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New website – eCommerce Economy

Hi Everyone, Just letting you know I’ve built a new website where I’m sharing all of my information on building websites, internet marketing and online business. It’s called eCommerce Economy. Check it out! Cheers, Luke

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Why you shouldn’t trust inexperienced web designers

An old client of mine contacted me today in an utter panic. When I worked for him, we got his site to #1 for a pretty competitive keyword, and we also setup an Adwords campaign for him. A few months ago, they asked me to quote on a redesign for their site. I submitted a [...]

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Calendar template and css for CGCalendar

Someone asked me for the calendar template that we used for Sun Country on the Murray so I thought I would post it here. Download the CGCalendar template here CGCalendar is a calendar module for CMSMS. To get it to work, copy the contents of “Calendar Display Template.txt” into the “Calendar Templates” template. And add [...]

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How to setup a template in CMSMS

A quick checklist on how to convert a static site to a CMS Made Simple powered site: Install CMSMS (instructions here) Add in the template and enter all the tags Add in the stylesheets Link the stylesheet to the template Add the pages Create the menu template Done!

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“This category is empty” message in CMSMS Products module

I have a site where I’m using the products module. The company I’m doing it for runs specials every now and then, and wants them to show up as a page on the site. So what I did was create a category “specials”, and when a product is in that, it shows up on the [...]

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TinyMCE config for when non-technical people will be using it

So I’m working on a project where people that are completely computer illiterate will be using a WYSIWYG box. I didn’t want them pasting from word and it keeping all the messy html from word. I found this config to work very well. tinyMCE.init({ mode : “textareas”, theme : “advanced”, plugins : “paste”, editor_selector : [...]

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Serving a different image for each page in CMSMS

In one of the sites I’m working on, there is a large featured image that is different for each product page, but is the same for the rest of the pages on the site. Heres how I did it. 1. In each page where you need a different featured image, go to the options tab, [...]

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Super fast responses and happy customers

I remember in uni, we had a topic about “expectations”. Firstly, through marketing communications, the marketer sets the expectation for the product or service. If you deliver on the expectations, the customer is satisfied. If you under deliver on expectations, the customer is dissatisfied. If you over deliver on expectations, the customer is pleased, happy, [...]

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The recipe for being right: Squeeze out the belief from a cup of evidence

I was talking to someone today and the conversation touched on the topic of poker. I played a lot of poker during my uni years and while I wasn’t earning massive amounts off it, I made over 30k in about 2 years. Without knowing my background, the person I was talking to said something to [...]

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Recent reading: Thoughts on “Rework” and “Click”

Reading books is something i love doing and wish I would do more of. Over the last couple of days I’ve been in a bit of a reading frenzy and read 37 Signals’ new book Rework by Jason Friend and David Heinemeier Hanson and “Click” by Ori and Rom Brafman and I thought I’d share [...]

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