Image Options for Better Web Performance

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:34 Written by David Bauernschmidt Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:00

If you read articles on best practices you will quickly read that one of the best ways to increase performance is to limit your calls to the server as well as “shrink” the size of those files.  Implementing and keeping up with all of the options can actually take a full time job.  However as a small business web developer, I have realized that just implementing some of these can have a profound impact to your site.  We are always loading “assets” from the server to support a page.  These “assets” might include, images, javascript libraries, style sheets, video, audio, etc.  Better managing these assets not only improves performance but in some cases also lowers the band-width requirements.  We are very visual people so it has been my experience that the areas for great performance is to address the images first and then move on to the other areas. I am not saying that the other areas aren’t important but rather some of the little things you can do to images can improve a lot towards performance. My goal is talk about some of the available options as well as give you some thoughts and links that make this even easier.

mojoPortal Tips: mojoPortal International Resources

Last Updated on Wednesday, 9 January 2013 12:00 Written by Carole Bennett Wednesday, 9 January 2013 12:00

Even though the primary architect of mojoPortal is a native English speaker, there are definitely resources available for users and developers who are more comfortable communicating in other languages – let’s cover the options that are currently available.

Dedicated Communities

How to Manage User Cancellation Options in phpFox

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 November 2012 04:25 Written by Stephanie Brown Wednesday, 14 November 2012 12:00

This article will focus on managing the options your members see if they decide to cancel their account on your phpFox website.

As your memberbase grows for your phpFox website, it is inevitable that you will have members that wish to cancel their accounts.  As the site owner, you want to get feedback from the members as they cancel, allowing you to note trends and work towards making improvements.

The default User Cancellation options are generic, it is up to you to customize them to better suit your site, and the information you hope to receive from cancelling members.

How to Configure the Email Options in TomatoCart

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 August 2012 12:57 Written by Jack Yin Friday, 31 August 2012 12:00

Some users in the TomatoCart community face the problem to send the email to the customer. We will show you in this article how to manage the TomatoCart email configurations. There are two methods to setup your email configurations:

Emails Options

• If the cart is not configured yet, the “Wizard Installation” windows should be loaded and active as accessing your admin panel. The Wizard is in three steps. The second step shown in the figure 1, is configuration of the E-Mail options.

nopCommerce Tips: How to Set Special Shipping Options

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 July 2012 09:44 Written by Carole Bennett Tuesday, 17 July 2012 12:00

One of my nopCommerce customers is a milliner, who makes custom hats. If you’re in any way familiar with fashion, you’ll know that not all hats are created equal, and that goes for their shipping costs and requirements as well. We’ll cover how to accommodate these special shipping costs in nopCommerce.

A soft cloth cap can be packaged in a padded envelope, while a full tophat must be shipped in a sturdy box, which of course will be much more expensive. This means that products with such a wide range of shipping costs and needs have to be factored differently. Thankfully, nopCommerce provides a means of allowing for additional shipping costs for these special items, over and above the standard shipping rate calculations based on purchase price, etc.