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Squarespace Is Going Public — What It Means to Your Business

Upendo Ventures: Squarespace IPO

We have helped hundreds of businesses get online or improve their online experiences, so it’s important for us to keep informed about the platforms and technologies that make that happen. There is a mega-trend in the market right now and Squarespace is adapting to those changes. All of this could impact your business website and we wanted to keep you in the loop.

How to Prepare and Format eCommerce Product Images

Upendo Ventures: How to Prepare and Format eCommerce Product Images

How your products look online is super-important. The first thing that most eCommerce merchants do is establish a style — what kind of background you use, how much exposure, are the products by themselves, or display in context as "lifestyle" images. All that is important for the consistency of your brand and the look of your website theme. Those are the more subjective aspects of product photography.

DNN Summit Session: DNN Upgrades Made Simple

Upendo Ventures: DNN Upgrades Made Simple

Our second and final session at DNN Summit 2021 was about upgrading DNN. After having upgraded literally thousands of DNN websites over the past 18 years, this session is the culmination of everything I've learned over that period of time. Most of the issues we run into tend to be completely avoidable.

DNN Summit Session: Multi-Site DNN Instances and Robots.txt

Upendo Ventures: DNN SEO and Robots.txt

Our first session at DNN Summit 2021 this year was a short introduction to search engine optimization (SEO) and then a deeper dive on how to manage the Robots.txt file in your DNN website. Management of this critical SEO file is easier than ever on DNN 9.8 and newer. This blog post is a follow-up to provide resources for the event attendees.