Etailology will be lacking updates this week as I’m on vacation. Hope you’re having a great summer… see you next week!
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
Here’s a roundup of links you might find interesting over the weekend:
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Small Potatoes: Comscore rates the top web properties and notes that 772 million people are online. Sounds like a lot of people, but it’s only about 11.6% of the planet.
Sticking to the Basics often Wins: Volusion gives some refresher courses on basic online commerce in their “Ecommerce 101″ Blog, including:A post which has basic tips on how to organize your online store.
An article on “building loyalty” but in truth it’s just about the basics of customer service online.
one on choosing an effective domain name.
and one on building effective landing pages.
Enjoy 
These fanciful words represent two emerging rich media technologies: AIR (from Adobe) and Silverlight (from Microsoft). Essemtially, these technologies are designed to enable advanced programmatic features on websites with significantly less development time. Think of them as Flash and AJAX and client-side-Java killers — but they may indeed be the ancestors of the kinds of applications you’ll run on your “desktop” in ten years.
GREAT article on why you should think of more than subscriber count when assessing a blog’s reach and influence on the Internet. (via MarketingSherpa)
Many of us forget the basics when browsing and testing our websites — and one of those basics we might not even see ourselves (because we know our way around) is the 404 Error page. The ecommerce-blog has a solid post the basic elements of a 404 page which should not be overlooked.
