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10 articles in Web development

  • Costa Rica's data protection law and your website: what Ley 8968 asks of forms, cookies and mailing lists

    7 min read

    Costa Rica's data protection law and your website: what Ley 8968 asks of forms, cookies and mailing lists

    Almost every small business site has a contact form, and almost none knows where the data it collected over the last three years ended up. The law asks for no project and no in-house lawyer: it asks for four lines on the form, an unticked box, and knowing where things are. What falls to the website and what does not.

    • Strategy
    • Web development

  • Why websites get hacked: the plugins nobody updates and the maintenance nobody does

    6 min read

    Why websites get hacked: the plugins nobody updates and the maintenance nobody does

    Hardly any small business site is attacked by a person: it is found by a program testing known flaws against millions of addresses. And the flaw is almost always in a plugin installed two years ago, no longer maintained by anyone, still active because nobody remembers what it was for.

    • Web development
    • Strategy

  • How much does a website cost in Costa Rica? Real ranges and what each one includes

    6 min read

    How much does a website cost in Costa Rica? Real ranges and what each one includes

    The honest answer is that it depends, but that helps nobody put together a budget. Here are the ranges the country works with today, what falls inside each one, what it costs to keep the site alive every year, and why two quotes for the same project can differ fivefold.

    • Strategy
    • Web development

  • How to build an online store in Costa Rica: payments, shipping and what nobody tells you

    4 min read

    How to build an online store in Costa Rica: payments, shipping and what nobody tells you

    Setting up the catalogue is the easy part. What decides whether the store sells are the payment methods you accept, how you solve shipping inside the country and who updates the inventory each week. A guide to the decisions that actually matter.

    • Web development
    • Strategy

  • Why your website loads slowly and how to fix it, explained without jargon

    3 min read

    Why your website loads slowly and how to fix it, explained without jargon

    Half of all visitors abandon a site that takes more than three seconds, and in Costa Rica much of the traffic arrives over mobile data. The five causes behind almost every case, and which one you can fix yourself today.

    • Web development
    • Trends

  • .com or .co.cr? How to choose and register your domain in Costa Rica

    3 min read

    .com or .co.cr? How to choose and register your domain in Costa Rica

    The decision looks minor and it is one of the few that is expensive to reverse later. What each ending tells your customer and Google, what they cost, and the three rules that keep the domain in your name rather than your provider's.

    • Strategy
    • Web development

  • Web security for small businesses: SSL, backups and what to do if you get hacked

    3 min read

    Web security for small businesses: SSL, backups and what to do if you get hacked

    Nobody attacks a small business site by hand: a bot crawling the internet for unpatched plugins finds it. The four measures that cover 90% of the risk, and the protocol for when it has already happened.

    • Web development
    • Trends

  • Electronic invoicing and your website in Costa Rica: how they connect

    4 min read

    Electronic invoicing and your website in Costa Rica: how they connect

    If you sell online, electronic invoicing stops being an accountant's errand and becomes part of the site. What has to happen between someone paying and their receipt arriving, and the three ways to solve it.

    • Web development
    • Strategy

  • Web Development in Costa Rica 2026: what it takes to have a modern, fast site that actually sells

    3 min read

    Web Development in Costa Rica 2026: what it takes to have a modern, fast site that actually sells

    Web development in Costa Rica has moved fast over the last few years. More and more companies, founders and professionals understand that “having a website” is not enough: you need a site that is optimised, fast, secure and built around results.

    • Web development
    • Trends

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