Posted by Ryan Yurewicz on Oct 31, 2008
As a kid, the best part of Halloween was the end of the night, sorting through all of your candy. Now, looking back and comparing it to today…. it’s a lot like reviewing affiliate applications.
Halloween night, the first thing I used to do was dig for any KING SIZED candy bars ( or, in our [...]
Posted by matthew.major on Oct 31, 2008
Some of our users run into problems setting up new feeds with the channel activation wizard. A lot of these errors come during the field mapping section of the wizard. I wanted to share a helpful hint that I use to set up the field mappings.
The first thing I do is go to the Catalog Tab and then to the Import [...]
Posted by brian.emershaw on Oct 31, 2008
Every store owner loves testimonials, right? It gives your new customers the warm and fuzzy feeling that anything they buy from you is going to be shipped to them quickly and the transaction will go smoothly. So, in most cases, this is something a store owner wants to show their customers right away. While that’s [...]
Posted by amber subjin on Oct 31, 2008
Domain Name Expiration Dates. Don’t let your store expire
Many people buy their domain names for a year. Not realizing that year can fly by, letting their registration expire, then their stores goes down as well. Someone may also come in and grab your domain name before you can re-register it. This causing havoc and certainly [...]
Posted by Carlos Sanes on Oct 31, 2008
Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking with my PriceGrabber.com representative, Olga Zaklis. After updating each other on the weather in our respective locations (75 degrees and sunny as always @ PG) we started discussing the economic forecast for the upcoming holiday season. Contrary to popular opinion Olga had some hopeful pointers to give me [...]
Posted by George Sisco on Oct 31, 2008
Short and sweet, folks. Today, our own Mike Collins asked if it’s possible to have a sound play on a client’s home page when a user visits the site.
The short, sweet answer is yes, with these caveats:
One, no one has really agreed on the best way to do so since 1994 until today.
Two, cross browser [...]
Posted by JoAnne Hart on Oct 31, 2008
If you’ve been watching the news, listening to the radio or reading newspapers during the past couple of weeks, chances are you’ve heard at least one financial adviser warning investors at large that panic is not a sound investment strategy. Of course, it’s not easy to watch your portfolio lose so much of it’s value [...]
Posted by Kim Good on Oct 31, 2008
Solid Cactus’ Kevin Lynn would be the first to tell you he’s had the opportunity to interview a wide variety of characters in his day. So, do you think he would let the chance to interview Batman and Joker together go to waste? We didn’t either. Mr Lynn took the time out of his “busy” [...]
Posted by bryan.healey on Oct 31, 2008
About a year ago my fearless leader, Matt Kresge, passed along a widget for me to install on my PC. He sent me to http://www.hockeywidgets.com/widgets/cheesesteak.php and I was all over it! Having a widget stare me in the face ALL day letting me know that we are approaching 10 thousand days since the last championship [...]
Posted by Michael Rowland on Oct 31, 2008
It was cold last night, as I sat motionless in the shadows, covered in camouflage, waiting for mischievous teenagers to t.p. my house on Mischief Night. At about 11p.m., I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye. Something big and hairy, about 8 ft tall, was coming at me and it was angry. [...]
Posted by Tim Whitacre on Oct 31, 2008
I’m talking about the Javascript Framework war! Will it ever end. Well, I sure hope not.
I hope it never ends because I want there to always be competition so the frameworks continue to adapt and become better!
Case in point…. Yesterday I was asked to go and work on a client’s site. In their site they [...]
Posted by Donna Talarico on Oct 31, 2008
A Flasher. A Unicorn. A crazy cat lady. Superheroes. Childhood heroes, like Ernie and Freddie K-depending on how demented a child you were (I’m most likely the latter). A dead-on impersonation of a shall-not-be named local radio host. A very Christmasy Clark & Ellen Griswold. And lots of other crazy stuff….
It never ceases to amaze [...]
Posted by Jeff Petrosillo on Oct 31, 2008
Halloween is upon us, the time of the year where the boundary between the living and the dead is dissolved allowing the spirits to wander our mortal world. This concept of bridging the gap between physical reality and the spirit world is something we as conversion optimization analysts contemplate daily (but instead of actual spirits [...]
Posted by Andrew on Oct 31, 2008
Here is a nice article about buttons on forms.
http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article4984.asp
My favorite rule is rule #3.
Posted by Jean Lloyd on Oct 31, 2008
Google’s at it again! They announce another update coming to their Quality Score metric soon. This update specifically deals with how clickthrough rate (CTR) is calculated into your Quality Score. Google has frequently said this is one of the major metrics in determining how relevant your ads are. This new update will factor in the [...]
