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Memorial Day Thank You!

Memorial Day, this is a day when we need to take a moment to reflect on the sacrifices of the men and women who have set aside their own dreams, ambitions, desires and often their lives to give us the freedom to pursue ours. So as you fire up the grill, pass around drinks, and [...]

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Google Base verification MANDATORY May 18th!

May 18th is the day! MANDATORY site verification if you upload products from your ProStores store to Google Base! You must claim your URL from inside your Google Merchant Center, formerly Google Base, otherwise you products will be de-listed until you do so. I have a whole walkthrough here: Keeping your Google Base Account Active! [...]

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Keeping your Google Base Account Active: New rules from Google

On 3-24-10 I got an e-mail from Google stating that all users of Google Base / Product upload need to verify and claim their URL to ensure that they are the only ones with authorization to upload products. In 8 weeks it will be required or else you will be prevented from uploading products. Source: [...]

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ProStores Quick Tip – Adding styling to Product Attribute Text

During a recent project for a client I was asked if I could apply bold styling to a product’s attribute text (part of which I have highlighted in red). At first I didn’t think it could be done at all and we settled for trusting that the customers would be able to tell. While I [...]

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ProStores Quick Tip – Using discontinued products to build ranking for new ones

Quick tip: When you have a product that has been discontinued and there is a new model coming out, you can replace that old product’s information with the new model’s information. Note: this works best if the product is a new/update version of the old one. Example: http://www.fs4sports.com/servlet/the-772/Easton-SV12-Baseball-Bat/Detail. Note: ProStores uses the first 4 words [...]

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Minimize CSS Image Flicker in IE6 with HtAccess

Use these htaccess rules to minimize or even eliminate CSS background-image “flickering” in MSIE6. # minimize image flicker in IE6 ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000 ExpiresByType image/jpg A2592000 ExpiresByType image/png A2592000 Share and Enjoy:

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New ProStores Template availible!

Steel Blue – $299 – Preview Steel Blue ProStores Ready Template – Purchase the Steel Blue ProStores Template. Includes 30 minutes of Customization time by One Take Media! We have two other ProStores Templates: Earthy – $299 – Preview Earthy ProStores Ready Template – Purchase the Earthy ProStores Template. Includes 30 minutes of Customization time [...]

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Power outage in San Jose affecting ProStores.com and Admin page

*UPDATE* Merchant’s stores are coming online. *UPDATE* ProStores is working with the power company to restore working power and are attempting to get back up to full capacity in 2-3 hours. *UPDATE* PG&E Power that services the San Jose area has upgraded the outage from under to 50 customers affected to 50-5,000 affected. No official [...]

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Real Life Vendor/Client Relationship examples

Heh, i feel like in the past month I’ve had each of these conversaions. The vendor-client relationship in the real world: I wish this wasn’t so true… If it wasn’t so frustrating it’d be funny. Share and Enjoy:

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Follow us on Twitter For updates, early news, and sometimes limited time, twitter follower only offers! Merry Christmas and Happy New Years! Share and Enjoy:

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