Getting your e-commerce website ready for the festive season and holidays
Getting your e-commerce website ready for the festive season with more staff absences in your company and your web hosting company. Think backups and updates.
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Why WooCommerce is a great choice for e-commerce start-ups
WooCommerce is a free plugin that adds e-commerce to your WordPress website. Install and configure it properly and you are ready to sell products and services to your website visitors. It’s free but you should enlist the services of a Woo Commerce developer to get the plugin properly setup and configured. That will entail cost…
Five e-commerce web design trends for 2018
The relationship between E-commerce and web design is often awkward. From the early days of Amazon, where the term ‘web design’ was at best loosely applied to the most basic of layouts to the over-designed insanity of ill-fated boo.com (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com), e-commerce web design has always struggled to get the credit it deserves. The only key…
A guide to setting shipping charges on your online shop
Setting shipping charges on your online shop is a big decision that affects your profits. If you run an online shop then you are used to making decisions that affect profitability: how much you pay suppliers for your products; the selling price and how you are charged and what you charge to ship products to…
Online consumer rights for buyers and e-commerce shop owners
In the UK the consumer is protected by rules and regulations that govern product quality and consumer rights of return if something is wrong. Online consumer rights are even more stringent and need to be understood by consumers and e-commerce shop owners. Legislation like this does not need to be a burden for online shop…
Best eCommerce platforms for SEO and sales
So what are the best ecommerce platforms for SEO and sales? A lot depends on where you are with your business, your financial objectives and your budget for development and administration. First a bit about my background. I was involved in developing e-commerce from the early days (around 2001) when everything had to be programmed…