Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 in
Design,
Tips and Tricks
We say it all the time – product photography is critical. We can provide you with the best store design in the industry (and we totally do) but if you then populate this beautiful store with crappy pictures… well, let’s just say that you’re messing with our rep and we can’t have that.
With that in mind, we provide you with this link to a fantastic article on the topic of product photography from the fine folks at Smashing Magazine. It offers a good collection of examples and a nice set of tips for taking great shots on your own. Check it out.
(link via Smashing)
Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 in
Brand Labs,
Tips and Tricks
From time to time, our big-brained programmers and developers take some time out of their busy schedules to impart a bit of their encyclopedic knowledge to the Volusion community at large. Today is just such an occasion.
If you follow this link to our knowledgebase, you’ll find an excellent tutorial on just how to… ummmm… er… well… how about if I just give you a little quote that explains the whole thing. From the article:
“Sometimes you need to make changes to many of your Volusion store’s products. Volusion’s Bulk Updates capability is great, but when you have a large number of products or lots of changes to make, even this may be cumbersome.
The solution is to export the products to your computer, make your changes in a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel, and then import your products back into Volusion. Volusion covers importing and exporting quite well, so the purpose of this article is to expand on what is possible with import/export in Volusion.”
We couldn’t have said it any better. Hit the link to read the whole article…
Posted: Thursday, March 4, 2010 in
Tips and Tricks
In our never-ending quest to share our Volusion-related knowledge with the world, we offer this latest entry into our growing knowledge base: Migration from FTP Published Blogger Blog to a Hosted Blogger Blog on Volusion.
Despite its blatant overuse of the word “blog” (and variations thereof), we’re entirely sure that many of you will find this little tutorial quite useful. Especially for those of you who like to blog with the blogger and blog bloggingly, blog, blog and bloggle with the bloggest blog in bloggly bloggington. Blog? Blog blog.
Posted: Friday, January 29, 2010 in
Tips and Tricks
We’ve posted a new article in our knowledge base, explaining how any Volusion merchant can create a custom email script that will allow you to utilize VSMTP to send emails that won’t count against the maximum newsletter e-mails allotted by your store service plan. Just a little Friday afternoon gift from us to you, our loyal readers.
Posted: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 in
Tips and Tricks
Technical Term Tuesday took this week off to mourn the loss of the NCAA Men’s Baskeball Championship by our beloved Michigan State Spartans, but we intend to make it up to you with a double dose of Volusion Tutorials from our in-house ninja master of technical mumbo-jumbo (and our Development Manager) Carson Reinke.
Carson is nothing if not thorough, so his Volusion tips could not be contained in something as small and trivial as a simple blog. Therefore, they’ve been filed away neatly in our knowledgebase. Links after the jump…
The first article has to do with Volusion’s Category Custom Where Clause. It’s fairly intense on the techno-speak, but when properly mastered, the Category Custom Where Clause can provide an additional level of control by adding custom SQL queries to display particular products on a category page. To learn more, please read our Volusion knowledgebase article about the Category Custom Where Clause right here.
The second new knowledgebase article from Mr. Reinke is a real gem. It’s an in-depth explanation of how Volusion handles product images. Covering everything from naming conventions to external image hosting, this information-packed piece has something for everyone, no matter what your Volusion skill level may be. To learn everything you ever wanted to know about Volusion and images, please view our Volusion product image knowledgebase article right here.
We think you’ll agree that that’s a heck of a lot to digest for a Wednesday, but Carson has a giant brain and we’ll use any opportunity to exploit it on your behalf.
