Merchant Corner, a web design and development company that specializes in ecommerce and ShopSite websites, is currently running a Promotion for their Sprout Commerce ShopSite solution. Merchant Corner works with a number of our clients, and I had the chance to ask Eamon Rodeck a few questions about design and how it relates to ecommerce…

In Parts one and two of this series, we examined how to get products into ShopSite® via the backoffice and with a database upload file (either tab delimited or an actual Excel file). Today we’ll take a look at using an XML file upload to help automate changes.

When you’re working with a More Info page which is not updating, or if it doesn’t exist at all and is not being created for you, there are a few different reasons that may cause this. We’ll explain each one and show how to resolve them.

Last week in Part One, we took a look at how to quickly get your products into ShopSite using just the backoffice admin interface. If you have a large number of products, or you manage your product information with a database or spreadsheet application like Excel, using a web based interface may be too slow or cumbersome. This week we’ll look at using a database upload in ShopSite for easier product management.

There’s a lot of information on the web about how often to blog if your main focus is blogging. In other words, if your “business” is your blog, then you’re in luck. However, for many of our clients, whose primary goal is either ecommerce or their business/service, blogging is something that feeds into their overall objective, but is not their sole focus. So how often do you need to be posting?