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(The Hosting News) – Despite the economic troubles in the US today economic data has indicated that e-commerce has continued to rocket its way forward throughout 2009 reporting year-over-year growth rates hitting the mid teens. In addition, consumer e-commerce spending for the holiday and post-holiday season-to-date was roughly $25.5 billion, nearly a 4% increase over 2008, even in what is called a tough retail environment. Cyber Monday, November 30th, boasted sales that totaled $887 million dollars.

AspDotNetStorefront shopping cart e-commerce customers continue to experience the same upward trends. With over 36 months of usage, Phillip Kellogg of Daffy Apple states: “We moved to the AspDotNetStorefront system 3 years ago. We doubled our internet sales each of the first 2 years and this current year [2009 we are up an additional 70%. Because of the architecture and the search engine [SEO friendly pages, our visibility on the Internet drove this sales growth. Switching to AspDotNetStorefront was a great move, and it blew our prior home grown e-commerce system out of the water in terms of performance and driving sales.”
Another customer, Jeff Rein, of PoolPartsOnline.com said: “Year after year we have seen constant enhancements from AspDotNetStorefront….Year after year we have achieved steady double digit percentage increases with AspDotNetStorefront….And year after year we are thankful for the decision we made in 2004 to choose AspDotNetStorefront as the new ecommerce platform for PoolPartsOnLine.com”.

Cables for Less, a customer of AspDotNetStorefront for over 36 months, reports in 2009 a 57% growth in orders alone! “Let me start by saying this: We did a study when we had to switch shopping carts recently and wanted to make sure we used THE BEST shopping cart on the market. We reviewed every imaginable cart with a cost range of free to $70,000. We found that AspDotNetStorefront is THE BEST product out there – perfection at its best” states Robert Plummer.

Developers as well have been raving about continued steady growth within the e-commerce industry. “We’ve had a good year and have seen growth. It seems the economy is staying flat for some but growing for many like ourselves in the e-commerce space, focusing on providing customized solutions based on the AspDotNetStorefront shopping cart software platform,” stated Chris McKellar of Vibe Commerce.

Retail businesses not online in 2010 are foregoing a 100+ Billion marketplace which is growing year over year. Businesses in nearly every industry can leverage AspDotNetStorefront’s state-of-the-art product merchandising features and near-limitless extensibility to grow sales by providing a world-class online shopping experience to customers, while advanced, intelligent SEO features can an enhance visibility organically, allowing businesses to out-reach competitors and reduce traditional search engine marketing costs at the same time.

The AspDotNetStorefront e-commerce platform includes powerful, high performance, full-text product searching, helping shoppers find what they are looking for faster and keeping them anchored to your site. Additionally, AspDotNetStorefront will intelligently build related products as shoppers browse your site and display them on your product pages, allowing merchants to effortlessly increase upsell percentages and capitalize on cross-marketing opportunities.

“If the economy as a whole has seen a dramatic slow-down it has not been present within the ecommerce sector. AspDotNetStorefront sales continue to climb, as do the number of AspDotNetStorefront powered sites and partners. We are very proud to continue to provide a top notch product with the customer service and support to back up one of the most feature rich ecommerce platforms available” states Lisa Van Kuren, AspDotNetStorefront Marketing Manager. “eCommerce customers should take advantage of this powerful medium to propel and drive sales within 2010.”

E-Commerce Growth To Remain Strong Into The New Year is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

(The Hosting News) – Despite the economic troubles in the US today economic data has indicated that e-commerce has continued to rocket its way forward throughout 2009 reporting year-over-year growth rates hitting the mid teens. In addition, consumer e-commerce spending for the holiday and post-holiday season-to-date was roughly $25.5 billion, nearly a 4% increase over 2008, even in what is called a tough retail environment. Cyber Monday, November 30th, boasted sales that totaled $887 million dollars.

AspDotNetStorefront shopping cart e-commerce customers continue to experience the same upward trends. With over 36 months of usage, Phillip Kellogg of Daffy Apple states: “We moved to the AspDotNetStorefront system 3 years ago. We doubled our internet sales each of the first 2 years and this current year [2009 we are up an additional 70%. Because of the architecture and the search engine [SEO friendly pages, our visibility on the Internet drove this sales growth. Switching to AspDotNetStorefront was a great move, and it blew our prior home grown e-commerce system out of the water in terms of performance and driving sales.”
Another customer, Jeff Rein, of PoolPartsOnline.com said: “Year after year we have seen constant enhancements from AspDotNetStorefront….Year after year we have achieved steady double digit percentage increases with AspDotNetStorefront….And year after year we are thankful for the decision we made in 2004 to choose AspDotNetStorefront as the new ecommerce platform for PoolPartsOnLine.com”.

Cables for Less, a customer of AspDotNetStorefront for over 36 months, reports in 2009 a 57% growth in orders alone! “Let me start by saying this: We did a study when we had to switch shopping carts recently and wanted to make sure we used THE BEST shopping cart on the market. We reviewed every imaginable cart with a cost range of free to $70,000. We found that AspDotNetStorefront is THE BEST product out there – perfection at its best” states Robert Plummer.

Developers as well have been raving about continued steady growth within the e-commerce industry. “We’ve had a good year and have seen growth. It seems the economy is staying flat for some but growing for many like ourselves in the e-commerce space, focusing on providing customized solutions based on the AspDotNetStorefront shopping cart software platform,” stated Chris McKellar of Vibe Commerce.

Retail businesses not online in 2010 are foregoing a 100+ Billion marketplace which is growing year over year. Businesses in nearly every industry can leverage AspDotNetStorefront’s state-of-the-art product merchandising features and near-limitless extensibility to grow sales by providing a world-class online shopping experience to customers, while advanced, intelligent SEO features can an enhance visibility organically, allowing businesses to out-reach competitors and reduce traditional search engine marketing costs at the same time.

The AspDotNetStorefront e-commerce platform includes powerful, high performance, full-text product searching, helping shoppers find what they are looking for faster and keeping them anchored to your site. Additionally, AspDotNetStorefront will intelligently build related products as shoppers browse your site and display them on your product pages, allowing merchants to effortlessly increase upsell percentages and capitalize on cross-marketing opportunities.

“If the economy as a whole has seen a dramatic slow-down it has not been present within the ecommerce sector. AspDotNetStorefront sales continue to climb, as do the number of AspDotNetStorefront powered sites and partners. We are very proud to continue to provide a top notch product with the customer service and support to back up one of the most feature rich ecommerce platforms available” states Lisa Van Kuren, AspDotNetStorefront Marketing Manager. “eCommerce customers should take advantage of this powerful medium to propel and drive sales within 2010.”

E-Commerce Growth To Remain Strong Into The New Year is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

(The Hosting News) – Internetters, one of the leading providers of domain names, web hosting and email services in the UK, has this week announced significant enhancements to its range of shared hosting solutions
 
Of the main enhancements to the Internetters web hosting range, perhaps the most significant is the move to unlimited bandwidth, bringing that particular element back in line with many competitors on the market. With varying degrees of bandwidth usage previously available depending on hosting package, customers buying any of the four web hosting packages will now receive unlimited bandwidth usage.

In addition, the management of MySQL databases has been improved, with easier upgrade channels, faster provisioning and reduced pricing making it easier for customers to expand their database driven websites.

“The fact that we’ve been making some significant improvements to our service is no secret after recent announcements in relation to our domain names, our VPS partnership and the general makeover of the website.” Comments Errol Vanderhorst, Managing Director at Internetters.

“It was the turn of web hosting this time and the inclusion of unlimited bandwidth and upgrades to MySQL management are just the start of a process that will see several new features and upgrades introduced in the coming months”

Internetters is an established UK based web service provider offering domain names, web hosting and email services to suit the requirements of both consumers and businesses throughout the UK and beyond. A variety of recent service updates has seen a positive reaction from its global customer base and the company continues to put together plans for further improvement to cement its position as one of the leading providers in the UK.

Errol continued, “The web hosting and domain names markets are incredibly competitive in the UK and beyond, and our changes are focused on making sure the brand continually stays competitive, both in terms of generating new custom and in making sure our current customer base is happy.”

Internetters Enhances its Range of Hosting Solutions is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

(The Hosting News) – Internetters, one of the leading providers of domain names, web hosting and email services in the UK, has this week announced significant enhancements to its range of shared hosting solutions
 
Of the main enhancements to the Internetters web hosting range, perhaps the most significant is the move to unlimited bandwidth, bringing that particular element back in line with many competitors on the market. With varying degrees of bandwidth usage previously available depending on hosting package, customers buying any of the four web hosting packages will now receive unlimited bandwidth usage.

In addition, the management of MySQL databases has been improved, with easier upgrade channels, faster provisioning and reduced pricing making it easier for customers to expand their database driven websites.

“The fact that we’ve been making some significant improvements to our service is no secret after recent announcements in relation to our domain names, our VPS partnership and the general makeover of the website.” Comments Errol Vanderhorst, Managing Director at Internetters.

“It was the turn of web hosting this time and the inclusion of unlimited bandwidth and upgrades to MySQL management are just the start of a process that will see several new features and upgrades introduced in the coming months”

Internetters is an established UK based web service provider offering domain names, web hosting and email services to suit the requirements of both consumers and businesses throughout the UK and beyond. A variety of recent service updates has seen a positive reaction from its global customer base and the company continues to put together plans for further improvement to cement its position as one of the leading providers in the UK.

Errol continued, “The web hosting and domain names markets are incredibly competitive in the UK and beyond, and our changes are focused on making sure the brand continually stays competitive, both in terms of generating new custom and in making sure our current customer base is happy.”

Internetters Enhances its Range of Hosting Solutions is a post from: Hosting News and Reseller Web Hosting information.

In World Wide Web years, TextPattern is a mature CMS that has been around in alpha and beta versions since 2001 and finally distributed under the GNU GPL in 2004.  The product has been dramatically improved over the years and the most notable enhancements yet can be seen in the latest version release, TextPattern 4.20.  If you need an easier and more efficient way to manage your content, the features of this open-source CMS tool may be of interest.

Word Processing-Like Environment

One of Textpattern’s key features is Textile, an intuitive syntax that allows you to easily convert plaintext into well structured rich web content.  Often nagging elements such as hyperlinks, tables and image tags can be created with one or two markers, making it closer to working with ordinary text as opposed to complex code.  When you are ready to publish your content, Textile takes all marked copy and automatically converts it to clean, valid XHTML.  In addition, all articles you compose in Textpattern can be viewed in plaintext, XHTML or a rendered preview.

Versatile CSS Editing

Textpattern offers full support for CSS, offering two modes that allow you to customize and enhance the presentation of your site in different ways.  Manual CSS mode lets you to create or edit any CSS data directly from the administrative interface.  This enables you to quickly edit styles without dealing with the hassle that often results from uploading via FTP.  You can create your style sheets from scratch or by using one of many compatible WYSIWYG editors.  Automatic CSS mode is an advanced feature that utilizes an organized interface to make CSS parameters more comprehensive and manageable.  CSS can really enhance the performance of a website and Textpattern allows you to harness all the power of this optimal design technology.

Link Friendly

There are quite a few CMS tools that offer power and ease of use, but lack the features needed to easily increase visibility via the search engines.  This isn’t the case with TextPattern as the software excels in SEO-friendly pages and link management.  You can store an unlimited number of links in an unlimited number of categories anywhere you want on your site.  It also makes it simple to add news links through the built-in editor or a Javascript book marklet, which displays a popup window to use where ever you may be on the web.

Add-on Functionality

Although Textpattern is not supported by nearly as many plugins as open-source products like Joomla and Drupal, the platform is very extensible.  All available add-on components can be installed and maintained in a straightforward manner.  Once you have incorporated them, they can be easily enabled or disabled through the administrative interface where you can also access help and parameters used by supported plugins.

Conclusion

Textpattern is an open-source CMS product that is free to download and use.  The software requires PHP 4.3 or higher, MySQL 3.23 or higher and the Apache web server.  Its developer also strongly recommends the use of a Unix operating system, although it states that the software will “probably” work on any platform that supports PHP.  Being a free and user-friendly tool, you may want to check your system requirements and give Textpattern a test drive to see if it meets your needs before giving up your preferred CMS.

Over the years, Microsoft has introduced a number of solutions that empower computer and internet users to make the most of emerging technologies.  One of its latest tools is SharePoint.  For those who are not familiar, this article will explain why SharePoint hosting could be the answer for your mobile communications needs.

What is SharePoint?

Microsoft SharePoint is an enterprise-level information portal designed to run on internet, intranet and extranet sites.  The current version of the software, SharePoint Server 2007, simplifies the process of communicating with contacts, members of your team and key personnel.  The team can stay up to date with special alerts that give notification on the addition of new documents, while users can communicate through mediums that range from audio and video to email and instant messaging.  With SharePoint hosting, you get the backing of a professional hosting provider with the knowledge and infrastructure to effectively maintain all the technical aspects.

SharePoint Features

The SharePoint server offers a variety of features that cater to your community of users.  It includes discussion forums where team members can exchange ideas and also allows you to target certain audiences so members can receive messages specifically pertaining to them.  Additionally, the software is integrated with several lists that can be used for sharing contacts, tasks and announcements.  SharePoint lets you create lists for virtually whatever data you need to share.  You can also create document and photo galleries specific to your projects, each of which can be quickly and easily searched by your team members.

Integration and Enhancements

SharePoint makes it easy to create new sites and perform all the necessary administrative tasks.  You can set permissions that allow team members to modify certain areas of the site to suit their own preference all without affecting the information available to other users.  The best thing about SharePoint hosting is that it integrates seamlessly with various applications in the Microsoft Office suite.  For example, address books and calenders can be directly imported from Outlook while news sites can be designed and edited with the FrontPage client.  Teams familiar with the Office environment will have an easy time with SharePoint.  The server can be accessed any time from any internet connection, allowing users from around the globe to share information and stay current with the network.

SharePoint hosting offers benefits to small companies, large corporations and non-business organizations looking for more effective ways to keep members informed.   With the right service, you get a solution that can be easily scaled to meet your growing needs.  The system is extendable and can be enhanced through modules that allow you to implement new features into existing sites.  Known as Web Parts, these modules can be used to manage different aspects of your data or enhance the look and feel of your sites.  You also have the option to choose from the nice selection of templates provided by Microsoft.  Regardless of the size of your business, SharePoint can streamline the process to simplify critical tasks and maximize efficiency.