E-COMMERCE DEVELOPMENT

Teeccino.com was recently re-developed and launched by TechXpress.net. Teeccino features myriad updates and new technology. Specifically; a new product version control system, product and CMS data relationships, link filters, and a unique free sample system. Caroline MacDougall, the founder of Teeccino, has traveled internationally for over 35 years searching for unique herbal ingredients. In the early 1970s, Caroline began her career as one of the zealous twenty-something year-olds pioneering herbal teas for Celestial Seasonings. Driven by her own caffeine sensitivity, Caroline has specialized in creating naturally caffeine-free herbal beverages that offer all the attributes of coffee or tea. Visit Teeccino.com >>

After many years of on-and-off development/design, we finally completed the TechXpress.net website! Constant client projects made it challenging to focus on our own website, however, 8 years of a stagnant and outdated website was enough! Below are a couple of screenshots from the new site, check it out at http://www.techxpress.net        

In developing a website, one of the most challenging processes is testing the site in the wide array of different browsers, operating systems, and devices. Gone are the days where all you needed to test in was IE and Netscape, for display resolutions of 600 x 800 via Windows 98. Now we are talking dozens of browsers, a handful of operating systems, and a mix of monitor resolutions. So...which configurations should you test your website for? There are two trains of thought here, and you should use a combination of both. 1. Research the general market share Browse through the various websites that analyze the different user trends to determine what's most import for you to track. For example, I only verify/test in browsers that have at least 2% market share. This scenario will cover approximately 95-99% of your website visitors. L

Affiliate Marketing ranks 4th in the top sources of new website visitors in the 2009 Ecommerce Benchmark Report published by MarketingSherpa. It is a vital marketing channel for many online retailers; according to Internet Retailer, two-thirds of the top 400 online retailers manage at least one affiliate program. Ranking 4th behind Direct to site (35%), Paid search (20%), and SEO (18%), affiliate marketing is one of the more complex marketing initiatives to get involved with. Due to the complexities in sourcing your own program, or working with an affiliate management company, many smaller web businesses are having a hard time getting started with affiliate marketing. The great allure to affiliate marketing is that you only pay for those sales that are made on your site. Unlike PPC, SEO and email marketing, your overall expense in

Do you have geographically diversified web development teams that operate on different time schedules? Take control over their contributions to your project by utilizing version control and task management software. Increase efficiency and redundancy while creating documentation and organization of changes to the project. Whether your working on a single website, or a cluster of complex software applications, take the upfront time to standardize the method to control the source code, and task schedule. You will be grateful for this when your lead developer quits, or you hire some new team members. A version control system (VCS) is basically a running log of all the source code changes within your website. It allows a developer or designer to quickly analyze source code changes and enables them to revert, modify, or delete change