Category Archives: Ecommerce

Excellent Tool for Showcasing Product Options

Our customer, Dalidecals.com offers many color options for their custom wall decals and wanted a better way to showcase the options available. We integrated Adobe Scene 7 into their shopping cart allowing a customer to select a color option and instantly view the options on the sample pictures provided. No refreshing necessary! Not only can the customer configure the decal colors but also the room color!

This color configurator provides almost 100 Million variations just for this one design! If you’d like us to quote something like this for your site, please contact us.

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Google Shopping to become Pay-to-play

We have many clients that depend on Google Shopping (formerly known as Froogle). We have been helping clients since the early days of Froogle connect their X-cart sites to Google Shopping. We learned today from several articles that Google plans to have a pay-to-play model in by Fall 2012. While we can see that this could potentially help keep their results cleaner and more relevant, however we are concerned for the small businesses that may not have a budget for this.

Read more at the Google Shopping becomes pay-to-play article on searchengineland.com

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X-Cart Security Patch Released Today

All X-Cart customers should have received a security patch update today, 4/11/2012 from Qualiteam that affects all 4.1.x through 4.4.x X-carts. While X-Cart has categorized this as a “minor” threat, we feel that there is potential for a larger threat if this patch is not applied. If you are a BCSE hosted customer we will automatically apply this patch. If you are not a hosted customer and are not able to apply your patch, please contact us and we will help you. Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

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Personal Cloud to replace PC by 2014, says Gartner

Major trends in client computing have shifted the market away from a focus on personal computers to a broader device perspective that includes smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices,” Steve Kleynhans, research vice president at Gartner, said in a statement on Monday. “Emerging cloud services will become the glue that connects the web of devices that users choose to access during the different aspects of their daily life.”

Check out the full article below. It’s an interesting quick read!
Personal Cloud’ to Replace PC by 2014, Says Gartner

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Sitepoint’s 10 Web Predictions for 2012

While reading through sites I use to keep up-to-date, I found this interesting article. In it there are the 10 web predictions for 2012 from Sitepoint. I’m all for #9, the dying of IE6! It’s notorious for causing us and our clients so much issues with compatibility with new web technology.

I also found #3 interesting. I have been personally been using Windows phones for many many years now. Before ‘smart phones’ were called smart phones! I still have a windows phone today and love it.

Check out the full article below. It’s an interesting quick read!
10 web predictions for 2012

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