OpenCart – AdWord Campaigns
Last Updated on Monday, 6 May 2013 06:14 Written by Joe Stenhouse Friday, 10 May 2013 12:00
Maybe you have spent a lot of time and money on getting your shopping cart up and running and now want to consider your marketing strategy? There are many resources on the web that deal with online marketing and how it relates to getting your shopping cart found….and having it be successful. However, there are some basic directions I can point you in before you end up wasting your money on an SEO campaign that could have been achieved by yourself with a little bit of SEO knowledge.
Do I need ad AdWord Campaign?
Learn MoreThe Wild Card DNS
Last Updated on Saturday, 23 February 2013 02:09 Written by Naveed Ashraf Thursday, 28 February 2013 12:00
Remember that the DNS is a protocol (known as the TCP/IP protocol suite) refers to exchange of data over Internet among computers, and on many private networks. It has set of standards. Basically DNS protocol converts a user-friendly domain name (like arvixe.com) into an Internet Protocol (IP) address like 108.175.146.148 so the computers can identify each other over network. Normally in share hosting environment, a single IP address use to serve various domains. In many cases you might need to have sub domains like support.domain.com. While it serve domain owners on various way, user also can directly go to this domain’s website instead of using a link at main domain.com. What about if someone type a sub-domain that is not present at your domain for example suport.domain.com (mistakenly type suport instead of support). The wild card DNS helps to catch this sort of mistakes.
OpenCart SSL (Do I need one?)
Last Updated on Friday, 8 February 2013 05:40 Written by Joe Stenhouse Tuesday, 22 January 2013 12:00
This is a common question among persons that download and start using the Open Cart shopping cart: do I need an SSL? The answer is a unanimous YES. I will explain why this is true in this post but first let’s define what an SSL is and what it does. There are many articles on the web that go into further detail about the inner workings of SSL but this one will describe the basics only, and how it relates to Opencart:
SSL or (Secured-Socket-Layer) is an industry standard in providing security for those that visit your website. It is also one of the major pieces in becoming PCI-Compliant. The general rule of thumb for considering an SSL is this:
Learn MoreWhat is the DOCTYPE Used for Starting HTML5 Code?
Last Updated on Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:01 Written by Richi González Thursday, 10 January 2013 12:00
Hello,
As we all may know, HTML5 era is already here and day by day browsers are becoming more compatible, therefore, we, developers, need to start making our websites HTML5 friendly. Today I’ll tell you the very basic to make our site be read as HTML5.
The Doctype that you see on every page is mainly the big-not-rememberable HTML4 doctype:
Learn MoreTaking a Deeper Look at OpenCart’s “Cart”
Last Updated on Friday, 21 December 2012 12:00 Written by Joe Stenhouse Friday, 21 December 2012 12:00
Yes that’s correct, you know that it works but do you know how? Most don’t and to be fair, most don’t need to know nor do they want to know. However for those that are learning the basics of how a shopping cart works then this posting is for you. I will reveal to you everything that happens from the point of pressing ADD TO CART, to viewing items that you have added. This passage will be using code taken from the latest Opencart version 1.5.4.1

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