Hurricane Irene’s direct hit of Connecticut made for an eventful few days. Even though it was downgraded to a tropical storm right before landfall, that didn’t seem to make much of a difference in terms of power outages and destruction.

It had been 26 years since a hurricane hit our state directly, so this was quite the rare event.

Here’s a quick summary of how it all unfolded for Team LexiConn…

If you use real-time FedEx shipping rates in your online store, were you aware of the FedEx planned outages coming up next month? If not, this could cost you lost sales, as your cart would error out instead of returning shipping options. All it takes is a simple email signup…

Last month we took a look at when to use 301 redirects (and when NOT to use them). Many times, a 404 not found page / response is the better option.

However, a generic 404 not found page is not a good thing. Sure, the search engines don’t care either way, but your website is not built for the search engines, it’s built for your visitors…

Last week Google announced a new way to submit URLs / web pages to them: Fetch as Googlebot This is done in your Webmaster Tools account, and will tell you instantly if Google is successful in retrieving the URL. If it is, you can then submit the page to their index. No, this is *NOT* [...]

This was the rainbow we saw overlooking Lake George last week. It was a nice vacation, but now it’s back to reality.

If you’re also back at work, here are a few articles from July I found interesting and helpful to ecommerce merchants…