Prestashop: just an other open source e-commerce system

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Hung Bui

Has anyone heard of an open source e-commerce system “Prestashop“? I bumped into it from business forum and it really inspired me. It does support multiple languages, multiple currencies and very friendly backend system. I’m now planning to use it for my future e-commerce projects.

Why don’t you check it out yourself and who know you might benefit from it.

Don’t forget to checkout their forum where thousand of developers all round the world developed some amazing plugins and modules such as: Protx payment gateway, Google Checkout etc

prestashop front endprestashop backend

Back-office
comprised of your administrator panel
  • Unlimited categories & subcategories
  • Full-featured WYSIWYG text editor
  • Unlimited product attribute combinations
  • Unlimited product specs
  • Unlimited images with automatic resizing & file optimization
  • Unlimited currencies
  • Unlimited tax settings
  • Unlimited carriers & destinations
  • Tax by state, country, both, zones, or no taxes
  • Digressive pricing (Quantity discounts)
  • Real-time currency exchange rates
  • Inventory management
  • SMS/Text-message alerts
  • Add/delete function modules
  • Bar codes
  • Contextual help
  • Attribute Combo Generator
  • Delivery status notification e-mails (customizable)
  • Unlimited languages & dialects
  • Import/export language translations
  • 13 default language translations
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Friendly URLs / Permalinks
  • 100% modifiable graphic themes
  • Back Office users & permissions (ACL )
  • Maintenance Mode
  • Minimum order amount
  • Newsletter contact export
  • Alias search
  • Bulk lister/import .CSV files
  • SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption
Front-office
comprised of your business Website
  • Special deals (price reductions, gift vouchers)
  • Featured products on homepage
  • Top sellers on homepage
  • New items on homepage
  • ‘Free shipping’ offers
  • Cross-selling (Accessories)
  • Product image zoom
  • Order out-of-stock items
  • Customer subscription & user accounts
  • Unlimited payment methods
  • Payment by bank wire
  • Cash-On-Delivery (COD)
  • Preconfigured for Paypal™
  • Multiple-recipient contact form
  • Product tagging & tag cloud
  • Search
  • Merchandise return (RMAs) & credit slips
  • Package tracking
  • Offer gift-wrapping & recycled packaging
  • PDF customer invoice
  • Shopping Cart recall
  • Sale of services & virtual goods
  • Custom Favicon
  • RSS feed
  • Newsletter opt-in
  • ‘Pick up in-store’ option
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Wario Land: Shake it – Amazing footage (Experience Wii on YouTube)

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Hung Bui

Warning! Watch this YouTube video could crash down your entire screen.

http://uk.youtube.com/experiencewii

shake it up

shake it up

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Mary Chocolatier is about to launch their new e-commerce site

Posted on November 2, 2008 by Hung Bui

Mary Chocolate -Belgian chocolates, which represents the finest expression of the Chocolatier’s.

mary-chocolatier-chocolate-site

mary-chocolatier-chocolate-site

marychocolate.co.uk is designed and developed by KD Web (Studio Design in London)

Customisation listing:

1. Chocolate by category (Homepage)
2. Chocolate pop-up gallery (Department)
3. Merge “Postage Method” into Billing & Shipping page
4. Add to basket button for each product on Department page

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SEO with “display:none”

Posted on November 1, 2008 by Hung Bui

Show and hide content of the pages is very common trend of Web Design nowadays. I myself recently used this a lot.

display-none-and-seo

display-none-and-seo


I wondered that would Search Engine (robots) be able to find the hidden content which controlled by CSS style=”display:none;” or not? Although, there was quite a few topic mentioned about this back in 2005, but Eric Enge reviewed this issue again on Search Engine Land.

“Display:none” simply hide text and does not have any effect on your SEO ranking as long as the content of hidden text is related to your page’s content.

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Next-Generation Ecommerce With Service Oriented Architecture

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Hung Bui

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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