Over the past 20 years as a Web Development Agency we have built, managed or otherwise supported hundreds of eCommerce websites. These range from small “Mom & Pop” shops to clients featured on Shark Tank doing millions of dollars in sales per month. This also means we have had a ringside seat to a number of bad ideas, some of which can easily be fixed with...
FDG Web serves a number of different clients in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. Here is a small sample of some consulting and development projects we have completed. Project Spotlight: Shopify Integration - Bella J., Las Vegas, NV We assisted this lifestyle beauty / gift brand, prior to their acquisition by Almar, by integrating their Shopify website with their...
Case Study: Shopping Cart Product Feed Integration: CS-Cart For this case study we are going to talk about how we took multiple product feeds and integrated them into a multi-location shopping cart system online. Client: Pet Depot Data Feed Format: e-DSS Shopping Cart: CS-Cart Scope of Work: Integrate various vendor product feeds (e.g. Lone Star) based on Pet Depot...
As a development firm located just outside of Seattle, we have a large body of experience working with the CAKEPHP MVC framework. If you have never used CAKEPHP it is an open-source, rapid development PHP framework. It provides a solid foundation and structure for frontend developers and programmers to create robust web applications. While we work with a number of...
What options exist for Inventory Management Systems for Shopify? One of the things that cost clients a lot of time and money is keeping up to date with all of the various shippers they want to use in their shopping cart or dealing with back office inventory management systems. Some of these are older legacy desktop applications that do not connect easily to...
This one will be quick - and it is not usually limited to just CS-Cart users. We see this on Joomla! and certain WordPress plugins as well. The need: "I want to be able to send email from my cart using SMTP and a full-fledged email account." Should be easy right? Not necessarily. The hosting platform you are on needs to be able to send email outbound from the port...
Often you will have a ruleset in Mod_Security that you want to override for a specific IP address or within a certain path in a website or an application. To do this you need to locate or create your Mod_Security white list file, then add this line: SecRule REMOTE_ADDR "^192.168.1.1$" phase:1,log,allow,ctl:ruleEngine=Off,id:999999 ...where id:999999 is the ID of the...
Shopping cart up-sell feature (using Bold Up-sell App): The shopping cart up-sell features App allows for special offers to be shown to users when they add a particular product or dollar amount into their cart. IMPORTANT – this is NOT a discount module. It WILL NOT allow you to specify a discount. This is probably because Shopify doesn’t want conflicts to easily...
Here's the first thing to look at for a fix for this issue: Your Office 365 connection may be failing on IPv6 Things are changing quickly with the adoption of IPv6 addressing. At nearly every step along the way between the seat you sit in and where you ultimately need to connect there's a lot that may or may not be fully compatible with the IPv6 protocol. e.g....
Securing Drupal, regardless of the version you are working with, is not that difficult. Security, as a baseline, is always a multi-layered exercise. Many clients do not understand that you have to work on securing everything that makes up your website - from server operating system all the way to the application layer. This post is not going to go into server...
