What's New in Version 12.1
24 New Holiday Themes
24 new holiday themes just in time to give your website a Holiday
"look". Just use your Site Manager's simple store layouts
switching feature and change your store front appearance for Thanksgiving,
Christmas or Winter Holiday.
New Product Details Page
For version 12 layouts, we introduce a new, totally redesigned product
details page. This new design improves the appearance of this most
important page in the purchase decission making. Less cluter, grouped
details, reviews, questions and answers and a large "Add to
Cart"
button will help converting potential shoppers into actual buyers.
New Cross Promotion Widget
The newly designed cross promotion widget integrates naturally with
the new product detail page. Offering enhanced flexibility in displaying
items related to the featured product in the page, this new widget
offers interaction and a compact view.
Enhancements and Fixes
- Unobtrusive Javascript: we replaced all Javascript links present
in the non-secure pages on your e-commerce website with more search
engines friendly links. This enhancement takes andvantage of the
current browsers' capability to display a page in a separate tab
by using Ctrl+click.
- Improvements to the website launch messaging which requires a
confirmation before sending an email to selected contacts.
- We added an option in the shopper registration process for marketing
purposes where an owner can track where did the new shopper heard
about the store.
- Added a "select all" option for editing uploaded zip code files.
- In order to increase compatibility and improve consistency with
standard based browsers we further removed legacy code and enhanced
existing pages. Optionally, you can insert a logo and
a link to the W3C validation page at the bottom of most pages.
When clicked by a visitor, this will test the respective page
against the W3C validation tool.
- In order to shorten response times to your website accross the
country, we implemented a CDN (Content Delivery Network). This
system deploys images, scripts, and other website content to multiple
Internet major connection points. If your visitors are closer to
these points, your website pages will download faster for them
than when served from a single, centralized location.
- If you are taking advantage of our Android platform mobile application,
you can now insert application names containing dashes (-).
- Fixed an issue with PayPal checkout where user identification
data was lost when transmitting data from an online store to PayPal.
The user id data is now also supplied by accessing another database
as a backup.
- Fixed an issue with layout 114 where accessing the larger image
page in product detail page the text was unreadable.
- Added some image sliders and video widgets that were missing
in the initial release for version 12 layouts.
- Fixed the importing contacts feature for Gmail in Website Launch
option.
- Fixed an issue with the appearance of pages in the Affiliate
section for layout 112.
- Fixed the appearance of a page in the checkout process where
shipping options are presented.
What's New in Version 12
8 New Layouts
Every business owner wants to have a unique store front. With every
annual release we provide more and more website layouts for your
choosing. Equiped with the latest widgets and enhancements, our layouts
are cross browser compatible and conform to the latest standards
in terms of programming.
Advertising Banners Display
It's no secret that advertising is "big" on the Web. And
it can provide extra revenue for an online business owner. Harness
the power of Google banner advertising programs, or any other advertising
publisher. Start advertising on your website, or place affiliate
banners from other businesses, and start collecting extra revenue.
Products Display Widget
Shoppers want to find products and information as fast as possible,
And their search for information starts on the homepage. We've decided
to redesign our product presentation widgets in order to help them
achieve this goal in a fast and easy manner. The new widgets have
new information about inventory, ratings by other shoppers, regular
and discount pricing, and an Add to Cart button.
For a full list of features and available packages, check the SMC
eCommerce Website page.
Enhancements and Fixes
- enhanced the shopping cart page by allowing for quantity editing
in the same page; until now, in order to edit quantity of items
in the cart, a shopper was taken back to the product details page
- enhanced website launch email with addition of contacts from
Gmail; up to 50 email addresses are now allowed per announcement
- improved order tracking for orders placed with SMC and auction
websites; the invoice number is now present also in the order details
page and can be used for sorting all orders
- enhanced shopper registration process with marketing oriented
survey feature where registrants are asked to select how they found
your website
- improved display for credit card logos in order to shorten the
length of Web pages
- improved user name selection when a user first signs into the
Site Manager and is asked to change it; the previous code allowed
for insertion of blank spaces and this aspect was leading to conflicts
with the upgrade process; this login screen now requires to use
names without blank spaces
- improved navigation for products displayed on the homepage by
inserting links in the titles; until now, only the product images
had links to details about a product
- improved search engines indexing by switching dynamically created
links in the sitemap page to static html links.
- fixed a page display issue with Firefox browsers due to a miss
configured script
- for websites upgraded from previous versions, the default pagination
display in search results pages with multiple pages was set to
a now removed option; we fixed this issue and now the pagination
widget works correctly
- fixed a data/header conflict for Data Update where when selecting
to delete all discontinued SMC products and no products were available
for this option, two confusing messages were displayed
- increased icon sizes for sharing pages on social networks
- improved Android application setup process by implementing a
step-by-step wizard
- provided distinct links for Android smartphone applications files
where the core file, screenshots and icons can now be downloaded
separately in order to avoid popup blockers
- added Google Analytics for traffic tracking on Android application
- improved output for printing an order to eliminate extra blank
spaces
- removed the redeem gift card link from the shopping navigation
category which is redundant given the existence of a specialized
widget for this option
- fixed a link for submitting websites to the Bing search engine
- fixed an issue when using USPS as a shipper for packages: invalid
characters were generated
