Business

Don’t forget to checkout how your competitors are doing

Posted by on January 24, 2012 at 9:31 pm

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 [...]

Xmas Skin has been added to John and Ginger Online Stores

Posted by on December 9, 2011 at 10:19 am

Dave has just put the Christmas Skins live for the three John and Ginger Online Stores. John and Ginger are official stockists of Dermalogica, Dermalogica Clean Start and Decleor

There are only 92 shopping days until Christmas.

Posted by on September 23, 2011 at 7:16 am

Store owners there are only 92 shopping days until Christmas, so start planning your marketing now.

Another day another design

Posted by on July 14, 2011 at 8:09 am

Today I’m designing for a VOIP website template that has the flexibility to be rebranded as required. I think a trawl through iStock and Shutterstock will get the ball rolling if I can avoid too many 3D images of globes and mobiles. Off we go! Dave F

4 more EROL to X-Cart migrations before September

Posted by on July 13, 2011 at 7:58 pm

We’ve had a run of X-Cart to EROL migrations this summer after Brightscape Solutions went into liquidation. John and Ginger have 3 stores in total to migrate. The final site will be The Plastic Shop before the September cut off date for Secure Central. We’ve learnt alot from the process but all in all it [...]

‘Why is it so expensive to pay a developer to migrate my store?’

Posted by on March 2, 2011 at 3:45 pm

‘Why is it so expensive to pay a developer to migrate my store?’ Migration First of all ‘migration’ is a misleading word as there is no magic button. Migrating from one e-commerce platform to another simply means building the whole site again. The devil is in the detail Re-creating a website design to match its [...]

Brightscape / EROL have gone Bust

Posted by on February 26, 2011 at 12:55 pm

It looks like Brightscape have gone into voluntary liquidation on February 23rd 2011. A message on the now locked forum showed the following Dear EROL Customers, When Brightscape Solutions was formed 18 months ago, we licenced in assets from Dreamteam Design and Anya Designs to trade their EROL and iLaw software and services from both [...]

Iphone App stores

Posted by on January 11, 2011 at 9:41 am

If you use an iphone and use the app store to find and download your apps then you may have noticed an increase in app stores on the web. I find Itunes a pain to use and prefer finding apps using a web browser rather than through the iphone. I have put together a list [...]

Share large files with no limits

Posted by on December 12, 2010 at 9:25 pm

Got a massive file to send someone? Dropbox limiting you on size? Then I have come across dushare.com Dushare allows you to send files peer 2 peer without any intermediate server snooping your data.

How to track the links posted on twitter and facebook

Posted by on November 23, 2010 at 9:48 am

You can post a link on your twitter status and facebook wall, but it would be nice to know how effective this link is and how many people clicked on it. One way is to have Google analytics installed and configured on the landing page, but you may want to see stats for links to [...]