There are many options out there for e-commerce websites. WordPress/WooCommerce, Shopify, 3d Cart, Big Commerce, and many more. We have experience working with the most popular ones. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. While WooCommerce is free to download, there are many paid add-ons required to start selling products online. You will need a merchant account, a payment processor, an SSL certificate, and a fast website host. Prices can vary based on how many products you want to sell. Some companies will provide product feeds that can be uploaded to the website to save time and money. E-commerce websites can be very time consuming depending on the number of products and product variations you would like to sell. Keep in mind there is a lot of competition out there, figure out what makes you different, and capitalize on it.
Styling your drop down text
With the basic wordpress install, you are able to nicely style the menu colors etc, but I have run into a problem several times where I use the same color to highlight which page I am on as the color of the background of my dropdown. So if I had a blue nav bar, my…
Contact Form 7 Clear textarea
Last time we talked about how to clear the input labels on Contact From 7 using a slight hack to the code. This is great for simply using input labels, but what about a text area? As I quickly found it, it doesn’t work. Why is doesn’t work is because the text area is controlled…
Completed Google Analytics Essentials
I just finished the Google Analytics Essential Training on Lynda.com. I thought it was well done and I did learn a few new things to help me better understand web traffic and how we can use GA to increase sales. The course is about four and a half hours, so it does take some time,…
