CubeCart 5 (wow, just wow)

I have been itching to buy CubeCart 4 for my online store (Store) 🙂 . Only thing stopping me at the minute is CubeCart 5…

The features for the new release look amazing, here are but a few :

Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, MySpace, AOL, Windows Live/MSN/Hotmail, or any other OpenID provider login – no need force customers to register on the site, they can just use these logins.
Product image zoom – Quality products are just not justified with scaled down images, customers want to see the detail before they buy.
Google Analytics for eCommerce – Well I’ve built this into my design anyway, but I’m sure one will be better.
Geographically configurable modules – Not entirely sure how I’ll use this but it sounds like a great feature.
File manager for digital products – I want to start selling downloadable items, but I’ll need to create them first.

Don’t know if it’s still on track for this year, but I’m sure it will very quickly become top of my to do list…

  • Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Twitter, MySpace, AOL, Windows Live/MSN/Hotmail, or any other OpenID provider login
  • Address book
  • Product quantity discounts
  • Product image zoom
  • Multiple coupons/certificates allowed at checkout
  • Newsletter archive

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Internet Explorer 9 – not on XP!!!

I was going to try Internet Explorer 9 beta today, but as I need a more recent version of windows first, it’ll have to wait till I’m next on my laptop.

I wonder… are Microsoft having problems with the uptake of 7 ???

Internet Explorer 9 Beta - go away XP message

Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Well it aint going to work on me, I’m quite happy with XP on my desktop, for now…

I did want to see if the rendering issues had finnaly been resolved, as well as see what the performance was like.

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A. Nonymous Mail

A strange letter came this morning for A. Ward-Winning, still a little tired and blurry eyed I thought it had been delivered to the wrong address by mistake , it was however a generic broadband advertisement from TalkTalk delivered by Royal Mail.

It cleverly used the envelope window to state: Awardwinning 24 Meg Wireless Phone and Broadband greater savings for you today.

A. Ward-Winning
24 Meg Wireless
Phone-and-Broadband
Greater Savings
4U 2DAY

I particularly like the adaptation of the standard UK Postcode format using text speak, I thought it was much better attempt than their competitors Sky.

A recent mailing of theirs was filled with loads of little flyers, considering I’m already a customer of theirs, I found this rather annoying.

I suppose these bulk mailings delivered by Royal mail should be considered very carefully, as I wouldn’t for a second imagine that Royal mail are given instructions to avoid addresses of Sky’s existing customers.

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