Accessibility Issues)

This article is only a basic guide to the legal requirements placed upon UK website owners. To ensure your website is fully compliant, we recommend that you contact a legal expert.

Wordpress Owner Scores .Blog Domain Around $19 Million

The awkward but frank domain name .blog will soon be available to purchase for bloggers everywhere. This comes after Automattic, the company behind WordPress, announced that it had “secured” the rights to the name.

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg wrote on his blog  “It’s now public that Automattic is the company behind Knock Knock Whois There LLC, the registry for the new .blog TLD. I’m excited we won and think that it will be both an amazing business going forward and give lots of folks an opportunity to have a fantastic domain name in a new namespace and with an easy-to-say TLD.”

Why .blog?
For years, .com was the dominant choice for website names, but it’s become increasingly difficult to find a domain name. With a top-level domain like .blog, you can get a domain name that truly matches your identity. Plus, you’ll get all the same benefits with Google search results.

Price

.blog Domain Pricing has not been finalized, but Automattic said it will be in the standard range for new top-level domains – with premium pricing for higher-value names.

The sunrise period for the new .blog domain will launch in August 2016.  If you have a trademark you can get in August, and then October for the “land rush.” You can sign up to be first in line to reserve a domain here.





Our WordPress Development team Expects 250,000 .Blog Domain Name Registrations In 2016.

The best must have Magento extensions

The best must have Magento extensions of 2015 can change a lot in your Magento eCommerce store. In this post we put latest extensions into 6 major groups: “Performance”, “Frontend, UI, usability”, “Loyalty, referral campaigns”, “System, backend”, “SEO” and “Marketing, sales”. All of them are tested and accepted by Magento developers, so you will only deal with the most reliable tools.

1. Performance

Being a part of customer relationships, performance is the key to growing revenue and profit. This significant aspect affects customer’s loyalty and search engines ranking, and as a result – your cash flows. There are two things to improve your Magento store performance: correct settings and useful extensions.

Fooman Speedster
Fooman Speedster combines multiple JavaScript and CSS files into a single JavaScript file and single CSS file, for faster page load times. This reduces the total size of files to be loaded, as well as the number of HTTP requests (for both empty and primed caches).

Feature:
•    Fully automated once installed, with automatic versioning when JavaScript/CSS files are updated
•    Compresses files without requiring gzip support on your server
•    Creates far future expire headers for the combined JavaScript and CSS files
•    Multi store capable
•    Uses the Minify library by Steve Clay (released under a BSD license)

Fooman Speedster is now controlled by an advanced self-testing framework. You can only enable Speedster once the configuration has been set up correctly and all self-tests run successfully.
 

2. Frontend, UI, usability

Frontend and UI are closely connected and have significant influence on overall usability. By using proper extensions, you can improve frontend, UI and usability of your Magento store.

One Step Checkout by Amasty

Easy and rapid checkout process for Magento. Make your store a place where customers won't even notice how they've completed all checkout steps and received their orders.

7 reasons to choose Amasty
•    Risk-free Investment
•    Solutions Which Work
•    Usability and Performance
•    Comprehensive Documentation
•    Outstanding Support
•    Flexible and Easy Licensing

Long Term Strategy: Anasty’hv been in the market for 5+ years. They are doing our best to build extensions which maximize effectiveness of your business. They are open to customers' suggestions and constantly update their products to match your needs.

 
3. Loyalty, referral campaigns

It is very important to increase user’s loyalty. In the case when different stores sell similar products, customer’s loyalty means almost everything. So the increasing of user’s loyalty leads to the increasing of sales. The question is how it do as best as possible. Of course you can install few proper extensions.

Refer a Friend by ahead Works

Convincing your customers to become your advocates may take a lot of effort over a long period of time, but it does not have to be the case. What we have for you is an advocacy tool with a built-in loyalty program that rewards customers for inviting people to your store. Magento Refer a Friend extension comes with a full range of customization options, allowing you to set up the referral program in Magento to fit your business model and reward the type of behavior that suits you best.

Features

•    Invite delivery
•    Referral tracking
•    Reward triggers
•    Reward calculation
•    Bonus spending
•    Multiple rules
•    Admin control

Important note for users of Refer a Friend v.1.*: version 1.X and 2.X are not fully compatible. To find out more details, please read the description. 


4. SEO

Magento is very SEO-ready ‘out-of-the-box’, so your webstore is already a good foundation to build on top of it. There are many extensions and tools to make your store more optimised.

Advanced SEO Suite by Mirasvit

Advanced SEO Suite allows you to optimize the specific categories and product groups for specific search terms on a template, which will greatly improve the performance of your store in search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc).

Features:

•    Optimization for key phrases
•    URL optimization
•    Canonical links
•    Frontend Site map optimization
•    Google Sitemap optimization
•    Automatic Internal Links

Reasons to choose Mirasvit
 
•    Client focusing and satisfaction
•    Risk-free Investment
•    Comprehensive Documentation
•    Usability and Performance
•    Remarkable support
•    Constant improvements and upgrades
•    Unencrypted source code of our products
•    Safe Magento updates

“Mirasvit” Magento extensions for best eCommerce platform, solutions and services to help grow your business.