Blog Entries
Your brain responds better to marketing than you think it does.
Quite interesting report from a quite interesting blog about “decoy marketing”. We all know that an average looking person in a crowd of ugly people looks above-average. Turns out the same thing is true with your products. Details
Overheard at FoxyCart…
We thought we’d share a quick exchange we had over IM recently. It might be reassuring to know that you’re not the only one to waste time over IM. Details
New possibilities for typography on the web
A quick look at two new methods for going beyond the same old web fonts that make your soul cry. Details
FoxyCart + Constant Contact
FoxyCart finally has a Constant Contact integration. Huzzah! Details
Our Featured Ecommerce Site Gallery launches
After a year of the same featured sites we finally decided we should highlight some of the exceptionally beautiful ecommerce sites using FoxyCart. Take a look for inspiration and submit your own FoxyCart site. Details
Browser Development and Testing Tools
Just some quick notes about browser tools to test and debug your sites. Worth knowing about even if it’s just for emergency use. Details
Screencast: Live editing CSS for rapid styling
Another screencast shows how we use Firebug and the Web Developers Toolbar at the same time to quickly and easily create custom CSS for the cart and checkout. Even experts might discover a new workflow in part 2 of this 2 part screencast. Details
The Growing Importance of Design
Design is king. Details
We’re still alive.
We know we haven’t blogged in what seems like forever, but we promise we’ve been busy. Language customization, rebuilding our foundation to better allow things like “supertax” and “supership”, and lots more fun stuff. Anyway, here’s a blog entry with a few random thoughts. Details
Why multi-homed bandwidth is essential for ecommerce
Hooray for bandwidth providers not getting along! Details
Do you hate Mondays?
Are you making the most of the opportunities available to you? Do you wake up with a sense of meaning and end the day with a sense of accomplishment? Details
Resources for Regular Expressions
In case you love regex like we do. Or even if you think regex is eeeeevil like Luke does, some useful stuff to make your life easier when you do need to use regular expressions. Details
“Passive Groups” in Regular Expressions
(?:this won’t create a backreference), but (this will). Fun with passive groups. Details
When a select element isn’t a select element
The “type” for an input[@type=text] is “text”. The “type” for a textarea is “textarea”. The “type” for a select element isn’t “select”. Bet you didn’t know that. Details
Online shoppers and product reviews
The majority of online shoppers* find at least 4 product reviews before purchasing. Details
Keeping your favicon consistent
Keep your favicon consistent from your site to checkout. A small but nice touch to help build confidence for your customers. Details
FoxyCart Admin as a Standalong App
A few reasons why creating a standalone application for your FoxyCart admin might be worthwhile. It doesn’t even take 5 minutes, which is nice too. Details
Featured Site: Narwhal Company
When the Narwhal Company needed a flexible ecommerce solution to sell their recycled, vintage accessories, they turned to FoxyCart and then got freaky with it. Details
Happy 2008 from FoxyCart
We wanted to take a moment to thank you for using FoxyCart, and to let you know what happened in 2007 as well as where we’re going in 2008. Details
Happy Holidays, 2007
A few late tips to increase your holiday conversions. And fun with arts and crafts. Details
Easy to Setup Ecommerce in 5 Minutes
Our first screencast (long overdue, we know) runs through setting up your site, your products, and your checkout template. All in about 5 minutes. Details
Multiship (multiple ship-to addresses) + One-Page Checkout
With 0.3.0 we introduced multiship to FoxyCart, while maintaining our one-page checkout. Check out a real life example of how foxy it is with the gorgeous Ellie & Ollie site. Details
AJAX Ecommerce for Large stores
While FoxyCart definitely works well with small stores, it also can work well with large stores, provided the backend is solid. Check out a nicely customized store with hundreds of products, using FoxyCart + MODx for AJAX ecommerce. Details
Ecommerce Integration with Campaign Monitor and FoxyCart
So it’s no secret that we have a huge crush on Campaign Monitor. We’ve been waiting to send them a love note until we had an Australian payment gateway (which we added a few weeks ago), but looks like they found us first. Details
FoxyCart Customer Quotes, Part 1
Because we love Campaign Monitor so much, we’re going to copy them and put some of the comments we’ve received into a blog entry. If you like us this much, let us know. And if you don’t, let us know! Details
FoxyCart Pre-Sales Questions, Part 1
A glimpse behind the scenes about why we chose to build FoxyCart the way we did. Zero duplication of data was a goal during the coding, as well as a few other considerations. Details
Network Status: Massive DDoS affecting latency and connectivity
Our datacenter was hit with a massive DDoS (distributed denial of service attack) today. Our connectivity has been affected. Details
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