The easiest way to find what has been posted on Pinterest from your website by other Pinterest users is to use the following url.
http://pinterest.com/source/yourdomain.co.uk/
So to see all pins from www.beadazzle.co.uk
goto http://pinterest.com/source/beadazzle.co.uk/
Other pinterest boards
Apr 12
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X-Cart 4.2 Site Design Upgrade
We have just put live the site upgrade to Ackerman Music based in East Sussex, UK. The site runs on X-Cart 4.2 and includes a new mega menu navigation menu along side live branch availability for individual products.
With 30K plus products on this store, this site is by far the largest store we have seen on X-Cart.
Have you noticed how adverts follow you around the internet once you have been to an online store. This video tutorial shows you how to setup remarketing ads in google adwords.
Typically most e-commerce sites have one shared help page for returns policy, shipping details and terms and conditions. I have just seen the newly redesigned (again) ebuyer.com website and the help section gets in own drop down. They have broken down the help pages into 5 sections and then also a page for contacting them via a form, e-note and forums.
It allows your customer to get an answer to their query without searching for it, and gives the customer another reason to carry on the buying process.
clone forest php mysql script
If you have used Code Canyon and Theme Forest, then you maybe interested in setting up your own marketplace. Unlike e-commerce where you need to source products, buy in bulk and then find customers to buy. You could think of approaching it the Etsy or Amazon way.
Setup a market place where others can use your site to sell their creative work.
Clone Forest sell a number of high quality scripts that allow you to setup an online market place to sell code, images, video and docs.
Your sellers pay a selling fee which you collect via paypal and you concentrate on just marketing your site.
Remember those cheap rate international numbers that would make you enter about 100 digits so you could call Uncle Fred in the US at some ridiculously low rate of 3p a minute?
If we’re being honest, they never really worked all that well did they? Sometimes you’d get through, but the line would be so unclear that you’d barley be able to decipher the other person amongst the static. Or you’d find yourself cut off within seconds of being connected. Or you couldn’t even get through in the first place.
But all of this seemed a small price to pay when you were essentially getting long distance phone calls at a massively reduced rate.
Well, thanks to a new phone app called Viber there’s now a brilliant way to make the same international phone calls for free! Yup, you pay absolutely nothing, nada, diddly squat. And what’s even better is there’s a good chance the quality of the connection could be clear as a bell.
Free Overseas Calls – What’s the Catch?
Calling someone on my mobile overseas for free? Are you insane?
So here’s the basics of how it works. Viber is a phone app that doesn’t use phone lines, it’s using your internet connection for the phone call. That’s how the call can be free, because you’re already paying for your wi-fi or 3G on your mobile phone plan.
What this means is that the person you’re calling must also have the Viber app installed and be in range of their wi-fi or have a 3G connection. The quality of the call is dependant on the speed of your connection, so you’ll find if caller and receiver are both sitting at home, for instance, using their home wi-fi connections for their phonecall, then they should have a very clear sounding line as these speeds are likely to be quite high.
The sound quality of a 3G phonecall might not be quite as clear, but this is debatable. Obviously the other thing to be aware of is if your mobile phone plan has a data storage limit then making a phonecall using the Viber app over a 3G network will draw on your data storage, and yeah….that could prove costly if you go over it!
On the plus side the app is incredibly easy to install and get up and running and is available for both Android and iPhone.
After install Viber uses your contact list to detect who else has the app. Which means when you load up the app you’ll get a new contact list of people using Viber that you can call – oh and message too –for free.
Viber is still growing, so the popularity of using it as an international (or national) free messaging service might not yet rival the likes of Facebook chat, Blackberry messenger and Whatsapp, but the combined free call and free messenger service definitely gets a big tick from us.
Viber Pros
- Free app
- Free phone calls & texts to any other Viber users anywhere in the world
- Available for Android and iPhone
- Good quality sound over wi-fi connection
Viber Cons
- Not yet as widely used as other messaging apps
- Viber calls using 3G could suck the life out of your data storage limit
- Caller and receiver must both be in range of wi-fi or 3G connection
Came across this today from a Venezuelan programmer called Emmanuel Garcia. He has put together javascript library to show pages similiar to a real magazine or newspaper. The page also renders well on a ipad and mobile device.
It called turn.js and the site demos the plugin, with a good reference guide too.
I was recently told about this site by a client as they liked the interface and usability of the site. However, www.duedil.com is more than just pretty. Its free to use and lets you look at your competitors accounts very easily. So if you had always wondered how much he or she is making compared to you then I recommend try out duedil.com.
Google has made the latest pre-emptive strike in a complicated war with Apple, Microsoft and BT over the ownership of technology used in their Android Operating system.
Litigation wrangling has been brewing for some years now as the competition steps up in the smartphone war.
Apple has already had to patch things up with Nokia in a patent-dispute that was launched back in 2009. Their dispute was over patent infringement that included touch interfaces, caller ID, display illumination, and 3G and wi-fi technology. Apple counter-sued Nokia, but ultimately the whole shebang was resolved with an undisclosed paycheck to Nokia in June of 2011.
But the latest round of litigation focuses on internet giant Google, and its alleged infringement of patent protected technology. The litigation also affects the mobile platforms on which Android is served: HTC, Samsung and Motorola.
HTC Excluded from US Imports
Apple scored a victory in December against Android phonemaker company, HTC, when the US International Trade Commission (ITC) agreed that the company had infringed upon two of Apple’s patents relating to “detecting structures in data and performing actions on detected structures”. This ostensibly refers to the technology employed when, for example, a user taps a phone number in a contact list and the phone then calls the number.
The ITC ruling currently excludes future HTC phones that violate the patent from being imported into the US. However, it is not yet known if Apple will pursue the ruling to include other Android smartphones currently sold in the US. Needless to say, the effects of that on Google’s share of the market could be huge.
BT have also weighed in to the fray with a billion dollar lawsuit against Google Android that covers patent infringement for functionality including “a navigation system which includes a fixed part and at least one mobile part to provide guidance information to a user” ie Google Maps.
IBM Patent Buyout
So how has Google responded?
Well, if you thought someone might take the high road in all of this, think again. The digital land grab continues unabated as Google has now acquired 217 patents from IBM.
The patents cover wide-ranging technologies such as transferring web apps between devices and using semantic networks to develop a social network (hinting at Google’s continued development of Google+).
However, the more cynical of observers note that mass patent buying isn’t primarily creatively focused but a pre-emptive strike against future litigation, bought with the intention of slowing down their competition.
How Can the Smartphone War be Resolved?
Ultimately, if the heavyweights continue to focus on stifling each other with lawsuits and countersuits than it will be the consumer who loses out.
But shouldn’t they have a right to protect the technology they have invested in?
And how much is the patent system to blame in what they do and don’t choose to rubber stamp?
We’d love to hear your views, so leave a comment below and tell us what you think.
Jan 12
2
Multisite Search Suggest
Beadazzle run two jewellery sites online. One site www.beadazzle.co.uk sells official Pandora Jewellery and the www.beadazzle-boutique.co.uk site sells all other non Pandora Jewellery products. Due to Pandora’s strict selling guidelines, they cannot sell any other products apart from Pandora on a single site.
This meant that if they wanted to buy item Pandora and non Pandora products they would need to place two separate transactions. To make it easier to find products I implemented a Search Suggest feature which is licensed from Code Canyon and modified it to work on Digishop. Then wrote a php script to pull product information from Beadazzle Boutique into the Search suggest script.
Customers can now type in the search box and products from both sites will be suggested to them, and click on a non Pandora product will result in a new window opening for beadazzle boutique. This will hopefully show loyal Pandora customers that Beadazzle sell more than just Pandora.
This script can also be implemented in X-Cart which is what I will be implementing in Beadazzle Boutique.
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