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What is the most efficient way to migrate an Actinic ecommerce website to Magento?

toocan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:17:50 -0800

What is the most efficient way to migrate an Actinic ecommerce website to Magento. I have a clean install of Magento and an existing Actinic website (around 3000 products). I thought maybee do a product export from Magento to a CSV then do the same from Actinic then manually copy content from the Actinic CSV to the Magento CSV. But having looked at how Actinic exports its data (in rowed sections) it appears to be very time consuming... so my question is there a better way or more efficient way of doing this?

ass gas or grass?

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:53:01 -0800

What are some examples of Medium-High Traffic websites that have successfully started to make money and how did they do it? It's been 5 years since This Question and many things have happened on the web. I help to run a pretty high traffic (~150k visitors a month) site in a specific demographic. I have some ideas about how to make money off of it without driving away our users, but some examples of others that went from labor of love to money-making without a lot of fuss or being sold would be helpful, but I can only think of giant ones, or Metafilter, obviously. Unique details would help a lot.

Thanks!

Is there any referral program for an accessory portal?

brinks — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:03:57 -0800

I want to create a website that has collection of accessories for a particular gadget. Lets say a Zune. Users can go to my website and see all available accessories and perhaps reviews. I want to add some affiliate widget or something so that it will show places where you can buy this accessory. Does anyone know who offers this service? Maybe if the user clicks through my website and buys an item from that estore, I get a small kick back?

How to charge money for Web content

bricoleur — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:34:08 -0800

If you were a web developer who needed to set up a subscribers-only section of a website, where the subscriptions are paid for online (credit card and possibly PayPal), and auto-renew by default, how would you go about it? Would you find a payment gateway that handles auto-renewing subscriptions and use their API to build a little checkout app? Or find an off-the-shelf cart that supports such a gateway, and just set the cart up and enable the gateway? Or is there an altogether better way? Additional constraint: The solution has to work on a Windows server.

Specific product/service recommendations appreciated.

Looking for examples of GREAT product detail pages on ecommerce sites...

rschroed — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 15:03:00 -0800

Looking for examples of GREAT product detail pages on ecommerce sites... I'm designing my first ecommerce site and I'm on the lookout for examples of great product detail pages. (start backwards!) Not so much amazon, ebay, more defunker.com, threadless.com, 2modern.

Web 2.0 is slow to catch up with ecommerce and it seems like so many sites hide the important stuff, "price" "add to cart", have small product images, etc. WHY?!

Memorandum Conundrum

DannyUKNYC — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:05:44 -0800

An agreement signed some time ago is now proving difficult to dissolve, due to loss of contact with the other person. If a 'Memorandum of Understanding' was signed and then the parties are no longer in contact, can one party dissolve the agreement/partnership without the consent of the other and re-start the business alone? Much more inside... I am posting this on behalf of a friend with this business-oriented conundrum. Any advice would be much appreciated:

In 2000, while still in college, I developed a prototype for an ecommerce website and presented it to my Computers in Communication class (I still have the records). Upon graduation, I intended to start my own company based on the website concept.

In 2001, I moved to NY and posted an advertisement seeking a business partner who had the technological know-how to create an ecommerce website. An Indian ecommerce web guru contacted me - we soon formed a relationship and created a Memorandum of Understanding that we would own the company (but it was my concept, with my name) 50/50. He contributed ideas that I did not like at all, wanted to take company in a different direction, and also did not want to contribute any money while retaining 50% ownership. Don't get me wrong - he was a good guy and respectful of my ideas. But I did not like our arrangement and should have dissolved it right there. At the time, I was young and naive and sort of ignored whole situation and focused on getting a day job. We really didn't get any work done together, never put anything online. The only work that was completeed follows: I explained concept to him, I came up with logo designs, and name of company. The only thing he helped with was telling me how to buy a domain name and help draft the memorandum of understanding, which we had notarized, which explains that we each own 50% of (name of company) which is an eccommerce site designed to X(function of site).

Soon after we created and notarized the MOU, a lot of family/job changes occured, and I got wrapped up in those and ignored our company. I soon lost touch with my partner, and never pursued the company although I never forgot about the project.

Several years have gone by and I would now love to start this company ALONE. I worked for several years in marketing and promotions and now have a much better grasp on how to market the site, and realize I should have definitely retained full ownership of the site. All I needed to do was pay someone a few thousand dollars to create the website.

I emailed my partner at every email adress I could find on Google, including the ones I have on file, in the hopes of creating a peaceful dissolution of partnership. I called him at the phone number I have on record - the number has been disconnected. I have no idea where he is. I want to break our partnership, but I have no way to contact him. Can I start the site without him? What happens if it becomes successful and he sues me - does he still have rights? I just wanted to find out what I should do before I started the website - stop the mess before it starts. Should I go ahead and create site without first finding him? Or should I not do anything until I can track him down?