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We’re turning up the office stereo to blare Willie Nelson’s legendary “On the Road Again” in preparation for our much-anticipated trip to Chicago to showcase our shopping cart software at the 2010 Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition (IRCE). IRCE is the United States’ largest ecommerce event, attracting over 5000 visitors and more than 75 expert [...]
Fans of Vintage-Style Sneakers with Pockets Popularized in 80s Flock to www.kangaROOSusa.com in Record Numbers; New Volusion-Powered Ecommerce Site Monetizes Web Traffic, Increasing Sales by 75 Percent Week after Week
There’s been quite a bit of hopping around the office in brightly-colored footwear after working with one of our newest clients, KangaROOS. Remember those awesome shoes [...]
Think animation is too hard and too pricey? Helen Bradley explains how to create a simple animation using the affordable Swish MiniMax software.
We’ve just launched the latest version of WP Auctions, version 3.5. Here are the list of features added to this version.
WP Auctions v3.5 Features
New image upload process, now you can upload your images using the default WordPress image uploader.
End auctions on a specific date and time.
Custom bid increments lets you specify the next minimum bid [...]
Please login into your member area and download the latest version of WP Auctions.
More new features coming soon and new styles as well!
Please update your plugin by downloading it from your member area as we’ve fixed some critical bugs. You can just upload the main .php files via FTP.
Overwriting the plugin will require you to delete the plugin first and then upload the new folder. Doing so may void out your currently running auctions and lose image [...]Weborithm.com, our parent company, is having a great sale on WordPress Themes for a limited time.
You can instantly download 3 Premium WordPress Themes for $40! The regular value for all of these themes combined would otherwise be $80. That’s a savings of 50%!
The deal lasts only till the 11th of December when the offer will [...]Now that version 3 is finally out the door I thought I would take some time to add a few more styles for the plugin.
So here are the a few options that I have thought of, if you have any other recommendations then feel free to leave a comment.
What Type of “Styles” Would You Like?(survey [...]
In our never ending quest to offer the best plugin possible to let everyone host their own auctions I’ve been tinkering around with the Popup design.
Without further adieu, here they are.
The “Bids” and “Other Auctions” will be tabs and the relevant data for each tab will be shown when a user clicks on it. I [...]
Even though WP Auctions was specifically made for hosting auctions on your own blog it can very well be used as an e-commerce plugin.
The auction comes with a “Buy it Now” feature that can be used to sell items in the traditional direct way to your end user.
Configuration is as simple as setting the start [...]As WP Auctions aligns itself to be the best plugin available to host auctions on WordPress powered blogs and websites we have a lot of amazing features that are just waiting to be implemented. With that being said…
We need beta testers.
If you would like to be a beta tester please leave a comment below using [...]Just wanted to make a note that we have shifted our affiliate program to Weborithm, our parent company.
You can sign up here for new affiliate links.
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Here’s a nice simple hack which is also made known on the official Magento website, something which really should be there as standard. Despite being known about before the 1.4.0.1 release, Varien still hasn’t seen fit to include it, which seems criminal given how easy a hack it is. I’m not gonna go down the [...]
Here at ecommerce website design we are in need of magento developers. We don’t care if you are a wizard at e-commerce or just starting out – we have space for all levels of experience and expertise. As a magento developer or even a bespoke coder you will be in prime position in one of [...]
Following on from earlier Magento blog posts where I’ve described how some clients may not want to actually sell their products online, but rather use the architecture of Magento as a CMS – there’s a very simple way of converting these product pages into online enquiries. Trust me, I’m not flogging a dead horse with [...]
E-Commerce TV is a phrase that we use to describe a “TV station” on your e-commerce store, not a TV station as in big antennae and fixed phone competitions, but really a collection of programmes on a single channel. These programmes can take any form – but the most popular e-commerce based videos, and the [...]
Home About Subscribe Email Call : 1-213-316-6188 Retail Ecommerce Blog Online Retail Marketing eCommerce SEO Tips by Mobius 4 22 2010 ABC of Blogging Definitely Not Blogging has been around for some time now . Though early bloggers did not have an exact term for what they were doing , soon Jorn Barger coined the term web log , which was later reduced to blog by Peter Merholz , President and one of the founders of Adaptive . Path Don’t be misled I am not going to elaborate on the history of blogging , but rather about the chemistry between blogging and . retailers Retailers are popping up everywhere like fireworks on the 4th of July , trying to sell through all possible channels . So it comes as no surprise that they would invade the blog space to reach out to more customers . Our
The need came up recently to remove the prices from the RSS XML file produced by Magento, which shows the products inside a category. The company did not want its prices advertised on the website, instead the items are displayed alongside an ‘Enquire Online’ button which pre-fills the contact form with the product information. Therefore [...]
If you have worked with a Commerce Server 2009 SharePoint site (Default Site aka Template Pack) you have probably noticed that the quickest and most efficient way of re-skinning this site is to create new XSLT templates for XSLT Web Parts and manipulating...(read more)
Its that time again…the time when we put aside our computer screens and pick up a brand new “smelling of the earth” book. However – in our line of work it is almost impossible to avoid the subject of IT, Web Design or even E-Commerce. We don’t mind – in fact we relish these moments!
So [...]
When creating a store for your client you may want to recieve detailed analytics on who’s visiting your site, what keyphrases they are using and how they are actually getting to your store.
This could be via:
PPC
Organic SEO
Longtail phrases
Referring sites
It is important to know this information – as it will really help improve your conversion rates. [...]
It has been recently announced that the Magento Developers Paradise event scheduled to begin on the 18th of April has been postponed due to the clouded skies of Ash over large areas of Europe. The event which was supposed to be in full swing today in sunny Mallorca, Spain had gathered a lot of momentum [...]
While Magento is an e-commerce platform that prides itself and excels in search-engine-friendly standards, there are several things that can be done in the configuration which can clean up the URLs of your site – something which needs doing a lot to get the most out of clean URLs. Below is a list of [...]
Magento has concentrated quite hard on the order management side of ecommerce, basically handing over all features of managing your order books to the user. This post will basically be a run-down of the main features of the order management system and how you can use these to process orders that you receive over the [...]
Home About Subscribe Email Call : 1-213-316-6188 Retail Ecommerce Blog Online Retail Marketing eCommerce SEO Tips by Mobius 4 12 2010 How to Deal With Duplicate Content on Ecommerce Websites Part 1 O K folks , I understand that you want to deal with duplicate content on your website . Duplicate content is one among the common SEO problems confronted by a webmaster . I always wanted to write on this topic in our retail ecommerce blog but never found the time as I was engaged in meeting the daily hard-line targets for our SEO clients . Now , finally I am at leisure to share my insight and experience on this issue . The topic is quite vast , so I am not going to cover everything in this one post , rather you can look forward to a series of articles that will unravel the basic crucial elements
For all the great things that Magento does, there one thing that I’ve mentioned before on several occasions that still needs sorting out and that’s the product import via spreadsheets. Other sites that I have used have been doing this for years – just ask those poor EKM users. Even Joomla has mastered it, but [...]
Back in the day…we had a wide selection of buildings, some big, others slightly smaller. We called these strange places “shops”. In these “shops” lived a few humble “staff”, whose job it was to patrol the “shop” and keep a wary eye out for miscreants and vagabonds. They were also required to “face-up” the aisles [...]
Robert and I have been working with Magento for a long period of time now and have encountered a variety of successes and failures with the system. The latest project has seen a complete rework of the wishlist system to produce a quote process that is separate from the main shopping cart. We’ve also had [...]
Here at ecommerce website design we came across the need to output data directly from the database. I’m still not sure why this need arose, but what I do know is that the techniques we used are very useful for other situations too.
What I’ll do in this short blog post is basically show you what [...]
When spending time heavily customizing a Magento site, you’ll often find yourself needing to find ways to separate the content of some product pages from others and one way to do this would be through using attribute sets. If you have an attribute set of ‘non-salable’ products and an attribute set of ’salable’ products, it’s [...]
Magento is a complex beast, and sometimes words and images alone are not enough to convey all the information needed to follow a magento tutorial. To help your ecommerce website design and implementation we are aiming to start rolling out a series of magento video tutorials that should make our little fixes/hacks and tutorials easier [...]