The Cart Blog

Monday, June 23, 2008

Keep an eye on those icons

Filed under: Cart Design,Communication — thatsoftwareguy @ 7:57 am

So I booked a Choice Hotel room this weekend, and being a non-smoker, selected a non-smoking room, as identified by this icon:

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Except … that wasn’t the no-smoking icon. This is the no-smoking icon:

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Given the choice of millions of colors, why on earth would they reuse red?  Why not, oh, say, red and green?

Question: are any icons on your site ambiguous?

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Split testing on price

Filed under: Pricing — thatsoftwareguy @ 6:33 am

Amazon does split testing on prices, but when you add an item to your basket, you get the lowest price. I’m sure the added software development and testing expense is more than met by customer goodwill gained (or ill-will avoided).

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Writing is the basis of all wealth

Filed under: Blogging,Communication — thatsoftwareguy @ 6:15 am

The NameTag Guy frequently asserts that writing is the basis of all wealth. Disagree? Read about computer guru Larry O’Brien, who says one blog post generated the majority of his income in the last four years.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Boilerplate in Zen Cart part II

Filed under: That Software Guy,Zen Cart — thatsoftwareguy @ 6:30 am

I added a tip describing how to add HTML files to product descriptions in Zen Cart. Hopefully this will help people who have more extensive boilerplate needs than can be addressed by my previous tip on how to use PHP to add boilerplate strings to product descriptions in Zen Cart.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Firefox 3: Today is the Day!

Filed under: Tools — thatsoftwareguy @ 8:54 am

Here’s the map showing when FF3 will be available for download.  Can’t wait!

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Google Custom Search

Filed under: Search — thatsoftwareguy @ 9:26 pm

I was so impressed by the use of Google custom search on Shopping-Cart-Reviews.com that I added it to That Software Guy’s site. I have wanted a facility like this for some time.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

That Software Guy’s June Newsletter

Filed under: That Software Guy,Zen Cart — thatsoftwareguy @ 10:26 am

Published earlier this week.   Talking about Better Together Admin, Blog Integration, Newsletter Discount in Zen Cart.

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Searching Shopping-Cart-Reviews.com

Filed under: Cart Vendors,Search — thatsoftwareguy @ 5:19 am

I’ve been a big fan of the site Shopping-Cart-Reviews.com for some time now, and have blogged about it and recommended it to people looking for particular cart features. So I was quite impressed when Mark, the site owner, told me he had added Google custom search to the site so you can do a site search.  An easy to use search that returns a lot of relevant hits – sweet!

I’m particularly pleased to report that a search for “Zen Cart” returns a whole lot of links to That Software Guy. :)

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Gitomer on YouTube

Filed under: Sales — thatsoftwareguy @ 8:24 pm

If you need a brief instructional or motivational sales video, do a YouTube search for Jeffrey Gitomer. Then watch and be amazed.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Who took the trash out?

Filed under: News — thatsoftwareguy @ 5:57 am

I was delighted to see that Best Buy has initiated a free electronics recycling pilot program. Hopefully it will catch on. I am even willing to pay Staples for a recycling service just to reduce my environmental footprint, but lots of people  need the threshold to be zero to get motivated to do this, so it’s nice that Best Buy is subsidizing the program to drive the cost to free.

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