As I already mentioned I already used to run a surname site, so I have some knowledge of the available software.  As I recall the software I used to use was Australian in origin and it was fairly good.  But for this new site I want to use something different.  A little bit of research […]

Today I did not have time for any more work on the new website.  But my plans are formulating…
Website
First stop will be to go to the Layout Gala to get a pre-made design template.  I will use this as a base and come up with some graphics and layout ideas to make it more pretty.
For […]

So, having made the decision to use the blog as a way to show how to think up a website and show the day by day evolvement of it, my next stage was to brainstorm an idea for a website.
My first idea was to choose a piece of software that lots of people use and […]

OK, so it's been a few years since this blog was really rocking, so my idea is to get this blog going again.  How to do that?  Well, it's pretty easy, just make a post every day.
But what to blog about?  I don't really want to use the blog to sell things as there are […]

Some of you will know that over the past years I've been concentrating on creating AIS business (basically income on auto-pilot).  I got really disillusioned with the whole "internet marketing" thing a while back so pretty much dumped loads of AIS stuff and went back to earning a living via website design and coding.
That's left […]

About 6 weeks ago I was browsing in a shop, the shop sells fairly expensive sporting items.  Had a nice chat with the owner who advised me what I should buy and we went on to have a bit of a chat.  At the time I didn't have enough cash on me, so thanked him […]

Most readers will know that I work a lot with osCommerce.  As one of the "more experienced" members of the osCommerce Forum, I get all sorts of requests, via Private Message.  Here's a typical example;
Hi, I have the new products module on the frontpage of my oscommerce website. It currently displays a gallery of a […]

My good friend Jason runs "Digital Product Delivery" (DPD) over at www.digitalproductdelivery.com, a service that I've been using ever since it's inception.  I was one of the first handful of customers (if not the first) and I heartily recommend you try it out if you are selling digital downloads of any flavour.
Yesterday, DPD updated their […]

I got to thinking about what barriers osCommerce places in front of a purchaser. One of the main barriers is the whole checkout process - it's too long and tedious, and it is too much "in your face" for a prospective buyer…
For my own Store, I have reduced the Checkout Steps quite a bit and […]