Shopping Around

Author: Brian Kenn

  • Is anybody there?

    I’m so used to the Spiffy Stores features, that I kind of take some of them as granted, and forget that some of our competitors seem to ignore basic customer needs. Take for example, the Contact Us form. Practically every ecommerce site needs one. Customers aren’t going to be very impressed if there’s no way…

  • Creating multi-level menus can be such a drag

    One of the neat features that we have in our hosted shopping cart, Spiffy Stores,  is the ability to create multi-level drop down menus by simply dragging and dropping menu items into the right position in a tree-structured list. There’s a simple liquid tag in the theme template which then renders the whole menu for…

  • Is Australia Post run by Amateurs?

    Ok, this is getting silly. Australia Post provides a copy of their Postcode database, which we use to validate shipping addresses in our software. This database is automatically refreshed on a weekly basis from the data that Australia Post provide on their web site. A couple of weeks ago, this data got corrupted as someone…

  • Trying out some Social Media

    Well, the new Google Buzz is out, so I decided to give it a whirl. http://www.google.com/profiles/eastsydneyboy I might try to use it to keep everyone up to date with what’s happening in the Spiffy Stores world. We hit a bit of a milestone yesterday as I finally finished the last of the pages in the…

  • Been Busy

    I’ve not had much time to myself  lately, as we push ahead with the final phases of the Spiffy Stores development. It’s almost done and we should be launching early in the new year. I’m just finishing up the account management functions so that we can manage our stores, but everything else is now finished.…

  • SBS Hall of Shame

    This is just a quick post to highlight the recent degradation of SBS’s SD transmissions… Here’s what it looked like on 30th March, 2009. Now here’s what happened on 20th April, 2009 The main problem here is that SBS is transmitting the interlaced fields offset by 1, which means the two non-movement fields are on…