By Frank Wang on
8/20/2008 3:37 PM
Due to various reasons, we have decided to stop selling on snowcovered.com. If you placed your order there and need to get the latest install package, please send us your user account on alicommerce.com, together with your order information, we'll update your account as soon as possible. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
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By Frank Wang on
7/23/2008 5:31 AM
In the past years, we have seen DotNetNuke community struggling to find an affordable, easy to use and powerful e-commerce solution. There are quite a few shopping carts and a couple of them even have a long feature sets, but none of them meets the standards above – they are all developed by programmers and for programmers. The most fatal issue with these carts is that they are too complicated for non-technical users, usually much more complicated than they need to be. Too often, we see people crying for help in the forums for weeks to just get their stores online. That is just the beginning of a long painful process. Cluttered user interface, slow response time, lengthy checkout process and bizarre errors make it impossible for storeowners to professionally run an online store. In the end, most of these e-commerce solutions are abandoned and replaced by other alternatives, mostly PHP-based solutions. As a result, the reputation of DNN as an e-commerce platform suffers because of failure of the DNN c
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By Frank Wang on
7/21/2008 4:31 AM
This is probably old news. We released AliCommerce 2.0.4 last week. This release is free for our existing customers. It is a minor release including the following fixes and enhancements...
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By Frank Wang on
6/23/2008 4:07 AM
Today I'm pleased to announce that AliCommerce 2.0 is released officially after 6-month development. This is the first major release since AliCommerce 1.0 was released last October. Most feature and enhancement requests we received in last 8 months are implemented in this release. While a few important features are missing, we can still confidently say overall it's comparable to ANY asp.net shopping cart in the world, let alone DNN shopping cart.
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By Frank Wang on
6/6/2008 4:21 PM
Since this question has been asked many times, I think it's worth an entry in blog.
Some New features in AliCommerce 2.0
- Unlimited variant attributes per product, like size and colour.
- Enable/Disable some variants
- Variants can override information like name, SKU, descriptions, prices, weight, shipping fee, handling fee and image.
- Track inventory for specified variants.
- 3 display templates for variant attributes – Drop down list, radio button list and image radio button list.&&am
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By Frank Wang on
5/27/2008 4:58 PM
Just FYI, DNN 4.8.3 Released. This release fixes 4 security vulnerabilities reported in the last two weeks. If you're running a DNN production site, I strongly recommend you upgrade it to the latest version.
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By Frank Wang on
5/20/2008 9:55 PM
Just a quick update. The following features/enhancements are finished.
- Human friendly url
- Localization
- Improvements on category templates for better SEO and support of banner image and description
- PayPal Website Payments Pro
Beta 2 will be released on 26 May and we plan to release the final version around 16 June.
Thank you for your patience.
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By Frank Wang on
5/18/2008 4:49 AM
First let me introduce myself. My name is Frank Wang and I'm software architect of AliCommerce. I have been working in IT industry for 11 years. I hold both bachelor and master degrees in computer engineering and love programming.
This is the first blog I ever wrote. Coming from a non-English speaking background, I found writing software is fun, but writing an article or blog in English is hard. This is the main reason I only started blogging today.
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