I don’t like doing this, but sometimes it has to be done.
This site used to be hosted with Webhost4life. In their “platform migration” they messed up this site so badly it took me hours and hours to get them to fix it. Apologies to those who experienced all the downtime inflicted by them.
They have done exactly the same with another site I look after. Isolated incident? Hardly.
I could post literally dozens more links. Just avoid Webhost4life like the plague. I’m glad to see the back of them.
Categories: General | Date: Aug 19th, 2010 | Author: Mark | No Comments
I bumped into this nice collection of ecommerce icons. A nice collection of shopping carts, payment types, and other images to spruce up your ecommerce site.
Thanks to my friends at The Complete Basketcase for the link.
Categories: General, Shopping Carts | Date: Jul 30th, 2010 | Author: Mark | No Comments
Anyone planning to attend Online Retailer in Sydney next week (6 – 9 July), give me a yell. I’ll be there much of the day (not all day) on Tuesday6 and Wednesday 7 of July. I’ll be doing a talk about shopping carts on the Wednesday morning. Make sure you say hi!
Categories: General | Date: Jul 3rd, 2010 | Author: Mark | No Comments
I’m a fan of the Get Elastic blog. However, I just saw something a bit odd today. They used to have a post about the optimum number of steps in a checkout process.
This image is copied from that post:
However, this post has now vanished. They’ve had a one page checkout since 2006 but have recently been touting their success with it.
Conspiracy? Something else? Who knows. Seems a bit strange though!
Categories: General | Date: Mar 20th, 2010 | Author: Mark | 1 Comment
A shameless plug. My Dad had CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia) and against all odds beat it using diet. This is a blatant plug/link juice for his site on CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia).
Categories: General | Date: Mar 25th, 2009 | Author: Mark | No Comments
You can follow me on Twitter if you are into that 
Mostly talking about general online marketing stuff with an ecommerce bent.
Categories: General | Date: Mar 11th, 2009 | Author: Mark | No Comments
I just came across this great article on mistakes startups make. As I was reading it, I was nodding my head a lot, thinking, yup, I’ve seen that. I was going to put a “I really agree with point number X” here, but I really strongly agree with about 7 out of 10 of them! (and the other 3 aren’t ones I disagree with, just less common in my experience). Definitely worth a read!
Categories: General | Date: Feb 15th, 2009 | Author: Mark | 1 Comment
Got a mention of an interesting product for people looking for an ecommerce solution. Name Cheap have an entry level domain/SSL product that has potential. Worth checking out for those on a tight budget.
Thanks to Michelle.
Categories: General | Date: Nov 18th, 2008 | Author: Mark | No Comments
Like quite a few of you, I was intrigued by the announcement of the new Google browser, Chrome. Apparently a few of you were as well – Chrome has made up 2.6% of visitors on my site in the last week! I checked a few client sites, they were getting between 0.1 and 0.5%. Not bad for a first week. Still, it shows what I’ve long suspected – the users of this site are a little more sophisticated than the average user.
Anyone think Chrome will knock Firefox off its #2 spot? How about knocking IE off?
My prediction: Chrome will reach 10 – 15% in 12 months, primarily by stealing Firefox market share. It will continue to creep up, but IE will remain #1 for the forseeable future. Still, who knows what 2 -5 years may bring.
Categories: General | Date: Sep 9th, 2008 | Author: Mark | 1 Comment
Apologies to those who commented recently, a glitch meant I wasn’t notified of comments. All updated now. Will try and be more punctual
Also, if you have any comments or suggestions for the site, please leave a comment or email me: markb AT useyourweb DOT com. I’m about to go into another round of updates/bug fixes.
Categories: General | Date: Sep 9th, 2008 | Author: Mark | No Comments