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Official WooCommerce Payment Express Payment Gateway released
For those who have been waiting for a solution, we are pleased to announce the release of our Payment Express payment gateway option for the WooCommerce online store solution. The Payment Express plugin for WooCommerce requires the PxPay option (contact Payment Express support to get yours – there is no charge), and is available for purchase from the WooCommerce Extension store, here:...
read moreHoliday Hours
We wish all our clients a Happy Christmas and New Year, and hope you take the time to recharge over the break. Thankyou for your business in 2011 and we look forward to working with you in the New Year. Our office will be closed from Friday 23rd December 4PM, reopening on 9 January 2012 at 9AM. Please note that we will have limited access to e-mail and phone until 9th January 2012 and may not be able to respond promptly. If you have any urgent enquiries during this time, please contact urgent@opmc.biz, and one of our team will attend to it as...
read moreAn online store in 45 minutes with WooCommerce – Part II
Well we’ve now spent a bit more time on our new Woocommerce online store, adding in some of the fantastic Powertraveller Solar Power charging products. Check out the site here: www.shoppinglive.com.au While no design time has been put into this site yet, it displays quite neatly without doing anything. Over at WooThemes you can buy ready made designs for your WooCommerce store. It’s just a case of buying the option you want. Note if you buy what is called a “Child” theme, you need to buy the Parent theme too. So for...
read moreAn online store in 45 minutes with WooCommerce – Part I
Are you looking to sell online and think WooCommerce might be the perfect match for your business? Read on… We’ve heard about WooCommerce, so wanted to find out what it was and how it worked. The mission Set up an online store with WooCommerce, cross fingers it works. The outcome An online store set up and working, that can actually sell something, in 45 minutes. While it wasn’t beautiful looking at that point, it was definitely good enough given the effort that went into it. Here’s what it looks like: With some TLC...
read moreHas your WordPress website been hacked? How to tell
With WordPress being so popular, it’s also open to some serious hacking potential. Has your WordPress website been hacked? Or, do you think it might have been hacked but you’re not sure? How do you tell? The truth is, you can’t really tell unless you know what you’re looking for. Sometimes it’s easier to tell, with things like: You visit your website and it redirects to some other website that it’s not supposed to. All sorts of strange things appear on your website – usually lots of text. Things...
read moreOS X Lion – Part 2 – something not so good – “thinking time”
One of the great things about OS X is that it doesn’t tell you all the errors or problems that it has. If you need to know, you can find out. But otherwise it will leave you alone and only tell you things you need to know. I realised how much I had taken this for granted when I recently needed to use Windows. The first 5 minutes there were 10 errors I got told about, none of which I needed to know about. It’s one of those things that is just plain annoying more than anything else. This is where Apple’s Lion operating system...
read moreOS X Lion – Part 1 – something good – restarting
OS X Lion is Apple’s new operating system. I was hesitant to upgrade, as it seemed it might be like swapping to an experience similar to an iPhone or iPad, which I wasn’t entirely keen on given it might simplify everything and take away some power features. But earlier this week I took the plunge, and everything seems to be working well so far. And, it’s much better than I thought it would be. One of the issues with being a power user, is I find things start to go downhill after awhile, and a restart is necessary. But when...
read moreHow to get a DIY online store, without doing the technical stuff yourself
You might have thought about setting up an online store for your business, but not ready to pay to have someone do it for you. But equally, you don’t really want to have to try and figure out all the technical setup yourself, as you may not know where to start. We’ve got a solution for you. If you take our advice about the Storefrontthemes.com online store solution we’ve mentioned before here, then for a fraction of the cost of having the store professionally setup, we can offer our install only service. With this, we will...
read moreHelp for Distribute.IT customers – Assistance with transfer of web hosting, domain name management, and e-mail services for affected customers.
This is a message for customers of Distribute.IT, in Australia, whose websites were recently impacted by a hacking attack. This was recently reported in SMH.com.au We would like to offer our services to help you get your website and other services up and running again. We can: -Transfer the management of your domain name. -Set up web hosting and e-mail services for you. -Set up a temporary website for you if you wish. Feel free to click here to make an enquiry about transferring away from Distribute.IT if you wish, and we can advise...
read moreNew SpringFitness.com.au initiative launched today
We are proud to launch SpringFitness.com.au today, in conjunction with Design Thread. Spring is an initiative designed to get people moving, demonstrate the impact this has on their mood and raise over $500,000 for the Black Dog Institute. So, sign up today and help raise awareness and much needed funds for the Black Dog Institute with the Spring Fitness program – it’s a tiny $30 for a whole month of training exercises and...
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