LBS Premium features

Those of us who has been using LBS are looking forward to the the premium version which is due out by the end of this month. It come with and unbelivable array of new features, some of the features you can expect from LBS premium follows:

- multiple currency support
- use pre made or custom templates
- category and or alphabetic navigation
- advanced SE stats, backlinks info and Google PR info
- SE Stats updating automatically
- screenshots of the listed sites
- enable or disable stats
- outbid mail notification options
- link order management for separate pages
- maintenance mode
- home page links on or off
- Google Map
- listing expiry mode: never expire, 30 day, 60 day … etc
- free mode option
- free mode with backlinks
- language management
- enable disable the pages: about us, terms, top links
- enable or disable address submission
- set rel follow or nofollow
- dual captcha option: lbs or recaptcha
- set bid limits
- admin management
- manage the links number per page
- welcome text management
- category management
- manage separate the bids, active listings and inactive listings
- orders management
- shopping basket
- link fields management from the admin section
- page content management for: about, terms, news pages
- add custom pages
- blogroll type linkroll
- email templates management
- templates management
- google adsenses option
- integrated google and yahoo site map generator
- very detailed SE stats management
- bad word filter
- IP ban
- Domain ban
- MySQL management with backup option
- TAGS, not required
- search form
- PayPal IPN integrated
- ready for PHP v6
- improved subcategory management
- SE stats now is with CURL

Wye Valley Runners New Website

For thousands of small clubs and associations across the UK, online presence is absolutely crucial this days. Most organisations tends to have a website but maintaining and updating it can be a problem sometime, whether dues to lack of fund to hire a dedicated webmaster to look after the site or the limited ability of club members who volunteer to maintain a club or associations website. A good example of a club that recently break the above vicious circle is Wye Valley Runners, a Hereford Running club.

Wye Valley Runner is the largest running club in Herefordshrie with over 300 members. Their website Wye Valley Runners was one of the quickest ways of getting information across to members. The site which was hard code when if was first created was recently transformed into a much easier to manage and update website with the us or WordPress with the addition of mods that makes the site an effective Contents Management Systems making updating and add new information to the website much easier.

The new CMS powered website now makes publishing Wye Valley Runners members and club activities much easier with a magazine style wordpress theme which was specially customised to make the latest articles posted to the site display on the homepage. Most Wye Valley Runners club members express how easy the new site has made obtaining race results and other club information.

Dot Eco domain name extension on its way

The days when new top level domain names (TLD) are created or open up for registration to non nationals or that country are further and far between, that leaves sponsored top level domains name (sTLD) to flourish, one of the most recent sTLDs being the .mobi domains name.

The new momentum given to the environment lobby by the election of the first US president to take climate change very seriously and the success of other environment pressure group including environmental activities of the former US Vice-President AL Gore has put a massive wind in the sail of green group world wide, to show this new momentum, eco group want to create their own domain name extension to be called dot eco or .eco.

Two environmental groups are known to be canvassing support to take control of the .eco domain name space. One is a US based consortium called Dot Eco put a bit together in March 2009, the bit which is yet to be submitted to ICANN was had the blessing of Al Gore.
Big Room a Canadian environment group has just launched a rival bid to control .eco, both groups have 2010 as the potential go live date for .eco domain name.

Minor Childers, co-founder of Dot Eco said “Ours is to sell domain names to raise funds for organisations who can affect change.” , he added that up to 57% of their profile will be distributed to environment groups.

Big Room business plan is not to far from that of the Dot Eco, they are planning spend money generated from the sales of .eco domain names to fund sustainability projects around the world. Big Room consortium which includes organisation like WWF International and Green Cross, also believe that .eco could be used as a labelling system to endorse companies with green credentials.

If Big Room was granted the license to run .eco, they will only allow companies that meat certain criteria to register the .eco web address, similar to the way the .coop web address is registered.

Dot-Eco would also require organisation applying to register .com domain name should they win the bid to provide some green credentials but it will not be as strict as the one proposed by Big Room.

Win a shopping cart worth £199

One of the ways some online traders have been combating the recession is through additional orders pouring in from new customers outside UK who usually do not buy from UK because of the strong pound. Since the start of the recession, the pound sterling has lost about 30% of its value, at one point it was virtually on par with Euro, making products and services in UK more affordable to EU countries, this lead to some online traders getting additional revenue of up to 35% from the EU.

If you are not already selling online, how about the opportunity for you to win your own ecommerce shopping cart that could help you start selling online within a few hours? UK Webmaster Forum, Webmaster server is offering to give one lucky winner a Boss Cart Premium shopping cart. There is no long-winded entry form, you just need to register at Webmaster Server, visit the win a shopping cart thread, update it and you could be the winner.

It is highly recommended that you visit the forum and win a copy of Boss Cart and start taking advantage or the online retail opportunity that savvy ecommerce merchants have been taking to increase their sale in this recession.

Google Checkout store gadget – shopping cart from Google

Given the fact that Google has been sticking its fingers in every possible pie online, its not grate surprise when Google announce the launch of their shopping cart which they call Google checkout store gadget. Google has been know to lead in online technology but with this new entry level shopping cart they are following. Google checkout store gadget and in fact the concept of Google Checkout is not unlike Paypal and PayPal shopping cart, where Google try to be different is the simplicity and ease of use.

In Google Checkout store gadget API, it is claimed you can have and online store setup and running in under five minutes without any need for coding or technical knowledge.

Google Checkout store gadget as you may have guessed run with Google Checkout so you cannot use it without signing up for Google Checkout first. The process is fairly simple once you have Google Checkout account out of the say. You just list your products in a Google spreadsheet, and then embed your new store in a website. Small, medium, and large sizes are available.

The shopping cart which is still in its beta stages is not robust enough to compare with established shopping carts online, its just away of getting more business for Google Checkout and of course other Google applications.

If you are looking for a robust ecommerce shopping cart software, application like Boss Cart its what you need, apart from giving you the flexibility of using any payment gateways you need, its fully fledged, tried and tested.