Nick’s in da house!
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.
E-Commerce
Beadazzle Boutique X-Cart store goes live
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?’
‘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
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 [...]
Free Xcart 4.2 Skins with a CSS Layout
The X-Cart website has 15 free CSS templates that can be installed on Xcart 4.2. goto http://www.x-cart.com/news/free-skin-templates-for-online-stores.html
Drop your bounce rate with a new site design
Its amazing what a new site design can do. We have seen a significant drop in bounce rate when sites are redesigned. This means customers are actually taking the time to browse the site instead of just clicking the back button on their browser. On the1st of February 2010 we launched the new OHM Healthcare [...]
New X-Cart Site realease by Zone1 Creative
We have just gone live this morning with a new X-Cart site that was converted from Actinic and integrated with Ackerman Music’s EPOS system. The site handle over 32,000 products and shows live stock levels from Ackermans 3 retail outlets. Check it out at www.ackermanmusic.co.uk
Fulltone OCD – The power of Google product Search
Zone 1 Creative recently went live with a new online store built in X-Cart call the Guitar Amps & Pedal Co. GAPco.co.uk. The site replaced audiotoyz.co.uk and guitars-amps-uk.co.uk and so had instance traffic from these already indexed sites. One of the first things that I did was to install the XML Sitemaps module from magenticONE [...]
Build an IKEA like site
This tutorial by Sam Dunn on Buildinternet.com shows how to make your product images on your ecommerce site interactive like the IKEA website.
Zone1 Creative Ecommerce sites make featured listing
Zone1 Creative have now been using X-Cart as it main ecommerce package for over a year now. Since moving away from EROL and its lack of online management features we have built some nice sites that break the concept of X-Cart sites look too similiar. X-Cart themselves have seen the work we have done and [...]
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