Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

As I rubbished the promo boxes with the last CSS changes I thought I should get back to them ASAP.
First list on the agenda was to get rid of those crazy ‘corner’ images for the promo boxes:
table#PromoListView table table img {
display: none;
}
but that also kills the promo box images (and the slider) so now I [...]

[Read more →]

We looked at changing the gallery background using css but now we want to move on and replace it with an image.
The section is currently:
/* ——– Control Border on Gallery List ——– */
td.gallery
{
border:1px #FF00FF solid;
}
/* ——– End ——– */
/* ——– Control Background on Gallery List ——– */
td.gallery table td
{
background:#FFCCFF;
}
/* ——– End ——– */
Now we are [...]

[Read more →]

I thought that my first API integration would be with eBay or Channeladvisor API, maybe a little ambitious on reflection, but working with Google Maps API is nice for a Javascript beginner.

[Read more →]

OK, I did promise ebay javascript, but I wanted to do a little more on eBay Shop CSS.
So I want to give my store categories a pink background:
table#StoreCategories {
background-color:#FFCCFF;
}
and say then, I want to have the links in a different pink:
table#StoreCategories a {
color:#FF00FF;
text-decoration:none;
}
then I want to space out the categories and give them a pink [...]

[Read more →]

I am nearly at the end of the first module, and with assessment scores of 88%, 95% and 100% I am hopeful I get a good grade in my project! Once it is all submitted and marked I shall publish my dealings as I am proud of my line by line code writing. Being a [...]

[Read more →]

I have been moving my items around my Hairfreax store a little, trying to improve the usability from a store started when I knew basically NOTHING about usability and the perception of the user.
I started the Hairfreax USA, store on a .net domain a year ago, to again experiment with inclusion on different country specific [...]

[Read more →]

It seems that the overly unnecessary re-branding of Marketworks has now happened. Marketworks is now MarketplaceAdvisor so I am now wondering if MarketplaceAdvisor will follow the same flow as ChannelAdvisor Merchant some time in the future? No functionality has changed as far as I can see, but I am hoping for the imminent release of [...]

[Read more →]

Redundancy just before Christmas is not pleasant as the job market is not at its best, specially if you have had no warning.
As well as training to be an eBay education specialist I have secured consultancy and web development in the last few weeks of December to take me though to January.
In pure on-line entrepreneurial [...]

[Read more →]

Webcopy carefully crafted in plain English can improve a readers comprehension. You want your customers to understand what you are telling them don’t you?
Here are a few guidelines to plain English:
1. Make the average sentence length 15 to 20 words.
2. Use words your customers are likely to understand. Try not to abbreviate or use extensive [...]

[Read more →]

Call to Action is a book all about customer conversions, how to get them and most importantly, how to persuade your customers to buy or take the action you want.
They also have a blog : Future Now’s Marketing Optimization Blog
If you are tired of text book internet marketing reads, this plays out like a compelling [...]

[Read more →]