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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Just come across an impressive jquery slider on the code canyon website. It does animation and look ideal for an online store. Try it out here : http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-onebyone-slider-plugin/full_screen_preview/684613 Full product Information : http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-onebyone-slider-plugin/684613
X-Cart 4.4.3 has a bug where the address book page is blank when you are logged into your customer account and goto the accounts section. This issue can be fixed by adding the following line add approx line 54. x_load(‘user’); The full forum thread is here. http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=60203&highlight=func_get_address_book
Store owners there are only 92 shopping days until Christmas, so start planning your marketing now.
We have just signed up another monthly marketing plan, this one with Doggie Solutions. We run our own e-commerce store GAPco which helps us understand exactly what is required to market an e-commerce store online. The usual suspects are of course Facebook, Blogs and Twitter combined with onsite SEO for the main website. It’s great [...]
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 [...]
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