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New WordPress E-Commerce book

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By amits - Posted on 19 March 2010

WordPress 2.9 E-CommercePackt is pleased to announce WordPress 2.9 E-Commerce, a new book that focuses on the integration of WordPress with the WordPress e-Commerce plug-in. Written by Brian Bondari, this book provides an easy to understand, step-by-step approach to installing, configuring, and using WordPress<!-- Do not use an abbreviation without introducing it. --> e-Commerce to run an online store.

WordPress is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for content management. First released in May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg as a fork of b2/cafelog, it has many features including a workflow, a plugin architecture as well as a templating system. Used by over 2% of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software that’s in use today.

WordPress 2.9 E-Commerce provides a simple approach to developing an effective online store. It guides developers through the initial stages of planning, plug-in installation and configuration, building product catalogs to sell, accepting payments for orders and dealing with taxes and shipping. Readers will also learn how to promote and market their new stores, handle customer accounts and staff roles, as well as deal with essential store security.

Drupal's Ubercart forks into Drupal Commerce

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By Bryan - Posted on 15 January 2010

A few years ago, I had developed an online store for a buddy of mine using osCommerce. I had hoped to use Joomla! or Drupal for the site but at the time wasn't satisfied with the shopping cart extensions or modules that were available for either CMS. Shortly after developing that site a new eCommerce module for Drupal became available called Ubercart. I've never had taken on the task of building another online store (it was a lot of work) but I've always kept my eye on Ubercart just to stay informed.

Ryan Szrama who has been the project lead of Ubercart from its beginning posted yesterday that Ubercart will fork into Drupal Commerce. At this time it is now known what will become of Ubercart. Ryan writes:

A rose by any other name is still a rose, and Ubercore by any other name is still the best thing to happen for Drupal based e-commerce since the advent of Ubercart. For at least the foreseeable future, Ubercore will continue as Drupal Commerce, managed similarly to Drupal itself. We'll be working our tails off to make sure e-commerce on Drupal 7 shows just how awesome having fields in core can be.

As often happens in open source, the trademark owner and some of Ubercart's developers are in disagreement with the direction Ubercart should take in new development. Luckily, for Ryan and the developers of the new project, Ubercart is under the open source GPL license which allows them to use all of source code for Drupal Commerce. This should be an interesting story to follow in the world of open source CMS.

Video on Magento Enterprise Edition 1.6

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By Bryan - Posted on 29 November 2009

There are very few shopping carts or ecommerce platforms that I'm willing to talk about on a blog for content management systems. For whatever reason, I have always had interest in the Magento Ecommerce platform. The following is a video on the features included in the Magento Enterprise Edition 1.6.

Book for Magento's Powerful Theming Engine

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By jude dsouza - Posted on 24 August 2009

Packt is pleased to announce Magento 1.3 Theme Design, a new book that helps users give their Magento store a unique branded look and feel by creating their own Magento themes. Written by Richard Carter, this book is packed with essential hints and tips that are required for an effective Magento web design.

Magento is an Open Source, e-commerce web application that was created by Varien, and built on components of the Zend Framework. Magento is the hottest and most powerful e-commerce software and has gained popularity in a short period of time. Users can control the look, content and functionality of their e-commerce web site with the help of Magento’s powerful Theming engine.

Magento 1.3 Theme Design provides users with different design techniques that will help them customize the look, feel, layout and features of their online Magento store, allowing them to reinforce their brand message and increase sales. Users will learn to embed social media tools such as Twitter, and social bookmarks to promote and improve their Magento store with the help of ideas and examples that are present in this book.

Butlins’ Online Overhaul with SDL Tridion Pays Dividends

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By Real_Wire - Posted on 13 August 2009

Maidenhead, UK, 13th August 2009 – SDL Tridion, leader in Web Content Management (WCM) and part of SDL, leader in Global Information Management (GIM), today announces that Butlins’ new website (www.butlins.com) has resulted in significant net benefits, notably a 21% increase in web traffic.  Working with Building Blocks to implement SDL Tridion’s content management platform, combined with a site re-design, has provided Butlins with a significantly more robust online environment.  Butlins can now take new, competitive offers to market quicker, increase the frequency of such offers, handle the subsequent spike in online traffic, and ultimately convert more sales.

Butlins selected content management platform, SDL Tridion R5, as the foundation to achieve scalable integration with a range of Web 2.0 tools and better utilisation of user generated content to improve customer engagement, encourage repeat visits and ultimately convert more online traffic to sales.

“Since implementation of SDL Tridion R5 in December 2008 it has vastly improved our competitive advantage.  The technology allows us to better handle the display and update of content and a wealth of other options not previously available to us.  Consequently, more people are able to get the information they want and book a holiday with us and in less time,” commented Stephen Belgrave, Senior Projects Manager (E-Commerce) at Butlins.  “The flexibility and ease of use of the SDL Tridion platform with its continued interface and functionality upgrades secures our commitment to the product.”