So you've invested loads of time and money building up your online store and you're ready to launch....now what? How can you get people to go to your site? How can you keep customers coming back for more? I have been building online stores for...
I recently ordered some clothing items off a new Irish online store and it really highlighted how poorly people value the web in this country. I purchased some clothes in a retail shop in Cork and wanted to check out the online store advertised on the tag. To be clear...
We've had such a great success lately with our online store software. Our decision to build our own software from the ground up instead of just buying off the shelf has proved to work hugely in our favour. What's interesting is the angle we took when...
Usually when testing a database I fill it with loads of dummy data. This helps both me and the client see what their site will look like once real data is in their system. Just before the site goes live it's always a good idea to remove the...
There have been times when making forms with radio buttons that I have used ASP:RadioButtonLists but recently I was working on a project that required me to have a lot of radio buttons on screen within a nicely styled grid. I could have taken the easy (but messy) way...
The web.config file can be a handy place to put site wide settings like the website name or contact admin email address. The steps below will let you use your web.config file to store and retrieve those details. This example will show you how to set the website...
I know of a lot of companies, local/national/international, that swear by outsourcing full projects. "You just pass on the work and watch the money roll in" they tell me. "It's so easy I don't even have to work 9-5". Ya,...
We do a lot of payment integrations these days for online stores, charity sites, etc. One provider we do a lot of payment integrations with is Realex Payments. They offer a number of payment solutions for both clients and developers to choose from. The main types of setup are called...
I noticed that this one seems to catch a good few people out - including myself when I was starting out with Master Pages. If you have an aspx page that sits in your Master Page you might have a need of populating a label or a textbox (or other...
