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Updated Breadcrumb Post Tip

In the blog posting entitled SEO And ASPDotNetStorefront, I presented a way to modify the breadcrumbs automatically created in ASPDotNetStorefront. Well, it appears that I left out one potential way that the breadcrumbs could be presented. When a top level entity entity (Section, Category, Genre, etc) are displayed the top level is wrapped in a …

Which Version of AspDotNetStorefront Should I Choose?

Many of my customers are having to ask themselves this same question. They know they want to have the best e-commerce platform out there (who doesn’t?) but the struggle in deciding which of the 4 platforms to choose from. perhaps I can help guide you through the decision process. Are you planning on running your …

SEO And ASPDotNetStorefront

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 …

Wave of the Future

I haven’t brought this up in the blog yet but have dropped some info about my trip last week to Google I/O 2009. While the Android phone was cool, the stellar announcement of the week was Google Wave. I'm not sure if I can sell you on the value of this jump in Internet technology …

Adding Bar Codes to Receipts in AspDotNetStorefront

A recent posting in the AspDotNetStorefront forums got my brain spinning on how best to accomplish this. The technology to do this, once written, should be able to be leveraged in other areas that clients of mine have been looking to do. So, out comes Visual Studio and Google to come up for some starting …

Free Webcast: Email Security and Archiving in the Cloud

Interested in outsourcing your email services but are afraid of what affect this might have on  your corporate mandate (can you say “Sar-Box”) to retain copies of email and to do so securely? Well, Google has announced a webinar with a live Q&A session to be held on Tuesday June 9, 2009 at 9am PDT …

Enhancing your ASPDotNetStorefront Search Page

I recently completed a search page upgrade on one of my client websites (http://www.tobacco-barn.com) and was pleased enough with some of the code on this that I thought I’d share it with the community. Our goals were as follows: Limit search to just show products and not each variant of the a product Include images …

Recursing Through AppConfig File

While doing some updates to the EmmCLA program (more to come on this soon), I needed to have it loop through all the AppSettings in in App.Config file (the same should hold true for Web.Config for web apps) to find all occurrences of appsettings that were similar to a certain string. A few Google searches …

Webgains, ASPDotnetStorefront and Google Checkout, Oh My!

I got a Google Alert about an article posted recently by UK Developers over at WebOpius. The put together a nice little piece about how to get all three of these technologies up and running, and better yet, playing nicely together. This is the first of many posts by them on this subject. I very …

Canada's Anti-Spam Bill

Here’s what you need to know about Canada’s Anti-Spam Bill that was recently introduced. Three are some significant differences between this and the US CAN-SPAM legislation that businesses will want to keep in mind as they pursue their marketing plans involving email communications with customers and potential customers alike. Canada’s Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA) …