In August we were asked by a client to build to rebuild their online store as quickly and as cost effectively as possible. Their current site was built using a shopping cart application that had become unsupported about 3-4 years…
As a store owner you can see through your online orders which products are selling regularly via Google analytics ecommerce tracking it is pretty easy to see this too. But its much more difficult to see the viewing stats for…
Purelypaper wanted a product filtering feature on their x-cart 4 site that will allow customers to drill down to the products they want to find and reduce the amount of category level clicks. As their site contains so many product…
We have just completed a complete re-design and build for June Emerson Wind Music. The site offers a comprehensive selection of wind music with well over 57,000 titles available.
Keep your site quick and lean for Black Friday My new favourite web app/tool is webpagetest.org introduced to me by Alex Dyachov at X-Cart eCommerce software. In his excellent webcast on X-Cart Security and Performance Optimization he explains how you…
X-Cart 4 Advanced Filters Module - Show large filter options using a letter index I use the advanced filter module from BCSE Engineering for X-Cart 4. This filter has less functionality than X-Carts refine filters module, but I prefer it…
The request to have suggestive search in X-Cart is very common and does not come as default in the core code. There are modules you can purchase and install but found that each store owners requirements are very unique. Which…
I am almost live with the google maps auto complete address feature on a clients store team task management app. There are some limitiations that I have come across. I have decided to not update the country field, as mapping…
Another X-Cart website from Zone 1 Creative. Using some clever coding to calculate cable dimensions we overrode X-Carts standard product functionality. It's always a challenge to design a strong user interface for a store when products lack visual appeal but…
I am working on implementing google maps to autocomplete the address fields on the x-cart checkout. The screenshot above shows how it would work. You start entering your address and a list is returned by the google maps api. When…