What are the top 3 open source eCommerce solutions for your business?  

It's an important decision as your business will need at least the basic features, and probably a few more, and to best sell and manage your products and orders. 

Since we're talking about small business, our aim is to provide rock-solid proven solutions that out-of-the-box will provide all or just about all the basic features you will need to start selling online.

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Is it just opinion like they say about most art? In the eye of the beholder and all that?  The short answer is clearly NOT!

Specifically, there are basic hard and fast principles that you don't want to break because they've proven to be the best route to a clear and meaningful successful logo that identifies your company and serves as its own marketing tool and branding. 

Principle #1 - Clear & Simple

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It is a frequest request, or probably a need, that when working on large custom applications that involve numerous frameworks (Wordpress, bbPress, E-commerce platforms), to have the site as a whole work together in a logical fashion for the user experience.

If the entire site involves different application frameworks, this usually means that these applications have different code bases and different databases which warrants signing into each application..

If true, you will soon see the need to have a single sign-on capability for the entire site. Meaning simply, you ...

Seems simple, and it is, but sometimes you just want a little control over displaying content and posts to your users instead of relying just on plugins and themes, etc. Well, how to display recent posts in Wordpress, as a list, is a good way to start.

PHP

Since our goal for this how-to is to display latest posts as a list in php, I'll assume you know how to add html where you need it:

<?php
$recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts(10);

foreach($recent_posts as $post){
    if($post["post_status"] != ...

All Web and no play, makes a Webpreneur a dull work-aholic. 

Be an alcoholic instead!

Well ... just kidding about that last part but being a webpreneur and working for yourself (even if just part-time for now) means working and working and working. And sleep and more work. Es demasiado!

Sometimes you just need to chill out ... and I've got the best recipe for that.

The beauty of the Pomegranate

From ancient Persia (Iran), ancient Greece ...

2 Simple Ways to Insert Youtube Video in your Wordpress Blog

Wordpress and Youtube are probably the most powerful web 'tools' you can leverage to expand your presence on the web. Bringing them together - putting Youtube videos in your Wordpress blog - is easy in this How-To embed Youtube videos into your posts.

So easy there are two ways to do this even with limited web knowledge! Here they are:

#1 Embed Youtube HTML Code into your Post

Go to Youtube video page you want to embed and ...

NO.  Yep, that's right, the much lauded favorite browser on the net for the majority of techies (and others) does not natively support the popular and maybe best video format currently for most internet needs, mp4 videos.

Chrome supports it natively and so does Internet Explorer, making the use of HTML5 video tags, something long overdue, not possible with Firefox without a plugin/player ... notably done with a Flash player.

The issue is that Firefox and Opera support only Open Source formats and mp4 is not one of them. We're told that for a browser to ...

This might be my shortest post, but since I first read about 10 other ways to do this - none of which worked, and were quite complex - I decided even the simplest of things, if valuable, deserve their own post.

Jquery Fancybox can be found here Fancybox site.  From their website, Fancybox is defined as:  

"FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page."

This is a Jquery ...

3 Ways to Hide a Wordpress Post or Page

It's not uncommon, for various reasons, to need to hide a post or page after you've already published it.

Wordpress has at least 3 ways out of the box, via the admin section, to easily accomplish hiding a post and then, at a later time, publishing it so it's visible to the public again.

It's just a few clicks away ...

#1 Change the visibility to Private

How To:  Go into Edit Post mode. On right hand side is the 'Publish' box/widget. Within this widget you ...

So, you have your business and your website and you now want to sell your products and/or services online. You're new to having your own e-commerce store but you've heard PayPal is an affordable and capable way of allowing your customers to pay for your products via your website.

This is true but the question you're asking is what options does PayPal offer and which is best for me?

Here's a review of the 3 different payment methods:

3 PayPal Payment Options

The PayPal back-end experience in terms of reports, search, payments received or paid out, etc. ...