What actually makes a product page sell
Nine sections in the order a buyer asks for them, why specifications are the highest-value part of the page, and the two ordering mistakes that lose people before they reach the price.
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Do you need a website if you already have a Facebook page?
An honest answer from people who build websites — including the four cases where a Facebook page really is enough, the four things it cannot do, and three questions that settle it.
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How to prepare content for a website build
The checklist we send every client after the deposit. Photos, specifications, copy, trust material and domain access — what to have ready so a build takes a week instead of a month.
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Why your product photos look bad on phones
Shop lighting, double compression and unpredictable crops — the four reasons good products photograph badly, and the fixes that cost nothing and work this afternoon.
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Build a POS that survives the internet · part 2
Offline-first POS, part 2: never store a stock level
The schema decision that makes offline sync work: store append-only stock movements and derive the level, so two tills syncing in either order reach the same answer.
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Build a POS that survives the internet · part 5
Offline-first POS, part 5: KHQR when there is no connection
A KHQR payment cannot be verified offline. Generating the QR locally, the pending-verification state machine, offline payment limits, and handling USD and riel in one drawer.
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Build a POS that survives the internet · part 3
Offline-first POS, part 3: selling with the router unplugged
Writing a sale to IndexedDB, printing a receipt with no server, and an outbox that survives a browser crash mid-sale — plus why the stock number should say '~12'.
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Build a POS that survives the internet · part 1
Offline-first POS, part 1: why the network cannot be on the critical path
Most POS demos assume a working connection. Real shops do not have one. The architecture that keeps a till selling through an outage — and why offline-first is an ordering decision, not a feature.
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Build a POS that survives the internet · part 4
Offline-first POS, part 4: idempotent sync and the last-item problem
Accepting a batch that contains sales you already have, per-sale transactions so one bad record cannot poison a batch, and what to do when two tills sold the same last item.
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Every company registered in Cambodia needs a .com.kh domain
Joint Notification 0873 requires every Cambodia-registered company to hold a .com.kh address. It costs about $100 plus $30 a year direct with the ministry — and $204 to $500 from a foreign reseller. Here is how it works and what it means for your website.
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