In a previous blog post, I wrote about effectively using ShopSite’s Customer Registration Feature for your online store. Concepts such as not making it required, ensuring it’s easy to understand, and how to correctly add sign-in and register links to your web pages.
If you’ve mastered these ideas, here is one other option to round out your awesome registration system…
The adult entertainment industry will soon be launching its own domain extension:
.XXX
Even if your business and website are 180 degrees opposite of anything remotely related to .xxx, you still want to pay attention to this new offering…
A while back we wrote about how to easily arrange product and page links, and today we’re going to review a similar topic that’s often requested: How to sort products from newest to oldest.
ShopSite doesn’t track the date when you add a new product, but with an Extra Product Field you can store the date and then sort the products by that extra field when they are displayed.
Tweet As summer starts to draw to a close, we start to turn our attention back to our businesses. The Christmas shopping season is right around the corner… I’ve listed a few links below that I found to be worth a read from the past month. TOP PICK:How to Make Your Customer Service Shine – […]
Hurricane Irene’s direct hit of Connecticut made for an eventful few days. Even though it was downgraded to a tropical storm right before landfall, that didn’t seem to make much of a difference in terms of power outages and destruction.
It had been 26 years since a hurricane hit our state directly, so this was quite the rare event.
Here’s a quick summary of how it all unfolded for Team LexiConn…
If you use real-time FedEx shipping rates in your online store, were you aware of the FedEx planned outages coming up next month? If not, this could cost you lost sales, as your cart would error out instead of returning shipping options. All it takes is a simple email signup…
Last month we took a look at when to use 301 redirects (and when NOT to use them). Many times, a 404 not found page / response is the better option.
However, a generic 404 not found page is not a good thing. Sure, the search engines don’t care either way, but your website is not built for the search engines, it’s built for your visitors…
Tweet Last week Google announced a new way to submit URLs / web pages to them: Fetch as Googlebot This is done in your Webmaster Tools account, and will tell you instantly if Google is successful in retrieving the URL. If it is, you can then submit the page to their index. No, this is […]
This was the rainbow we saw overlooking Lake George last week. It was a nice vacation, but now it’s back to reality.
If you’re also back at work, here are a few articles from July I found interesting and helpful to ecommerce merchants…
Tweet There is a very powerful but often overlooked feature in ShopSite called Variable Price. Available in both ShopSite Manager & Pro, it’s found near the top of the Edit Product Info screen: Link: ShopSite Docs for Edit Product Info Screen A variable priced product can be often used as a creative solution when a […]
