How To Integrate Facebook Instant Articles With WordPress Website.

It’s been no secret to anyone using a mobile device over the past few years – webpages have become more feature-rich, while delivery speed has been sometimes lacking. While ‘mobile-first’ initiatives have been helpful in bridging this gap, more effort is necessary to bring browsing speeds into the 21st Century.

Instant Articles is Facebook’s own initiative to improve mobile browsing speeds and much like the AMP Plugin for Google’s project, Automattic has stepped up to develop their own plugin for WordPress integration.

In this article, we’ll look at what Instant Articles is, its limitations and how to integrate it with your WordPress website. In our article on integrating AMP with WordPress, we explained some of the technical terms found here, so it’s worth reading through that first, to get up to speed.

If you’re ready, let’s get started!

Reasons You Should Choose WordPress for Your Website

There are a number of solutions available for creating websites, each with their own advantages, disadvantages and fanatical user bases championing each of them. This means finding the solution to publish your content could be tough. Make the wrong choice and you’re potentially stuck with a platform that causes you headaches and grief further down the line.

Fortunately, there’s a publishing platform available with the right balance of functionality, flexibility, cost, and support to match hand-coded websites and it also outperforms the other available solutions. That platform, of course, is WordPress!

In this post, we will look at six reasons why WordPress should be the go-to publishing choice for your website, but first of all, let’s look at exactly what WordPress is, along with a little back history.

Why Every eCommerce Business In Africa Needs A Blog

Running an online store is no easy task and certainly doesn’t come cheap. You’d have to acquire a lot of merchandise, partner with courier companies, hire staffs to keep track of your stock control process, have an excellent customer service team, build a professional eCommerce site, run or outsource your social media management, and eventually spend a whole lot of money trying to promote your online store.

For people living in most countries in Europe and America, running an eCommerce business can be very profitable, fun, and generally appear to seem like an adventure. But for people living in Africa, especially Nigeria, it’s a whole different game.

5 Reasons To Have A Web Presence Now

Not so long ago if you wanted to check when a movie was playing, you'd consult your local newspaper. If you wanted to find someone to remodel your bathroom, you'd open the yellow pages.

But for an increasing number of consumers, those habits are as dated as a pair of faded bell bottoms.

"Today, consumers across all age brackets use the Internet and, particularly for computer-savvy users, the Internet is the first place they'll turn for information about a vendor," says Sadie Peterson, president of SDMarCom Inc., a San Diego-based marketing firm that specializes in working with small businesses.

"The Internet offers an opportunity to introduce yourself to consumers exactly when they are searching for your business-by appearing in the major search engines," Peterson notes. "For niche businesses, the Web presents an opportunity to reach the nationwide or global community, where geographic limitations might otherwise force you out of business."

Industry Experts Predict The Future of the Satellite Industry

With rapid development of new technologies and a colossal increase in mobile devices and internet usage, there’s a new pressure on connectivity and a question mark over the future role of satellite.

We ran a survey to take stock of the current industry. Everyone from C-level Satellite operators to end-users from maritime, oil and gas and the aviation industry responded. The results are in, here are your top 7 predictions:

1. Over the next 5 years, the satellite industry will see a huge amount of change

Pressure from new technologies LEO and HTS will change the landscape of the industry a great deal. While many agree that innovation will enable entry into new markets, it’s yet to be seen whether the major players will remain the same, or if new providers will disrupt.

Raising the VSAT Opportunity

These days tremendous buzz surrounds the satellite industry. I’m not talking just about all of global billionaires looking to launch “micro satellites” in the coming years. Excitement exists in the traditional satellite market as well, with opportunity abundant for those that step forward as leaders.

Market demand is high, next generation satellites are being launched and the talk of satellite going mainstream is as hot as ever. Let’s examine each of these further.

An Internet of Things World: Where does Satellite fit in?

We live in the era where organizations and people want 24/7 always-on connectivity. The Internet of Things (IoT) will aim to make this a reality, and readily transform companies along with the way they do business. It is the next generation of internet connectivity, and it could have far reaching consequences for just about everything.-MARK HOLMES

One of the big buzz terms at recent satellite events has been the Internet of Things (IoT), where we live in an uber-connected world full of connected devices which can pretty much track everything man and machine do as billions of devices talk to each other. 

While IoT is great news for the wireless industry, it could also offer some interesting new growth opportunities for satellite companies as they look to secure a role in this hyper-connected state of affairs.