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PrestaShop – 12 Tips to importing a CSV file

admin — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 03:35:53 +0000

Prestashop is a powerful, popular and easy to use open source ecommerce solution for small to medium size businesses. Out of the box it comes with many essential features that would be difficult and/or expensive to create from scratch. One of the handy tools available to website owners is the ability to create a table [...]

100+ PhotoShop Keyboard Shortcuts

admin — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:45:14 +0000

Props to Deke McClelland (PhotoShop guru) for producing the above. http://www.deke.com/content/101-phot…tips-5-minutes In case you can’t keep up the pace the transcript is below PLUS a few bonus extra tips. Enjoy! #1: Wanna copy a layer? I say jump it: Ctrl+J. You a Mac user? Awesome. #2: When I say Ctrl, press Cmd, the one [...]

20 Best Premium PrestaShop Modules

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:09:24 +0000

Prestashop is a great ecommerce solution for most medium size businesses. It comes with more flexibility and features that can easily be achieved from CMS driven online shopping platforms such as WordPress/WooCommerce or Drupal/Ubercart. Yet at the same time it has a relatively lightweight code base and simple file architecture unlike more industrial scale solutions [...]

Is Your Website Blocked In China?

admin — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:37:53 +0000

We recently had a client mention that his Chinese customers could not access his website. He asked if it was because the site is hosted in the USA. The answer is, in a word, no. Whether or not a site is blocked by the Great Firewall of China (GFW) has nothing to do with the [...]

PayPal Standard configuration tips

admin — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:51:23 +0000

To receive payments to your PayPal account you will of course need your website set up correctly but also have your PayPal Business Account configured correctly. The following configuration settings have been successful for us across a number of different websites using the same PayPal Standard account. Here are four important things to check if [...]

How to Set Up Thunderbird Mail Client

admin — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:08:01 +0000

10 Steps to Set Up Thunderbird Mail Client Here are the highlights for setting up Thunderbird 10 for IMAP SSL with your hosting account provider. It is assumed that you have already created email accounts on your host using CPanel tools or similar. 1) Download and install Thunderbird . This will install the necessary [...]

How to add jQuery to Joomla

admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:06:46 +0000

Joomla is one of the top three most popular open source content management systems (CMS) in use on the Web. Unfortunately, it’s default JavaScript library is Mootools, whereas the most popular library for most designers is jQuery. But despair not. It is quite easy to add jQuery into your into your Joomla site and start [...]

Japanese Style Web Design

admin — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:00:43 +0000

So you’ve translated your content. Now how can you make our site look more … Japanese? To put the question another way, is there such a thing as a uniquely Japanese style of web design? And if so is it something we should try to emulate for web pages targeting a Japanese audiences? Generalizations are [...]

Japanese SEO Geo-Targeting

admin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:48:49 +0000

Most website owners appreciate the importance of search engine optimization (SEO) for their website. What is sometimes under appreciated is that Google has regional versions and your website will rank differently in Google.co.jp than it does in Google.com. Your choice of domain name, how you interact with Google Webmaster Tools and other factors play a [...]

Facebook in Japan – Big Changes Coming

admin — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:23:23 +0000

Although Facebook got off to a slow start in Japan it has recently been experiencing a spurt in user memberships. In the the 12 months to September, 2010 Facebook users increased by 78% to 5.3 million unique visitors. This still places them some distance behind Mixi and the phenomenally growing Twitter (on track to become [...]