Next-Generation Ecommerce With Service Oriented Architecture

October 20th, 2008

A great post entry from Get Elastic Website about the future of e-commerce with service oriented architecture

More details see here

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Web analytics report – an altenation of Google Analytics

September 29th, 2008

Google analytics is great and it became so popular. The downsite of this analytic tool is not open source and no api to link (intergrate) with you own software. [ad]

Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics

Piwik is different from the competition because:

  1. the features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need. If you are a developer, you can easily build your own plugins!
  2. you own your data. Piwik being installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics using open APIs (publishing the data in many formats: xml, json, php, csv)
  3. (NOW AVAILABLE!!!) the user interface is fully customizable, you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display, create the reports you want
  4. View the web analytics report on your own website.
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google-analytics-alternative

Give it a try

  • you can try the online demo that shows you the latest piwik release. Please note that all User Interface part is still in progress so don’t expect something big on this. This is the most visible part though :-)
  • to install Piwik, download the latest release, upload it on your webserver (you need at least PHP 5.1 and a Mysql database), and open your browser: the installation process is automatic and takes less than 5 minutes.

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Tradingeye version 6 (v6.0.0) feature list

August 9th, 2008

The Accessible Shopping Cart (PHP, XHTML) Tradingeye is expecting to release a rich and mint version 6.0.0 around October 2008. This feature list is taken from Tradingeye Forum.

FEATURE LIST

General

  • New XHTML front and backend
  • Language packs
  • Multi Currency
  • One page checkout
  • Drop Shipping
  • Member only pages
  • CSS Drop Down menu
  • SKU for product options
  • Wholesale/Retail pricing
  • Advanced search
  • New reports
  • New HTML invoices

Payment Gateways

  • PayPal Payment Pro UK/US
  • PayPal Express Checkout
  • Google Checkout
  • SecureTrading – off site
  • Al Ali (Saudi Arabia)

Postage & Packing

  • Postage by zones (weight range and fixed)
  • Postage Estimates

Shopping Promotions

  • Minimum Order
  • New site promotions (% or £, unique or returning customers)

Product Pages

  • Image Gallery (with light box)
  • New stock report for options and products
  • Product Attributes (with front end sorting)
  • Product Comparison
  • Shop by brand/supplier
  • Best sellers
  • Show recently viewed items
  • Show recent searches
  • Top selling products
  • Ajax add to cart (on/off)
  • Customer Login
  • Re-order module

Search Engine Optimisation

  • Ability to set your own URL’s

Marketing

  • Suggestive selling (shopping cart & checkout)
  • Google & Yahoo sitemaps
  • EBay feed
  • Kelkoo
  • Price grabber
  • RSS Feeds – products, articles
  • HTML email product generator (with SID tracker)

Plugins

  • IdevAffiliate
  • PDF Brochure Printer
  • Export to Campaign Monitor

Enhancements

  • Prices entered with or without VAT
  • Improved Google Analytics Tracking
  • Improved sitemap
  • Updated product importer
  • Improved pagination
  • Alerts for reviews & non complete orders
  • Re-send invoice
  • Store order IP address

Tradingeye v6.0.0 Back-end screenshots

Tradingeye v6.0.0 Front-end screenshots ( Currently working on)

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Raven – Free SEO Tools

August 7th, 2008

Raven is a free SEO Analysis Tool. It provides three powerful tools to help you make the most of your campaigns. These tools can be used to facilitate sales or to manage active SEO campaigns. Each analyzer presents the reports as Web pages and PDFs (perfect for emailing to a prospect or client).

It’s pretty cool for all of you who would like to see your SEO point so you can make an appropriate actions to fix or improve it.

You can check out my website score 90 out of 100 – That’s not too bad, is it?

Semantic Structure

Your Web design appears to use headers elements properly. Search engines use header elements to determine the context and purpose of your Web page. Headers provide semantic structure and meaning to Web pages, and search engines, like Google, give preferential treatment to Web design that use headers properly.

Page Content

Your page appears to contain 300 or more words. Having at least 300 words of original content per page enables search engines to better understand your website, and increases the chances of someone finding your page.

Obsolete & Deprecated HTML

We didn’t find any instances of obsolete or deprecated HTML. This means that your Web page is using modern Web design techniques, and uses a proper combination of XHTML and CSS.

Inline Styles

Your Web page appears to use inline styles (which may include header styles). To reduce your page size and to adhere to modern Web design standards, all styles should be separated from the Web page. Styles should be defined in a CSS document that references the elements, IDs, and classes in the XHTML document.

Download Size/Time

The size of your HTML is 33.96KB

The size of your Web page is perfect for search engine optimization. Search engines, like Google, reward Web designs that make an effort to reduce the size of their HTML content. Also, condensed content helps search engines better target your Web page for specific keywords.

Total Page Size

It’s always important to pay attention to your total page size. If your other files (like images and scripts) are large, it may make your website load slowly for users who do not have broadband connections. In general, it’s good practice to try to keep your Web pages as small as possible.

  • HTML: 33.96KB
  • Images: 9.81KB
  • CSS: 14.21KB
  • Scripts: 233.11KB

Total: 291.1KB

Outgoing Links

Your Web page doesn’t appear to be using the rel=”nofollow” anchor attribute. It’s important to use this attribute for outgoing links that you cannot verify, are not related to the content of your Web page, and/or link to Web pages with low PageRank. Otherwise, search engines may penalize your Web page for links they deem to be untrustworthy.

Overall Score for Design

Congratulations! Your Web design scored 90 points out of a possible 100. Your Web page may not be perfectly optimized, it contains most of the elements necessary for search engine optimization.

This page can be bookmarked for future reference. If you are the webmaster of http://www.sailboatvn.co.uk/, and you decide to make optimization changes, you can revisit this page and run the Web design report again

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