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Hosting a Magento site… simple!

May 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

If you’ve never heard of Magento now, you most definitely will have later.I’ve blogged about it before, and it will soon become the standard shopping cart software around the world, mainly due to its simple yet incredible features, but also because of the speed and the clean Web 2.0 look and feel of the […]

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Banishing insecurities when shopping on the web

April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’ve been busy for the past few months developing ShopperGuard, a new web-site which is an independent web-site verification tool for E-Commerce traders across the globe. Companies can sign up to ShopperGuard, and pay for one or many “ShopperGuard seals”.
A seal is then supplied to the user provided their web-site passes a number […]

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Niche marketing just got easier

March 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Recently, I’ve been playing about with a great web-tool called Build a Niche Store, which gives you a great opportunity to piggy-back on to the Ebay affiliate scheme. Obviously, you can sign to become an Ebay affiliate at the drop of the hat, however the time is then spent on all the marketing […]

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Using an alias to “copy” a domain

March 1st, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been experimenting a lot recently with domain aliases. In simple terms, a domain alias allows additional domain names to all lead to the exact same locations on your original website. For example, I am hosting the domain “blastedthing.co.uk”, and I also own the domain “htoamil.co.uk”.

I have added the htoamil domain to […]

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Automatically populating a forum with REAL topics!!

July 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Ever come across a web-site which has a forum, and then you look at the date of the last post and it was about 8 months ago? Not good is it. It doesn’t exactly entice you to post, and it makes it look like the site has no community and little to […]

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