Big Cartel Review

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I have wanted to properly review Big Cartel since I  first came across it with my favorite T-Shirt Company Grand Flavour. It is quite unique in the e-commerce world because it shows no interest in being the biggest and the best and doesn’t ram monstrous claims down your throat the moment you visit them. The [...]

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Protecting your Contact form from SPAM

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If you have ever added a contact form to your website you are no doubt, more than aware of the problems spammers can create. Thankfully there are two very easy to implement solutions that will reduce (and hopefully) remove all your contact form spam CAPTCHA and Akismet.
CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell [...]

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Core Commerce Reviewed

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I’ll be honest – I have only just recently found out Core Commerce existed. In all my years and all my searches it has never crossed my path. As far as I can gather it has been around since early 2008 (whether it is based on a product from before this I don’t know yet). [...]

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Fix Paypal Buttons in Thesis

Have you ever tried to insert Paypal Buy Now buttons into a blog running Thesis ? You follow all the instructions and end up with great big scaled up pay pal buttons that look stupid.
So, how do i fix them ?
The fix is actually very simple. Open the Thesis Custom File Editor. From the drop [...]

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Make Google Friend Connect Work with Thesis

Google Friend Connect is a set of Google gadgets designed to turn your blog or website into a community with nothing more than copy and paste.
Adding Friend Connect features to a website requires no programming skills; you just copy and paste snippets of HTML code onto your site. You can can also add [...]

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Big Commerce vs Volusion

The two biggest hosted shopping carts (or e-commerce platforms if you want to impress girls)  offer incredible feature’s, years of development and award winning customer service. This review will have to look at how each feature is implemented to split the difference.
Price
Both offer free trials. 14 days for Volusion and 15 days for Big Commerce
Both [...]

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Volusion – A first look

I am publishing this early because I am so incredibly unimpressed with Volusion as an e-commerce platform, I am hoping someone will set me straight while I dig a little deeper.
Volusion has a lot of awards and some very impressive customers if you believe there home page – but I hate to say it I [...]

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Blog Theme Reviews

I have dropped my first post on my new project Blog Themes Reviewed. Given the extraordinary traffic that Big Commerce vs Shopify is bringing in I decided to start of with Thesis vs Headway.
Head over and leave me a note – I would love to know what everyone thinks.
Cheers, Andrew

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Expert advice on selecting a shopping cart

If business people (and prospective business people) put as much work into there shopping cart as they did trying to get people’s opinions before hand posts like this one wouldn’t be necessary. I  have seen people take over 12 months to find a shopping cart solution and then muck around for another 12 months trying [...]

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Merging blogs so bare with me please

Sorry for the mess and carry on, I am merging a series of other blogs into one, so there will be a bunch more categories and posts at the moment. I will start cleaning it up shortly. Sorry crew, but I just didn’t see the point in separating everything.
Have a great Christmas, Andrew

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