Volusion SEO / SEM

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Randy Harris

Along with providing ecommerce software, Volusion Inc., now offers search engine optimization, (SEO), and search engine marketing, (SEM), services to store owners using their shopping cart software.

Volusion offers these online marketing services as their “Fast Traffic” and their “Search Engine Marketing“, plans. Each offer several levels of traffic and additional services staged at varying price points. The price range goes from about a hundred bucks a month to six-thousand plus per month — plus setup fees.

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Volusion Shipping Weight

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Randy Harris

When entering the weight of a product in Volusion, you need to specify the weight using whole numbers for pounds and the decimal equivalent for any ounces.

For example: if a product weighs one pound and one ounce, you can not enter it as 1lb. 1oz., you need to convert the ounces to decimal values where ONE OUNCE = .0625 (lbs), so in the ProductWeight field you Continue reading →

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Capitalize Text with CSS

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Randy Harris

To capitalize a string of text using CSS you can use an inline style tag, e.g.-

<div style="text-transform:capitalize;">
this was typed in lower case and capitalized with css
</div>

To create a (reusable) class, add the following to your style sheet (.css) file;

.captxt { text-transform:capitalize; }

then use the following in your HTML;

<div class="captxt">
this was typed in lower case and capitalized with css
</div>

In addition to capitalize, you can also use CSS to transform text strings to upper case or lower case, e.g.-

.uctxt { text-transform:uppercase; }

or-

.lctxt { text-transform:lowercase; }

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FREE Music from Playlist.com

Posted on November 27, 2008 by Randy Harris

Social Music Search Engine?

Looking for MP3′s? Look no further than Project Playlist, (http://www.playlist.com/).

The site, which bills itself as a “social music experiment” and music search engine, is all that and more.

Using the social media / social networking model, the site allows you to build a playlist of tracks from it’s vast collection of audio links and assembles them into a freindly, easy to use flash based media player.

You can log in to PlayList.com and add new tracks, re-arrange what you’ve already got, send email invites to friends, and share your playlist with others.

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Volusion Product Photos

Posted on November 22, 2008 by Randy Harris

This article is intended for Volusion ecommerce software users and contains information about preparing product image files for bulk upload when importing large amounts of products using product data prepared offline or exported from another source.

The information is also helpful if you are migrating from another ecommerce / shopping cart platform and want to save time converting your existing store’s product photos for use in Volusion.

For Volusion stores with only small number of products, using the Admin console to upload your product images is very easy. You simply create a product record, click the Upload New Photos link, and follow the prompts. Volusion will automatically size and store your product image file, and create the various sizes it needs to display on category, product and check-out pages.

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