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How often do you teach your online store new tricks?

How often do you teach your online store new tricks?

Lets start with a question: What are the chances that an online store built just 5 years ago can compete with the modern solutions that embraced all of the awesome stuff that emerged in the past few years? Read more

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Top 3 annoying things in Basecamp

Top 3 annoying things in Basecamp

“It’s simple for us and it’s simple for clients” cried Željko Prša, our frontend developer over a year ago in our first Ask a developer episode. Our clients know that we use Basecamp as our collaboration tools because of its simplicity and the fact that clients get familiar with it in a short time. However, we really miss some of the simple features that would improve usability a lot.
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Varien is now Magento Inc.

Varien is now Magento Inc.

While I was checking today some Linkedin profiles, I noticed the fact that some people abandoned Varien. For those of you who don’t know, this is a company that created Magento. I’ll be honest and say that I had a moment of fear since our business is closely tied to Magento success. My worries went away the same second when I clicked on varien.com link. The step is logical.
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How to get some awesome code for your iPhone apps

How to get some awesome code for your iPhone apps

Our “sister” company Surgeworks Mobile just launched an online store selling components for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad applications. Read more

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When less is more in eCommerce

When less is more in eCommerce

This post will explain the situations in which removing certain elements of your online store might give you better conversions or improve your search engine rankings. There are lots of online stores out there that tend to add too much stuff to their store in hope of improving their income, not realizing that these things might actually create a completely opposite result from the one they hoped to achieve. Read more

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How to sell vuvuzelas to aliens?

How to sell vuvuzelas to aliens?

How a typical day dealing with Magento inquiries went horribly well…

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Mysteries of Magento Encryption Key

Mysteries of Magento Encryption Key

If you ever went through Magento installation process, you know that at some point you are asked for Magento Encryption key. Magento will automatically generate one for you if you do not enter anything in this field. For first installation, this is just fine. You will see a note that Magento uses this key to encrypt passwords, credit cards and more. Is this really the case?

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WordPress 3.0 – At first glance

WordPress 3.0 – At first glance

Just installed it on a local machine and went through the Admin panel to see what is and what isn’t available directly from there and what changes/improvements have been made.
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Go on a Safari this summer

Go on a Safari this summer

Yes I know the title is totally misleading since it’s not about safari, but I got your attention didn’t I :)

This post is about the Safari 5 and (in my humble opinion) it’s 3 most relevant features worth reading about.

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Why rel=nofollow in eCommerce menus is a bad idea

Why rel=nofollow in eCommerce menus is a bad idea

First of all, I’d like to say that GetElastic is usually an awesome and very useful blog for anyone that does anything related to eCommerce. Linda wrote hundreds of extremely good posts over there, but this new guest post at GetElastic was kind of dangerous for site owners and I’ll try to explain why, putting it as simple as possible. Read more

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