Shopping cart is one of the way to do your online business nowadays beside selling your stuff at popular auction sites such as eBay. There are many free online shopping cart scripts available too, especially if you have cPanel from your hosting provider, you’ll only enter some simple information to setup your own shopping cart. What if you do not have your own hosting?

Here’s one you can consider:
One of the leading hosted shopping cart software provider, Ashop Commerce offers a great and easy to use complete solution for merchants to sell their stuff online. In my opinion, Ashop Commerce has the most complete features that you’ll ever need for your online store. All you need is just to enter the correct information in the setup page. You don’t even need to setup the online payment yourself as it is integrated into the software itself. Besides, you can also request for customize design for your online store.

Having a website or online store, you must be expecting that it should be easily search from the popular search engines. Well, Ashop Commerce is design to be search engine optimized. This really helps to be able to reach out to shoppers who are searching for products online.

Well, head to Ashop Commerce to look at other offerings.

Most of us couldn’t afford paying for a dedicated server. So we use a shared hosting where most of our hosting provider cramp in a huge hosts of websites in one server. Do you ever wonder how many websites/blogs or users are using the same server as your websites/blogs? I bet most of you do not know. I didn’t know earlier either until I found My IP Neighbors - a reverse IP domain checking tool. How it works is that you enter a domain name and the tool looks up your server’s IP address, and then finds out which other websites use the same IP.

Continue reading Know Who’s Sharing Your Server

Here’s a very nice search engine which is 100% dedicated to icons only. I stumbled upon this icon search engine, iconfinder, when I was “stumbling” websites using StumbleUpon. I decided to share it with you guys here.

What is iconfinder ?

Iconfinder is a search engine dedicated to search download able icons uploaded by icon designers.

All the icons are in PNG-format. The benefit of PNG-images is the alpha-channel, meaning that pixels can be transparent. Do not copy-paste icons into eg. Photoshop, since icons will loose their alpha-channel information. Instead, use the download-link to save icons locally.

Designers can submit their icons by sending an email to martin.leblanc@gmail.com via attachment in compressed format. Icons sent should be strictly PNG format in these sizes (pixel) - 12 x 12, 16 x 16, 22 x 22, 32 x 32, 48 x 48, 64 x 64 or 128 x 128.

Continue reading The Best Icon Search Engine

Multi-author blogging with wordpress previous was not but not good enough. Wordpress 2.3, scheduled to be up by 20th September 2007, will enhance multi-author blogging ability tremendous. Here’s the wordpress road map. Check out also the discussion of the wordpress hackers for the ideas of wordpress 2.3 developments.

We have a nice little workflow improvement for those of you who use the Contributor role on your blogs. Contributors can now submit their posts for review by an Editor. When Contributors are done editing their post, they press the “Submit for Review” button to put the post in the Editor’s pending review queue.

Continue reading Wordpress 2.3 Enhance Multi-Author Blogging

This afternoon Crispnetworks’ web hosting database was down for about an hour starting at around 2pm. After discovering that my Crispnetworks was down, I quickly contact my web hosting provider Shijiru through online support to resolve the problem.

The problem was solved in 3 hours. It is an acceptable time frame as I’m not as active as previously blogging at Crispnetworks due to my work. But previous time was take off my blog. Hopefully any similar problem can be resolved within an hour.

Anyway, thanks for the job done to team Shinjiru. :smile:

Currently, the best deal I’ve seen is the hosting services by Exabytes. Which web hosting provider are you using? Hope to get some ideas when I need to purchase new hosting for my other blogs.