Wordpress 3.0 release will bring with it something I feel has been missing from the great publishing system – we will finally have a great navigation system. It looks to work similar to the widgets menu system and allow multiple menu control from one screen. The ability to add and order menu links by drag and drop and great control over the menu links themselves; you can add any existing page, a category of posts, a sub category of posts and external hyperlinks. Wordpress 3.0 is shaping up to be a great release.
A million downloads of 2.9 is astonishing, and less so is the immediate release of version 2.9.1 fixing a handful of minor bugs and one annoying one where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts. Check out the development blog for full details.
Shopify have released a new theme design called Onyx, its dark and minimal, there’s about 20 default themes in all now and as a starting point in Ecommerce with little budget use a default theme and add your branded header, get some orders flowing and look at your stats and then move to a tailored design.
Good and Bad Viral marketing will be spread across the Internets.
Shopify now integrates with Google Product Search (formerly Google Base). Using this free service is a great way to increase product promotion and discovery. Check your admin pages marketing tab and opt in by clicking the check box next to Google Product Search.
The Vendor Client Relationship in Real World Situations.
