WordPress Ebook Review: Success With WordPress

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WordPress Ebook Review: Success With WordPress

Over the past year, WordPress has become the top blogging platform in the world, and many major internet companies (such as CNN, Yahoo, Sony, The New York Times, People Magazine, and eBay) have taken notice.   A quick browse around many of these companies websites show WordPress installations being used to manage portions of their websites.   At the same time, many bloggers are using a number of techniques to make significant income with their WordPress blogs.  Whether your blogging goal is to simply write a personal blog, transition to making a full time income online, or anywhere in between, the open source WordPress software has you covered free of charge.

Success With WordPress covers almost anything about WordPress with a “straight to the essential” style that I enjoyed. It starts with the very basics as such as installing or upgrading WordPress to very advanced concepts like using WordPress as a CMS or as an online shop. On each chapter, you’ll find a lot of very usefull tips that any WordPress user, even the very experimented ones, will have benefit.

The ebook contains usefull ready to use codes exemples: For exemple, a robots.txt file, an author page template, and a lot of code snippets that you just have to paste to your theme.

With the Success with WordPress eBook, you’ll learn a number of blogging techniques, advanced strategies for optimizing your WordPress blog for search engines, and of course how to properly market your WordPress blog for the most exposure.

Success with WordPress also covers WordPress SEO and blog monetization: Kyle, who earn 2000$ + with his blogs every month, provide great tips and techniques to increase your Adsense earnings, manage your affiliate links and a lot more. Since I read that tips and applied it on my blogs, my adsense earning increased up to 30%

A list of the topics covered in this eBook include:

A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Installing WordPress via Fantastico
Finding a WordPress Friendly Webhost
WordPress Post-Install Checklist
Creating a WordPress Sitemap
Creating a Robots.txt File
Using Google Webmaster Tools

Building a Multi-Author WordPress Blog Setting Up Author Permissions
Adding Author Information To Your WordPress Blog
Building an Author Page

Using WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) How do I build my CMS?
Should I use a Content Management System?
Building a WordPress Forum

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips designed specifically for WordPress WordPress Permalink Structure
WordPress Post Slug
Using the Post Meta Title
Using Images + Alt Tags
Emphasize Keywords
Using Anchor Text
Making Your Post Dates Stand Out
Standardizing your Backlinks
Using Breadcrumbs On Your Blog
Controlling Link Juice

Building a Niche Blog with WordPress What is a Niche Blog?
Niche Blogging Strategy
How to Locate a Niche?
How to find a niche domain?
Finding a WordPress Niche Theme?
Completing Your WordPress Niche Blog

The other topics covered in great detail in the Success with WordPress eBook include how to maximize CPC Income with Google AdSense and also a number of advanced Affiliate Marketing techniques designed specifically for WordPress users

Mr sunjie Who is a student from Harvard University. He is interested bring many WordPress review plugin, such as the My Review Plugin. WPReviewEngine and also the WordPress Robot Plugin best for Amazon and ebay!

Ecommerce Web Design – Easier Methods for Merchants

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Ecommerce Web Design – Easier Methods for Merchants

There are so many web designers and web design companies available online today for merchants to use as resources for their ecommerce needs, choosing the right one can sometimes be a difficult decision. What if the decision of who you decide to forefront your company’s ecommerce look and feel could be an easier decision than ever before? You would probably feel much better knowing that there are more affordable solutions that can be accomplished quickly and effectively to get your ecommerce business the online presence that it needs to sell the products and services you offer your clientele. With so many options, choosing the right ecommerce web site designer can be an overwhelming and stressful decision. Take these ideas into consideration before you hire your next ecommerce web site design company or web designer to assist you with your ecommerce web site needs.


One of the best available resources for ecommerce capabilities is using a web designer that can customize your ecommerce website using a third party shopping cart system. Ecommerce websites that are designed using third party shopping cart systems can be just as attractive, if not more attractive than a completely customized system. Because there are some very popular and useful third party shopping carts available, it not only is affordable, it makes customizing them a stress free process. Because more and more ecommerce developers are coming to third party shopping cart systems for their ecommerce needs, there are now lists of programmers that create modules to customize your ecommerce shopping experience to the next level. That means, having a shopping cart that can do everything you need, having your site laid out in a fashionable and professional manor, without sacrificing design or functionality.


Expanding your online resources to a more modern and professional system like many of the popular third party shopping carts can be an easy transition, if you select the right web design company to do the job. When selecting the right ecommerce web design company, consider their portfolio. Does there portfolio include several different web sites that they have designed in various industries? Is there portfolio impressive and professional? Speak with the web design company on the phone to discuss what specific needs you have for your ecommerce business. Many times, especially with the modules available, a talented ecommerce web designer can build you the ecommerce web site you have been waiting for. Finding an ecommerce web designer that’s affordable and provides quality work is the most important part. There are typically two different ways that ecommerce web sites can be built. By the hour and by the package. You will have to search around to find the best package that will work well for your ecommerce company. If there aren’t any packages that would support your ecommerce web design needs, inquire about paying per hour to have your ecommerce third party shopping cart system and web design packaged more personalized. Many web designers that are fluent in using third party shopping cart systems and are talented web designers can use there talents to come up with the perfect design and ecommerce implementation that will work perfectly for your business.


No matter what company you decide to go with for your ecommerce web site design project, make sure that your new ecommerce store is user friendly, professional and search engine friendly. Just having a website won’t make you money, you have to advertise via pay per click, search engine optimization and other methods of advertisements. Once you have the ecommerce web site you’ve been waiting for, show it to the online world and let them know about the great products or services you offer.

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ECommerce Integration Developing for Microsoft Dynamics GP Notes

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ECommerce Integration Developing for Microsoft Dynamics GP Notes

When you have legacy in-house programmed ecommerce web application in production with shopping cart, credit card payment interface, B2B or B2C items catalogs and promotional pricing – which does the job – likely that you will favor the idea to leave it there and try the way of ecommerce integration connectors to your Microsoft Dynamics GP Corporate ERP application.  Another option would be to try existing ecommerce module (available from various Dynamics GP ecommerce ISV partners, you can make your research or call Microsoft Business Solutions).  Respecting your approach to program ecommerce integration, we would like to offer this small publication, where we are considering several options and ecommerce programming instruments:

1. Batch Mode ecommerce to Dynamics GP Great Plains Integration approach.  Here we assume that you have reasonable low volume of daily ecommerce invoices or sales orders (in B2B ecommerce you may work on Sales Order execution level and then transferring completed order to Sales invoice).  Batch mode assumes that you export your daily ecommerce documents into text files and then run integration manually.  For Batch mode integration we recommend you to deploy Dynamics GP Integration Manager.  If your source files for integration are text files exports from ecommerce web application, then IM is end user friendly and you may decide to do self discovery or call our office for short Integration Manager introduction in eCommerce integration design.  With IM, however, you can try more sophisticated approach, where you pull data directly from SQL Server (MySQL/PHP, Oracle, MS Access) ecommerce database.  IM has Advanced ODBC Data Source, where you can deploy such advanced SQL techniques as Union

2. Real Time eCommerce integration to Dynamics GP.  Real time means instantly, so IM is not an option, you can deploy, however Dynamics GP eConnect SDK.  eConnect allows you to include libraries into your Microsoft Visual Studio C#, VB.Net project, and then call eConnect methods directly from your ecommerce web application.  eConnect in our opinion came to its maturity with Dynamics GP version 9.0 and especially current version 10.0 (January 2010).  We assume that new version of Microsoft Dynamics GP 11.0 will be relying on eConnect technology as well or even with greater emphasis.  EConnect is Microsoft Visual Studio programmer friendly and if you are such a developer, we recommend you to invest your time in eConnect research and self discovery.  eConnect, however doesn’t allow you to post Dynamics GP batches directly from its methods, if you need batch posting from ecommerce application, consider Alba Spectrum Posting Server.  And we would like to make this comment for small and mid-size ecommerce retailers – real time ecommerce integration is often not required and is in essence luxury for the majority of ecommerce community.  Only large volume ecommerce chains need real time integration, so if eConnect training approach seems too unrealistic to you, please continue reading the next paragraph

3. Quasi Real Time eCommerce integration to Microsoft Dynamics GP.  Quasi means almost, and we agree with you, when you say that new customer account setup confirmation with login instructions should be emailed in a second.  You may also decide that charging customer credit card should be instant (technically you are just reserving your amount via credit card processing service, real transfer to your account will happen later).  However, there is no need to integrate ecommerce transaction to your Dynamics GP application immediately, you can do it every hour or every twenty minutes without visible delay for the new or existing ecommerce customer.  If Quasi real time approach seems to be reasonable for you, please review the methods to schedule Dynamics GP Integration Manager to run automatically every half an hour or more (or less) frequently

4. eCommerce Integration Strategies.  Here we recommend you to speculate on which system is master and which is slave.  You may decide to define all your new items, price lists, customers directly in Dynamics GP (master) and then propagate them to your ecommerce application or do it just the opposite, where your ecommerce is master and Great Plains Dynamics is slave.  There are pluses and minuses – obviously GP has matured user interface, where you can create or update your cards and transactions, that are subject to be pushed down to your ecommerce slave application.  But, in some scenarios, you would prefer custom objects with advanced interface in ecommerce to be pushed back to Dynamics GP

5. eCommerce and Dynamics GP, Great Plains Dynamics versions.  As general advise, we believe that being on current version of your Corporate ERP application is a way better, comparing to being on really outdated version.  If you are deploying Microsoft Dynamics GP 11.0, 10.0, 9.0 (where you can deploy eConnect SDK for ecommerce programming), or no longer supported versions of Dynamics GP 8.0 and 7.5, or Microsoft Great Plains 7.0, Great Plains Dynamics 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.0, 3.2 or earlier (including versions on Pervasive SQL Server 2000/Btrieve or Ctree) – we recommend you to update to GP 11 (10) and deploy eConnect or IM on currently supported version.  We also respect the situation, when MBS annual enhancement reenrollment cost might be too high and you have to stick to your legacy Great Plains version.  In our opinion, if you are on legacy version, investment to ecommerce should be very modest.  For legacy GP versions we recommend you to consider Alba Spectrum Order Connector

6. eCommerce to Dynamics GP in International Environment.  We are sitting in USA, but if you are multinational corporation with facilities overseas or in South America, please note that international business rules require compliance to local country tax code and additional regulations.  Microsoft Dynamics GP is available (often used term – localized) in English speaking countries (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, South Africa, Oceania), plus in French speaking Quebec Canadian province.  If you plan to deploy ecommerce link to your international facility in such countries as Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Brazil, China, India, Continental Europe – we recommend you to make integration to localized Accounting Application (SAP Business One would be good candidate to consider)

7. Please, give us a call 1-866-528-0577 help@albaspectrum.com

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum, 1-866-528-0577, help@albaspectrum.com http://www.albaspectrum.com We serve Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains community since 1994 in US and Internationally. Local service is available in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston. Remote support USA and Canada nationwide and internationally. We speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese. Please, visit our info portal http://www.pegasplanet.com We have customers in the following states and provinces: IL, CA, Ontario, FL, TX, MI, MO, NY, UT, NV, AZ, LA, GA, Quebec, Russia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Oceania, Germany, China. We also serve SAP Business One as good alternative for Corporate ERP for multinational corporation overseas subsidiaries

ECommerce Integration Add-Ons for Microsoft Dynamics GP

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ECommerce Integration Add-Ons for Microsoft Dynamics GP

If you are on the way to evaluate Microsoft Dynamics GP ecommerce integration options, and in your case you already have custom programmed (often in-house) ecommerce web application in production and you do not like the idea to redeploy ecommerce on new platform (and write off investment in legacy ecommerce program) – we respect your approach and would like to recommend you this small publication.  Instead of promising so-called “turn-key” ecommerce to Corporate ERP tandem, we recommend you so-called “solutions” approach, where your ecommerce programmers deploy and tune connectors, libraries or code samples, proven and tested in multiple ecommerce integration to Dynamics GP environments:

1. Ecommerce master-slave concept.  Before you jump into the technology details, let’s speculate about strategy.  If your current ecommerce website application has rich functionality (inventory item adding, counting, pricing, including sales promotion campaigns, potentially logistic automation by initiating product allocation to Sales Order and delivery, new and existing customers maintenance, etc) then you may decide to make your current ecommerce application to be a master and push its records to Dynamics GP (which should be in this case Slave application).  Often we see opposite situation, where ecommerce application is pretty simple and all the logic is done in Microsoft Dynamics GP and records should be pushed to ecommerce (here we have GP as master and ecommerce as slave)

2. Ecommerce integration target in Dynamics GP.  In most of the scenarios you are targeting Dynamics GP Sales Order Processing  (ecommerce invoices or sales orders), Inventory Control (new and existing items, price lists, items availability in warehouses), Receivable Management (new and existing ecommerce customers), Purchase Order (Purchase Receipts – typically when you are receiving merchandise in GP and pushing new items into ecommerce database)

3. Ecommerce integration programming tools.  Microsoft Dynamics GP is available on Microsoft SQL Server DB platform (2008, 2005, 2000 and earlier) and Microsoft Windows Servers (2008, 2003, 2000 and earlier), and these facts make Microsoft Visual Studio and Dynamics GP eConnect SDK.  If fact, you can review Dynamics GP table structure in GP SDK (could be installed from GP 10 CD #2), or directly in Dynamics GP user interface (Dynamics GP -> Tools -> Resource Description -> Tables), however you should be cautious and we recommend you to use direct SQL Select statements only to pull data from Great Plains and avoid feeding data via SQL Insert statements (as you could violate business logic and compromise data integrity, instead consider pushing data to Dynamics GP via eConnect methods)

4. ECommerce Order Connector.  This product is the set of SQL Stored Procedures, dedicated to ecommerce developer to move ecommerce orders to Dynamics GP Sales Order Processing module.  It is “Solution” in the sense of being tunable and customizable, it is also compatible with historical versions of Microsoft Great Plains and Great Plains Dynamics  (on Microsoft SQL Server, not available for Pervasive SQL Server 2000 or Ctree).  Currently we are in progress to extend Order Connector to cover major ecommerce generic platforms integration to Microsoft Dynamics GP with intuitive user interface setup

5. Alba Spectrum Posting Server.  Often in ecommerce you require complete automation, where you expect ecommerce walk-in or on account customer to pick the products into ecommerce shopping cart, go to check out, pay with credit card or on account and then your ecommerce application automatically creates Microsoft Dynamics GP Invoice (including posting it – or in ERP terminology transfer it from work to open phase).  If you already reviewed eConnect libraries and methods – you should of realize, that eConnect doesn’t have Dynamics GP Batch Posting logic.  If you want to do automatic batch posting directly from your ecommerce application, please review Alba Spectrum Posting Server

6. Cross Platform eCommerce integration to Microsoft Dynamics GP.  Web hosting is very popular on Linux and Sun/Solaris platform.  eCommerce DB could be high end Oracle, DBII, Sybase, Progress.  If this is your case, you can still use eConnect, Order Connector or Posting Server, assuming that you are familiar with such technologies as JDBC-ODBC Bridge, ODBC connection from Oracle development environment

7. ECommerce for legacy Great Plains Dynamics versions.  As general recommendation (we are ready to do the job, if you decide that you would like it anyway), we recommend you to update to current Dynamics GP version 10.0 (or if you are reading this lines in second half of 2010 – then to Microsoft Dynamics GP 11.0).  Current version has the following advantages: it is supportable by Microsoft Business Solutions directly in case when you are disappointed in your Dynamics GOP Partner; it si compatible with current MS SQL Server and Windows Server versions to name a few

8. Dynamics GP Software Development Factory.  If you would like to outsource Great Plains Ecommerce development project, we are happy to offer you our Great Plains Dexterity and eConnect Software Development Factory services.  We serve you USA, Canada nationwide, plus in Spanish speaking Central and South America (in Brazil we offer you SAP Business One to Dynamics GP integration services)

9. Local Dynamics GP eCommerce Integration Programming Service in USA.  We serve you from our offices in Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta (in GA we only support SAP Business One customers locally)

10. Service in Europe and Central Asia.  As Microsoft Dynamics GP is no longer supported in continental Europe (including eastern Europe: Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland) – Alba Spectrum is supporting old versions of Dynamics GP and Great Plains Dynamics in Russian, German, Polish, French: 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.0 and earlier

11. Please, call us in USA or Canada: 1-866-528-0577, or internationally 1-630-961-5918, or email us help@albaspectrum.com  Our Dynamics GP, SAP Business One and Microsoft CRM consultants and programmers speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Filipino

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum, 1-866-528-0577, help@albaspectrum.com http://www.albaspectrum.com We serve Microsoft Dynamics GP Great Plains community since 1994 in US and Internationally. Local service is available in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Houston. Remote support USA and Canada nationwide and internationally. We speak English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese. Please, visit our info portal http://www.pegasplanet.com We have customers in the following states and provinces: IL, CA, Ontario, FL, TX, MI, MO, NY, UT, NV, AZ, LA, GA, Quebec, Russia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Oceania, Germany, China. We also serve SAP Business One as good alternative for Corporate ERP for multinational corporation overseas subsidiaries

How to Detect and Prevent a WordPress Spam Injection Attack

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How to Detect and Prevent a WordPress Spam Injection Attack

Last month my WordPress blog was the victim of a spam injection attack. I am the art director for a highly rated graphic design and website design company. I have years of experience in website design, WordPress Blog Design and I am security minded in my approach to web development — I was still a victim of clever hacking. It can happen to anyone and it is happening at an increasingly alarming rate. The worst part about this experience was that not only my WordPress blog was attacked – my entire corporate website was removed from Google SERPS. We were ranked in the Google Top 10 for several coveted spots such as; graphic design company, packaging design companies, brand identity company, and many more. Our site was completely out of Google search results for two weeks in which time we lost countless leads. This experience absolutely sickened me! It also created way too many hours of work dedicated to repairing the hackers damage and recovering our website’s Google Rankings. During my research into fixing the spam injection hackers damage I discovered that this is a widespread problem with WordPress blogs. It’s happening to thousands of people and it is not limited to people using older versions of WordPress.

Recovering from a WordPress Spam Injection attack is not fun, but you can regain your Google Search Results after being hacked by a spam injection attack. If you’ve been compromised, hopefully you have your website and WordPress blog backed up. It can be a pretty tedious process to go through every file and folder on your server locating and deleting spam files. I recommend backing up your WordPress posts and completely removing all files and databases from your server. Then do a complete fresh upload of your website and a complete reinstall of WordPress.  

If you have already been removed from Google Search Results then you will want to notify Google immediately of what has happened. The best policy with Google is to be specific in your explanations. You will need to make sure that you have removed all bad files from your server and then contact Google again explaining what actions you have taken to resolve the situation and submit your “request for reconsideration”. In most cases where a valid site has been hacked Google will restore their sites rankings within two weeks. However, don’t expect any notifications from Google on their progress of reevaluating your website or WordPress blog. I am writing this article in hopes that it will help anyone from having to go through that processs.

What should you look for if you suspect a WordPress Spam Injection Attack?
The first thing you should look for is a list of spammy keywords showing up in your list of keywords located in your Google Webmasters Tools. If you aren’t using Google Webmaster Tools then you should definitely look into this. When your site starts showing up in weird looking search results, which can also be seen in Google Webmaster Tools under search results for your site, you need to act fast because at this point Google will act fast to remove your site from SERPS in order to protect others who may be at risk from visiting your website.

The key to detection is awareness. Be vigilant in monitoring your website and your website’s stats. Spam injections are a clever, effective form of hacking and show no outward signs of infection. However, If you do a Google Site Search for spammy key words like; {site:yoursite.com spamword} you will be able to see if your site is referencing spam keywords. You will not be able to see spam showing up on your site. In order to physically see spam tags in your site you must go to the “cached” version of your web pages and view them in “text mode”. If you’ve been infected you will now be able to see spam keywords, usually appearing as a footer.

What does a Spam Injection Do?
Spam Injection software hides spam keyword links in code that is usually encoded with a PHP function that effectively scrambles html to be decoded once safely embedded on your server, database, etc. You won’t see these files decoded, but the Google Bot and other bots will when crawling your site! Once the Bots access the code the spam injection software has done it’s work, effectively stealing your search index to improve their own pagerank.

These spam injection hacks are very hard to detect software injections inserted into your site, usually on a database level, via templates or plugins. This is part of the reason WordPress is such a target for these attacks. Plugins are what make WordPress so dynamic and cool, but they are an open doorway for spam injection software. For obvious reasons we should all focus our attention on prevention so that you don’t have to deal with detection.

What can I do to prevent a WordPress Spam Injection Attack?
I’ll start with the simplest things you can do to protect your WordPress blog or site from spam attacks first. . .

First:  Update WordPress
Updating WordPress is the easiest thing to do, so why not do it? I usually wait a short period of time after a new release to make sure the bug fixes have been worked out. Please be aware that simply updating WordPress is NOT enough!

Second: Pick a good password
Pick a good password. Don’t use the same password on every site. If you’re really diligent  you can also change your password regularly.

Third: Change the admin user name
The default WordPress user name is “admin”. This is just a guess, but I suspect that the majority of people never change this. Don’t give any information away. Hackers are clever, but like burglars they would rather move on to the easy score. You can change your admin by creating a new user and then deleting the admin user. You’ll be given the option to migrate posts to another user.

Fourth: Hide your WordPress Version Number
David Kierznowski of blogsecurity.net lately released a simple plugin to hide your wordpress installation version number.
The no version plugin is a simple plugin that will replace the version number with blanks, so anyone doing a view “page source” from the browser on your site will not be able to see your wordpress version.

Fifth: Protect your plugins
Plugins are the easy gateway way for hackers to access your blog. All WordPress files begin with (wp-) by default so, hackers can quickly discover which plugins you’re using by going to /wp-content/plugins/, if you haven’t renamed your database files. A quick remedy to block  a blank index.html file in the wp-content/plugins/ folder.

More Complex Procedures:

First: Protecting your WP-Config file.
This file contains your database name, database username and database password. Obviously, you don’t want anyone to have access to something this valuable. If you don’t feel comfortable making changes to your config you may want to contact your hosting company for help otherwise you can add the following code to your .htaccess file:

PHP:
1. # protect wpconfig.php
2. <files wp-config.php>
3. order allow,deny
4. deny from all
5. </files>

Second: Change your database names
Note: do not attempt this unless you are comfortable with PHPMyAdmin and making changes to MySQL. If you are not comfortable with this you should hire a professional to assist you.

Begin by backing up your database!

Many people have problems with the database table name prefix changing functionality of WP Security Scan. You can manually change your database names following the instructions below.

1. BACKUP your WordPress database to a sql file – you can do this in “phpmyadmin”.
2. You should Deactivate your plugins as a precaution before proceeding. You can reactivate them after you have finished.
3. Make a copy of the .sql file you created, then you can open the .sql file and use a text editor to find and replace all “wp_” prefix to “rename_”.
4. Now, drop all tables of your WordPress databases, but DO NOT drop the database.
5. import the (.sql) file that you have just edited into your wordpress databases.
6. Finish by editing your wp-config.php file and change the $table_prefix = ‘wp_’; to $table_prefix = ’something_’;

I hope that this article will help someone avoid the fallout associated with a spam injection hack. I love the functionality of WordPress, but unfortunately, this experience has left me so cautious that my company no longer uses a WordPress Blog along with our corporate website. Maybe someday.

I am the art director for a highly rated Website Design Company, graphic design and packaging company. I have many years of experience in website design, WordPress Blog Design and I am security minded in my approach to web development. I truly believe that one of the greatest assets a company can have today is a well designed website combining good looks with intuitive navigation and easy to use functionality topped off with the right amount of search engine optimization and marketing.

Ecommerce Web Designers For Professional Ecommerce Website Design

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Ecommerce Web Designers For Professional Ecommerce Website Design

eCommerce is the activity of engaging in business online.. As many people now shop online, ecommerce has become a principal economic activity in many parts of the world. In keeping with this trend, eCommerce websites have taken the lead in the online world presently. Ecommerce website designing takes care of the special designing needs of ecommerce websites.

eCommerce websites are specially designed to encourage visitors to buy products and stay longer on the site so that they can spend more. eCommerce websites include a business relevant look and feel, reflect the vision and philosophy of the business, possess an organized layout and professional design, include proper navigation, carry lucid and market friendly content and have a customer friendly user interface, and also comprise of a simple checkout and uncomplicated shopping cart. These sites are integrated with a professional gateway to ensure smooth and hassle free online payment.

Designing an ecommerce website is an extremely professional task. The creation and designing of ecommerce websites is not the work of lay designers. It requires very professional and talented ecommerce website designers to design an ecommerce website that can eventually become a success.

So, if you want to start a new ecommerce project or would like to upgrade your existing ecommerce website, then you should hire a competent ecommerce website designer. Thus, you can rest assured that your ecommerce project is in the safe hands of a professional.

Any professional ecommerce website designer will have several successfully completed projects to his or her credit. The designer should normally have sufficient exposure to all elements of ecommerce website designing. The website designer may work independently or even as part of a team that is specifically into designing professional ecommerce stores. The result that you should expect either ways is a successful website that has the ability to draw prospective customers and deliver significant conversions.

Any ecommerce website designer should have the talent and the professionalism to take his or her job seriously. Most clients usually expect designers to take up the entire responsibility of designing the website from start to finish. The designer’s sole aim should be in designing an ecommerce website that delivers the requisite ROI and becomes a profitable venture.

The designer or the designing team should be able to lead the website from conceptualization to the final integration of the website with the payment gateway. Moreover, the buying experience for the customers should be a smooth affair right from landing on the site and choosing the products to proceeding to the checkout for payment. In effect, customers should be able to choose a product of their choice effortlessly and there should be minimal shopping cart abandonment.

Clients should choose an ecommerce designer that understands the responsibilities of designing an ecommerce store well. What is essential for the designer is a complete set of well-developed skills that comes along with a thorough aptitude for design. Alongside, the designer should be conversant with market trends so that the store can be designed in line with the preferences and the professional standards that the target audience expects.

To summarize, with the right ecommerce website designers in hand, you will surely be able to develop or enhance your ecommerce business to reap the rich rewards on the Internet.

For clients considering setting up an ecommerce website or revamping an existing one, www.web.iovista.com is the right company to get in touch. Besides ecommerce website designing, we offer a wide range of web designing and development services to suit your budget.

eCommerce Website Development with CMS – eGrove Systems

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eCommerce Website Development with CMS – eGrove Systems

eCommerce is now one of the most important applications of internet. In the last few years a whole new world started in eCommerce. There are many eCommerce CMS are available in the market both freeware as well as commercial such as osCommerce, Zen Cart, Virtuemart, Magento, Xcart, PrestaShop, Ubercart, Product Cart etc. Also there is a list of eCommerce plug-ins for some generic CMS like Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, etc. A good online store has the following features:
â?¢ Full product catalogs
â?¢ Shopping cart and checkout system
â?¢ SSL secure layers for ordering process
â?¢ Multiple payment options
â?¢ Multiple shipping Options
â?¢ Order management and fulfillment
â?¢ Inventory management
â?¢ Customer Service
â?¢ Marketing Promotions and Tools such as Discount Coupons, Promotions, Specials, Sales, etc
â?¢ Multi Currency Support
â?¢ Multilingual Support

Some of major shopping carts used by web developers.
Magento
Magento is one of the newest shopping carts on the market. The coding is based on the latest PHP 5 object oriented coding standards and the Zend framework. This has Multi-Store Capacity. But it heavily layered and overly complicated coding style and thousands of files requires a lot of time to learn and do customizations.
Oscommerce
Oscommerce is the basis for both Zen Cart and CRE Loaded. It is simpler and does not have all of the contributions already added that Zen Cart and CRE Loaded do. It runs well though and is a good back to basics shopping cart. It has the most available number of contributions and modifications.
Zen Cart
Zen Cart has a very nice wide array of features based on Oscommerce but has gone its own path. Some of the nice features include product attributes managers, template system, html editor for regular web page contents, built in coupon code system, ability to select what credit cards you accept, and more. There is no licensing fee for this cart.
X-Cart
X-Cart is a commercial shopping cart, but one of the most competitively priced and easy to modify. This uses Smarty Templates system.
Joomla & Virtuemart
This is the best solution for website wants CMS (Content Management System) combined with the shopping cart. It is easy to install and combine well with the Joomla.
Prestashop
This is a latest professional shopping cart in the industry. It code was developed in Web 2.0 innovations such as dynamic AJAX-powered features and next-generation ergonomy. It is easy to install and customizable.

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Dynamics GP Ecommerce Shopping Cart Integration Options

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Dynamics GP Ecommerce Shopping Cart Integration Options

If you have Microsoft Dynamics GP implemented in your organization as Corporate ERP application and now you are looking for phase two, where such nice feature as ecommerce shopping cart is subject for the integration, this small publication is for you.  First of all we would like to share with you our believes  that ecommerce shopping carts, such as Magento/PHP (especially when you are on Linux), ASP.Net Storefront, Nop Commerce and others, are pretty robust and there is no real need to program shopping cart from scratch internally (until you are really huge ecommerce wholesaler or retailer, where you prefer to have complete control over program proprietary business logic and source code, and have the budget to afford that kind of luxury approach).  In our case, we tried to give you ecommerce add-on for Microsoft Dynamics GP (often referred by its historical name Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise, in case if you have some confusion with the application name) where you simply follow setup wizard, selecting your ecommerce shopping cart name from drop down list on one of the initial steps.  Other steps are specific to Dynamics GP typical integration with ecommerce: settings in Inventory Control, Sales order Processing modules:

1. Ecommerce Shopping Cart Image in Great Plains.  It is typically Sales Order Processing Invoice or Sales Order with Customer Deposit in the form of Credit Card payment (especially in B2C scenario, while in B2B scenario you may sell on account, and prepayment is optional).  If you plan to allocate Invoice or Order lines automatically directly from the Shopping Cart, you need to specify default ecommerce SOP Document ID as the one with automatic allocation (in this case item line fulfillment happens instantly as ecommerce document is transferred to GP).  If you would rather prefer to fulfill the lines via Warehouse Management System/Barcoding on the warehouse floor, then pick document ID where allocation is set to manual.  Second important concept is default ecommerce Inventory Site ID – in Great Plains it is important to have default settings to minimize data entry per document.  In the case of Sales Order Processing document each one may have default site ID, and if it is specified – each line will be automatically allocated (or assigned for manual fulfillment) from the specified site.  Inventory control hosted Site object is participating in the logic is such distribution modules as Sales Order Processing, Purchase Order Processing, Bill of Materials, Manufacturing Suite of Modules, Invoicing (this module however is rather legacy, we do not recommend it for serious consideration in eCommerce implementation)

2. eCommerce and Non-inventory items.  For smaller ecommerce retailers, especially specializing in very volatile (changing every week or month) reselling catalogues of items, you may decide to completely abandon such Inventory Control features as Quantity on-hand, returned, damaged, in-service and only track items sold through Sales Reports (based on SOP30200 and SOP30300 tables – document header and line history).  If you transform your ecommerce shopping cart document lines into non-inventory items in Dynamics GP SOP – item id is simply capitalized text (or flow of the characters), then description is the combination of Capital/Small letters, digits and delimiting characters, plus there is no pricelist (you must specify QTY sold, price and cost if known)

3. eCommerce integration technology.  Our Add-on ecommerce module is based on Alba Spectrum proprietary technology Order Connector.  According to our performance tests, Order Connector is more efficient, comparing to Dynamics GP SDK eConnect (both technologies as based on SQL stored procedures, however Order Connector is geared toward light weight Sales Order Processing transaction logic, where eConnect validates 100% of the Dynamics GP SOP business logic, which might contribute to longer stored procedures execution time and in our opinion and taking into consideration the set of processes in ecommerce add-on module – only some of the business logic must be validated, the rest of the logic realm is really optional)

4. What if your organization is in position to sponsor ecommerce shopping cart programming from scratches?  If shopping cart is generic ecommerce shopping cart interface compliance, we might be able to incorporate it into our ecommerce add-on for Dynamics GP.  If your shopping cart is really complex and proprietary, feel free to call us for estimation.  We have really challenging carts integrated in the past, especially in such environments as Linux/PHP/MySQL.  Plus there are unlimited options to move proprietary shopping cart document to Dynamics GP via Text or Advanced ODBC connection in Integration Manager.  IM is capable to provide you quasi real time integration (every 20 minutes, or you name the time interval), being scheduled in Windows Scheduled Tasks on the Server (there are multiple shareware and even freeware, providing calling Executable program with DOS parameters), the same approach could be called when new ecommerce shopping cart document is triggered as being completed directly in ecommerce application (you can simply call IM with parameters from your ecommerce web application code)

5. eConnect versus Integration Manager.  Dynamics GP eConnect SDK is really powerful instrument, initially it was dedicated to ecommerce programmers, to open Great Plains objects and transactions for ecommerce shopping cart integration.  In our opinion eConnect became stable and bug free with introduction of Dynamics GP version 9.0, so we do recommend you to try yourself (especially when you are considering yourself as practicing Microsoft Visual Studio C# or VB.Net coder).  The best scenario to deploy eConnect libraries, is when your ecommerce website is programmed in Microsoft Visual Studio.  In the case, when you are on Linux e-commerce platforms, there are ways to call Windows DLL as well as eConnect methods (stored procedures) indirectly via Linux to Windows bridges, however it might give you too much hard time and learning curve.  So, if you are on Linux, Unix, Oracle/Java, IBM DBII platforms, we would rather encourage you to reconsider exporting ecommerce shopping cart into text (tab or comma delimited) file or even cross-platform compliant XML format.  Regarding Integration Manager and eConnect performance comparison, you might be aware that Integration Manager for Dynamics GP version 10.0 (and especially current version 2010/11.0, as we are writing these lines in September 2010) introduced eConnect integration connectors, where IM integration is in fact calling the same SQL Stored procedures as if you deploy eConnect libraries directly in your Visual Studio Web Project, so the performance should be comparable

6. Which version is recommended prior to diving into ecommerce integration project?  The answer depends on the scope of the project.  You might be fine deploying Integration Manager on all the versions of Dynamics GP and even legacy Great Plains Dynamics and eEnterprise: 9.0, 8.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.0, 5.5, 5.0, 4.0 (please note that Integration Manager works even for such archaic DB platforms as Pervasive SQL 2000/Btrieve and Ctree) .  However if you are looking forward to integrate real time ecommerce shopping cart directly from Magento, ASP.Net Storefront or other full-featured shopping cart platform, we recommend you to upgrade to Dynamics GP at least version 10.0

7. Combining Ecomerce with Warehouse Management System and Barcoding technologies.  If you are seeking for complete automation, where Shopping Cart is scheduled for automatic fulfillment on the warehouse floor via barcode scanning, we recommend you to consider Alba Spectrum WMS Add-ons for Microsoft Dynamics GP

8. If you are expanding internationally as ecommerce wholesaler or retailer.  Here you need to familiarize yourself with such concept as Corporate ERP localization.  It typically includes two components: local or regional language support and tax code or local country business regulation compliance (custom code, invoice form, sometimes government approved chart of accounts and how transactions should be posted in GL – good examples are France or Russian Federation).  Current version of Dynamics GP is 2010/11.0 as well as version 10.0 are localized for English speaking countries: USA, UK, Ireland, Canada (Including French speaking Quebec province with Montreal), Spanish speaking Latina America, Caribbean basin, Oceania, South East Asia, where English language is in use as the language of business.  If you are multinational subsidiary, expanding internationally and your country is not listed here, please consider to give us a call for consultation or consider another Corporate ERP platform for you overseas subsidiary: Dynamics AX Axapta or if you prefer SAP platform – SAP Business One.  Also you have to be aware that Dynamics GP Dexterity platform doesn’t support Unicode based languages (typically hieroglyph characters based alphabets, such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean)

9. For further information, please call us 1-866-528-0577, email us help@albaspectrum.com  By the nature of our service we are available for WMS implementation USA, Canada nationwide.  Local service is available in Western Michigan: St. Joseph, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Holland, New Buffalo; in Chicagoland, North Western Indiana, Southern California (Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine, Orange County), Houston and Dallas areas of Texas

Andrew Karasev, Alba Spectrum Group, http://www.albaspectrum.com help@albaspectrum.com 1-866-528-0577, 1-630-961-5918, serving GP customers USA and Canada Nationwide: California, Minnesota, New York, Quebec, Ontario, Illinois, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Virginia, Florida, new Mexico, Iowa, Indiana, Alaska, Hawaii. Local service is available in Houston/Dallas: Richmond, Rosenberg, Katy, Galveston, Sugar Land; in Chicago: Naperville, Aurora, Plainfield, Romeoville, Batavia, Downers Grove, Schaumburg, Rockford, Elgin, Crystal Lake, Joliet, Hinsdale, Lisle, Montgomery, Oswego

Top 5 Reasons To Use WordPress For Your Blog

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Top 5 Reasons To Use WordPress For Your Blog

If you’re anything like me, when I first set up my blog about a year ago, I had NO CLUE where to start.  Should I use Blogger, Blog spot, WordPress, or any of the 100′s of other blog platforms that are out there?

I assumed a blog was just a blog.  Boy, did I learn otherwise!

After a lot of research, recommendations, and help from others (that’s the “Network” part of network marketing) I realized that I better go with installing WordPress for my blog.

For those of you that aren’t familiar with WordPress, it’s a blog platform that gives you a pre-built blog site for free.  But if you REALLY want to boost up your blog marketing – you really need to get a self-hosted WordPress blog and your own personal domain.  And I’m going to go into more details why here in the list.

As any smart marketer realizes – leave the hard stuff to the professionals.  So that is why I outsourced my blog set-up (which included the graphics, RSS feeds, theme, and connection to all of my social networking sites) to THE professional blog set-up guru I know – Ms. Shannon Shubert at IM Group Marketing.

I also self-hosted my site – and again, to another professional who knows a ton more information about self-hosting and is THE ONLY person I would trust with hosting my blog – Holly Powell at Nonstop Social Media.

If you stop by their sites, tell them I sent you!

Here are my Top 5 Reasons to Use WordPress for your blog:

1. Google Loves WordPress – If you’re using a blog for your marketing strategies, you’re probably interested in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – at least a little bit.  If you’re into SEO, then you want and need Google giving your site “some love.”  Now, I could go on and on and on and on and ON about SEO, but the idea is that you want Google ranking your site higher than your competition for any given keyword.  Well, for whatever reason, Google loves WordPress.  Period.  Game, set, match!  You need a WordPress blog if you are in SEO strategies.

Yes, you can use other blog sites and still get good ranking, but you typically have to work harder to get the same amount of “love” from Google as your competition.  If you already have a different blog and are so far into it that it would hurt you more than help you, just stick with it and MAKE IT WORK.  But AT LEAST have it self-hosted – which leads me into my next point.

2. Self hosted – I have this in my top 5 reasons, well, for a good reason.  (Oh man I’m witty!)  You can use the free version of wordpress and have no problems and make that work for you just fine.  But you could run into a few problems, the biggest of which is that your blog could be here one day, and gone the next.  If you have a self hosted WordPress blog, no one can touch it.  It’s yours.  Yes, you’re paying a small monthly hosting fee (usually around .00 or less) but it’s WELL worth its value considering the thought that you might lose your blog otherwise.

On top of having your blog self hosted – I would also recommend getting a domain name that is specific to you.  Mine is obviously www.LinusRuzicka.com.  It looks a lot more professional that the generic site URL that WordPress gives your site.  Having your domain forwarded is essential for branding YOU in this industry.

3. WordPress Design Themes – Now , do you want the generic WordPress Theme that comes with WordPress, or a custom designed one that is specific only to you?  The default WordPress theme is perfect if you’re just setting up a blog to have a blog.  BUT, since you’re in this industry to make money and brand you, I suggest a designed custom theme. There are tons of people who design custom WordPress Themes that you can easily upload to your domain, to change the appearance and feel of your WordPress website. Some of the WP Themes are paid versions, but most of them are free.

There are more than 1000 themes loaded directly into the WordPress theme website, from which you can choose, although you are not limited to just the themes loaded into the WordPress website.  Since I outsourced the design and feel of my blog, my designer and I talked bakc and forth for a week or so to grind out the details of what I wanted.  The theme I chose is very SEO friendly (“Monezine” theme), but there are many other to choose from such as “Flexibility” or “Thesis”

4. Plug-ins – This is my favorite.  Plugins are what soups-up your blog and converts it from a 1992 Ford Taurus, into a 2010 Chevy Camaro.  The right plug-in can save you time, make you money, and make your job a WHOLE lot easier.  In fact, I think I’ll make my next post on specific plug-ins just so you can see some of the money making ones you NEED to have on your blog (So make sure to Sign-up to get my blog updates via e-mail so you can get the next one).

Just like with the WordPress Themes, if there is a specific function you want your blog to perform, there are programmers out there who have created WordPress Plugins that will make your job A LOT easier. There are 1000′s of WordPress Plugins on the WordPress.org website (wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ ), which are free and an ever growing amount that are not in the WordPress database.  You just have to go looking for them.

When you find a Plugin you want, just click “Install” on that specific plugin page, and it will automatically download, unzip, and upload it to the right Plugin directory on your blog. After it finished its upload, simply go to the backoffice area of your blog to “activate” the plugin.

5.  WordPress functionality – Now, I don’t want to lose you here on this one, so I’ll keep it simple.  WordPress is an HTML based blog platform.  The reason I love that is that it allows you to do SOOOOOOO much more to your blog.  Whan you’re creating a post – you have the ability to add videos, pics, graphics, links, and audio all in HTML format.  The cool thing is, when you create posts, you can create them in a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) design – meaning that what you see on the screen is what your readers will see.  Or you can do HTML formating – all with a click of the mouse and flip-flop back and forth.

To Double check and see what your content will look like, you can “Preview” it and see it in real time on your designed blog to double check and make sure it looks the way you want it to.

So there you have it, the Top 5 Reasons To Use WordPress For Your Blog, but that’s not the end of it yet.  To get more Free blog marketing strategies and find out how you can get more network marketing tips delivered straight to your inbox visit the Linus Ruzicka Marketing Nerve Center.

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WordPress Development From SamifLabs in the Best Way

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