Tutorials, FAQ's and Help

Need help figuring something out? We've compiled a few helpful tutorials, FAQs, files, and other information to help you out in your e-commerce journeys. If you have any further questions, feel free to Contact Us.

Tutorials

• Search Engine Optimization Tips - Improving Search Engine Rankings - How can I make my site appear at the top of the Google search results? Here is a collection of tips and information about SEO.
• AbleCommerce Image Tutorial - This tutorial covers creating product images and thumbnails for AbleCommerce. It covers resizing, cropping, and adjusting size in HTML as well as how to get the smallest file sizes. This is also a great tutorial for any web image creation, not just AbleCommerce products. A page at the end of the tutorial contains some useful links.
• Tables Tutorial - Are you having trouble with getting your product descriptions, webpage content, and other information to display neatly? This tutorial gives a quick overview on how to use tables to lay out your information in a clean and organized way.
• Fonts Tutorial - Need help deciding what fonts to use on your web site? Don't understand why you can't use that really cool font you found? This tutorial should help you through the quirks and issues with using fonts on your web site.
• AbleCommerce API Tutorial - This provides a quick overview of how to use the AbleCommerce 5.5 CFMX API (JavaDocs) to aid in the development of AbleCOmmerce sites.

• W2M e-Commerce Newsletters - Periodically Web 2 Market sends out e-mails with Tips, Tricks and Information on e-Commerce, Web Development and related articles, especially how to make your Mail Order software work for you on the web.
• AbleCommerce Features & Design Guide - This guide contains some of the items that you may want to consider when deciding on features to include and the site design.
• AbleCommerce Design Considerations - This guide contains some questions to ask and more items that you may want to consider when deciding on your AbleCommerce site design.

• Website Design & AbleCommerce Configuration Questionnaire - This PDF file contains a form that you may print and fill out. This PDF questionnaire contains questions that will need to be answered to help guide us in the right direction for creating a web page design for your company. It also includes a section about configuring AbleCommerce and a lengthy appendix with examples, supplemental information, and additional resources.
• Customer Service Module Configuration Questionnaire - This PDF file contains a form that you may print and fill out. This PDF questionnaire contains questions that will need to be answered for the configuration of your Customer Service Module.
• Inventory Module Configuration Questionnaire - This PDF file contains a form that you may print and fill out. This PDF questionnaire contains questions that will need to be answered for the configuration of your Inventory Module.
• Customer Service Module - Report, Table and Field Descriptions - A quick summary of the reports used by the Customer Service Module, the tables created by the reports and the fields in those tables.
• TightVNC - TightVNC is a remote desktop connection application that we use with our clients to access their computers for tasks such as installing Scheduled Automatic Updates for our modules. If you need to download the TightVNC software use the first link at the top of the Stable Version section (Self-installing package for Windows). TightVNC is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
• RealVNC - RealVNC is an alternate version of VNC. There is a free version and a paid version with some additional features.
• More Coming Soon!

• AbleCommerce - AbleCommerce® 5.5 now featuring content management with advanced WYSIWYG editor from DevEdit, live shipping calculations for UPS, USPS, FedEx and Canada Post. Plus Affiliate tracking, Coupons, Search Engine Spider Map, Wishlist, Drop Shipping, POS terminal, Split Shipments, Electronic Software Delivery, CSS support and email manager!
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