We get asked this a lot. Quick answer is yes of course it is as long as you don’t use the “not for production” manual credit card module. Long answer is PCI compliance is a bit more than just the code …

Ever been busy entering products or writing a profound article to help your customer’s purchase decision only to press save and be asked to log back in, losing everything? Well you are not the only one. Read a trick for tricking Admin security …

RSS Product feeds have been around a while now. But are they really worth it?

If you have not updated your spiders.txt file lately, you might find some new Search Engines going shopping! So what? Well they can frighten away your customers, that’s what!

osCommerce Templates, osCommerce Design, osCommerce Graphic Design

Before and After Magazine recently posted two ads selling the same Jeep asking which one would sell generate the sale. We picked right one. Read why.

osCommerce Twitter

If you are a Twitter user or even just blog, shortening your URLs is a must. TinyURL.com is a leader in the field but who else is out there and should you use them?

Before you rush to draw new customers through greater SEO efforts, how about looking at the potential customer who is about to walk out the door?  If it was a real store you’d be out there saying “Can we help you?”. 
Just because you are an online business does not mean you can’t or shouldn’t.  While pop ups inviting people to chat can annoy customers, saying nothing at all can be worse.
So before you decide you need to do even more SEO how about improving your customer service tools?  Apart from a prominent, ideally free, phone number and detailed contact us page, what about tools like Online Chat, Remote Cart Management, Simple Q&A Forums?  
If we told you they can increase sales by 10% or more would you do it?

Amazon payments joins Paypal and Google Checkout as alternatives to mainstream credit card handling. Should you add it to your site?

Google views them as a unsolicited recommendation for your business and therefore sets great store by them. How long they will continue in this deluded manner is yet to be seen …

UPS have announced changes to its XML Interface due to go live in 11 July 2009 plus changes to its SSL protocol planned for September 2009. It should not effect your site.

Seth Godin talks of Fitting in vs. standing out.  As a kid, if you move to a new school, survival usually means fitting in.  On the Internet, survival means standing out.  And, as he says “Standing out is trickier”. Why?  Because you cannot control who your neighbors are.  So how can you stand out from them?  Simple.  Before you do anything online, develop an SEO Strategy.  Before you even register a domain name.  Before you even bother to think about functionality.  Before you even dare think of design.  Before you even install osCommerce. Think “how is anyone going to find me?”.  Think “how will I stand out in the search engine results?”. Once you know that, then worry about the rest.  Because it’s all  driven by your SEO Strategy.  If you don’t have one, get one.

As an off-shoot to the newly released findings by the Neilson Company about Video Viewing, we discover just how long people spend surfing the web each day …