Ecommerce Website Design – Five Tips For Success

Ecommerce Website Design – Five Tips For Success|Website Design Tips and Tutorial|by Webguru India

Posted in: Technology Sunday 27th, December 2009

In today's generation of Internet, there is no longer any need to build retail shops in order to sell goods. As an alternative Ecommerce website can be a much easier mean of business and an Ecommerce Website Design can be the key to success. Following are the five tips in order to make ecommerce website design a success:-

• Ecommerce Website Design Success Tip 1 – Proper showcase of products
  Your ecommerce website design should be done keeping the customers in mind. It should be simple and navigation should be easy to understand. The Website design should be done in such a way so that the customer should understand what are the products that you want to sell. The products should be highlighted either on the side or there should be a dropdown menu for the products. If there is any offer, money back or exchange scheme then your website must show it. For best result, the products should be positioned strategically.
• Ecommerce Website Design Success Tip 2 – Make it user-friendly
  Your website design should be done in such way so that customer can easily navigate options without facing any difficulty. Customer should be provided with the shopping cart option and he should also be a given a chance to select and reject items at his will. The website should be user friendly for customer satisfaction.
• Ecommerce Website Design Success Tip 3 – Increase of sell by cross selling products
  Your ecommerce website design can help you to increase your sell. The website should suggest some other products to customers that will complement the product that they have bought. This can be done by using pop ups against the product name.
• Ecommerce Website Design Success Tip 4 – Provide an option to check out as a guest
  Many ecommerce website designs are done in such a way that they force the customers to create an online account. But customers may not like to share their personal details. Therefore, for this there should have an option that will allow visitors to check products as a guest without furnishing any confidential detail. In this way without forcing customers to share their personal and sensitive information you can increase your sale.
• Ecommerce Website Design Success Tip 5 – Take security measures for your customers
  In order to have good business with your customer your ecommerce website design must ensure full security to its customers. Nowadays due to many cases of identity-theft, customers may not be comfortable sharing their personal details. So in order to assure them about their security a SSL certificate must be added to the website which will be protected by recognizable companies.

China's Latest Knockoff: Ubuntu in XP Clothing

Linux News: Distros: China's Latest Knockoff: Ubuntu in XP Clothing
By Katherine Noyes
LinuxInsider
12/29/09 4:00 AM PT

What looks like XP but perhaps behaves better? A version of Ubuntu that sports the XP user interface, currently available in Chinese for download from the Web. Whether Microsoft will attempt to assert its intellectual property rights is unknown -- and the legal status of the OS is far from clear.

Chinese-language consumers unwilling or unable to pay the cost of a legitimate copy of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows XP now have a new alternative: a clone of the operating system that's based on Ubuntu.

Dubbed "Ylmf OS," the software is available from Rain Forest Wind Guangdong Computer Technology as a free download on a dedicated Web site.

The system is based on Ubuntu 9.10 and integrates Wine, according to the page. Also included are OpenOffice 3.1, CompizConfig Effects Settings Manager, Firefox and Pidgin for instant messaging.

Canonical, the company that serves as Ubuntu's commercial sponsor, could not be reached for comment by this story's deadline.

'I Don't Recommend It'

Uncovered last Saturday by Download Squad, the Ylmf hack is actually not the first instance of Ubuntu being made to look like Windows.

In what may or may not be a coincidence, an Ubuntu fan who goes by the name of Phrank Waldorf received considerable attention on the Linux blogs just a few weeks ago by posting a similar hack, also using Ubuntu 9.10 to emulate Windows XP.

"I don't use this. I don't recommend it, either!" Waldorf wrote. "I actually made the script as a programming exercise."

The response, however, was likely more than Waldorf had expected. Countless enthusiastic comments were left by readers on Waldorf's page, including at least one asking permission to translate it for a Chinese blog.

'Far More Interesting Work to be Done'

It's not entirely clear why Linux fans -- many of whom are overtly hostile towards Microsoft -- would want to emulate Windows with open source technology.

Indeed, in the open source community, "the general sense is there is far more interesting work to be done differentiating and competing with Windows rather than emulating it," Jay Lyman, an analyst with the 451 Group, told LinuxInsider.

It's also not likely such technology holds much promise going forward, Lyman added, "particularly as we see more support for Windows in Linux and other open source software and more support for Linux and other open source in Windows."

'A Brazen Effort'

In China, however, it seems at least possible that a Windows clone based on open source software could present a potentially more legitimate alternative to widely available pirated versions. User modification is fully expected in the world of open source software, after all.

On the other hand, can it be acceptable to use open source technology to closely mimic the graphical user interface of a proprietary counterpart? The legality is far from clear.

"Rarely does a brazen effort to pilfer the intellectual property of others appear so blatant as with the Ylmf OS product being circulated in China," Raymond Van Dyke, a partner with Merchant & Gould, told LinuxInsider.

'Clear Aim to Interfere'

"The Chinese government should proactively do what they can to squelch this obvious act of hacking and copying a well-known product covered by various patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, both in the U.S. and in China," Van Dyke asserted.

While "legitimate reverse engineering of functionalities is acceptable in the U.S., one cannot wholesale copy a protected product, although some functionalities may be worked around," he explained.

More troubling, however, is "copying the exact design or style of the product, which pirates have absolutely no excuse to copy -- apart from their clear aim to interfere with the sales of the legitimate owner or otherwise trade on the owner's good name," Van Dyke added.

Better Than the Real Thing?

"If this is an effort to pass off the XP desktop theme as the XP operating system, I don't think it is going to work," Joe Casad, editor in chief of Ubuntu User magazine, told LinuxInsider.

"The irony is that this faux Windows system will be safer, more stable and less susceptible to malware than the system it is pretending to be," Casad noted.

Still, "it never really helps to manipulate the customer," he added. "We say that every day to Microsoft, and we would certainly say the same thing to people who are trying to make money by imitating Microsoft."

If the Rain Forest Wind Guangdong company "finds that it gives them a competitive edge to distribute Ubuntu to their customers, they should just admit it," Casad concluded. "It will be better for both their users and their tech support to have menus that match the underlying system."

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百度2009年度搜索风云榜发布

百度2009年度搜索风云榜发布-月光博客

　　2009年注定是绝非平凡的一年，百度也在年终发布了2009年度搜索风云榜，百度的年度搜索风云榜是根据过去的一年里百度网页搜索日志为依据抽样统计获得的。早前Google也发布了《谷歌中国2009年度搜索热榜》和《Google Zeitgeist 2009年度排行》。

中国网络电视台今日开播

国家队上场——中国网络电视台今日开播-月光博客

　　互联网市场先前曾经传出网络电视"国家队"登场的消息，今天，中央电视台重金打造的的"国家网络电视台"（简称"CNTV"）于终于正式亮相出场，互联网视频行业的"国进民退"拉开了序幕。

　　中国网络电视台（英文简称CNTV，域名www.cntv.cn）是中国国家网络电视播出机构，是中央电视台加快推进国际传播能力建设的重要步骤。中央电视台20个频道的节目全部实现实时网络直播，并加入点播、搜索、下载及互动评论等功能。

　　CNTV提供一个视频客户端软件CBox，用户可以通过该软件直播、点播CNTV的节目。

　　先前，互联网视频行业由民营资本主导，经过广电总局十二月份对于视频和BT下载类网站的整顿，大量违规网站被关闭，已取得许可证的网站如果违反相关规定，出现侵权盗版或传播违规节目等问题，也会受到查处或吊销许可证。此次中央的"国家队"进场将影响整个网络视频行业的格局，形成互联网行业的"国进民退"现象，迅雷、优酷、土豆、VeryCD等民营网站的未来发展形势不容乐观。

How to setup Logwatch on Ubuntu Desktop/Server

How to setup Logwatch on Ubuntu Desktop/Server | Ubuntu Geek

Logwatch is a modular log analyser that runs every night and mails you the results. It can also be run from command line.The output is by service and you can limit the output to one particular service. The subscripts which are responsible for the output, mostly convert the raw log lines in structured format.
Logwatch generally ignores the time component in the output, that means, you will know that the reported event was logged in the requested range of time, but you will have to go to the raw log files to get the exact details.

Install logwatch using the following comamnd

sudo apt-get install logwatch

This will install all the required packages

Configuring Logwatch

First you need to make sure you server is able to send the mails outside you can do this using postfix with SMTP server configuration

Now you need to edit logwatch.conf file

sudo nano /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf

Change the following information

Output = mail
Format = html
MailTo = test@gmail.com

Save and exit the file

If you want to know more available options check logcheck manpage using the following command from your terminal

man logcheck

Now edit the 00logwatch file

sudo nano /etc/cron.daily/00logwatch

add the following line

/usr/sbin/logwatch --mailto test@gmail.com

Save and exit the file

This tool is very useful give it a try

You can check more configuration from here

Download YouTube Videos in Ubuntu Using UTube Ripper

Download YouTube Videos in Ubuntu Using UTube Ripper

UTube Ripper

UTube Ripper is an application written in Gambas, that works exclusively on Linux. With this free application, you can download YouTube videos in a simple and efficient way.

Using UTube Ripper, you can also convert YouTube videos, which are in flash format, to a non-flash format. Using the "Rip audio only" option within this application, you can extract audio from a YouTube video, and then convert it into MP3 format.

You can download the .deb package (debian package for Ubuntu) for UTube Ripper from here.