eCommerce Tools and Custom Programming Solutions
I'm a technologist at heart, assisting companies best utilize the Internet to market themselves and sell their products and services online. This includes organizations as large as Google and as small as one or two individuals.
At Over The Top and Exhibit A Communications, I've programmed solutions for Google as well as at least one other company that was later acquired by Google.
I've been CTO of an Internet SaaS company and spent my time pretty evenly between guiding the future technical strategy of the company, architecting software solutions for my dev teams, designing and running a data center to service our clients world-wide as well as being a technical evangalist/sales engineer to our media clients large and small.
I've also been Chief Photographer of the Daily Sun/Post newspaper back when it was a 5-day a week daily newspaper.
I also spent a great many years as a beach lifeguard for the City of San Clemente as well as Jr. Lifeguard instructor and then as it's program coordinator.
Bragging rights
Private Pilot with Instrument rating and proud husband of soon to be 25 years (and counting).
Try explaining rich snippets to some not totally versed in Internet technology and you’ll be lucky if all you get back is a blank stare.
The following infographic does a great job of explaining what they are, and more importantly, what their benefit is to just about anyone with a website.
If you are running an ecommerce store that relies on real-time rate lookups from the U.S. Postal Service then hopefully you are already aware of this looming deadline (March 31, 2012) and have made arrangements to prevent this from crippling your business.
If you are running AspDotNetStorefront (our favorite ecommerce package) AND you rely on USPS as one of your Real Time Shipping lookups, you will need to know that you need to be running v8.0.1.4 or v9.1.1.0 of this fabulous package in order to be safe from this problem.
You’ll be able to confirm the version of your website by looking the left column of the admin control panel: Read more
As of 3.3.1 (and possibly earlier) when you set a WordPress Page (not Post mind you but Page) to Private, it has the undesirable affect of hiding the page from everyone but the creator of the Page.
The preferred way to pull a page off the site temporarily would be to change it’s status back to Draft rather than setting the Visibility to Private.
Or perhaps it was just a rogue programmer? Either way, this was my laugh to start a crappy Monday off on a better foot:
Ok, time to get serious about this.
Joost de Valk of Yoast fame, has written the definitive guide to rel=”author” and rel=”me” integration into WordPress. Or should I say it almost is the definitive guide.
There are few things here that need to be considered:
Sure, they have an extremely large 3rd party/open source community behind them but wow, is this software backward in terms of usability and manageability. I’m doing some work on http://www.forcefieldmagnets.com/ and this is like working with WordPress software from 3-5 years ago. Sure as heck doesn’t hold a candle to ASPDNSF. Perhaps I’m just spoiled?
Anyone have any good, positive comments on OSCommerce? Perhaps because the version I’m working on is so old that is why it seems so limited/backwards.
For merchants running AspDotNetStorefront who aren’t regularly running the Monthly Maintenance routines, you might find yourself in a situation similar to one of our clients where the size of the transaction log for their SQL database had grown large enough that their site was shut down because it couldn’t grow any more.
In this case, since we couldn’t access the admin section of the site to run the monthly maintenance, I was able to run the following commands in order to clear the transaction log to the point of the last backup AND then shrink the physical size of the SQL database files. Please note that before running these commands GET A FULL BACKUP OF THE DATABASE. If you can’t do this directly from SQL Management Studio (or similar tool) you should be able to initiate an ad-hoc backup from your hosting company’s control panel.
From within your storefront’s “Run SQL” option under “Configuration” | “Advanced” (or from within SQL Mangler, I mean Manager, enter the following command:
dbcc checkident(OrderNumbers, reseed, XXXXXX)
Where XXXXXX is the new number you want to use as your seed.
This can come in very handy if you moving from one storefront to another to ensure a continuity of orders.
from: http://manual.aspdotnetstorefront.com/p-1335-changing-the-starting-order-number.aspx
Struggling with getting your AdWords campaigns working properly? Hoping for better conversion rates at a lower cost? Perhaps the time has come to search out an AdWords professional to assist you in reaching your goals. There are two ways to allow someone else to assist you in managing your Google AdWords account: