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Ways to add social buttons to LightSpeed Webstore

mccormicky — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:32:43 +0000

When it comes to adding social sharing buttons to LightSpeed webstore you can choose a quick and easy fix like Sharethis or add the buttons manually. If you use Sharethis you can customize the buttons. If you add the button using the site’s button code you have to use that site’s button style. This rule is usually laid out in …
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Launched Projects

mccormicky — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:34:41 +0000

Even though my home page has had the same launched project on it for almost a year it I’ve launched or helped launch quite a few new sites since that one: www.coldspringapothecary www.lovepiccolini.com www.on0n.com www.m3babygifts.com www.tlroom.com www.ninaloren.com www.thomassires.com www.statenislandoutloud.org There are lots more in the works,too. I have 3 or 4 that just haven’t gone public for other reasons but …
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SEO for the very, very nervous

mccormicky — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:23:43 +0000

There are countless companies out there just waiting to sell you this mysterious SEO that you’ve heard so much about. What they won’t tell you is that reading content that was created for SEO and only for SEO is a hollow (and sometimes confusingly dis-jointed) experience for the end consumer/user. An SEO might tell you how to write for better …
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Importing Google Web Fonts, LightSpeed Web Store & SSL

mccormicky — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:37:24 +0000

As I am sure you know, SSL is very sensitive. Every link href, script src and img src in the document must be HTTPS for the page to be delivered completely secure. If not, the encryption is partial and you may receive warnings about it. Worse, your customers will see warnings about it and might leave your site before buying …
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LightSpeed Web Store: What Product Attributes Get Displayed in the Slider?

mccormicky — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:39:53 +0000

Now that all the core files (any file that is not included in the template package is a core file) of LightSpeed Web Store are Open Source I can loosen the iron grip that many core files place on what the Web Store templates can do, within reason. Case in point: the Slider aka the Accessible News Slider – by …
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If you Buy LightSpeed POS and Web Store Seperately

mccormicky — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:26:19 +0000

Common Enough Situation: You buy LightSpeed POS and then down the road decide you want to add the eCommerce connector (for an online store, using either Web Store or Magento). The Potential Problem: After you make the purchase,LightSpeed issues you a revised/new license that includes the eCommerce Connector but until you perform the steps listed below, you’re still using the …
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Internet Explorer and Z-Index and me

mccormicky — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:57:06 +0000

I’m sure you’re already aware of this but IE is a pain in the butt. I just spent more time than I like to admit trying to figure out why my dropdown menu would not stay open (on mouse hover) over my stupid slideshow. At first I thought it was because my stupid slideshow had a z-index value that was …
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Installing LightSpeed Web Store for the 1st time

mccormicky — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:50:23 +0000

If you just bought your license and now have to figure out how to connect with the web store database the first thing you’re asked to do is to create a database using your hosting plan cpanel – oh you didn’t know that your LightSpeed connected with a database? And you don’t know what a database is or for that …
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Here’s a funny story

mccormicky — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:50 +0000

I recently went to take a peek at what these geniuses, these paragons of web design had come up with and lets just say I was not impressed. They'd actually used that woodgrain background image tile that everyone was using in 200 9 - a big design trend back then. But now it looks dated. Plus what does a stationary shop have to do with woodgrain? Because there are wood floors in the brick & mortar? Do me a favor!
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My new design for an online store especially for music downloads (with sample audio!)

mccormicky — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 01:19:31 +0000

Musicians of all types, from Indi-Rockers to Death Metal monsters and even Classic Rock tribute bands need to be able to sell their music online. There are lots of sites they can join that will do it for them like e-music and cdbaby and they make it real easy… But the bands aren’t selling on their own terms, on their …
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Lightspeed Tech Support Sends Me a Web Store 2.1.1 Bug Report Confirmation

mccormicky — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:20:55 +0000

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:31 AM, LightSpeed Support wrote: [edited] the information about the bug and the fix are all public information. When Web Store was converted to “open source”, we moved all the development including issue tracking to Github.com, a huge and public development site for hosting code. It includes an issue tracker where we post the …
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Embed Audio files for music product in LightSpeed web store

mccormicky — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:40:48 +0000

Out of the box, LightSpeed web store is not as robust as some other eCommerce solutions. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to make it more robust. One such example: creating a solution to hear music samples in a Single Product detail page on the web store. We didn’t want to just click over to an external site (like …
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