Orthodox Biz Blog

As time goes on technology get better. If you run an online store your top priority is managing your business. Like most business owners you would fine little time to keep up on the latest improvements to keep your site current. Why not find a "Technology Partner"?

A technology partner can ease the burden by integrating some new features, letting you focus on what you do best.

"Ecommerce is a mature market now and retailers need to think about technologies that will help them service the customer better." says Glen Chancy CIO of Corfun Inc ., provider of components, modules, and plugins for Joomla Content Management System.

Content Management is a prime example of a technology that takes on added importance as retailers acquire more inventory to meet consumer demand. Store owners want to organize inventory category pages so that the product they are promoting will appear prominently. Some category may be new arrivals, close outs and seasonal items.

E-commerce is about selling but retailers don't think about tying content management to marketing and merchandising. effective retail sites need to put the right information in front of shoppers quickly. Delivering content that helps consumers answer questions they have with just a few clicks.

Retailers can't afford to be saddled with infrastructure management if they are to growing their business. What retailers need is a technology partner that not only can manage their infrastructure, but also provides them with the tools to excel in their marketing and merchandising.

Corfun Inc would be the partner for you if you are using the Joomla platform. Not only do they offer custom and standard website, they also have a team of professional coder who have developed some twenty eight components , modules, and plugins for Joomla CMS. Corfun has the capability to build their own applications allowing them to create marketing and merchandising strategies that keep them out in front of the competition. For a low monthly fee, CorFun can also provide Website management services. Corfun even offer training to assist clients in learning the ropes of the Joomla system.

Because technology vendors are increasingly crucial to e-commerce, retailers must do their due diligence before partnering with vendors. The basic steps would include testing or getting a demo of the application and talking to existing clients.

One of the new and exciting advantages to the computer age is the ability for people to join, meet and share common interest online. This has lead to the phenomenal growth in online forums.

When was the last time that your image presentation in Virtuemart actually wowed a client? Okay, the default image handling isn't too bad. You get a thumbnail, which pops up into a lightbox. If you need multiple images, then you get a stack of thumbnails on the product details page - which also pop up into lightboxes.

Frankly, it's all a little ho-hum to say the least. Much of what we sell on our CorShops site is actually software, so we don't need the images so much. After all, we can demo the software and that helps sell the sizzle. But most of our development clients sell physical products, and they need to put these in the best possible light. And that light is usually not a 'lightbox,' which is why we created the FlyTabs Virtuemart Theme.

Virtuemart is a great shopping cart, but the core system has three big problems when it comes to handling images. First, the default option on a Category page is that clicking the product image thumbnail pops up a bigger image, instead of leading to the product details!

That just makes people mad. Online shoppers normally expect to get product details, not a bigger image. That is why our FlyTabs Virtuemart Theme has the option to link product images to product details.

I first started working on Web projects for the Orthodox Christian Network (myocn.net) in late 2006. At the time, OCN had one program – Come Receive the Light. Come Receive the Light was primarily a traditional radio broadcast, airing in many key markets once a week. OCN’s Website was important, but had always been considered a secondary delivery channel compared to terrestrial radio.

This past election we the people voted for change or a fresh start. What can they do different with this administration and economic condition. I have a few ideas that might help you get a little more out of your web site in the next year ahead of us.

Obama's stimulus plan won't help the economy, and might actually sound the death knell of the dollar. After all, the whole thing is predicated on the idea that you can borrow and spend your way to prosperity. That is just plain nuts, of course. You don't borrow your way to wealth - you produce your way to wealth. Americans are tapped out and swimming in debt, so producing for the domestic market is a tough slog right now. Good thing there is a big world out there, and a good way to sell what you produce is to target it.

A Website exists for a reason. That seems axiomatic, but the fact is that many Website owners lose site of that fundamental fact. Before taking on any Web project, I always ask future Web entrepreneurs, "What is the purpose of your Website, and how do you plan to make money off it?"

Content Management Systems are growing in popularity as a framework for running Websites. A Content Management System (CMS) automates many of the repetitive tasks associated with running a Website. Using a script framework and a database, a CMS lets organizations sponsoring Websites focus on publishing content to the Web. A CMS framework also comes bundled with all kinds of capabilities such as interactivity (discussion forums, comments, blogging), membership, syndication (RSS feeds), podcasting, and a whole lot more.