Too Cool Webs

Jul 14

BV5 Canonic Links for Product Detail pages

Give this a go if you want to use canonical links on your product detail pages.

Load up whatever product template you are using for your product detail display in your fav text editor. For this example I am using VS2010 with the file D:\TooCoolWebsProjects\SportOptics\WWWRoot\BVModules\ProductTemplates\ImageZoomSportOptics\Product.aspx.vb

Find Private Sub PageLoad

Find this bit of code and right below it insert the second snippet.

First find this code

Right below code above type in this code.

It’s a start for product detail pages. Hope it works for you.

Apr 19

11 Shopping-Search Engines to Sell Your Products

Listing your products with shopping-oriented search engines can be a great way to attract new customers. Many shopping search engines are free, but some require a fee and come with varying levels of control and interaction with your products and with customers that buy through the shopping engine.

Technical Debt for eCommerce Websites

For anyone that has an ongoing presence on the internet or for owners of larger eCommerce sites this podcast is a great listen. Presented by Gary Short.

Podcast at CodeCast

Slides from a past presentation

Apr 15

Websites to Web API's - HTTP WCF

Web application developers today are facing new challenges around how to expose data and services. The cloud, move to devices, and shift toward browsers are all placing increasing demands on surfacing such functionality in a web-friendly manner. WCF’s Web API makes it easy for developers to expose their services and data to a broad set of clients and to take advantage of rich emerging web standards like Web Sockets.

Apr 13

www.outdooroutfitters.com Refresh.

This site is based on BV Software version 5 as a base framework. Highly modified from there the site also is integrated into Sports South automatically bringing in part of the inventory, product descriptions, product images and a complete ordering system built into the application. All powered by ASP.Net version 3.5 for the website and .Net 4.0 for the backend integration.

YouTube - windowsphone's Channel

New Windows Phone Ad for MIX 11.