Tweet In this post, we will be reviewing some of the more common reasons Magento products do not display in the frontend. 1. Product updates have invalidated the cache When using the Magento cache option, a refresh is required after product updates. System > Cache Management The invalidated cache will be displayed in orange. […]
Tweet Four great articles worth a read for any ecommerce merchant… Recipe for Responsive Ecommerce Product Pages in 2014 – Practical Ecommerce Some good tips about creating a great responsive website Deconstructing E-Commerce Search: The 12 Query Types – Baymard Institute How customers actually search a website The Landing Page Optimization Guide You Wish You’ve […]
Tweet It happens to everyone once in a while – you send an email and it bounces back undeliverable. You end up with a cryptic email which may have 30-40 lines of strange information in it, but what do you do to fix it? Luckily the most common issues are easily resolved and the details […]
Tweet Magento is a popular, powerful ecommerce solution. It’s also quite slow out of the box. How slow? The metaphor “as slow as a snail” comes to mind. (and that’s being kind…) However, with a few changes and some know-how, Magento can be as fast as any other ecommerce application, and likely faster than most. […]
Tweet As many of you know, the latest version of ShopSite (v12) now supports Google’s Universal Analytics tracking code. Universal Analytics includes many improved features over its predecessor, including: Tracking of user sessions across multiple devices Compatibility with more devices More control over configuration options Custom dimensions and metrics for more advanced reporting A complete […]
Tweet Quantity Pricing is a simple but powerful feature in ShopSite Pro which allows you to provide discounts for large orders, and even discount pricing across multiple products in the same product group. In this post we’ll cover some tips for configuring as well as common mistakes which can occur. The Settings Quantity Pricing […]
Tweet Google recently launched Shopping Campaigns, a new type of Adwords campaign, which is set to replace Product Listing Ad campaigns (PLA’s). New Merchant Center feeds are required to use the new Shopping Campaign type. According to Google, legacy feeds will be migrated to the new campaign type later this Summer (August 2014 ETA). The […]
Tweet There are a number of tutorials out there for setting up Replication in MySQL. However, I couldn’t find one that fully addressed setting up selective master-slave replication in MySQL. By selective, I am referring to only having one or a few databases that are replicated from the master database to the slave database. Any […]
Tweet Your store is online, you’re taking orders, but is shipping them taking too long? We have a time-saver for you: LexiConn has recently released a module to integrate your ShopSite store with ShipStation, a hosted order management system which can print all your shipping labels and even notify your customers of their tracking numbers. […]
Tweet If you haven’t already seen or heard about Heartbleed, the large vulnerability that affected over half a million trusted websites, here is a synopsis, the status of our servers being patched, and my take on why the sky is NOT falling due to this issue. LexiConn is Safe Once this vulnerability was announced, we […]
