The dpivision.com Ltd weblog

The team at Dpivision.com has been sharing their top tips on how to successfully sell online.

In a series of articles published on www.webretailer.com, we give a step-to-step starter guide to help online sellers get set up.

We are dishing out details on how to choose a payment provider and the best way to accept payments online, including options for taking card payments and how to unearth the best deal.

Deciding what e-commerce platform to choose can also be hard in a market that’s saturated with products.

In this article, we look at what you need from an e-commerce platform, and how to select a suitable package and web host.

In the third piece, we give hot tips on choosing a domain name and the importance of getting it right so your business is branded correctly.

To take a look at the articles we wrote below:

Starting Out
http://www.webretailer.com/articles/

Choosing a payment provider
http://www.webretailer.com/articles/choosing-a-payment-provider.asp

Choosing an e-commerce platform
http://www.webretailer.com/articles/choosing-an-ecommerce-platform.asp

Choosing a domain name
http://www.webretailer.com/articles/choosing-a-domain-name.asp

Here at Dpivision.com HQ we’re busy working on the latest version of Tradingeye.

Version 6 of our award-winning shopping cart comes complete with a whole range of pioneering and improved features, including links to the eBay API, language packs, multi currency, promotions and much more.

We’re also rebuilding the admin panel from scratch to provide a cleaner, more modern and more user-friendly system.

The front end templates will also be re-worked to accommodate these new additions.

To have a look at the new features and screen grabs click on the link below and let us know what you think so far!

http://forum.tradingeye.com/showthread.php?t=733

The team at dpivision.com Ltd has gone and done it again. Our hard work, forward thinking and strive to push the boundaries in the online world has grabbed us a gong at the North East Digital Awards.

Our award-winning Tradingeye software caught the eye of the judges, winning top spot in the best example of accessibility category. They praised the project for raising the bar with online shopping and helping to make it accessible to all.

Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, project manager, said: “We’re delighted to have won this award and to have had our hard work recognised. “Dpivision.com prides itself on being inclusive and we strive to ensure that the online world is accessible to everyone.”

Tradingeye was released after dpivision.com Ltd noticed a gap in the global market. “There was a huge demand for an accessible XHTML/CSS compliant shopping cart, which complied with Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) so we took the lead and launched Tradingeye as one of the world’s first applications to achieve this high standard.”

Since then Tradinge has sold thousands of licenses world wide, has received international acclaim and has been praised by some of the industry’s leading experts.

Mr Baranoff-Rossine said: “We wanted to design software that appealed to everyone and was easy to use. “Tradingeye is also open source meaning it can be totally customised.”

And the good news doesn’t stop with us securing yet another award; the next major release of Tradingeye is due out later this year with exiting features like language packs, products attributes and a link to Ebay on the agenda. We also have the launch of Cannybill on the horizon. Keep checking out our blog for updates.

http://www.northeastdigitalawards.co.uk/browse/digital-innovators/best-example-of-accessibility/

http://www.onenortheast.co.uk/page/news/article.cfm?articleId=3081

By Andy Clarke, Stuff and Nonsense.

About Andy Clarke

Malarkey is Andy Clarke, a UK based designer, author and speaker who has a passion for design, CSS and web accessibility. Andy has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is a visual web designer and author and he founded Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. Andy regularly writes about creating beautiful, accessible web sites and he speaks at events worldwide. Andy is the author of Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, published by New Riders in 2006.

One in four web merchants do not know web shopping laws - Most internet shoppers do not know about their right to cancel and 28% of UK-based online traders are not aware or only slightly aware of the laws applying to internet shopping, according to a report published by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) recently.

“While 56% of internet shoppers surveyed did not know about their right to cancel under the Distance Selling Regulations, 29% did not know where to turn to get advice on their rights.”

Fact!

The UK internet shopping market is estimated to be worth over £21.4bn, and last year over 20 million people shopped online with nearly a third of them spending over £1,000, according to the OFT.