June 29th 2008
There are many people out there still wondering how to get the most out of a website and how to go about doing search engine optimisation themselves. The following post summarises some of the on and off page methods you should be using to help your site grow exponentially and ...
June 27th 2008
I have been known to occasionally bash the keys at various retro game titles such as the Bullfrogs classic Theme Park, ( I know - I'm an eighties kid) and believe it or not, the strategies involved in building your theme park empire, are analogous with website development and promotion...There ...
June 25th 2008
1and1 internet the hosting company from hell.
Please God whatever you do, don't invest your hard earned cash with these jokers. *Apparently* on an old expired domain, I signed up for a 24 month contract (complete rubbish), and I'm now (having been referred to a credit agency to have my credit ...
June 23rd 2008
Spyfu Uk is due for its launch this week (24th of June), and luckily we have been priviledged enough to get a link into the UK version of the service direct from the Spyfu Team.
Early this week I got a nice little email from them, asking if we'd take a ...
June 19th 2008
Before I start this post, ask anyone that knows me about what my thoughts on new technology are, and you'll find the word passionate coming up, if something interests me, I'll grab it with both hands, reading around it until I learn it inside out. However sometimes, its not a ...
June 18th 2008
In part one (Wrong Business Decisions) and part two (Poor Website Implementation) we discussed the ins and out of the commercial and software decisions to make with your e-commerce operation. So now you've made the sale, hooray pat yourself on the back, and your e-commerce operation is ready to boom ...
June 16th 2008
Following on from our first post on mistakes with e-commerce there are a few things that many retailers get wrong when it comes to the website itself.
Poor Website Implementation
1). Making the Checkout long winded.
Amazon is awesome. Why? Because of one-click checkout. You should be looking for an e-commerce platform that ...
June 15th 2008
Wrong Business Decisions
1). Wrong choice of product
Many people think that its time to jump into e-commerce just because everyone else is doing it- or sometimes because competitors aren't doing it. You have to stop and ask yourself, will my product lend itself to the web? Are other retailers selling this ...
June 11th 2008
Designers by nature love to change things. If they aren't dropping caps to suit a design, they are trying to push the boundaries of what the browser can do. I've recently been involved in a project that has needed some different looks for standard user interface elements such as forms. ...
June 7th 2008
Many online retailers know that one of the hardest thing to do with a newly launched e-commerce website is to get more traffic.
As blogging provides regular content to the search engines, not to mention the benefits that backlinks provide many e-commerce sites have jumped on the blogging bandwagon to try ...
