A while ago, I wrote about how to decide which of the various versions of AspDotNetStorefront were right for your application. I think the guidelines in that article still hold true but now that there are more versions of the software available, it should be updated. Thankfully, the fine folks at AspDotNetStorefront have already done so in their blog. Here are some of the updated deciders: [More]

The newly launched AspDotNetStorefront blog launched with a bang recently. In addition to taking advantage of the opportunity to introduce the world to some of their unsung heroes in the Sales and Support department, their first programming tip is something that proved to be quite timely to one of our clients who was experiencing a particular problem with the internal full-text search. [More]

Since you can't use the TSQL REPLACE function against a TEXT (or NTEXT) column the code below will work using UPDATETEXT instead [More]

Normally, doing a search and replace in SQL is not radically difficult. You basically do an update using the replace() function. However, if the Description column in your table is a ntext field, the above code is going to error out. The correct way around this is to cast() the column as a maximum-sized varchar() type. [More]

Google announced today that many of the elements of Google apps will no longer support older browers; most notably Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6. [More]

Yes, the developer's version of Chrome has extensions for some time now but the latest stable release now includes not only support for extensions but also new HTML and Javascript APIs.

The Google Code Blog today announced that Extensions would now be available far and wide. [More]

Our client Advanced Dental Designs (AD2USA.com) went live with their new AspDotNetStorefront website today. A hearty congratulations go out to the AD2USA team!
Advanced Dental Designs is the leader in dental articulation devices. Following the principles of the Roth-Williams Center for Functional Occlusion, AD2 is challenged with creating affordable yet durable precision dental instruments. [More]

I’m not sure if you knew this or not, but AspDotNetStorefront ML and ML/Express both use different default templates in the skin directory.

Recently, a new file has begun showing up in the shipping SKIN_1 folder called expressTemplate.ascx. I had kind of assumed that this file was a bare bones template, much like the standard “bare” skin that comes with many blog packages. And if you’ve been working with standard ML software like I have for years, you just automatically start modifying template.ascx to skin your sites. Well, we quickly found out this was wrong and it isn’t documented in the ASPDNSF manual either (at least not now). [More]

I recently had the opportunity to attempt to create a simple little CMS for a single page on a website hosted on a Linux box somewhere out there in the cloud. We wanted to offer the client (who had no experience or patience to work in HTML) the ability to update the content on this page. So, with Google’s search engine as my reference material (who needs to buy programming books any more?) I launched into writing some PHP code that will read a published Google Spreadsheet and treat each of the sheets as a table.
Kinda nifty stuff! [More]

In almost all respects, this is a FANTASTIC product in terms of providing the webmaster/merchant/developer with a great set of tools for SEO purposes. You define, on a page by page, product by product basis not only the page name but also the title, product image alt tag, meta keywords and description but the process is also painless to boot! [More]