Services - Archive

• Mass assigning images to products in Open Cart

  Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

  Whilst working on an e-commerce project for a client we found that we had to add the same 3 images to over 200 products. Now, compared the Zen Cart, the Open Cart admin dashboard is relatively easy on the eyes and intuitive, but it would still take a fair amount of time to manually assign the same 3 images to each product. I wrote some SQL statements to take care of the job in less than 5 minutes (although I did spend a long time trying to do the job in one statement, but was unable). So if you want [...]

• Choosing a Merchant Account for e-commerce

  Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

  Choosing the right Merchant Account can make a big difference to your expenses when running an e-commerce store. Depending on the volume you do, PayPal and Google Checkout might work out quite expensive. With a good merchant account you usually have to pay a monthly fee, but this often gives you a few hundred that are free of any other cost! For example, your average sale is £100 and with PayPal you spend 3.4% (£3.40p) + 20p = £3.60p to process the transaction. Make 10 sales in a day and you’ve spent around £30 just on processing fees! Most merchant [...]

• WordPress 3.3 released – how to upgrade

  Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

  News from WordPress HQ today came early in the morning. The latest version of WordPress (3.3) is available to download now, just in time for the festive season. This update boasts a number of slick new features – we’ll add video tutorials soon. Instead of going over all the new features again, the purpose of this post is to encourage you to update your installation. You should be able to upgrade in just a few clicks from your WordPress Dashboard (admin area). If you’re one of our customers and are having trouble upgrading, please create a support ticket. Oh, and [...]

• WordPress and XML RPC – Settings

  Saturday, October 15th, 2011

  To use WordPress when you’re not at your desk, you’ll probably want to use the WordPress App on your smartphone. To make sure you’re able to log in and manage your WordPress site from your mobile device, you need to make sure XML RPC is enabled. How to enable XML RPC on WordPress To turn on XML RPC, you need to: 1 – Log in to your WordPress Dashboard 2 – Select settings from the menu on the left 3 – Select “Writing” (it’s an option in the Settings menu). 4 – Under the heading “Remote Publishing” check the box [...]

• Autolights Blog

  Thursday, March 10th, 2011

  We’ve been working with Autolights lately, and we’re really happy to say we’ve finally got them blogging! Autolights are providers of high quality headlight kits and conversions. They supply everything your need to “pimp your ride” from canbus units to hid and xenon headlights. We love working with other companies that share our passion for customer happiness and we’re sure Autolights are going to deliver value by the bucket load. We hear they’re already planning light installation guides, and lots of quick tips to help you buy the right parts for your car and install them with the least amount [...]

• UK Zen Cart Hosting

  Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

  Zen Cart is by far our favourite e-commerce tool, and we’ve used it for a lot of our projects. We’ve just updated our UK Zen Cart Hosting page with more details so you can find out what Zen Cart offers and why you should use it as your e-commerce solution when starting your own online store. Zen Cart is a powerful, fully featured e-commerce system with all the features you’d need to run a professional online store. So, whether you’re an individual, or a brick and mortar business or corporation looking to start selling online, Zen Cart is the way! [...]

• UK WordPress Hosting

  Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

  WordPress started out as a blogging system, but has since evolved into a fully featured content management system in its own right. RX Host allow you to install wordpress in just a few clicks using Fantastico (which comes free as part of your hosting!). WordPress is fully supported on all of our UK Web Hosting plans and is the most popular website tool used by our customers. Starting from only £2.50 a month! Check out our WordPress friendly hosting plans and get started today! Special Offer For a limited time only, try our hosting completely free! What’s included? Complete WordPress Compatability WordPress and almost every [...]

• Do you need e-commerce web hosting with paypal?

  Monday, December 27th, 2010

  You’ve got a great product or service and you’ve just set up your paypal account, but what next? There are so many paths you could walk down next, and similarly so much information to confuse you on the way. So here’s our guide to E-Commerce: what you should do next to start selling online with paypal. First things first, you’re going to need a website. Depending on your product or service, it doesn’t have to be a full blown e-commerce solution. At RX Host, we have two favourite methods of getting started quickly and easily. 1) Make a simple website [...]

• Online Fashion Store – Bibie Fashions

  Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

  We just recently completed an e-commerce store for Bibie Fashions. We worked tirelessy to ensure the user experience from front to back was simple, sleek and elegant. Much like the clothes being sold on the site. Bibie Fashions stock an amazing variety of clothes, shoes and accessories for Men, Women and Children from some of the biggest brand names, including: Cavalli, Versace, Energie, Gant, Maruti, Moschino, Miss Sixty, Phard, Colcci and many more! The best part of it all is Bibie Fashions are giving a 10% discount to all new customers until the end of the year. Please do click [...]

• Making a professional small business website on the cheap

  Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

  I know what it’s like to be starting or to have just started your own business. Big or small, it doesn’t matter, one of the first things you’ll want to do is get a professional website up and running. You want something that tells potential customers and suppliers that you’re here, you’re professional and you mean business. Now that’s all well and good but after talking with a few web design firms you might find yourself slightly taken aback by the thousands of pounds it’s going to cost to make a great website and deep down you know not having [...]