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June 04, 2012
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tips on effective web design

16 Important Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Web Design

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These effective web design tips you must keep in your mind when you are creating or redesigning a website. There are specific and important items you need to be made aware of. Things that normally wouldn’t cross your mind. The average company is after sales and revenue. They may tell you that they want the big flashy logos. Or, they may tell you they want the overdone textures/gradients. However, it is the job of a well skilled web designer to steer their clients in the right direction.

Listed below are sixteen do’s and don’ts of effective web design. Study, read, and print this page. It will help either make or break your website. And don’t hesitate to let us know of anything we might have left out, in the comments below. ECA Technologies and Designtorontoweb.ca love getting your opinions on things and discussing the articles with you. Read More

May 04, 2012
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30 Ways To Drive Website Traffic Up

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30 Ways To Drive Up Website Traffic

This blog was designed to introduce you to website promotion, getting visitors to come to your website which drives business.

More visitors – more income – more online visibility – corporate branding How can you get more visitors to your website? What can you do to stimulate website traffic? Here’s a checklist of 30 items you need to consider. Many of these may be doing already; others you meant to do and forgot about; still others you’ve never heard of. All in all, here’s the most important techniques.

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February 29, 2012
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drop shipping

Drop Shipping Ecommerce

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Drop shipping allows you to send low quantity unit orders that you sell on your website. It gets sent to manufacturers or wholesale warehouse companies. These companies ship the items directly to your customers. Instead of worrying about inventory and delivery, you get to focus on listening to the market and discovering the products your visitors want.

A drop-ship company can buy in huge volumes. So, they can also offer you the best prices on products and shipping. Furthermore, they can offer you wholesale rates. These rates will return a greater profit to you. Also, there is no need for an inventory. Therefore, you do not incur additional expenses in warehousing the products you sell. Or even paying rent or mortage for the warehouse. You don’t even need to pay for the people who work in the warehouse. Promote 1 item or promote thousands; it is entirely up to you.
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September 12, 2011
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Ecommerce is a real commerce!

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A web store is a real business no matter how you like to argue otherwise. That means since this is a real business you will need to put in real work into it. No get rich quick magic lies in an e-commerce store.

When you own a storefront you pay attention to displays and how your product is presented. You also pay attention to sales flyers, presentations and product descriptions. Sales associates  know what products are new. They also know what products are well suited to accent virtually any purchase. In a clothing shop this means knowledge of what clothing choices work well together. In a cosmetic shop it may be helping a customer find just the right shade of nailpolish. Or even a scent that matches personality and taste.
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July 17, 2011
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Groupon! What’s the deal?

Posted by | E-commerce, Web development | 2 Comments

A new e-commerce website trend is to build groupon sites. The goal behind Groupon sites or the like is to give members huge discounts. This way the members get to try out new services, in hopes that they’ll return in the future at full price. The websites themselves earn a profit by featuring the companies. These companies give out a small fee to the website in order to get exposure from local sources.

Groupon! What's the deal?
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May 18, 2011
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Zen Cart Makes Store Designing Difficult

Posted by | E-commerce, Online Software, Web design, Web development | 2 Comments

Sure there are many good things about Zen Cart! If you are looking to get a quick and simple e-commerce solution, this cart is worth considering. But if you so much to look for a 100% custom look, this cart may not bring you an easy solution. Not to mention, issues with many other popular must have features. Then why do some developers often root for Zen Cart? Mainly because it is free. So, they could play on it without investing any money in buying a more efficient cart to play with. Also because it may not need a great deal of development skills if you are simply wanting a little bit of cutomized template look.
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May 02, 2011
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magento shopping cart development

Buzz about Magento Ecommerce Shopping Cart

Posted by | E-commerce, Online Software, Web development | 2 Comments

These days we keep hearing a lot of good things about Magento eCommerce Shopping Cart. So is this really as great as some people claim it to be? In my honest opinion, this is very arguably the best free open source shopping cart software. Why do I say “arguably”? Well, because it is the best free one but this cart is by no means is for small ecommerce website. It is build almost like a MVC framework to develop other codes to add to it. This software is a server resouce ho.  It could use up all of a server’s resource even of a dedicated server. It’s bloated and customizing this software is cumbersome.
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