Posted by Solid Cactus on Jan 5, 2009
Watching TV on the internet
Your favorite shows and movies are now on the internet, but where to find them(LEGALLY).
There are a lot of options for watching TV and movies on the internet.
Today I am going to talk about Netflix. With basic subscription you can watch certain movies and TV shows on demand.
Right now I know [...]
Posted by Solid Cactus on Jan 5, 2009
By default the Name input field in your shopping cart will display as one input field. This may not seem like a big deal, but in this format Yahoo only checks to make sure something is filled in - not necessarily that there is a first and last name. So someone could type “Steve” in [...]
Posted by Solid Cactus on Jan 2, 2009
As we move into the first weekend of 2009, December has come to a close, the 2008 numbers are in… and whether you fared well or not so well during this tumultuous time, the new year brings new opportunity for growth and redemption.
Everyone knows that Q4 is the the make-or-break quarter for most businesses, with [...]
Posted by Solid Cactus on Jan 2, 2009
The difference in the two publishing location is the same as the information they are managing. Sure you can manage your product information in both locations, but in all honesty the Catalog Manager is mainly concerned with the product information only.
So a publish in the store editor will rebuild your store pages for the site. [...]
Posted by Solid Cactus on Jan 2, 2009
Happy new year! I just turned in my article for the next edition of the eBiz Insider– be on the look-out for the upcoming issue, where I write about Redesign for 2009. I don’t want to give away the contents of the article early, but figured a blog post would also be in order. The [...]
Posted by Solid Cactus on Jan 2, 2009
So, I was reading an interesting article on generating columns using absolute positioning here:
http://24ways.org/2008/absolute-columns
and I noticed something very odd. The site doesn’t appear to have been checked extensively in Firefox. If I had to guess I would say it was programmed for Internet Explorer 7, but they never bothered to carry over the [...]
Posted by Solid Cactus on Jan 2, 2009
This is a bit of a digression from the social media/SEO sphere, but I’ve been straight-up ruminating on this since 2008 and want to kvetch about it some.
Forrester Research’s Josh Bernoff, whose book Groundswell (co-authored with Charlene Li) is one that I’ve gifted more than once this year, blogged a few days ago about a [...]
Posted by Solid Cactus on Jan 2, 2009
Mood boards can be a helpful design tool in helping control client expectations and mapping out the direction of a project. There is a great article at webdesignerdepot.com about mood boards and their benefits:
Why Mood Boards Matter
Original post by Kyle Ruane
Posted by Solid Cactus on Jan 1, 2009
As my good friend Catherine Shafer at cds creative, inc. likes to say, “You never put all investment into one marketing channel — and Web/E-mail/etc. Counts as ONE Channel!”
Catherine is right. As part of my ventures into e-commerce outside of Solid Cactus, I manage e-commerce for a Better than Godiva, Gourmet Chocolate Shop called Ah! [...]