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Best osCommerce Templates

Seo Men — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:08:08 +0000

Managing your on line commerce and on line store is all a part of osCommerce. This program helps in keeping all things in your business straight. It is a relatively simple program that can help you account for all your business ventures. Whether it is keeping up with stock or income versus what you have left, osCommerce will be on hand to help keep it all in a row. You will never wonder where your merchandise is or when it was sold. osCommerce will keep all your important details straight for you and keep all your records filed properly and completely.

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The whole osCommerce system has many functions in the day to day operation of an on line business. Many of these include database backup, secure transactions for customers, automatically installs on the Web, Uses different forms of currency and can convert, can handle up to one image per product, handles shipping arrangements, and calculates tax rates and different zones for each product you may have. As you can see osCommerce is a handy tool to have to keep all your business transactions current and up to date.

The osCommerce themes follow the templates which are available on line or through the distribution company of osCommerce. STS, BTS, and another one called SMARTY are available as of right now. These templates include color coding and using specific tables to withdraw information that you need specific to each person in your business or each product.

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The osCommerce system was started in Germany in 2000 by Harald Ponce de Leon. The current program MILESTONE 2.2 is very usable and customer oriented. MILESTONE 3.0 is in the works and will be a rewrite of the current program. The programmers want to include some changes in the layouts of the templates and using a password and user name system to gain access to the program.

There were some bugs to be worked out of the osCommerce system and they are trying to get them all straight in the 3.0 version of the program. Some of the problems included not being able to use certain credit cards, The product images were not able to be increased to full size, Products that were to be downloaded were not entirely safe to download, and UPS wasn’t included as a shipping option. The newer versions of osCommerce should be ridding the program of the remaining problems.

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The new version should provide a great database for all your business and personal needs. Keeping track of everyone who works for you as well as the merchandise you sell or buy can be a daunting task. The new software for osCommerce makes it easier than anything else you will ever try. Many people use other programs thinking they are so much better than most of the older ones out there. This particular program gives you a database and you can find out any information you need from it. If you need to know how many products sold for Christmas last year and what color, this program can tell you. If you want to know the highest price paid on any of your auction items, this program can arrange from highest to lowest bid. If you want a list of people that bid the most on your merchandise, you can ask for that.

Take a chance with the new program of osCommerce. It comes free from the GNU under Public License. You will be glad you did.

PubCon.com is accepting proposals for a new design template

Seo Men — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:27:57 +0000

PubCon is accepting proposals for a new HTML/CSS design template.

Template requirements:

2 or 3 column liquid layout preferred.
- 55kb max html template size.
- 12kb max css size.
- 150kb max size with images.
Near to same template as possible in mobile version.
Must be visible and usable in All leading browsers + previous two versions as well. (ie6-7 – Opera 9+, Firefox 3+, Safari)
Mobile Version must work with: Opera Mini, Blackberry, iPhone Safari, Pocket IE.
Proposal may not include:
- Flash,
- Javascript/Ajax,
- Animation,
- Frames.

Target Launch Date – June 1 2009. Send proposals with cover letter and pricing to brett at webmasterworld.com

Pubcon Austin 2009

P.S. Video from PubCon South – Austin TX – Executive Conference, March 2009.
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PayPal: Importance of being safe online

Seo Men — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:44:42 +0000

In light of the report by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, into the security of the Internet, Cristina Hoole, Spokesperson for PayPal, comments about the importance of being safe online:

The security of people who use the Internet and shop online must become a top priority, not just for the Government but also software vendors, if the ongoing threat of e-crime is to be culled. Continued proactive action needs to be taken so that people in the UK are not put at risk. At present more than 27.4 million people in the UK have received a phishing email at some point, with 18.1 million people receiving an email that has purported to have come from their bank. These are worrying statistics, especially if anyone has been tricked into responding to them.

“Online companies have an obligation to consumers to help them stay safe online, so they do not become the unwitting victims of e-crime. PayPal does a number of things to help its customers stay safe online, and at the heart of our own activity is consumer education. However, a successful programme does not, and cannot stop there – Government, the police, financial services providers, internet providers, retailers, must all work together to fight the criminals who will otherwise continue to target online consumers with increasingly complicated scams.”

PayPal top ten tips on how to spot a fake email:

Check your account! If a PayPal user is ever sent an email which seems suspicious the immediate and most basic action to take is to log into your account and verify any activity before going ahead with any transactions.
Generic greetings. Many spoof emails begin with a general greeting, such as: “Dear PayPal member.” If you do not see your first and last name, be suspicious and do not click on any links or button.
A fake sender’s address. A spoof email may include a forged email address in the “From” field. This field is easily altered.
A false sense of urgency. Many spoof emails try to deceive you with the threat that your account is in jeopardy if you don’t update it ASAP. They may also state that an unauthorised transaction has recently occurred on your account, or claim PayPal is updating its accounts and needs information fast.
Fake links. Always check where a link is going before you click. Move your mouse over it and look at the URL in your browser or email status bar. A fraudulent link is dangerous. If you click on one, it could:
- Direct you to a spoof website that tries to collect your personal data.
- Install spyware on your system. Spyware is an application that can enable a hacker to monitor your actions and steal any passwords or credit card numbers you type online.
- Cause you to download a virus that could disable your computer.
Emails that appear to be websites. Some emails will look like a website in order to get you to enter personal information. PayPal never asks for personal information in an email.
Deceptive URLs. Only enter your PayPal password on PayPal pages. These begin with paypal.com. If you see an @ sign in the middle of a URL, there’s a good chance this is a spoof. Legitimate companies use a domain name e.g. company.com. Even if a URL contains the word “PayPal,” it may not be a PayPal site. Examples of deceptive URLs include: paypalsecure.com, paypa1.com, secure-paypal.com, and paypalnet.com. Always log in to PayPal by opening a new web browser and typing in the following: https://www.paypal.com/. Never log in to PayPal from a link in an email.
Unsafe sites. The term “https” should always precede any website address where you enter personal information. The “s” stands for secure. If you don’t see “https,” you’re not in a secure web session, and you should not enter data.
Pop-up boxes. PayPal will never use a pop-up box in an email as pop-ups are not secure.
Attachments. Like fake links, attachments are frequently used in spoof emails and are dangerous. Never click on an attachment. It could cause you to download spyware or a virus. PayPal will never email you an attachment or a software update to install on your computer.

If you receive a spoof email, forward the entire email – including the header information to spoof@paypal.com, then delete it from your mailbox. Please note that the automatic response you get from us may not address you by name.

How to rank on Yahoo!

Seo Men — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:07:03 +0000

Recently I have been concentrating on Yahoo and the elements on a page that they look at when ranking, I looked close at their own guidelines and noticed a few very important key points. Think of this document as a break down of their guide lines. As the following text points out, Yahoo are focusing heavily on page criteria.

Quoted from Yahoo: Users are more likely to click a link if the title matches their search. Choose terms for the title that match the concept of your document.

Sound advice to make the title tag descriptive of the pages contents as this is what people will see in the search results and click on.

Quoted from Yahoo: Use a “description” meta-tag and write your description accurately and carefully. After the title, the description is the most important draw for users. Make sure the document title and description attract the interest of the user but also fit the content on your site.

This is the clearest indication that Yahoo read and give weight to the meta description tag, make sure that the tag is a desriptive sentence with all of the pages keywords present. I would aim at no more than 3 lines.

Quoted from Yahoo: Use a “keyword” meta-tag to list key words for the document. Use a distinct list of keywords that relate to the specific page on your site instead of using one broad set of keywords for every page.

Clearly Yahoo hold weight to the Meta keyword tag, what once was deemed to be a spammy aspect of ranking tactics is now an ok method of getting your sites message across – by no means stuff it full of keywords and repeat them to the extreme, just make sure that the pages keywords are mentioned twice or so in the tag.

Quoted from Yahoo: Keep relevant text and links in HTML. Placing them in graphics or image maps means search engines can’t always search for the text, and the crawler can’t follow links to your site’s other pages. An HTML site map, with a link from your welcome page, can help make sure all your pages are crawled.

Basic sound seo advice, keep links and text plain HTML that way the spiders can read and follow the links.

Quoted from Yahoo: Use ALT text for graphics. It’s good page design to accommodate text browsers or visually impaired visitors, and it helps improve the text content of your page for search purposes.

From this it is clear that Yahoo, read and asign weight to the alt text. Make sure that the text describes the image, but be sure to include a keyword to increase your keyword density.

Quoted from Yahoo: Correspond with webmasters and other content providers and build rich linkages between related pages. Note: “Link farms” create links between unrelated pages for no reason except to increase page link counts. Using link farms violates Yahoo!’s Site Guidelines and will not improve your page ranking.