Yesterday, Bit Rebels published an article titled, Top 5 Web Design Trends for 2012, which ranks mobile #2 on the list (Other items included User Experience (#1), Typography (#3), Rich Colors & Text (#4), and HTML5/CSS3 (#5)). Mobile commerce for Yahoo! Stores has only increased in popularity, and many Yahoo! merchants are using third party
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FastPivot Now Hiring For RTML "Rockstar" Yahoo! Store Programmer
FastPivot, a world class Yahoo! Store development agency, is now hiring for a Yahoo! Store programmer / developer. The candidate should be fanatical about using RTML, PHP (basic), Java Script, CSS, XHTML/HTML to create e-commerce stores and solutions (configurators, advanced search, complex third-party integrations,etc.) on the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Platform. Not only should this Yahoo!
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Should ecommerce merchants trust cloud computing?
A Linkedin Poll, asking the question: “What’s your biggest concern with moving your applications to the cloud,” just closed, and populated the following results: More than half of the survey respondents reported that security was the main concern they have with cloud computing, while reliability came up as a far second, and performance and cost
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Facebook Stomps Out Sending Messages to "All" Fans
Until recently, internet retail marketers were discovering blogs like this, How To Send A Message To Facebook Fans and When To Use It . It’s always fun to learn new and useful Facebook tips, especially when it comes to how to send messages to all Fans on a Facebook page. What a great feature! That’s
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Yahoo! Stores Are Naked Sans Custom Product Images
A Yahoo! Store without dazzling and highly functional product images is like a bluejay without plumage. With all the innovative product image development out there, consumers expect a higher level of product image interfacing than ever before. Despite brilliant, and detailed, product copy, many ecommerce merchants fail to see the importance of high quality product
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New Trend: It's Cool to Quit Facebook, Are You Next?
According to a Dec. 13, 2011 NYTimes.com article, Shunning Facebook and Living to Tell About It ,there’s a Facebook fade happening out there that might just turn the tide on Facebook. After all, as the article reports, “The number of Americans who visited Facebook grew 10 percent in the year that ended in October —
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Why Develop Facebook Splash Pages
Splash pages for Facebook have been around for a while, but companies just building out their Facebook Pages might consider asking someone to develop Facebook Splash pages to support or promote a brand image. Since the Facebook Splash page is the first page fans come to (though you can set the wall as a default,
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Custom Single Product Ecommerce Website Stores Are Like One Shot Pistols
Single product websites are a rare find. In fact, they might be likened to a one shot pistol, when used in their purest form–aim and fire like 2010worldcupplate.com, a unique single product ecommerce website selling commemorative 2010 World Cup plates, did in order to hit a well-defined seminal sales season target. However, that’s not usually
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Vintage Woodworks' Yahoo! Store Found by "Extreme Makeover"
Vintage Woodwork’s Yahoo! Store was recently “found” by the producers of Extreme Makeover, who asked if the owners would take part in a special Walker Family episode. Extreme Makeover is a popular American T.V. show that covers teams of custom home builders lending a hand to needy families to Richie-Richify (with only days to work)
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Yosemite Launches Newly Designed Yahoo! Store
FastPivot’s Yahoo! Store developers were honored to launch Yosemite National Park’s official concessioners’ new Yahoo! Store: http://yosemitegifts.com/ . This store is based off of FastPivot’s standard style guides for Yahoo! Stores, which includes a rotating home page banner, pagination and rotating testimonials. YosemiteGifts.com’s new homepage (Screenshot): A complete list of features for this custom Yahoo!
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