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oscommerce set up

Posted by John on Monday, 8 February, 2010

admin template: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6440
demo: http://www.mindsparx.org/mindsparx_admin/


Handy Cheat Sheets for Web Designers

Posted by John on Thursday, 21 January, 2010

from: http://www.hiddenpixels.com/designer-and-developer-resources/cheat-sheets-web-designers/

Cheat Sheet is a concise set of notes used for quick reference, Here are some very importatn Cheat Sheets for Web Designer and Developers.

jQuery Cheat Sheet


Memorizing the hundreds of jQuery methods and handlers can melt your brain. Consider using this cheat sheet as a reference.

WordPress Cheat Sheet


WordPress Cheat Sheet” pdf available for free.

Cheatsheets for Joomla! development


Very important Cheat Sheets for Joomla Development and Design.

Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Designers


28 excellent, useful cheat sheets in various file formats for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, colors, typography, and other web-design related topics all in one page with pictures of each cheat sheet.


How to check your web hosting server

Posted by John on Wednesday, 13 January, 2010

1. go to www.domaintools.com

2. type in your website address

3. after your website information come out, click ’server stats’ tab

4. under ’server stats’ tab, there is ip address and right next to it, there is ‘whois’ link. click that link

5. it will tell you how many other site is hosted inside same server


Top 10 Wordpress Shopping Cart Plugins

Posted by John on Monday, 4 January, 2010

from: http://www.zlwo.com/wordpress/wordpress-shopping-cart-plugins/

Selling your own products through your wordpress blog has never been easier. There are some free and easy to use shopping cart plugins allow you to sell your products and services online through your WordPress website.
A month ago, I was searching for a WordPress shopping cart plugin (software) to build an online store to promote and sell my products and services. After hours-long search, I found some solutions, that could solve my problem. Here are the 10 best ways to add a shopping cart to your Wordpress blog I have found.

WP Auctions

No more listing fees, seller fees, final value fees, gallery fees or any other type of fees when you use this handy plugin. This innovative ecommerce plugins for WordPress allows you to host auctions on your blog or website easy and free. Don’t forget to register your plugin with WP Auctions Live. It will help generate soem traffic for your website. One item at a time in the cart is your only drawback to this plugin.

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Artpal

Artpal is a free wordpress shopping cart plugin for artists who wanna sell their work online. It allows easy PayPal integration with just the address. The plugin offers real time sales updates as soon as the item sells and disables it so that it’s not sold twice.

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FatFreeCart

No generating or pasting code using this plugin because it works within the post editor. Incorporate the add-to-cart feature within your blog posts. Note also that it integrates with PayPal and Google Checkout.

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Quick Shop

Quick shop adds a sidebar widget that shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items. A TinyMCE button allows you to add products to your posts or pages. In addition, it provides a checkout page.

eStore

This plugin gives you fully-automated selling capability of your digital products. Deliver products without directing buyers to a webpage to download; they’ll receive an encrypted download link in their email. Best of all, it’s integrated with the WordPress Affiliate software.

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WP e-Commerce

This wordpress application provides full-feature shopping cart functionality and allows for one-page checkout, which makes it easy to sell things like ebooks, mp3s, clothing, crafts and more. Don’t make site visitors move from page to page in order to purchase a product. Give them a simple, easy-to-use site that they’ll gladly return to.

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WP-osCommerce

This shopping cart plugin for wordpress is a modified version of the popular ecommerce solution osCommerce. It allows you to integrate osCommerce with existing wordpress website. The plugin displays latest products, random products, top 10 best sellers and much more directly in your wordpress blog. It also adds a dynamic widget in your blogs sidebar to display the products.

YAK for WordPress

YAK Is an open source shopping cart plugin for wordPress that turns posts and pages ID into product ID and the post description to an item description.

MiniCart

Embed your shopping cart into your blog posts and use the plugin to ask for donations to your favorite cause in the process.

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Are PayPal

This unique Wordpress plugin allows monitizing wordpress blog content using Paypal. It allows you to set the Post or Page to contain hidden content. The content might be set as hidden for unregistered users and visible for registered. In a similar way the content can be set as hidden for unregistered-unpayed users and visible for registered-paid users. The search engines will only see the visible content. The administrator can grant the users access to content for certain payment.

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eShop

This wordpress plugin gives you the ability to add a PayPal powered store to your wordpress site
Use your pages or posts to create new products. It allows you to download data and upload downloadable products. Some other features include the ability to list multiple products and create an add-to-cart function. Also eShop offers a number of payments options that include- Authorize.net, Paypal, Payson, eProcessingNetwork, Webtopay and Cash/Cheque.

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Free Lancer website

Posted by John on Monday, 28 December, 2009

www.getafreelancer.com


Wordpress e-commerce plug-in and it’s free

Posted by John on Saturday, 12 December, 2009

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from: http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce/
download: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-e-commerce.3.7.5.zip
sample site: http://www.icondock.com/

Home of the famous WordPress e-Commerce Plugin

The WordPress e-Commerce plugin is a state-of-the-art e-Commerce platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards and usability. It is both free and priceless at the same time.

WP e-Commerce

Over 500,000 + downloads, stability, security and tight WordPress integration make it the right choice for growing your business online.

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    WordPress Integration

    You will install WP e-Commerce in minutes. Just like all well architectured plugins WP e-Commerce bolts right on. You simply download the plugin, copy it to your Plugins folder and activate it via your admin panel.

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    More Sales & More Hits

    WP e-Commerce integrates seamlessly with the WordPress Update System – so when you upload a new product the world knows about it!

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    Social Networking

    We help ensure your site is a success by providing you with a range of tools that allow you to import your products into the Facebook Marketplace and Google Base. WP e-Commerce also utilises the populor “Share This” plugin so that your happy customers can bookmark and promote your products too!!!

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    Payment Options

    WP e-Commerce makes it easy for you to accept payments online. WP e-Commerce integrates with Google Checkout, Paypal, Authorize.net, Payment Express and many other trusted payment processors.

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    One Page Checkout

    Evidence has shown that the less pages your customers have to browse to make a purchase the more sales you will make. WP e-Commerce is streamlined, quick and simple to use so that your customers have a great experiance shopping your site.

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    Design Perfectionist?

    Not only do you get to choose from a range of slick store front styles but you can customize and tweak your site to look however you want. We have made it easy for you by utilising WordPress PHP template tags, WordPress shortcodes and WordPress Widgets.

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    Community & Support

    Read our documentation and peruse our forums. Our forums have hundreds of resolved questions and there is a great and growing network of people to help you start selling online!!

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    Extend WP e-Commerce

    We understand that different sellers have different needs so we have developed specific modules to cater for musicians, designers and people wishing to setup members only and subscription sites.

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    The Biz

    We have been developing the WP e-Commerce solution for over 4 years. We have listened to hundreds, if not thousands, of sellers and based on this unparalleled experience we have forged the best WordPress e-Commerce solution ever.


Free PI Diagona Icons Pack

Posted by John on Friday, 11 December, 2009

from: http://www.freeiconsweb.com/PI_Diagona_Pack.html
Free icon pack led-icons
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Google Website Optimizer

Posted by John on Friday, 11 December, 2009

from: https://www.google.com/analytics/siteopt/splash?hl=en

Website Optimizer: Start Testing Today

Website Optimizer is an easy-to-use tool for testing site content that delivers actionable results. Below are just three of the many benefits that testing brings.

Listen to your visitors

splash_demoTesting makes it easy to get direct feedback from your site visitors. Our five minute demo explains how.

splash_increase_conversionsIncrease conversions

Testing makes it easy to increase your site effectiveness and visitor satisfaction, which leads to higher conversion rates and a higher return on your investments.

splash_reportEliminate guesswork

With Website Optimizer, you can try any combination of content to find out what leads to the most conversions. Clear reports will tell you what worked the best.


Sending Pings and Trackbacks

Posted by John on Tuesday, 8 December, 2009

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from: http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/ping/

Sending Pings and Trackbacks

This is not telling you what a Ping is, what a Trackback is or when and why you should use them.
If you want that information, head over to the WordPress Codex.
This page will tell you how to do them.
The example url I use is this one: http://wordpress.org/development/2006/04/wordpattern
Pinging
Pinging a post on another blog from your post is very easy. All you do is link to it.
The link in this screenshot goes to the post above.

That will cause a ping to be sent. Easy.

Self-pinging
If you link to a post you made earlier on your blog, you will ping yourself. Some people like this, others do not. A reason for you liking it is that if someone reads your old post and the comments, they will see that you have pinged the post and may follow that to see what else you have to say on that subject. You can choose whether to or not on each occasion.

Using the above url, if Matt wanted to link to that post in a later post he would use this as a link:
<a href=”http://wordpress.org/development/2006/04/wordpattern/”>
That should send a ping.

If Matt did not want to ping his own blog though, he could link to it like this:
<a href=”/2006/04/wordpattern/”>
This relative url will still link if you click it, but will not send a ping.

Sending a Trackback
A bit more work is needed for this.
Still using the same post on the WordPress development blog, you would start the same way:

Now you would go to the post on the blog and look for the ‘Trackback URI’ or somewhere that Trackback is written.

Once you have that link you need to find it’s location. In Firefox this would be Right-click on the link and ‘Copy Link Location’

Back on your blog, scroll down from the Write area to the ‘Trackbacks’ box and paste the whole link location into that box. It MUST start with http:// and it MUST end with /trackback/.

Now post and the trackback will be sent.

Q & A
1. Can I ping and trackback?
No. If you send both to one place, the trackback will fail.

2. I can’t send trackbacks?
- your trackback might be sent but the receiving site may choose not to show it.
- check you have sent it correctly
- use this Test Blog to test sending and receiving.
- check your webhost’s forums to see if others have this problem.
- post to the WordPress Support Forums and give details of what you have tried, who your host is.


Domain Name Analyzer

Posted by John on Wednesday, 2 December, 2009

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Domain Name Analyzer

http://www.domainpunch.com/

What is Domain Name Analyzer?

Domain Name Analyzer is an award winning and free Windows and Mac OS X software for finding the best domain name for your product or business.

A large number of people refer to Domain Name Analyzer as the best software for searching domain names.

Domain Name Analyzer is completely free. There are no nag screens, no advertisements, no registrations and no payments.

Using Domain Name Analyzer is very easy.

Create Domain Names

1.From keywords… the program has a set of good keywords or you can specify your own.

2.Directly type in all the names you want to try in one go…

3.Import names from a text file: Convert all the words in an article or story to domain names. Great for getting domain names related to a specific subject!

Cleanup The Domain List

It is always a good idea to first remove the obviously unwanted names. Domain Name Analyzer has a clean and nice interface to do this very easily. You can even perform Trademark Lookup (using the US Trademark and Patents website) on a domain name with a single click and eliminate names that are trademarked.

Perform Domain Name Search

Start checking for available domain names with a single click! As the Bangkok Post article says… “We then sent DNA off on the web to check what names are available. DNA handles this beautifully. …. Nothing on the web is nearly as fast or as handy”

Register Domain Names

Domain Name Analyzer has a button that can be configured to point to your favorite registrar.

More Advanced Features

Domain Name Analyzer also allows you to Save Results for Future Use and then open it any time. You can export selected names to an Access Database, Text or HTML file. Take print outs, Copy names to clipboard. You can also check the payment status at Network Solutions with a single  click.

Domain Name Analyzer is Free! Here is another extract from Bangkok Post:

“When I say “free,” I mean it’s actually free. There are an increasing number of free programs these days that actually have a price-flashing, flashy advertising in a corner. ….. DNA doesn’t even ask for your email address to sell to spammers. Admirable, to say the least.”

Need More Power? Check out the advanced Domain Name Analyzer Professional!

http://www.dnaz.net/

Domain Name Analyzer is:

“The best domain name search and management software for Windows”

  • Start checking for available domain names with a single click!
  • Domain Name Analyzer also allows you to Save Results for Future Use.
  • Easy management of domain names through an easy interface and a ‘Domain Pad’
    to keep track of very important or special domains.
  • Generate domain names from a list of words and then have the software check them all.
  • Domain Name Analyzer supports all generic top level domains (.com, .net, .org, etc.)
    and country code domains (.us, .de, .cc, .cd, .ws, .nu, .am etc.)

Domain Name Analyzer is Free:

  • There are no nag screens asking you to register or pay a fee.
  • There are no advertisements.
  • It is free for both personal and commercial use.

Installing File:
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Not Installing File:
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