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E-Commerce: Cart or Horse

by Jacqueline Sinex
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

I believe in e-commerce. Meaning, I believe that people can succeed in selling a product or service online. In fact, I have seen in work – even for products that were invented in garages. But I also know that having a successful e-commerce venture requires a lot of preparation on the part of the merchant. […]

A Happy Internet: E-Receipts

by Jacqueline Sinex
Monday, August 22nd, 2011

We like to talk about “going green”. People, as well as companies, are hunting for ways to save the environment, save money, and be more “green”. I have always thought that it seems wasteful to print out so many paper receipts at retail stores. Especially the longer than necessary receipts I get from the pharmacy […]

Quick Sell Multiple Products

by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

One of the things I like best about Magento shopping cart software is it’s forward-thinking about different types of products and how e-commerce can be used for a variety of businesses, not just a standard one-off shippable product. Magento comes with an easy way to create several product “types” including “simple” products,

Making the Multi-Address Checkout Link Pretty on the Magento Cart Page

by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

In a default Magento setup with a basic theme, Magento includes an option to “Checkout with Multiple Addresses”. This is styled as a plain-Jane blue link (no offense, Jane). Especially if you turn off One-page checkout (and only want to use multi-checkout), this link remains bland and unnoticeable. No more bright orange Checkout button. Styli

What’s Great About Authorize.net?

by Jacqueline Sinex
Friday, October 30th, 2009

In our years of e-commerce development, we have worked with a variety of payment gateways to integrate a business’s credit card processing service with a website. Authorize.net is currently one of the most popular gateway services available, making it very easy to install for almost any shopping cart. Most software already has a module available [&

What’s Great About Zen Cart?

by Jacqueline Sinex
Monday, October 19th, 2009

Zen Cart is a shopping cart software that can be a web designer’s dream. The software was well thought-out by its developers and is managed mostly with stylesheets, making custom layouts within close reach; opposed to a less flexible shopping cart that requires heavy programming to modify the look and feel. Furthermore, e-commerce developers will [

The Online Payment Low-Down

by Jacqueline Sinex
Monday, July 27th, 2009

So where in the world do you get started with accepting payments online? What about PayPal, and what about other credit card services? What’s the difference? There are many ways to equip your website with “e-commerce“. From sophisticated shopping carts to one-step order forms, thousands of businesses successfully make that step into the

Common Web Terms You May Have Missed

by Bryan Lokey
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The internet is full of terms that can seem quite confusing. Many sites use terms and abbreviations that they expect a person to know without even giving them a brief overview of what the terms mean. Even when you search for the definitions of these terms some of the information you find can read like […]

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