Tag Archives: online shopping

What is Magento?

Posted on October 27, 2011 by in Magento training, Misc

In this video I cover an overview of Magento, it’s killer features and the downsides.

If you’re not a youtube lover click here for the MP4 version.

For more on Magento visit these related posts

1 page Magento outline

Multiple stores with Magento

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Brisbane web designer re-designs Amazon

Posted on December 15, 2010 by in Website Design

I was speaking today with Maurice from Kintek a Brisbane based web design company and he pointed me to a recent post he made on their blog. After being unhappy with the experience of purchasing a Kindle on Amazon.com, Maurice took it upon himself to come up with a new design for Amazon but not only that, detail in full the decisions made and why certain things were changed.

The post can be found here and the new design can be found here (smaller version shown below). I encourage anyone who is interested in usability particularly for online shopping sites to grab a coffee (or perhaps 2) and have a read.

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eCommerce Payment Gateway Options

Posted on September 28, 2010 by in Ecommerce, Misc

We have been building stacks of ecommerce (online shopping) sites lately and I often get asked about the options for taking payment. This post will hopefully provide a good overview of the main considerations for taking payment online.

Manual Methods

The first consideration is automatic vs manual. If you are dealing with high cost low transaction products this won’t be your biggest concern. However some businesses that are based on high volume low cost products (think Ebay sellers or electronic stores etc) wouldn’t survive if they had to manually take payments to automated is a must. The 3 main options used here are:

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