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Internet Retailing Expo 2011 and Store Feeder

Mar24
2011 Leave a Comment Written by Gemma

After many weeks and many late nights, to the point where we dreamt in code, we’re proud to launch our multi-channel ecommerce software, Store Feeder, at the Internet Retailing Expo, NEC Birmingham.

What is Store Feeder?

Store Feeder is a multi-channel solution that allows you to complete all of your ecommerce tasks in one place. After discovering that many of our clients experience the same issues when selling their products across multiple channels we thought we’d do something about it. In the main the issues reported were the amount of admin involved in keeping all of the inventory up to date, having to deal with orders from different channels in different ways and updating each order with tracking information.

So we decided to take the pain out of multi-channel retailing and offer one interface that does it all. You can find out more about Store Feeder and get in touch to discuss your requirements at www.storefeeder.com.

Internet Retailing Expo 2011

WebCatch are at the Internet Retailing Expo with our sister company UK Fulfilment to demonstrate how our combined services can provide merchants with everything they could need to sell online.

With our expertise in ecommerce solutions, our multi-channel software AND UK Fulfilment’s ability to process your orders it’s a winning combination.

Having over 15 years of multi-channel fulfillment under its belt, UK Fulfilment is well placed to handle all your orders. With same day dispatch, online stock & order management systems, low cost worldwide carrier rates and secure storage facilities, UK Fulfilment can save you money on your order processing operations.

If you dropped by to see us then let us know what you thought, or if you didn’t get a chance to make it to the exhibit then give us a call to see how we can help your business.

How to hide your Joomla! admin url… again

May14
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Jakub

You might be thinking: ‘Hey, but it was already discussed on your blog’. Yes it was (here), but since then a few things have changed. Mainly, the extension that we suggested in the previous post went commercial and you now have to pay for it. We are always on the lookout for cheaper or, better yet, free alternatives in order to provide the best value to our customers.

After some digging we found a replacement by the name ‘kareebu Secure‘ or kSecure in short. It is 100% free and open soruce (released under the GPLv3 license). It provides all the functionality that the previous extension provided and adds some new features like HTTP Authentication. If you choose this option, instead of adding the secret to the end of your admin url (…/administrator?secret_word) you will need to provide it in the popup box that your browser will open on loading …/administrator.

Junior Web Designer Required

Mar30
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

WebCatch are an exciting young web company now entering their third year of business. We are currently looking for a full time Junior Web Designer to be based in our Nottingham office.

As a junior web designer you will receive training from our existing web design team. Your role will include the designing of client websites as well as front end development. You should have knowledge of valid XHTML and CSS mark-up. Your main requirement is to demonstrate a passion for design and the Internet with a willingness to learn.

In order to apply for this role we ask that you have an up to date portfolio of work, either personal or professional. We also require that you supply a covering e-mail to jobs@webcatch.co.uk detailing your current skill set and expected salary.

Required skills: Adobe suite, XHTML, CSS

Desired: Flash, JQuery, Use of Joomla!

Strictly no agencies!!!

The perfect page rank

Feb15
2010 Leave a Comment Written by admin

I know we shouldn’t get too obsessed with page rank but I always like to keep a look out for websites that get a perfect 10 page rank, this changes each quarter and we should be due for an update very soon,  below is a list of all the sites that have a pr 10.

Title

PR

GBLs ( Google’s Fake representation refer webmaster tools for )

YBLs

URL

Google Search

10

132,000

1,041,958,589

http://www.google.com

World Wide Web Consortium

10

33,000

66,868,007

http://www.w3.org/

US Goverment website

10

29,800

5,507,662

http://www.usa.gov/

Adobe – Adobe Reader Download

10

 366,000

1,426,347

http://get.adobe.com/reader/

National Portal of India

10

2,270

250,770

http://india.gov.in/

United States Department of Health and Human Services

10

34,400

2,528,270

http://www.hhs.gov/ and http://www.dhhs.gov both redirects to same URL.

Europeana

10

5,030

458,308

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

CNN

10

46,100

23,149,725

http://www.cnn.com/

Miibeian

10

31,200

824,087,644

http://www.miibeian.gov.cn/

Social Bookmarking Sharing Button Widget

10

151,000

340,345,651

http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php

ScienceDirect

10

8,200

1,539,714

http://www.sciencedirect.com/

I will post the result of the next update. It will be interesting with the ever-changing parameters that Google puts in our way to see if this list increases or shrinks.

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How to hide your Joomla! admin url

Jan15
2010 Leave a Comment Written by Jakub

One of the features we missed most when adopting Joomla! as our CMS was the possibility to change the admin url from the standard http://yoursite.com/administrator to something more secret. Yes, we now that secuirty by obscutiy is not really effective, but we believe that it can’t hurt and will at least keep some of your nosy visitors from trying to guess your passwords.

As this functionality is not inbuilt, we had to look for a plugin that takes care of hiding the backend’s url. After a moment of googling we found the jSecure Authentication plugin (download link). As you can see on the plugin’s site in Joomla! Extensions Directory, it has excellent user ratings and is quite popular among the Joomla! community. That’s a really important aspect, because it means that it is highly compatible with different Joomla! installations and is thoroughly tested. Once you have downloaded the plugin’s zip package, here’s what you need to do to apply it to your Joomla! site:

  1. Login to your Joomla! backend and go to Extensions->Install/Uninstall. Upload the downloaded package and install it.
  2. Go to Extensions->Plugin Manager and filter your results by ‘jsecure’ to find your newly installed plugin.
  3. Before enabling the plugin remember to set it up. You can do this by clicking on the plugin in the Plugin Manager.
  4. In the plugin configuration you will notice a Parameters box on the right side of the page. There you can set the Key, which will be your secret phrase that needs to be added to your admin url in order to access the backend. For the purpose of this post, let’s assume that we set it to ‘secretword’.
  5. You can also configure what will happen when someone tries to access the standard yoursite.com/administrator url. It is controlled by the ‘Redirect Options’ parameter. You can either redirect the user to your homepage, or display a custom page. You could, for example, prepare a website saying something like: “My site is not that easily hackable” and teach the wrongdoer a lesson ;)

After all the configuration is done and the plugin is enabled you will no longer be able to access your backend by going to yoursite.com/administrator. You will need to use yoursite.com/administrator/?secretword, substituting the secretword with whatever you have set in the plugin’s configuration.

UPDATE: The jSecure extension went commercial and you now have to pay for it. In a followup post we present a free alternative with even more functions…