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If you are an online merchant, you will definitely use a shopping cart application. If you have an online store and willing to earn money using a shopping cart software, I’m going to explain about a good ecommerce software which does more than any other in the market.

This software is called “Ashop”. It is a hosted shopping cart software which you will not want to worry about hosting and complex configurations. The significant aspect of this software is the offering of test drive and 10 day trial. Which you must do before buying any software or an internet service. If you are not confident about it, definitely you can save some money. Following are the main features that I belive which stands out from other shopping cart software.

World class easy, no installation set up & Hosted

This is the most significant feature. This will ease your stress on installing it in your server and definitely save some money if you hire a person to do this.

Use your own domain

You will not have to do much. Just few basic configurations and then you are ready to go.

128 bit SSL security on admin and checkout

This will build the customer satisfaction and trust on your products.

24 hour live support from admin panel (Monday to Friday)

Another very good feature for a general person.

Email accounts on your own domain

This will improve the recognition of your business.

No plugins or programming required

This is the best ever thing. You don’t need to be a programming guru and spend money for a guru.

Build a complete online store product and information pages

You can customize your products here.

Web based store administration

You can select what to sell, what not to sell and the stock status.

Free tech support (phone, email, online chat)

This is a must have feature where many software don’t have.

No graphic design skills required

You need not to be a graphic design guru and you can also save money if you are not a guru.

No HTML knowledge required

You will save money by not hiring a guru.

Rich Text (WYSIWYG) Editor with custom HTML section

Free ecommerce software user manual, tutorial movies and knowledge base

A good way to learn it. Tutorial movies are very effective.

Free upgrades for life

Many software charge for upgrades.

Multilevel password restricted admin entry

This will ensure that no one will hack your account.

These features are only few of this software which has more than 100 features. If you are interested, have a visit to the site Here and check all of them. And you can also try the demo and the trial. I wish you good luck on your business.

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If you know about blogging, you must have heard about the world’s most famous blogging platform WORDPRESS. Wordpress always believes on open source and work according to that. Thanks to this feature, a blogger who is using Wordpress as the blogging platform is free to do any customization for his/her copy. Obviously anyone will first go with the customizing the theme. I also use Wordpress as the platform for this blog and when I started, I found a theme and did some modifications and now you are seeing my customized theme in this blog. But the original theme has done by another great person. I was curious about how to design a Wordpress theme and looking for some information wanting to start designing my owned theme. I write this post to inform that I see a brighter path now and developing a professional looking Wordpress theme. When I finish this I will put it here for you all to download free without putting into my blog .

I thought that it will be better and interesting if let you all know how I started this and what I have learned so far. I will add more posts when I proceed with it. To tell you the truth when I started, I had no idea what so ever about theme development. I did some research with the help of Google and Wordpress itself and managed to get information to start this learning process. Wordpress Codex helped me a lot. I found that the following aspects must be considered before starting real design and coding.

• You must have a sound understanding about CSS and HTML components and a web design software like Dreamweaver.
• You must have at least a little understanding about PHP and identifying PHP code from the existing templates.
• You must have a good knowledge on a graphic design software like Photoshop.
• You must be aware about the Wordpress theme design guidelines provided by Wordpress.

Then you will need a pen or pencil with some drafting papers. If you are OK with all the above mentioned factors, you are ready to go. But keep in mind that if you are starting from the scratch, it will take more time for you to design the first theme. I’m experiencing this. But when you finish your first theme, it will not take much time to design the next themes. If you are willing to find out how I’m doing this and to download the completed theme in the future, I recommend you to subscribe for my RSS feed in the top right hand corner or Here.

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This post will be interesting for people who are interested in driving more traffic to their websites. In this post, I will explain about how to use the famous real time video website YouTube to generate traffic to your website. This will take little time and effort but it will ultimately work as a good traffic source to your website.

Millions of people around the world use YouTube daily. They are looking for videos according to their interest. If you can produce a video which satisfies their interest and which they will think interesting, they will definitely visit your website. But there are few important things you must consider when you produce your video to publish in the YouTube.

Make it useful for the viewer - This is a thing that many web masters don’t understand. Many web masters try to embed their sponsored advertisements and promotions to the video thinking that the viewer definitely be interested. But the truth is viewers simply ignore this.

Quality production - Your video must have an acceptable quality. Or else the viewers will be annoyed and bored and go away from the video. The worst is, they will put negative comments about your video which will sabotage your ultimate hope, free traffic to your web site.

Put an attractive message at the end - This is the most important and critical part. You should figure out a fascinating and invitational message to put at the end if the video which will emphasis the viewer to visit your website. If you can correctly find the words, your dream will come true.

If you follow these guidelines you will definitely get free traffic from YouTube and you will also find comments about the videos you make which will give a hint about the user feelings and how can you improve your videos to be more user friendly, get more ratings and ultimately get more traffic. As I mentioned above, it will take some time to see the results. But when you start to see them, it will be a steady traffic flow. So get to work. You’ll find many tutorials on the internet about how to make videos for YouTube. I wish you good luck on your video promotions .

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Anyone who uses a computer is familiar with screen savers. Many of us use a screen saver and some don’t like to have it ON. Anyway I’m writing this post for the people who like to have a screen saver and willing to make it more meaningful and useful.

This is a news about a new collection of screen savers which motivates you, inspires you, encourages you, lifts your mood and brightens your day. They are called “Screensaver Quotes” I have to tell you that these screen savers are not for free. But they will cost a very small amount and the value you will experience is far better than that. The significant thing is that you can go for a trial version before you buy it. If you are satisfied you can buy or else just uninstall them.

If you buy one, you will get another one free. And here is an extract from the vendor’s website.

You get that “Yes! I can do it” feeling from positive, upbeat, inspiring quotes on
every screen, they make you feel great!

PLUS… the backgrounds for the quotes make each screen as beautiful and colorful
as it is inspiring and encouraging. You never get tired of watching the huge variety
of awesome sunsets, dazzling rainbows and incredibly rich colors.

Every Time Your Motivational Screensaver Turns On You See:

• Vibrant, Jewel-Toned Colors:
  Incredibly vivid colors fill your computer screen with a richness you can almost feel!   It’s candy for your eyes
• Awesome Sunsets and Rainbows:
  The breathtaking sunsets, stunning sunrises, and dazzling rainbows add extra inspiration to the uplifting quotes.
• Inspiring Quotes That Make You Feel Great:
  The positive input you get every time your screensaver turns on helps you feel better about yourself, better about your goals, and you get that terrific “Yes! I can do it!” feeling.
• Quotes that are Easy to Read:
  Each terrific quote is the central focus of each screen. You can read every word easily, even from across the room.
• Amazingly Beautiful Transition Effects:
  The transitions are mesmerizing and relaxing to watch. You can feel the stress melt away as you watch the screens roll, glide and twirl from one to the next.

Screenshots of the Transition Effects

The transition effects of these screensavers are part of the enjoyment. They don’t flash by in a blur like the effects do in other screensavers, you can actually watch them change… and enjoy the process.

It’s not possible for still shots to convey the beauty of the transitions in motion but these sample screenshots will give you some idea of the variety:

You can also check all the 77 quotes and samples. Therefore you can be in a pretty good position to decide whether you buy it or not. Why are you still waiting? Have a visit to the site and explore yourself.

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Have you found a website which has a Google rank of 10/10 before? Or have you ever thought that a website can have a Google rank of 10/10? If you haven’t, the answer is YES. I was looking for a website which has a Google rank of 10/10. You can be a billionaire if you have a site like that while staying at your home. But this site is not a commercial one. I think that it is not bad to introduce you it as the father of web development technologies.

It is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This website is the standard institution for web development technologies if you are not aware about that. Here’s how the website describes about itself.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.

Here is the image evidence for that.

Do you have any idea about the amount of hits that this website has per day? According to Alexa.com it has an average of 800,000,000 hits per day. Here is the chart.

Pretty amazing ha! .

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I thought to write this post on a very good plugin which automates Wordpress upgrade process. Some of you might have heard about it. It is called Wordpress Automatic upgrade. It automates all the required steps to follow manually in a Wrodpress upgrade. I also wanted to upgrade my blog’s Wordpress version 2.5. I used this plugin few hours ago and it was awesome. You are now looking at a Wordpress blog which is upgraded to version 2.5 .

Here’s how Wordpress describes it.

Wordpress automatic upgrade upgrades your wordpress installation by doing the following steps.

1. Backs up the files and makes available a link to download it.
2. Backs up the database and makes available a link to download it.
3. Downloads the latest files from http://wordpress.org/latest.zip and unzips it.
4. Puts the site in maintenance mode.
5. De-activates all active plugins and remembers it.
6. Upgrades wordpress files.
7. Gives you a link that will open in a new window to upgrade installation.
8. Re-activates the plugins.

The plugin can also can be run in a automated mode where in you do not have to click on any links to go to the next step.

If you haven’t upgraded your Wordpress version to 2.5 and don’t like to get messed up with the manual upgrading, this is the best plugin ever which will ease your work and stress. It even provides a temporary “The site is being Upgraded” page while you are running the upgrade process. But as a precaution I recommend you to get backups of your current installation and the database . If anything goes wrong, you can revert back . Anyway the probability of happening that is very low. But the experience I had with this plugin, I found that it doesn’t re-activate the whole pugins which were deactivated before. But it is nothing much a problem. You can activate them manually when you want.

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Did you get mad after seeing this topic ? You might be. But it is true. I will let you know about a promo code which allows you to obtain 2 additional free lifetime domains apart from the usual free life time domain name you get. If this sounds interesting, please read the rest of this post.

Well you might be wandering which hosting company will give this offer. It is Dreamhost.com. By the time I’m writing this post Dreamhost.com had a Google Page rank of 8/10 and Alexa rank of 12,692 which is very high compared to many other web hosting companies. This blog is also hosted at Dreamhost which provides quite remarkable service and support. Followings are the basic features of their hosting package.

• 500 GB storage at sign up and automatically increase by 2GB every week. (Can you find any other hosting package which increases the storage weekly for free?)
• 5 TB monthly bandwidth at sign up and automatically increase by 40GB every week. (Can you find any other hosting package which increases the bandwidth weekly for free?)
• Unlimited MySQL database
• Unlimited email accounts
• Unlimited user accounts (Full shell/ftp)
• Free domain
• Unlimited domains and sub domains hosting facility (You can host additional 2 free lifetime domains in the same hosting package and any amount you like )
• One click install web applications (WordPress, phpBB, Advanced Poll, ZenCart, MediaWiki, Joomla, Gallery, WebCalendar). All these are automatically upgraded.
• 24-hour customer service (This is the best feature I discovered. When I submit an inquiry, I get a reply within few minutes. Really awesome!!)
• A very good WIKI which explain everything we need to know to host a website with them.

You will find detailed features when you visit Dreamhost.com. If you are satisfied with the features (You definitely will ) and when signing up, you will find a place where you can add a promo code as shown below.

Add BIGGIFT as the promo code. That’s it. You will get 2 additional free lifetime domains. Interesting Ha!.

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Videos embedded in the web pages are gaining popularity among the internet community and the business world. These videos are being used to conduct training and other educational purposes, entertainment, marketing, advertising etc. Embedded videos are more attractive and efficient in conveying anything to the visitors compared to the traditional text and images. Many web hosting companies provide video streaming facility with their hosting package. But most of them are not very user friendly and attractive. The next alternative is uploading the video to a third party website like YouTube and Metacafe and put their code in your website. The problem you face here is you have to do it under their restrictions like the video size and video quality. And you also have to rely on their storage capacity. I found a good software which helps to eliminate these issues and host your videos by yourself very easily. I thought that it will be better if I let you know about it also.

This is called “Easy web Video”. As the name implies it prepares videos for the web very easily. It guarantees that you can publish a video in your website within few minutes. Here’s an extract from the vendor’s site which shows it’s features at a glance.

Make any existing video file much smaller (file size) so it plays easily on your website…and without taking up a lot of space or losing its quality online, but keeps the original quality level.

Add buttons to your video like Stop, Play, Fast Forward, Rewind. You choose which ones to add.

Automatically generates the code you simply copy and paste anywhere you want your video to appear on any web page.

Automatically “Upload” your video to any web page with just one click.

Make it simple for visitors to watch, just press play! That’s it. There’s no need to download a large file or run a big program like Media Player, QuickTime, or Real Player. (Examples Below)

This software allows you to create videos with very attractive player styles according to your choice. All the future upgrades are free once you bought the product. It allows you to pay through PayPal which guarantees a secure online payment. It also has a very good customer support and gives away free two bonus products. Following is an extract from the vendor’s site which describes what you can do with this amazing software.

Place video examples of your product on your web page(s).

Email friends and family video of your holidays, with just a few clicks. (The 1-2-3 video email process is explained below.)

Email Grandma and Grandpa video of the kids playing soccer, baseball, or their school concerts.

If you don’t want to email videos you can place them on your personal blog if you have one.

Close the sale of your house or cottage faster by giving a video tour online.

Introduce your company personnel to clients with video for a more personal feel.

Add video to your eBay auctions and see an instant increase in high paying bids.

If you think this news is interesting, have a visit to the vendor’s website. You can find more attractive and important information related to this product there. I wish you good luck on your online video streaming .

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If you are not new to the internet, you must have heard about RapidShare®. If you don’t know about it, it is a website which allows you to store your files (ebooks, music, video, software etc.) in their servers and share the links with your friends, colleagues, clients, etc. sometimes you may want to find those links which you don’t know how to find. You will find it is very hard and time consuming. I will explain about a new software which finds thousands of RapidShare links in few seconds according to your search criteria.

This software is called “Mayoko”. And importantly it offers a free trial period. You can also find a detailed and user friendly Tour. Here’s an extract of the vendor’s website.

If you have ever searched for, sent or received any files online, you’ve probably heard of RapidShare - the world’s premium site for uploading files. Literally millions of files are uploaded to RapidShare every day; from photos and movies, to music albums, to software packages. But there is onlyne one problem… RapidShare doesn’t allow you to search their files. So if you are looking for something specific, you don’t know where to go.

And here’s our solution!

We have built a sophisticated software that locates RapidShare file links on the Web and allows you to search for them. Your only task is to enter your keywords, such as movie title, actress name, song or album title, and so on. Our software will browse through the Web looking for RapidShare links with your keywords in the title or description, and will present you a comprehensive list with results.

The whole RapidShare world - at your fingertips…

Our software allows you to search the 3.5 Petabytes (yes, that’s 3,500,000,000,000,000 bytes!) of files that are stored on RapidShare servers. From now on, whatever file you want to find, you’ll get it there.

If you feel it’s cool to have a look at it, have a visit to the Mayoko site and download the free trial. I don’t think that you won’t like it .

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Are you tired of replying your emails? It will be a daunting task if you are selling your own product and having an email customer support. You will have many email inquiries from your customers regarding your product or service. You will have to spend more time and money to reply all these emails. With the increasing amount of competition, have you ever thought how to reduce this time and money spent on email replies? I will let you know about a new and effective software in this post, which automates your email reply work and saves a lot of time and money.

This is called Reply Email Automator. Here is an extract of vendor’s site who describes it.

How would you like to cut the time you spend replying to the same

tedious E-mailed questions, day after day by 1700% ?

All of us that are into selling any type of product on the internet spend alot of our time trying to figure out the best ways to automate our websites into well oiled machines that do most of the work making money for us. But the fact of the matter is no matter how automated your site is, there is always going to be a large amount of E-mail to respond to!

It does not matter if you are selling a product that you ship to your customers or a downloadable product like software or an E-Book. Your site may take orders and deliver your product automatically but there will always be a certain amount of E-Mail that you will need to answer every day. The Good News is that about 95% of the questions that are asked are always the same ! You know what I mean…..

When can I expect to receive the order I placed on your website today ?

I lost the link to download the software product I bought from your

website, can you re-send me the link?

I am interested in joining your affiliate program can you send me

information on how I can join today ?

etc….. etc…. etc….

If you think about it, you are probably like most Internet Marketers in the fact that you on average receive the same 20 or so questions on each product that you sell. It’s always the same questions asked, but by different people so your spending a big part of your day typing out the same responses over and over again.

You want to send each of your customers a personal response that’s written in a professional error free manner.

I am sure you never do this, but there are people out there that can get so sick of answering the same E-mails over and over that they start typing quick one liners to answer the E-mail with as little effort as possible leaving a very un-professional, and un-caring look about their responses… This is a quick way to generate refunds and non repeat customers!

In order to be a successful advertiser on the Internet, you need an edge over the competition. Reply E-mail Automator is a feature-rich software that can type the responses to your repetitive information seeking, E-mail and support questions that you are receiving every single day. The busier your website gets the more E-mail like this you will receive! Let Reply E-mail Automator cut the time you spend responding to these E-mail’s by 1700%. When you save that kind of time you can put it to use doing the things you love or spend it on making more money, not answering the same E-mail day after day.

And this is the way it works.

You can save any response you wish into its database. If you have a certain E-mail support question you get that always requires the same 3 paragraph response, just save that response into REA’s database along with a keyword that you will know equal’s that response and Reply E-mail Automator will remember it.

When your ready to use this response just click on REA’s icon in your taskbar down by your clock, or enter a hotkey combination that you choose and Reply E-mail Automator leaps to action. When it opens you select the keyword to the response you want to insert into your reply email either by a dropdown box, or typing the first few letters of the keyword into REA. When you see the response you wish to choose select it and click once into the space you wish Reply E-mail Automator to deliver your typed response. You can click into your email client, a MS Word document, or where ever else you choose to have REA type your response and Walla you have just saved 5 minutes! REA types your response into your E-mail, Word Doc, Web Form… you name it, if you can type into it so can Reply Emal Automator!

Requirements:

Reply E-mail Automator will only work on Windows Operating Systems at this time. You must also have some version of Microsoft Word installed on your computer.

Seems good! Why don’t you have a visit to the Vendor’s site? They also provide 6 bonus gifts. I’m pretty sure that you will be able to relieve from your email reply headache .