E-Commerce

Multisite Search Suggest

Posted by on January 2, 2012 at 9:31 pm

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 [...]

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

Impressive Jquery slider on Code Canyon

Posted by on November 3, 2011 at 4:28 pm

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 Empty/Blank Address Book fix

Posted by on September 29, 2011 at 10:14 am

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

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.

SEO & Marketing

Posted by on July 13, 2011 at 8:02 pm

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nick’s in da house!

Posted by on July 6, 2011 at 4:30 pm

We have Nick Eagland in to help us at Zone 1 Creative for a week. He will helping Pin out on X-Cart integrations due to workload. Nick’s an old buddy from Dreamteam Design and brings Jammy Dodgers into the office.

Beadazzle Boutique X-Cart store goes live

Posted by on June 22, 2011 at 4:43 pm

We have just put Beadazzle Boutique’s new X-Cart e-commerce store live today. The new design is very strong and the functionality is bang up to date. Visit: www.beadazzle-boutique.co.uk

‘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 [...]