Imagine a site that looks full of life with pictures and animation in total contrast to a site that holds only pages and pages of text. The preferred version would be the one that holds the attention with the inviting images.

Flash makes a powerful positive statement and an amazing impact on the viewer because of its ability to encompass animations and sound. Flash is pleasing to the eyes and enjoyable, luring the viewer back to the site for more.

Flash is a method by which animation can be added, video can be integrated and several other rich web applications added to make the web pages more attractive and user-friendly.

In the current day scenario, with the internet marketing business becoming a billion dollar industry, users expect much more than just content on the websites they visit. It is important for the site to look good too, which means having an eye-catching design, and there is nothing better than Flash templates to add some dynamism to the site. Most webmasters are not aware that Flash animation loads quickly and produces effects of higher quality. Flash templates hold the visitor’s attention for longer and make an impact.

Every business, small or big needs a presentable website that creates an identity for a company. Websites can be considered as business cards and a visual interface that help in creating a perfect corporate image online. Read the rest of this entry »

The comfort of online shopping has spread to all kinds of products being sold online, right from clothes to electronics. People place orders on websites created for selling various products. These websites should have a good layout that attracts customers. Nobody wants to shop in a drab looking unkempt shop, even if it is online.

The days when you have to possess knowledge to create such an attractive website and maintain it are long gone. osCommerce is the perfect solution for your problem.

osCommerce (open source commerce) is an extremely popular online shop e-commerce solution that takes the online shopping cart functionality to a new level. It offers a whole range of out-of-the-box features that allows the store owners to setup, run and maintain stores online with less effort and with no limitations.

Before starting your own shopping website, there are a whole lot of things that need to be taken into consideration, right from the front-end that you present to your customers to the back-end for administrators that can handle the customers, products and orders. All this comes together in the beautifully designed osCommerce templates that work seamless to enhance the image and success of your business. Read the rest of this entry »

People looking to start a strictly online store or branching out to have an online presence, would like to have a professional shopping cart that comes with automated facilities, perfect record keeping and transaction processing, without things getting too complicated.

The best part is there are a whole lot of carts to choose from, but setting up a good shopping cart is often problematic and solely depends on the choice of merchant account, which is open to the possibility of fraud.

The decision as to what type of shopping cart you choose can be crucial as it depends on the functionality, style and acceptable methods of online payments. Another requirement could be the need for downloadable products as against the traditional methods of dispatching.

Zen Cart is an open source online store management system that is user-friendly and is considered as a piece of art of e-commerce. It uses a MySQL database and is PHP based. It is almost similar to osCommerce except for the additional features that Zen Cart comes with.

The countless features that Zen Cart provides include Gift Certificates or Vouchers module that lets users create digital coupons as well as send and manage them. The administration area allows easy management of numerous products, pricing, newsletters, sales, shipping and other things.

Zen Cart templates provide everything that is required for a professional website, including beautiful layouts that appeal and look inviting to the customer and a shopping cart that can handle any number of products. The shopping cart is also set up to receive payments from all the major credit cards and other popular payment gateway services. Read the rest of this entry »

Ideas begin in the mind but need the tools required to turn them into reality. Having an idea for an online store is a great beginning but to make it happen in the best possible way, a few things, such as the right web-store application, a perfect host, a good web-designer and most importantly, a payment-processing gateway to accept payments with credit cards online are required.

This is where CRE Loaded, a product of chainreactionweb.com, which is an online store program and shopping cart comes to the rescue. Built on the osCommerce platform, CRE loaded shopping carts feature a WYSIWYG editor as well as a preview function, so it is possible to see how the store looks even before going live.

There are hundreds of state-of-the-art CRE Loaded templates that cater to any imagination by providing the perfect look for the store and make sophisticated store start ups easy. These templates are ideal for creating a visual impact to ensure that the online store that one is creating is totally unique and different from the others.

The CRE Loaded templates are a completely integrated ecommerce solution that can be used from any internet browser, with the ability to upload the necessary product descriptions in text format, upload images and graphics to the storefront. All orders as well as the inventory can be managed with this shopping cart. All credit card payments can be processed with the use of Authorize.net or PayPal. It is also possible to set up a discount pricing if needed as well as take care of the shipping costs if any. The credit card payments can be processed in real time too. Read the rest of this entry »

osCommerce is web based ecommerce solutions that serve as ready to use online shopping system. The source code of osCommerce is easily available and anyone can modify it according to their requirement.

osCommerce is a perfect solution for an ecommerce based website. It is shareware licensed software which means it is available for free under the GNU General Public License. osCommerce is the foremost databases driven shopping carts present in the market. It has many features which is very helpful for the store sellers to run and maintain their online stores with minimum amount of effort. An osCommerce mall can easily be managed by a person who has a basic knowledge about computers.

osCommerce combines Open Source solutions to give a free platform which supports the PHP and MySQL. It can run on any PHP web server which is running on Solaris, Linux, Windows and Mac OS environments.

History

The osCommerce development started in year 2000 by Harald Ponce de Leon as The Exchange Project. In year 2001, the project name changed from The Exchange Project to osCommerce to prove its development and to make its existence stronger in the Open Source community. Not only a devoted team managed the project but also communities played an important part where members assisted each other and contributed their work in the development of the project. The combination of devoted team members and dynamic and active community has assured the success of the project. In year 2007 there are more than 12,000 active websites exercising this program. Read the rest of this entry »

W2CSS is a program which produces CSS class definitions by transforming Word files into HTML file.

What is CSS?

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to separate design from content. The CSS give styles to HTML pages, give structure to documents and is used for consistency in style. CSS can be made in HTML, or by using different tools such as Dreamweaver, FrontPage and W2CSS etc.

W2CSS:

The W2CSS is a program which executes with MS Word on the front end. This translator program gets MS Word file as an input, process the file, translate the paragraph and words in to CSS and creates HTML file as an output. Such HTML files are always easy to understand and all elements such as bullets, numbers, pictures, headings etc are labeled with a CSS “class”. This CSS style file can be reused by other HTML documents.

W2CSS Features:

W2CSS consists of

• Translation of Word tables.
• Character level styles.
• Hyperlinked Tables of Contents etc.

W2CSS is a unique Word document translator. It is very helpful for those who want to get easy HTML code with simple CSS style descriptions. The W2CSS tries to generate exact HTML copy of the word document provided to it. It decodes style descriptions and saves style labeling. This tool is shareware which means that it can be used in unregistered form for free.

Uses of W2CSS:

W2CSS is used to convert Word document in HTML format by defining color, text font, text position, pictures, borders, table, layout and various other typographic attributes. It furthermore describes non-visual attributes such as the speed and so on.

How to Install the Translator:

System Requirements:

• W2CSS, version 2, runs with Office 97 Words because this program is made in Visual Basic and the previous word versions don’t support Visual Basic language.
• WinZip software is also needed to unzip the W2CSSdoc.zip file. Read the rest of this entry »