dotCommerce: Attention-grabbing ecommerce web design trends are constantly evolving and adapting to new ways of communication like smart phones, tablets and netbooks. Depending on the purpose and requirements, basic design elements like typography, navigation and colour schemes vary from site to site but all of them have functionality in common.
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Ecommerce Web Design: Six Hot Trends
Head-turning ecommerce web design is pivotal for the success of your online store as attention-grabbing pages publicise your brand. Just like any other creative sphere, web design is a fickle industry that constantly undergoes changes. With the development of new tools like HTML5 and CSS3, new design trends start to take off. Below there are six popular trends in creative web design that can be incorporated into your own web page.
Webnodes CMS Version 3.7 features Schema.org support
Webnodes AS, a company developing a .NET based semantic content management system, announced the release of version 3.7 of their CMS. This new release improves the system in a number of key areas including Schema.org support, load balancing, and e-commerce improvements.
Onxshop CMS goes fully open source
Onxshop, a CMS and e-commerce package created for web developers, is now available for free download following its open source launch. It was made available for free download last month after almost a decade of use on the web projects of its creator Norbert Laposa, of Belfast-based Laposa Web Solution.
eBay Agrees to Acquire Magento
Magento: "The past several years have been an amazing journey for Magento, as we've grown from a new open source platform into an eCommerce leader. Along the way, we've built not only a platform, but a company and a worldwide community. Together, we've identified opportunities, taken risks, innovated, struggled, succeeded, and changed the face of eCommerce. Today marks a milestone on this journey as we announce the most exciting news in our company's history.
5 Reasons School Websites Need an E-Commerce Component
Enabling payments of any kind to be made through a school’s website increases opportunities for fundraising and promptness of payments.
Bitrix Unveils Multi-Platform Virtual Appliance for Social Collaboration and E-Commerce
Bitrix, Inc., a technology trendsetter in business communications solutions, introduces Bitrix® Virtual Appliance 2.0 – the world’s first dedicated ready-to-use solution designed to run social collaboration and e-commerce applications in the most popular virtual environments including VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels Virtuozzo and Amazon EC2.
Bitrix® Site Manager Allows Launching a Full-Scale E-Commerce Solution in Only 45 Minutes
Bitrix revolutionizes the market by introducing a new way to create e-commerce solutions for small and mid-size businesses
PrestaShop Wins the 2010 Open Source E-Commerce Applications Award
Packt Publishing is pleased to announce that PrestaShop has won the inaugural Open Source E-Commerce Applications Award category in the 2010 Open Source Awards. Open Source E-Commerce Applications Award is a new category introduced to the Award this year, featuring various different types of type of web applications that simplify buying and selling of products on the Internet.
Endeca Technologies, Inc. announced it is bringing eCommerce capabilities to the mobile channel with Endeca Mobile Commerce
Endeca Mobile Commerce allows online retailers to easily deploy and manage consistent user experiences across mobile websites and applications with one platform
Solving Magento sales problems with new book
Packt is pleased to announce Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook, a new book that helps Magento developers solve real-world Magento sales problems with the help of simple and effective recipes. Written by William Rice, this book is part of Packt's Cookbook series containing recipes with a carefully organized sequence of instructions that helps completing tasks efficiently.
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 Sales Tactics Cookbook will help developers increase revenue on their Magento websites by implementing proven sales tactics. It includes straightforward instructions for implementation and customization of the default Magento storefront. Readers will also learn about Magento's directory structure which will help their store grow in scope and sophistication.
hybris release cloud-ready 4.1 Multichannel Suite for the eCommerce market
London - 4 May 2010 – hybris, a leading multichannel commerce software vendor, has announced the immediate release of the hybris 4.1 Multichannel Suite. hybris is extending the boundaries of a state-of-the-art multichannel commerce solution with this new release by including mobile commerce, the introduction of product content management (PCM) functionality, brand new order management and cross channel fulfillment functionality plus improved search and navigation capabilities with its tight integration with Endeca. It offers support for cloud-based deployments and scenarios with the highest requirements in terms of number of transactions and size of data volume.
Speaking about the 4.1 Multichannel Suite, Ariel Luedi, CEO of hybris, said: “The release of hybris 4.1 is the new benchmark within the eCommerce market in terms of agility, functionality as well as breadth and depth of channel integration. It truly embraces multichannel commerce, both online and print, and provides our customers with an agile platform which can quickly be adapted to new business needs or changing consumer behaviour. Commerce Anywhere is only possible with systems like our PCM application where all content elements and content types are managed in one application and shared across all channels providing customers with consistent messaging and information.”
hybris claims that it is no longer good enough to just provide a standalone online store or print catalogue, and then have them operate in silos alongside high street stores and telephone sales. All of these need to be properly integrated and managed. Companies are faced with customers, both in the B2C and B2B markets, who are using several touchpoints (catalogue, online, store) before making a purchase and it is crucial not to confuse them with inconsistent information regarding pricing, promotion, assortment and inventory level.
New WordPress E-Commerce book
Packt 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.
Joomla and Ecommerce – Quite a Pair
Is Joomla the Best Choice for Your New Ecommerce Website? Joomla has always been known as one of the best content management systems available. However, is it the best option as an ecommerce solution? There are many viable alternatives such as Wordpress, Drupal, and Magento, but how to they stack up? When most people think about Joomla and ecommerce, they automatically think about VirtueMart. However, there are several other options available to Joomla users.
Drupal's Ubercart forks into Drupal Commerce
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.
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