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How to find what images have been Pinned on Pinterest from your website

May 10, 2012

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 http://pinterest.com/source/beadazzle-boutique.co.uk/ http://pinterest.com/source/cainefashion.co.uk/

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X-Cart 4.2 Site Design Upgrade

April 20, 2012

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 [...]

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How to Set Up Google AdWords Re-Marketing Campaign

March 7, 2012

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.

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Ideal number of help pages on your e-commerce site

March 6, 2012

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 [...]

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Start your own marketplace using PHP and MySQL script from Clone Forest

February 28, 2012

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 [...]

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How to make free international phone calls

February 22, 2012

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 [...]

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Paper like page turning affect using HTML 5

February 7, 2012

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.

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Don’t forget to checkout how your competitors are doing

January 24, 2012

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 [...]

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Google Continues the Smartphone Patent War

January 5, 2012

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 [...]

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Multisite Search Suggest

January 2, 2012

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 [...]

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