We don't just build websites, we build businesses …
Internet Solutions for Small Business
Specializing in Open Source including
osCommerce and WordPress
Specializing in Open Source including
osCommerce and WordPress
ozEworks develops and supports eCommerce websites.
New sites
New designs
Site upgrades
Add Ons installation
Custom module development.
We use:
osCommerce and variations thereof
Magento
WordPress WP eCommerce
depending on what best suits your needs.
We have released our 2010 version of ozEcommerce, a loaded version of osCommerce MS2.2 RC2a.
We developed a multistore for Southern Imperial that allows them to set up a niche site at the press of a button.
We developed a website for a local elementary school that is not only easy to use but fun to visit.
Not all our projects are so complicated. Here we integrated a custom design into an existing CRE Loaded site.
Website development is not just about coding. Programmers are the last people to get involved! Like any serious undertaking you need to plan it and the most important part of that plan is defining what outcome you want and what needs to be done to achieve it. We call it analysing your requirements. We look at the big picture – your business – before we start talking about the little picture – your site …
Pretty as a picture right? Has to be flashier than the competition? Sure? What your site looks like is important – very important – it decides whether first time visitors stay. But how easy it is to use for your visitors is the most important factor as it decides if they become customers. And what tools it has for getting that customer to return determines if they become repeat customers…
Websites are easy things to develop. I mean kids can do it. You just download osCommerce, change a few graphics and there you have it – a new online store! Just add water and stir kind of thing. A bit like the Eva Gabor/Green Acres approach to cooking. Sure kids can cook. I don’t know about you but I’d rather sit down to a meal prepared by a qualified chef …
You know what your website should do – you told your developers. So they should test it, not you! Right? Actually no. Wrong. Developers can test programs, only users can truly a site. Just like proof-reading your own writing, it is impossible for a programmer to fully test her own code. That is why there are several levels of test: program, site and user testing.
Going live is just the beginning, not the end. Websites are not set and forget. Things are always changing. Bugs are found. Security patches are needed. New versions are released. Hosting environments change. Not to mention customer expectations about new or improved functionality. Website owners who keep their sites “fresh” keep their customers.
ozEworks has been trialling its new support desk which uses qdPM in the last few months. We’ve now upgraded to the qdPM Extended version and will be implementing it for all support.
osCommerce has announced that it is upgrading the beta version of V3 to php 5.3 which will be the minimum requirement for running V3. Few hosting environments are running V3 yet.
Blogging may make you a writer. It does not make you a journalist. Read how a New Jersey court rules that blogger is not coverted in the same way a journalist is …
ozEcommerce was selected as the Cart of the Week by PracticalEcommerce. In their article you can read about ozEcommerce from ozEworks perspective as well as from one of our major customers SouthernImperial.com.
MasterCard and Discover are modifying their rules concerning the processing of debit, prepaid and gift cards. Authorize.net has some information about how it can effect you.
A new report from Jacon Neilson indicates People spent more than twice as much time looking at the left side of the page as they did the right. Left half of screen: 69% of viewing time ; Right half of screen: 30% of viewing time. So conventional design = good
Have you checked your reputation mywot.com? If not then have a look at this FireFox plugin that could be driving customers away.
A new email scam is going around telling people their Authorize.net account has expired and you need to log in to renew. Don’t.
iMedia has a great article PCC and SEO strategies for 2010. Read it and then do it.
We upgraded ozEcommerce Pro, our loaded verison of osCommerce, and it is now one of the best eCommerce solutions out there! Read what it does then go try our demo!
WordPress has released 2.9 and announced 3.0. Is what was a simple CMS being a Microsoft-like behemoth? Could be.
UPS increased rates today but unfortunately in doing so they (again) changed the names of various services which means the osCommerce UPS Methods Add On is not calculating correctly. If you use UPS Shipping, you need to check that your site and take action if youa re effected.
