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Create a Custom Facebook Application for Your Business

Facebook business profile owners, we have good news for you. Caspio-Powered Facebook Apps are now available. Create any type of business application and easily integrate it into your Facebook business profile. Build apps to generate leads, recruit people,...

7 Tips for Creating User-Friendly Search Forms

If you are working with online database apps, chances are that you have already made or are thinking about creating a search form for users to quickly find the data they are looking for. We have gathered a short list of best practices that can make your search...

Do You Really Know Who Is Using Your Apps?

Congratulations for rolling out your great new app to all your users … but do you know who your most active users are? Or whether people are having difficulty accessing your app? Do you know if they access it from the home or office? Caspio has a little-know...

5 Tips for Password Protecting Your Applications

When password protecting your application with Caspio authentication, the following best practices can be used as a checklist to ensure important safeguards are considered. 1. Username field should be unique This is now enforced by Caspio when creating a new a...

4 Ways to Promote and Extend the Reach of Your Apps

You’ve created your app with Caspio and deployed it to your website, but have you considered how to get more out of your efforts? Here are some ways that you can extend the reach of your Caspio apps to gain more exposure and usage: 1. Distribute Your App as ...

Convert Microsoft Excel to a Web Database

Microsoft Excel is perhaps the most popular "light database". Sure, Excel is not a database, but its rows and columns can take almost any type of data without complaining, and data can be easily searched, sorted, and even styled to look nice. So why would...

How to Add a Lightbox to Display Images

Images can speak louder than words. As a result, more and more organizations are integrating photos into their websites and web applications. And in most cases, nobody wants to direct their audience to another page to view images at a larger scale. Adding a Li...

How to Add a Timeout Script to Web Forms

Time limits are surprisingly effective at motivating users to complete a web form. Adding a timeout script increases the sense of urgency and commitment to finish your form within the allowed time. A time limit also encourages candid first impressions or ...