The dpivision.com Ltd Weblog

In case you hadn’t noticed, we have a brand new community forum! New platform, new design, new features.

http://forum.tradingeye.com/

Based on myBB, the new Tradingeye forum offers the community a great place to discuss all things Tradingeye.

A huge thanks goes out to one of our forum admins, Jordan Smith http://forum.tradingeye.com/user-960.html for having generously offered to perform the work for our members and our team.

Jordan has been a huge help and you can find a few questions we asked him
below:

1) Can you tell us a little about your company?
Jet Hosts – Lightning fast web solutions (www.jethosts.co.uk). I am a web designer and a Server Administrator and of course a Tradingeye forum admin!

2) What made you chose Tradingeye?
Tradingeye is a great e-commerce platform both for me as a designer but also for my clients. All the design can be done via the CSS and the admin panel is intuitive. The SEO and marketing features are also a joy to work with.

3) Why another forum?
The previous Tradingeye forum was running www.vbulletin.com which was very bloated and not standards friendly not to mention the growing numbers of spammers! The Tradingeye community has over 12,000 members now so it was time for a change. I put the idea to Tradingeye to use www.mybb.com as I had previous experience with this platform and they agreed.

4) Can you describe the work you did?
Firstly the new forum hot to be setup then we performed the data migration.
All threads, posts and members had to be seamlessly ported over to the new platform. Once this had been done I re-skinned the theme, installed a few plugins such as www.stopforumspam.com and voila!

We are delighted to announce the release of some nice new swanky banners for both Tradingeye & CannyBill which you can use on your site.

The banners come in a few different shapes and sizes and both come in two sets. One for businesses and one for web designers.

Do also stay tuned for our affiliate scheme which will be launching soon.

Tradingeye Banners

CannyBill Banners

Tell us a little about your company?

The Natural Remedy Company is exactly that! We sell a range of natural, herbal & homeopathic remedies & products for many ailments & conditions. The remedies you’ll find here are 100% natural, contain no artificial ingredients & are all designed to work with the body in healing itself.

We currently sell a range from Native Remedies & under our own label BioTech Healing which will soon be re-branded to “The Natural Remedy Company”

Why did you choose Tradingeye as your ecommerce platform?

Tradingeye was recommended to us by our web design company, FCS Websites. We wanted a system that is easy for us to use and Tradingeye has a great control panel. It was also important for our site to be visible to search engines and Tradingeye has good optimisation features and search engine friendly code.

Could you please let us know about your project?

The Natural Remedy Company is a place where anyone can buy natural remedies for many common & not so common ailments & conditions. Many people are aware of using alternative medicine for things now-a-days but often are overwhelmed as to where to go & lack the knowledge as to what they might need. The Natural Remedy Company not only sells a range of such products but we also have an in-house expert who can be contacted for individual advice who is a qualified homeopath & nutritional therapist. The requirement for the site design was that it should be predominantly user friendly, simple to navigate & easy to use.

Do you have any future plans for the site?

At the moment we sell two ranges but are looking into expanding this over time. We are currently adding to our own range of supplements on the site & are also in the process of developing our own range of aromatherapy creams/lotions as well as a mummy & baby range.

We are pleased to announce some great new features and enhancements to Tradingeye.

New Features

- SAGEPay VSP Form payment gateway

http://forum.tradingeye.com/showthread.php?t=4562

We have added a new off site payment gateway in the form of SAGEPay VSP Form (http://sagepay.com/)

- Margin Calculator

http://forum.tradingeye.com/showthread.php?t=5746

You can now increase or decrease the prices for all your products in one go. Let’s say next year you want to increase all your prices by 10%, simply enter 10% and select the increase option, save your settings and you’re all done!

- Captcha for the contact and signups forms

http://forum.tradingeye.com/showthread.php?t=4503

A Captcha has been added to the contact and signup forms to help prevent spammers from signing up. A Captcha is a program that can generate and grade tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.

Enhancements

- Mark standard options as mandatory

http://forum.tradingeye.com/showthread.php?t=4618

You can now specify if a standard option should be mandatory to select or not when buying a product.

- Pagination on search pages

http://forum.tradingeye.com/showthread.php?t=5859

We have now added pagination to the search results page. This is especially useful for shops with large product catalogues.

Tell us a little about your company?

Love It Love It Love It is a colourful boutique for colourful babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers. The clothes you’ll find here are all designed to let kids get on with being kids. They’re jam-packed with character and joy, whilst also being practical for parents.

There are gorgeous and funky creations from fabulous hand picked brands such as Danefae, Duns Sweden, Glug Collection, Green Baby, Lipfish, Positively Organic, Red Thread, Sophie4Sophie and Zee Spot.

Why did you choose Tradingeye as your ecommerce platform?

Tradingeye was recommended to us by a Komodo.  I wanted the site to be built with the creativity that I knew Komodo could deliver, using a system that is user friendly. The usability of Tradingeye impressed me right from the start and the online demos were very helpful, setting it apart from the competition.

Could you please let us know about your project?

Love It Love It Love It is a boutique for clothes to fit kids aged 0-5. The main theme of the clothes we sell is that they are brightly coloured, comfortable and full of character. This is great for the kids because they’re stimulating but allow freedom of movement, and for the parents because the clothes are easy to care for, and last for ages. The requirement for the site design was that it should be friendly, colourful and stylish.

Do you have any future plans for the site?

At the moment the site only sells clothes. The range will be expanded for next season, and the core range will be added to with home decor, bedding and own brand clothes in time.