MagicLamp Launches 3 New Sites – Including WooCommerce!
COWBOY CHARCOAL MagicLamp’s site design for Cowboy Charcoal is grilling on all burners. This WordPress site features barbecue photos so real, you can smell the beef! The responsive design introduces you to a readily explorable site. First up is a side scrolling display that sumptuously showcases Cowboy’s Roundup recipe blog, events and products just below … Read more…
New sites for Q2 2016 – Clean Web Designs and WordPress
HEARUSA and HEARCANADA WordPress once again displays its flexibility in hosting a database-driven site, this time to serve the hearing challenged customer in both the USA and Canada. Through use of Google Maps and integrating the importable data in Microsoft Excel worksheets, MagicLamp has created a responsive, highly functional and updateable resource that can … Read more…
Faceted Classification Part 1: What Makes a Good eCommerce Site?
What is it and Why Do You Need It? Orange, Water-Resistant, Small, USA Made, Remote-Controlled… Every quality of an item is something we call a facet. How do you organize all that information? Faceted Classification is something we build into every one of our eCommerce sites. It’s a powerful feature that makes it very … Read more…
Esqueleto
Esqueleto is a shop located in Oakland, CA, which offers a collection of art and jewelery curated by owner Lauren Wolf. After designing the Esqueleto website, Wolf chose MagicLamp Networks to develop the eCommerce site. While it was important to find a website development firm that could properly convert her clean, simple website design into … Read more…
Introducing Magic fCommerce for Facebook
MagicLamp Networks is in the process of perfecting their new Magic fCommerce web application: a suite of applications that will allow e-Commerce businesses to seamlessly integrate their product catalogs, promotional happenings and overall web platform with Facebook. A longtime leader in the development and design of eCommerce websites, MagicLamp is now taking their expertise to … Read more…
Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website
2626Here is our compiled checklist from the book titled “Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website” by Bruce C. Brown: Ten Steps To A Profitable ECommerce Site List your goals and ideas Review your products and services Compare against competition Determine your target market Set a budget for your website … Read more…
CSS: IE6 Help
after fighting with IE6 on a number of projects, I’ve come up with a short list of tweaks that can make a layout behave in IE6… Problem #1: floats seem to have duplicated text below the float. Solution 1: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/dup-characters.html Solution 2: use/play with the display property Problem #2: IE6 doubles up the … Read more…
eCommerce Conversion Checklist
When looking at your current website or considering a plan for a new website, there are many site behaviors, features, or potential visitor actions that effect conversion rates. The following checklist is a summary of features or additions that you should consider. Note that this is beyond the basic list of must-have’s for any shopping … Read more…
Web Design Garage by Marc Campbell
Web Design Garage by Marc Campbell Web Design Garage is an easy to follow book that walks the reader through many of the challenges web designers face everyday, with solutions that are elegant and easy to implement. While I highly recommend it for novice designers, it is also a good read for experienced designers who … Read more…
301 Redirects on IIS using ASP
If you are reading posts about “Google’s Duplicate Content Penalty” in reference to sites that your site could be reached at www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com, with the common remedy of using a 301-redirect, but run your site on IIS, this article is for you. The 301 code cited was undoubtedly Apache-targeted, in the form of a … Read more…