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The Challenges of Extended Validation SSLs

The Challenges of Extended Validation SSLs

This piece, part two in Practical Ecommerce’s series on the new Extended Validation SSL certificates, looks at the challenges s... 0 Comments | Read More »

Video Tutorial: Assessing Accessibility

Video Tutorial: Assessing Accessibility

There are a number of compelling reasons to make sure that your website is accessible to people with disabilities. In some ca... 0 Comments | Read More »

Interview: Ruby On Rails Creator On The State of eCommerce

Interview: Ruby On Rails Creator On The State of eCommerce

David Heinemeier Hansson created the Ruby on Rails software framework. He’s also a partner in 37signals, producers of the popul... 0 Comments | Read More »

Interview: Comodo Exec On Extended Validation SSL Certificates

Interview: Comodo Exec On Extended Validation SSL Certificates

Like its SSL precursor, EV SSL certification encrypts customer inputted information and marks the page with a yellow padlock ic... 0 Comments | Read More »

Order Fulfillment: Keep It Simple And Beware Of All The Costs

Order Fulfillment: Keep It Simple And Beware Of All The Costs

I used to manage the fulfillment operations of a mid-size online retail company. We adopted the “Why” method to correct and eli... 1 Comment | Read More »

Expert Reviews Usability Of Practicalecommerce.com

Expert Reviews Usability Of Practicalecommerce.com

Practical eCommerce is a website with the purpose of providing down-to-earth advice to help smaller businesses succeed online. ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Video Tutorial: Batch Processing In Photoshop

Video Tutorial: Batch Processing In Photoshop

Got a lot of product photos? Processing a large amount of images in Photoshop can take up a ton of time, and be an extremely b... 0 Comments | Read More »

Sales Tax: Frequently Asked Questions

Sales Tax: Frequently Asked Questions

Sales tax is a confusing concept for ecommerce merchants, and many consider Internet sales to be a sales tax-free domain. Howev... 1 Comment | Read More »

Conversion: Seven Variables That Affect Sales

Conversion: Seven Variables That Affect Sales

Most online merchants want to increase sales, grow their business and increase profits, but few know the secrets to doing so. F... 0 Comments | Read More »

Practical eCommerce Increases Digital Offerings, Drops Printed Magazine

Practical eCommerce Increases Digital Offerings, Drops Printed Magazine

Practical eCommerce is dropping its printed magazine to focus exclusively on the digital delivery of its editorial content. The... 3 Comments | Read More »

Cart Of The Week: Shopify

Cart Of The Week: Shopify

Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart platforms. This includes licensed carts, hosted carts and open-sour... 12 Comments | Read More »

Safe Ways To Accept International Payments

Safe Ways To Accept International Payments

Many ecommerce businesses receive international orders for both single items as well as large quantities. These businesses usua... 1 Comment | Read More »

Quick Query: 1&1 CEO Oliver Mauss

Quick Query: 1&1 CEO Oliver Mauss

1&1 Internet is among the world’s largest web hosts with 55,000 servers and 7.46 million customer contracts. Recently, the ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Video: Overview of Practical eCommerce Podcasts

Video: Overview of Practical eCommerce Podcasts

This explanation is for anyone interested in the audio podcast content of the revamped Practicalecommerce.com. Practical eCom... 0 Comments | Read More »

Offer Multiple Currencies To Facilitate International Sales

Offer Multiple Currencies To Facilitate International Sales

To cater to an international clientele, multi-currency processing is the way to go. “In addition to Internet usage growing mu... 0 Comments | Read More »

Decline In Dollar Creates Opportunities For U.S. Merchants

Decline In Dollar Creates Opportunities For U.S. Merchants

With the U.S. dollar’s decline, buying American-based products online just got a lot cheaper for the rest of the world’s slew o... 5 Comments | Read More »

SEO Report Card: Littlepixiegifts.com.au

SEO Report Card: Littlepixiegifts.com.au

I don’t spend a lot of time shopping on baby-oriented gift sites, but I get a lot of requests for report card reviews from them... 2 Comments | Read More »

Tutorial: Understanding Photoshop Layer Styles

Tutorial: Understanding Photoshop Layer Styles

Learning how to use Photoshop can be a very intimidating experience. In most cases, you have an idea of what you want to accom... 4 Comments | Read More »

Google Knol: An SEO Perspective

Google Knol: An SEO Perspective

I first wrote about Google Knol here at Practical Ecommerce in January 2008, before it was open to the general public. Now that... 2 Comments | Read More »

Practical eCommerce Launches “PCI Report Card”

Practical eCommerce Launches “PCI Report Card”

Many merchants struggle with credit card fraud and issues of keeping their credit card data secure. To minimize risk, major pay... 0 Comments | Read More »

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