Susan Ireland is the author of “The complete idiots guide to the perfect resume’. Her site was originally made in early 2000 and it was time for a complete overhaul. It needed over 400 pages of content migrated into the WordPress environment, a new hosting company and the re-direction of all the old urls from the old site.

In addition we created a new area call “Ready-Made Resumes” which is a premium content section for members only. This section accepts paypal and credit card payments to gain access and has over 4 different membership levels.

Services provided:

Photoshop design work.
Custom WordPress theme development.
Jquery and Nivo slider javascript.
Logo Development.
Content Development

This is a beautiful site. The photography is excellent, the presentation is very good and easy to navigate and the look is clean and professional.

An E-commerce site built with the Magento Commerce software. Magento is a robust platform that allows for the creation of large online catalogs.

Wise Solutions is offering clean alternative replacements to the petrochemical cleaners, lubrication and agricultural inputs that are so pervasive in our culture and economy.

This site is a powerhouse e commerce catalog. It has many configurable products, an easy checkout page that is streamlined to keep your customers from abandoning their cart as well as an extensive pdf library and an affiliate program.

The affiliate program allows other webmasters to promote the products on their site and tracks the sales they generate and pays them a monthly commission.

Services Provided:

Website Design and development.
Banner and logo development.
Affiliate program integration.
Site migration from old html version to a dynamic php driven e commerce platform.

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Create a free web site/blog at this WordPress Multisite and Buddypress enabled website. Custom design work and content implementation.

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Delicious honey and wonderful salves, ointments and tinctures are the highlights of this site. All products are from the hives located in Santa Cruz County.

Services Provided:

Web Design and Development
Photography
E-Commerce capabilities
Label and Package Design

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This is a business directory that accepts free listing of cannabis related products and services. It also has a paid ‘Sponsored” and ‘Premium’ listing capability to upgrade a listing to the top of a category.

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Created with WordPress and using eShop e-commerce plugin.

A multi-language site published in English, French and Portuguese for renown Brazilian psychologist Tina De Souza. Language switcher allows visitors to select their preference for reading.

The Magento Website

There are two options for working with Magento, the first is the free ‘Community Edition’. The second option is a is a fully featured version geared towards corporations, it’s called the ‘Enterprise Edition’ and comes complete with end-to-end product support and, among other things, a better CMS; it’s priced from $11,125 USD per year. Check out the feature comparison chart on the Magento site to find out which one is best for you.

The Magento website is also a great source for learning more about this software. The Knowledge Base contains articles about all the functions available and is community driven so the the information is up to date and relevant to situations that other users have encountered.

Magento Connect is a resource for free and premium add on modules to extend the functionality of the software and chances are you can find a solution here for adding the “bells and whistles” that you want for your site.

Two more information packed areas of their site are the Forums and Wiki.

Guides for Using Magento

These are specific guides to using Magento that I’ve encountered while learning the software myself that can be very helpful when getting started.

Spoox Web Agency has published a couple of guides that contain a lot of information. Their Magento Quick Tour will give you a good overview of the software. For a more in depth look try the Magento User Guide. Also if you choose to dive in more deeply they have the Designers Guide to Magento.

WebResources Depot has published an in depth user guide that will teach you how to set up a development store for learning the software and how to configure and use the administration interface. The Ultimate Guide To Creating E-Commerce Websites With Magento Part 1 and Part 2 will answer many of your questions.

Blasted Thing is a website dedicated to publishing articles about Magento on a daily basis. Written by Sam Davis, this site should be in your bookmarks if you are serious about learning Magento. It has new articles almost everyday that are “aimed at promoting and helping users’ in their quest to tame the beast of an E-Commerce platform.”

Nublue has two articles that will be very helpful in the beginning of setting up your online shop. One Click Magento Install Guide will have Magento installed in almost one click and will have you set up in no time. Using Magento Connect will teach you how to keep the software version up to date after it is installed as well as how to add additional modules.

How to Setup Multiple Magento Stores by Crucial Hosting is the source I used for setting up multiple stores on different domains using one installation of Magento. This article will get you set up quickly and easily.

MagJournal
MagJournal is a blog dedicated to all things Magento. Its’ got some great content too, covering SEO, hosting and themes. They also have a helpful Tips and Tricks section.

Installing Magento on Dreamhost
No doubt some of you will need to install Magento on Dreamhost, and this helpful guide by Webinade walks you through the entire process.

SEO and Magento
Making sure your website is SEO friendly is critical these days, and that goes for web shops too. Make sure your Magento build ticks all the right boxes so that you get all the love you deserve from Google. Learn more from Yoast.

Get busy

These guides should keep you busy for hours. When you choose to enter into the e-commerce marketplace you can count on many hours of study and work. Setting up an online store is not a simple thing to accomplish. Be prepared to work hard and eventually your efforts will be rewarded. There’s nothing quite like having a steady online income and it can open up a lot of freedom in your life.

This add on will allow you to search your keywords and see the number of searches performed for that specific key word or phrase. IT will also keep track of the number of times you have used a specific keyword in your post. This is a great keyword research tool that will allow you to perform a real time keyword analysis while you are writing.

To use the add on just open the extension from your Firefox browser. You can now perform a keyword search and get immediate results displayed about real time searches for your keywords. It will display a list of suggested keywords and phrases that you can then add to your list. It will then automatically track the use of your keywords and phrases as you type.

In addition, the Wordtracker Academy on their website has many articles related to optimizing your content for the search engines. It is a great source of information for you to get your site ranking higher in search results and getting a boost in traffic.

Check it out and give their free tool a try. Keep in mind that this is a Firefox browser Add-on, so you will need to use Firefox as your browser.