Internet Solutions for Small Business
Specializing in Open Source including
osCommerce, Magento & WordPress
ozEworks develops and supports websites. We specialize in open source and eCommerce:
New sites
New designs
Site upgrades
Add On installation
Custom module development.
We use:
osCommerce (all versions)
WordPress
Magento
Joomla
depending on what best suits your needs.
We developed a simple promotional site for the distributors of Ancient Olive Soap.
We created a simple osCommerce V2.3 site with custom extras for The Cowboy Shop
We developed Sam Edleman’s new site using WordPress and the WP eCommerce plugin
We developed a highly customized site for Splits59 including Advanced Image Management and Streamlined Checkout …
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 some open source, change a few graphics and there you have it – a new website! The frozen food meets microwave approach to cooking. Sure kids can cook. But 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 up to date keep their customers.
WordPress Plugins W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache require immediate upgrade due to a security issue. If it is installed please upgrade even if it is not active.
A number of customers have asked recently about PayPal IPN orders where the transaction is flagged as Unverified. What does it mean? Have they paid? Could it be fraudulent?
UPS Worldship allows for integration with your osCommerce store to pull order data onto your desktop for easy payment and generation of shipping labels. With a few minor changes to your osCommerce order table, it’s a simply solution to volume shipping.
According to Coca-Cola social media has little impact on short terms sales but online display ads work as well as TV. Does this mean you ditch Facebook? Maybe if you are already as strongly branded as Coke is .
Google is changing the IP address of its Google Merchant Center ftp uploads. The announcement states it is effective 1 March 2013 but it looks like a typo since it later refers to March 11. The osCommerce feed using the domain name uploads.google.com so the change of IP address will not affect osCommerce sites.
Want to offer Coupons on your site? Should be easy just to install an Add On, right? Well usually that is wrong. Coupon business rules tend to be business specific and so there are very few out of the box options you can use. We’ve developed our own version which with a few changes during installation can meet your needs.
Ever wanted to restrict a shipping module to a particular country? It is easy using Shippnig Zones. But how do you set up a Shipping Zone? Again easy, using the Tax Zones function.
A lot of people ask us if they should upgrade to the latest version of osCommerce. Quick answer? Not unless you have a sound business reason for doing so.
qdPM is now available in the list of Softalucous Project Management tools. So if your Hosting Service uses Softalucous you can now install qdPM via your hosting control panel!
ozEworks will back to full operation as of Monday November 5th 2012.
ozEworks wins the 2012 Best of Brooklyn Award for Computer Business Solutions.
ozEworks continues to hold its position of “Best in osCommerce Development” with its 5th award this year as the best osCommerce developer worldwide.
