Tell us a little about your company.

Ruby Loves Red is an online gift store that focuses on the best handmade and printed products made by talented designers and crafts people. Owned by artist Sandra Cassidy (and designed and built by her web designer husband Danny Cassidy) the shop has been born out of a love for all things cute, quirky and original hence ‘Gifts With Character’.

Why did you choose Tradingeye as your ecommerce platform?

Site designer Danny Cassidy explains, “I was initially attracted to Tradingeye because its accessibility/compliance features. As a web designer I’m a big fan of content management systems that output well structured, clean HTML and Tradingeye seemed to do this very well. From a functionality point of view Tradingeye’s feature list offers incredible value for money. We also liked the idea of having a dedicated support team available if there should be any technical glitches along the way.”

Could you please let us know about your project?

Ruby Loves Red was originally developed as a blog at the start of 2009. After a while we added a simple Paypal shopping cart then quickly realised that if we wanted to grow the business then we would need an integrated shopping cart and that’s when we selected Tradingeye. From design concept to launch took around three months although a significant proportion of that time was spend collating content.

Do you have any future plans for the site?

It’s still early days for the site but we’re confident that the hard work we’ve put in from the social media and blogging side of things will translate into sales on the new site. We’re particularly keen to implement alternative ways displaying products on the home page, perhaps using Jquery. We’re also really excited about using Tradingeye’s reporting features as a way of obtaining valuable marketing information about customers and product lines.

Do you have anything else you would like to share?

Tradingeye packs some incredibly powerful features considering it’s a reasonably priced off the shelf package and we’re looking forward to exploring all its potential as our business grows and develops.

Mathew Patterson, Campaign Monitor

About Mathew Patterson

Coming from a web design background, Mat is well positioned to help designers get the most out of Campaign Monitor, and make sure it meets their needs. With only one ‘t’ in Mathew, he is also well positioned in vanity search results.

We’re keeping green as we stamp out our carbon footprint.

Dedicated web hosters Rackspace have issued us with an Ecertificate from International Tree Foundation (ITF) to confirm trees have been planted at Strouts Field, Chesham Bucks this winter to cancel out the carbon emissions created by the server.

So we’re definitely on track to helping keep the environment clean.

ITF is a UK-based tree charity, which plants, protects and promotes trees in the UK and overseas.

For more information, visit www.internationaltreefoundation.org

It’s official. A Tradingeye site has been named of the top 35 most Beautiful E-Commerce Websites around.

Design and web development experts Smashingmagazine www.smashingmagazine.com has trawled the internet in search for some of the best e-commerce websites around.

Keeping an eye out for sites that are attractive, simple and easy to navigate, it has selected the top 35 sites that tick all of its boxes.

And one of our Tradingeye powered sites, Ten Little Monkeys www.tenlittlemonkeys.co.uk, designed by Darren Alawi www.darrenalawi.com, has made it onto the bill.

The judges said: “This design has a very strong visual appeal; vibrant colours work well on the dark background, the navigation is colourful yet intuitive – notice how the section for girls and boys are distinguished.

“Also, the choice of typography is appropriate for the shop’s main objective: selling branded children’s fashion and gifts.”

The article can be found below:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/22/35-beautiful-and-effective-ecommerce-websites/

The past year has been very busy for us at Dpivision with the launch of a new version of Tradingeye and also our brand new invoicing and billing solution www.cannybill.com.

We wanted to say thank you to everyone for their support and offer all our Tradingeye & Dpivision customers a 20% discount when you signup to CannyBill on the lifetime of your plan.

CannyBill is a complete invoicing, billing and web hosting automation system – it sounds complicated, but really it couldn’t be simpler. We use it on www.tradingeye.com to sell all our products and services!

http://www.cannybill.com/demos.html (bottom of the page for some examples)

Yes you got it, when you receive an invoice from us, whether it’s from an order via our site or some customization or design work we do for you, it’s from CannyBill!

CannyBill streamlines the whole modern process ‘admin’ side of things; from tracking invoices and taking payments, managing subscription-based services to selling domain names, web hosting accounts and SSL Certificates all via web based order forms.

CannyBill will cut hours of tedious, repetitive toil from your working week – leaving you to do what you do best!

It’s taken one and a half years of planning, preparation and of course hard work, but it’s finally here. We hope you enjoy our new product, and we trust it really will streamline your working day.

Here is a break down of the paid plans below:

Basic – (10 customers) – £4.99 – 20% = £4.00 per month
Small Business (50 customers) – £12.99 – 20% = £10.40 per month
Professional (500 customers) – £19.99 – 20% = £16 per month
Small Business (2000 customers) – £29.99 – 20% = £24 per month

To upgrade simply signup to CannyBill http://www.cannybill.com/pricing.html then login to your admin account and go to the settings tab -> my account -> and half way down the page you will see the option to upgrade. When you do so, simply enter the promotion code below.

Discount code: Please email wladimir@tradingeye.com for your discount code.

As always we’re here to help so let us know if you have any questions.

The team at dpivision.com Ltd

Here at Dpivision.com we’ve dug deep and donated to a worthwhile cause.

London tech geeks – and geekettes – have been stripping off to produce a calendar for charity, and CannyBill has sponsored the month of June www.nudetechcalendar.ning.com.

All of the proceeds will go to Take Heart India www.takeheartindia.org, a youth-run charity focused on IT education projects in India for blind and disabled students.

The charity doesn’t employ anyone, so 100 per cent of proceeds are spent on education projects.

Take Heart is guided by the principle that “work builds, charity destroys”, rather than giving money to people, Take Heart empowers through practical education and skills training.

So for those of you who haven’t already bought yourselves a 2010 calendar, then do your bit for charity and buy one from:

http://www.firebox.com/product/2583/Nude-Tech-Calendar-2010

It’s that time of year again where we shut down the office so we can welcome Santa, open our prezzies and pile on several pounds.

With that in mind and the festive season – complete with a heavy sprinkling of snow – in full swing, we want to wish all of our customers and everyone we have worked with this year a very merry Christmas.

We will be closed for our festive break on the 25th, 26th and 1st of January but available by email and phone for the rest of the time.

We brushed up on our marketing skills with the region’s elite.

As well as giving us the chance to network with companies from across the North East, the Marketing The Art Of conference gave us the chance to pick up tips on the best ways to get our products and services out there to the public.

The event, at The Sage Gateshead, hosted talks and workshops from the likes of Herb Kim, founder of Thinking Digital Conference, Rob Lawson, editor of the Sunderland Echo, and Philip Knowles, of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Check out our photos from the event at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpivision/sets/72157622795256568/

For more details on the event and booking for next year’s, visit www.marketingtheartof.com.

By Chris Bowler editor @WebAppStorm on December 6th.

There are some applications that focus on thing and one thing only. Then there are others that focus on a few items, giving you the ability to manage multiple facets of your business in one tool.

CannyBill fits into the latter category. And we’re giving away three memberships today.

About CannyBill

If you’re unfamiliar with the service, CannyBill is focused on automating your invoicing and billing. With the app, you can allow customers to pay for your products online with a credit card. And you can even sell SSL Certificates and Domain registrations.

Even further, CannyBill makes it easy to set up order forms to sell your products and services to customers. Add in the robust API and integration with industry mainstays like Basecamp, Campaign Monitor and Quickbooks, and you’ve got a full featured business tool.

How to Enter

We’re going to award three contestants today. To get a copy, leave a comment on WebAppStorm and mention your business. What kind of product or service do you offer and how will this tool help you? The winners will be announced at the end of the day!

http://web.appstorm.net/general/giveaway/christmas-giveaway-day-6-cannybill/

We are pleased to announce a new FreshBooks import tool for www.cannybill.com. Simply export your customers and transactions from FreshBooks then import them into CannyBill in a few easy steps.

Login to FreshBooks -> My Account -> Import/Export

From this page download your Clients CSV and Invoices CSV.

Once the above 2 CSV’s have been downloaded and saved, login to your CannyBill admin -> Settings -> Plugin Modules -> Data Management (Import/Export)

From this page select the FreshBooks CSV from the Import Customers and Import Transaction screens and hit the import button. That’s it, you’re all done!