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note ; i’m using firefox and i tried to clear private data, but it still appears.
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Joomla Website Builder
2012 -
04.01
Joomla is a very powerful web site design software tool. This program is an open source code, so there is no charge for acquiring and using the software. Now that, you must admit, is a tremendous deal. You will surely agree after you take some time and review Joomla.
It is almost unbelievable, if not ludicrous and irrational, that the developers of this software freely give it away. But, that is the impetus behind open source code- to share with the public. Truely a design to help empower those that do not have the financial wherewithal to acquire high end software and compete with large corporations.
Noting that Joomla is openly downloadable for public use or what is commonly referred to as shareware makes its professional design even more incredible. Creating a high quality software program is a major challenge for any corporate team of developers. Because Joomla was developed by a group of web designers and programmers outside of that corporate shadow, the group responsible for Joomla’s development had few limitations on creativity. The melding of minds in the group resulted in a very powerful software program that is used by individuals and companies alike.
Review the Joomla “Core Team” members and their credentials at http://www.joomla.org.
In my opinion, this is the best (no charge) web designing software available. Its popularity has brought other programmers to develop custom modules that can be loaded with Joomla for further enhancement. These enhancements make this already superb web site and design software that much more powerful and flexible.
Addons, or extensions as they are known in the Joomla comunity, are continually being developed and upgraded by programmers outside of the main core group. Typically when a new module is developed it will be made available to others at a reasonable price. Like the main program, the addons are suitable for small to large company web sites.
If you are concerned about support, there is a great many forums that you can read and review for tach issues. Of course, the best forum is the main community support system associated with the web site- forum.joomla.org/. In many cases, you do not have to make a post in the forum because it is likely your question has already been asked and answered.
There are more than a few joomla templates created by third parties. Please do not discount the fact that the templates were created by programmers other than the original joomla developers. You will find the templates extremely beneficial to your Joomla website devlopment needs. These are full website templates ready to load- including graphics.
Well, load it up and give it a spin. You may find that Joomla will replace all of your old website design software programs. For loading the program, you can check with your web hosting company. Many offer a preloaded script or tool that makes loading Joomla a five minute breeze.
Be patient when learning the many different settings and uses of the program. Sometimes the addon modules require a little extra time for installation. However, your overall experience with this mightily equipped program will no doubt be an impressive one.
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How do I put a wordpress blog onto someones domain?
2012 -
03.29
How do I design a Word Press blog and have it show up on a clients domain name?
i.e.
www.clientswebsite.com contains wordpress blog?
I’m a amateur graphic/web designer
Important Guide to Setting Up Your Own Website
2012 -
03.29
Step 1 – Plan Your Website
Many new webmasters are so in a hurry to get their website started that they tend to make rash decisions and lack a proper website plan. Jot down what you want your website to be about, even if you’re just brainstorming ideas. Will your site be a weblog, or a web portal? Will it be under one specific niche or will it cover a broad range of categories? What’s your budget for this site, and will your site be supported by adverts or is it an ecommerce (shopping cart) site? Think about the website you want to have, and before paying for anything, make sure you’ve covered as many questions you can think of. Do some research on the internet, and browse through sites that are quite similar to the one you have in mind. Compare, contrast and criticize.
Step 2 – Choosing Your Domain Name
Domain names can be quite fun! A domain name is the name you would give your site, e.g. domain.com. If your site is a personal blog, then you can be as creative as you want, and you don’t really have to care much about what people think of it! But if your site is going to be business-related or something more professional then choosing the right domain is critical.
Choosing generic words for your domain name will give you an absolute advantage over your competitors because people looking for hair products might directly type in “hair products” on their address bar and that will direct them to your webpage.
For example, if you want to sell hair products on your website, ceasing hairproducts.com or anything closely related to those keywords might be a very good idea. Additionally, choosing a ‘.com’ would be better than choosing any other top-level domain (TLD) like.net or.info, mainly because the.com is the most well-known extension. Choosing your own country’s TLD would be a good idea too, especially if your country has a well-promoted TLD e.g. United Kingdom’s ‘co.uk’ extension.
You should also consider registering your company or brand’s domain name. For example, if your brand name is ‘The Brandname’, you can register thebrandname.com and this can be the domain of your choice or it can be registered as an addition to your generic domain name (i.e. you can have more than one domain name). This will help create brand awareness.
Step 3 – Choosing The Perfect Web Host
Web hosting is one of the most important part of the entire set-up. Why? Because web hosts are companies that actually rent out storage space and that’s where your web files will be kept! So it is important to choose a web host that is reputable, and have very good customer testimonials.
Visit webmaster communities and ask well-known webmasters for their recommended web hosts. Do not settle for one customer review. Ask as many webmasters as possible. Visit these web hosts and analyse the services they claim to provide. Steer clear from ‘too good to be true’ offers, or be very skeptical about them. When you finally find one you want to try out, subscribe to a monthly plan, rather than an annual plan. This will save you money in case you are not satisfied with their services.
Step 4 – Design & Development
There are so many ways to design and develop your website. You can choose to design and code it all from scratch. This will take a lot of time but if you are familiar with languages like HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, Asp.net, Ajax, and so on, then scripting your own unique website might be a good choice for you. Unique and custom designs seem to generally do better than non-unique sites.
If you do not have a lot of time on your hands or you don’t know how to code your own website, there are other alternatives. You can resort to free or paid templates or scripts widely available online. The most popular method today however, is choosing open source softwares like Joomla (Content Management System), WordPress (Weblog and lite Content Management System), Magento (eCommerce Solution), PhpBB (Bulletin Board System, aka forum), etc.
These free open source softwares allow you to upload them via FTP (e.g. Filezilla) and install them on your site. If you’re not sure how to do this, your web host or the software’s support community will usually be able to help you out. These open source softwares usually have hundreds if not thousands of web templates created by designers and you can also use most of these templates for free.
Step 5 – Site Content
Any quality website should have unique, quality website content. If your website is a blog, your site content should be relevant to your site’s niche to cater to your target audience. Although, if you do not have site content, sites e.g. Article directories offer content that you will be able to publish on your website. Remember though, that these content are also available to other publishers so you will not have unique content on your site which may affect your site’s performance in the search engines.
10 Important Facts About Integrated Labels
2012 -
03.27
Integrated labels, labels that are integrated onto the paper they are printed on, are used by a large variety of businesses and personal sellers across the world. As they are so useful when it comes to posting items in either bulk or as single parcels, mass amounts are purchased every day. Addresses are printed straight onto them and then they can be stuck onto the desired surface.They can be bought either in shops or from online retailers, and can be custom printed to reflect your logo or business information if desired.
1 These labels can be bought as either single or double sheets; this is pretty self-explanatory and gives more versatility to those who wish to use them.
2. More and more of these label sheets are produced using materials that are 100% recycled – this is great for the environment and can help to keep the prices down.
3. as mentioned previously, logos or company information can be pre-printed onto the labels before they are sent to you; this is good marketing and will provide your customers with your contact info straight away when they receive their package, should they need it. However, some companies also require their information to be printed onto the label as well, so be sure to make sure of their policies before buying.
4. Theselabels sheets are compatible with a wide range of online shopping carts. These include eBay, Actinic, X-Cart, Cubecart and Amazon as well as other popular names. This makes them very versatile and ideal for a variety of users.
5. A lot of companies that sell integrated labels offer same day despatch and next day delivery. This is great if you need them in a hurry, or just if you want to keep your supplies well stocked. This may be subject to the time the order is placed, however, so make sure you read the terms and conditions, or ask about their policies.
6. In addition to the quick service often offered, some companies will even give you a dedicated account manager who will look after the order from the time it is placed until you sign for it. This means that they are available to speak with either by phone or email at all points, and if you decide to become a repeat customer they will remain in charge of your account usually.
7. These labels also have a few different names they are known by. These include peel out labels, invoice labels, cart paper, non copy labels and dispatch labels. So, whilst this may be initially a little confusing, it does show that they can serve a large variety of purposes.
8. Integrated labels can be run through laser printers, which are used by a lot of companies. This is good as it means you won’t have to change your existing printer.
9. Integrated labels can be bought in a variety of different sizes to suit your needs, this means a larger package can have a larger label and vice versa.
10. The best way to stock such labels is to stack them in boxes no more than 5 levels high and not in direct sunlight. The boxes should be sealed until ready to use and then the sheets should be fanned prior to printing.
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A Web Hosting Directory Can Assist Your Search For A Host
2012 -
03.27
As the popularity and power of the Internet continues to grow, so does the online community of websites that promote businesses, entertainment, commerce, and social destinations. For those who choose to establish an online presence through the creation of a website, a number of decisions must be made in order to give your website every opportunity for success; not the least of which is the choice of a web host that can effectively service your site. But finding an appropriate web host from among the thousands that offer the service can be a bit like hunting a needle in a haystack. A web hosting directory, however, can offer a starting point for your search.
In order to place your website online you must do so through a web host – a company or individual that offers access to the Internet through a server. While complex sounding, a server is nothing more than a high-powered computer that has open communication to release and receive information throughout the network of computers that make up the World Wide Web. A web host then offers websites “space” within their server – for which they pay a monthly or yearly “rental” fee. Once a website has secured space on a host server they are considered to be online. A website owner, in order to find the host that best suits their needs and get online, must search among the companies that offer hosting services. A web hosting directory offers a comprehensive list of companies and individuals that offer hosting services.
A web hosting directory will list host providers, the services they offer, and the prices at which they offer them. Most importantly, however, a web hosting directory will provide contact information for web hosts; and this is where the real research begins.
You can certainly narrow down your search for a web host with the use of a web hosting directory. You must first determine how much space your website will require on a host server – depending on the size of the files and graphics that your site will store and the amount of traffic it receives. You can tell a lot about a host through a web hosting directory including the space it can provide your website, the security measures it can offer, the prices it charges, and its commitment to customer service.
Once you have narrowed down your search, you can utilize a web hosting directory to contact those hosts in which you are interested. At that time you should be prepared to ask a number of questions including inquiring as to their level of experience, ability to host your particular site and the services that will be unique to it, and the features that it may offer through a web hosting plan. Consider a web hosting directory to be your ultimate reference guide to establishing your website online.
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Free Open Source, Professional Websites Eradicate the Need For Development and Programming Entirely
2012 -
03.26
Based on the hugely popular Drupal CMS, Site prebuilder brings a range of world class, open source websites – ready to use – absolutely free. Getting your own eCommerce store is now as easy as clicking a download button. Everything is geared for people with little to no technical know-how.
Sure, you’ve heard this all before. It’s free but plastered in ads, or, its free but I’ve got to host it on your servers…
Actually, that’s not the case. Because it’s built on free, open source software, site prebuilder has in turn made the sites free and open source. There’s no hidden charges, no ads, nothing. You can download the site and it’s yours – you own it. Host it wherever you like.
You don’t need to know programming and the sites are built to world class standards and the same technology is used by the White house, the British governments, Reuters, Harvard university, Eric Clapton, Robbie Williams, Mattel and many many more, for their websites.
What’s the catch? There’s always a catch…
Well, you still have to upload a site logo, type in your site’s name and change the color scheme to something you prefer from the default arrangement – the color scheme can be controlled using point and click on one of those color palette thingys. So there’s a little bit of work for you to do.
Obviously, if you’re setting up an ecommerce site you would also have to have an account with a credit provider such as PayPal, but other than that you’re ready to go.
Site-prebuilder does offer a number of presentations and helpful documentation to get you going too, and since the site is based on Drupal, you get the full benefit of the Drupal support forums and other documentation, which, of course, are also freely available.
If you need a website, for yourself or your business; something that is powerful, reliable, flexible and completely under your control, then this is your first and only real option.
What is the Best Shopping Cart Software For Your Ecommerce Website?
2012 -
03.17
Searching for the best shopping cart software for you ecommerce website can be a daunting task. There are literally hundreds of carts and ecommerce solutions available. How do you know which one is right for you?
You should consider the following factors when you are searching for a shopping cart that fits your needs.
What is a shopping cart? How much does it cost? Should I buy or lease a cart? What Features Should I Look For? What Kind and How Much Support Does will I get? Which Payment Gateways Work with the Cart? What Hosting/Server Platform is Required? What if I Need Customization?
What is a Shopping Cart?
First, let me define a shopping cart or ecommerce website. In the most basic terms, a shopping cart is software that allows you to list your products on a web site and then automatically collect fees when a customer buys products from your website.
For example, lets say that you sell vitamins from your home, and now you want to start selling them on your website. First, you need shopping ecommerce software. You will also need to have a business bank account and a payment gateway, a service that allows you to automatically process credit cards on your web site.
Once you have the cart software set up on your website, you can add your vitamin products to the website using a web browser. The software allows you to add product images, descriptions, prices, shipping and tax rates, and so on. Once your cart is populated with all of your products, you can start selling them on the web.
Here’s how it works: A customer comes to your web site and adds products to her shopping cart. When she is ready to buy the products, she enters her shipping and credit card information in a form so you know where to ship the product and whom to charge it to. When the customer clicks the button to submit the order, the shopping cart uses your payment gateway (credit-card-processing service) to validate the credit card and then transfer the money from the customer’s credit card to your bank account. Then it’s up to you to ship the product.
You can also use a shopping cart to sell digital, or downloadable products such as electronic books, music, and software.
How Much Do Shopping Carts Cost?
As you might expect, shopping carts come in a wide range of prices, from free to thousands of dollars. Does that mean that the more you spend, the better cart you get? Not necessarily.
There are several free shopping carts that are very powerful and full of features; for example, OSCommerce and ZenCart. Both of these carts are completely free and offer most of the features you would expect in a modern shopping cart: unlimited products, connections to the major payment gateways, credit card payments, real-time shipping prices, discount customer groups, multi language, and more.
Unfortunately, there is a downside to free: free products lack good documentation and support. For example, there is no official support group that you can call when you need help. And there is no official user’s guide to explain how to use the software. You usually have to search through user forums to find answers to your questions.
Free shopping carts are probably not be the best choice if you are new to ecommerce and are trying to do everything yourself.
Fortunately, there are many commercial carts in the range of $100-500 that offer lots of features. The carts in this range usually have some kind of support system to help you with problems, and they usually have documentation to explain how to use their software. X-Cart and Ecommerce Templates are two carts between $150 – $200, and both are very powerful and relatively easy to use.
Should I Buy or Lease a Shopping Cart?
There are two basic models for online shopping carts:
Pay a one time fee for the software and install it on your web server: This can be a daunting task unless you are comfortable working with Linux web servers and configuring web-based software. The good thing about this model is that you don’t have to pay monthly fees, and the software is usually much more customizable than leased shopping carts. If you have the skills to install the software on your server, or if you hire a website designer to install and configure your shopping cart, this method is more economical than leasing. Pay a monthly or yearly fee to lease the software: This model is easy to implement because you don’t need to install, configure, or maintain any software. If you are going to do it yourself and have little web experience, this is the easiest way to get started. The downside is that leased software is often hard to customize and many ecommerce sites need some customization. Furthermore, it can be very expensive when you add in the cost of leasing over many years.
What Shopping Cart Features Should I Look For?
Most shopping carts come with standard features like unlimited categories and products, web-based administration, easy-to-use product creation screens, and tax and shipping calculation. Unfortunately, not all carts include all the functions YOUR business will need to operate an online store.
The following is a list of features to look for in a shopping cart:
Installation and Design
Easy-to-use web interface: A web interface allows you to administer your shopping cart from any web browser that is connected to the internet. Shopping Cart Reporting: The ability to get detailed reports about your sales, inventory, states, users, categories, products, destination zones, taxes, shipping rates, orders, membership levels, etc. Multiple Languages: The ability to display multiple languages in your shopping cart Customer Support: Most carts usually provide email or forum-based support, but sometimes they provide live phone support. Upgradeable: Find out if you can get free updates as the software is improved. Usually you can get free updates for 6 to 12 months. Template-based Design: Tempate-based designs make it easier to customize the look of your website WYSIWYG Editor for Products: This feature allows you to enter product text and images using a word-processor-like editor. Content Pages: Does your cart allow you to create content pages? For example, can you create an “About Us” page? Mini-Cart: A mini cart is a small box that indicates if the user has items in their shopping cart. These are usually located on the top or side of the page. Most carts have this feature.
Customer Features
Newsletter Function: Do you need to ability to send mass emails to your customers? Many carts come with the ability to send emails to customers. Customer Order / Customer Account / Customer Registration: The ability for your customers to view their account and their order history. Product Search: A search tool for your products. This function is especially helpful if you have more than 20 or 30 products. Googlecheckout: Google Checkout is a new service that makes online shopping faster, safer and more convenient. Many carts have been updated so they work with Google Checkout. Wish list: A “Wish List” allows your customers to save products to a wish list. That way they can come back to your online store at a later date and buy the products in the Wish List. Send to friend: This feature displays a form that allows customer to enter a name and email address so the can send a link of a product to a friend. Memberships and special pricing: This feature allows you to create memberships on your store and then give them special prices or discounts. Printable Invoices: The feature allows your customers to print their invoices. Multiple Shipping Addresses: The feature allows customers to store multiple shipping addresses. This is a handy feature for customer who often ship gifts to friends and family members.
Store and Products
Unlimited Number of Products: This feature means you can list as many products as you like. With many leased shopping carts, the total number of products is limited by your plan. The more you pay, the more you products you can list. Unlimited number of categories: Products are usually stored in categories; for example, Men’s Clothing, Women’s Clothing, Children’s clothing. Products can be assigned to multiple categories: This feature allows you to assign a product to more than one category. Featured Products: This feature allows you to list feature products in a box or area on your home page. Bestsellers: This feature automatically lists your best-selling products. Related products: This feature allows you to relate one product to another product so the customer can see products that are related to the product they are looking at. Unlimited product options and option price modifiers: This feature allows you to add options to products, and the options can add or subtract from the product price. For example, T-Shirts come in sizes Small, Medium, and Large and colors Red, Green, and Blue. Custom Input Fields for Products: This allows you to add fields to products. For example, if you sell custom greeting cards, you can use a custom field so the customer can enter a custom message to be printed on the card. Unlimited number of product images: This feature allows you to add more than one product image for a product. Popup Product Images: This feature allows you to add popup images so your customer can see a larger, more detailed product image. Manufacturers: This feature allows you to associate manufacturers with products. Drop Shippers: This feature allows you to sell products that another company stocks and ships. When your store receives an order for a drop shipper product, the shopping cart sends an email to the drop shipper with the product and shipping information and that company ships the product to your customer. Discount coupon codes and gift certificates: This feature allows you to sell gift certificates or to offer coupon discounts. Inventory control: This feature allows you to enter the number of products you have in stock and then automatically makes a product “Unavailable” when there are no more products in stock. Quantity discounts: This feature allows you to give discounts based on the quantity ordered. Retail and wholesale price: This feature allows you to create a wholesale and retail price for any product. Limit minimal order amount: The feature allows you to specify and minimum order amount. Real-time USPS, FedEx and UPS shipping calculation: This feature allows you to provide realtime shipping calculations for USPS, FedEx, and UPS. Shipping Label Generator for USPS and UPS Allow your customers to choose delivery methods: This feature allows your customers to select a delivery method; for example, USPS, FedEx, or UPS. Add handling fee: This feature allows you to add a handling fee per order. Digital Electronic Downloads: This feature allows you to sell digital products such as E-Books, Music, or Software. Once a customer purchases a digital product, the cart sends them an email with a link to download the digital product. Product-specific taxes: The feature allows you to charge a unique tax on any product. Payment Gateways: This feature is VERY important. Most carts support many different payment gateways; for example, Authorize.net, Paypal, or 2CheckOut. If you already have a payment gateway, make sure the cart you purchase supports your gateway. The ability to Optimize all pages for search engines: This important feature allows you to optimize your product and content pages for Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines. This is a VERY important feature; if the search engines can’t find your products, your customers can’t find them either. Multiple Administrator Accounts and Account Levels: This feature allows you to have multiple administration accounts. This feature is very handy if more than one person maintains your shopping cart.
What Kind and How Much Support Does the Shopping Cart Provide?
Shopping cart software and ecommerce is pretty complex and there are many opportunities for problems. Whatever shopping cart model you choose, be sure to consider amount and type of support offered by the leasing host or the software seller. Because a smooth operation of your website and shopping cart are necessary for financial success, you’ll want to have appropriate support for emergencies.
Which Payment Gateways Work with the Shopping Cart?
If you are going to use a leased shopping cart, or you are going to buy shopping cart software, find out which payment gateways will work with the shopping cart.
Note: Each shopping cart provider builds their own interfaces for payment gateways.
What Hosting/Server Platform is Required?
Will your website and shopping cart be hosted on a Linux / UNIX server or a Windows server? If you are going to use a hosted shopping cart, you probably don’t need to worry about this unless you already have other web-based software applications installed on your current web host.
If you are going to buy shopping cart software, your choice might be limited by your server choice. Currently there are many more shopping carts made for Linux / UNIX than for windows.
What if I Need Customization?
Every shopping cart I have installed, designed, and configured, has required some customization. In most cases, the client wanted to do something the cart did not do. For example, one client wanted the ability to send a custom email with specific products so he could send special instructions whenever a customer ordered a specific product. A few shopping carts have this ability, but most don’t.
The best solution is to first determine your specific requirements and then find a cart that fits your needs. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find a cart that does EVERYTHING you want it to do. If this is the case, you’ll need to have some custom development done to add a new function to the cart.
Keep in mind that many popular shopping carts have dozens of Modifications and Plugins that you can add to the shopping cart software to make it fulfill your requirements.
Note: If you use a leased shopping cart, you will probably not be able to make modifications to the software.
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Are Joomla Template Clubs Worth the Price?
2012 -
03.11
By now most web developers and designers have heard of Joomla because of its ease of use and its effectiveness as a fully featured and open sourced CMS. The backend is very powerful but easy enough for someone without much experience. In that respect Joomla has been increasing its presence all over the world.
Joomla’s back end is what the administrator and developers use to build the structure of the site however it must be tied with an equally impressive front end: the template. There are many free templates in Joomla and rarely, if ever, will you find one that isn’t cookie cutter or bare bones. The free templates in all respects are very weak especially if you have any experience with free templates from wordpress which are much more impressive. But the professional template clubs fill that void.
Joomla is often used by professional web designers who are building sites for their clients cost effectively. A client who wants a site built with Joomla does so to save tremendous amounts of money as developers don’t come cheap. So for the site to uphold its professionalism without costing thousands of dollars, they will most likely choose Joomla and pair that with a professionally designed template from one of the major template clubs.
There is now a large Joomla marketplace solely because of this fact. If you want to remain competitive with your peers, competitors, and other Joomla designers than it would be very wise to be a part of a Joomla template club. Not all clubs are created equally though, as with everything, some are better than others and it makes sense to look around and see which clubs consistently provide the best templates. Joomla is continuing to grow at very fast paces due to its ease of use for novice and experienced designers and developers. At every corner you turn there is another person praising Joomla for its effectiveness and all around perfection. I would urge anyone interested in Joomla to get some shared hosting and play around with Joomla. Show it off to your friends and pretty soon one of them will ask for a site from you and you will be on your way to becoming a Joomla developer.
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