Christ Juwellery opened up a mobile marketing campaign before Christmas that apparently failed miserably. I am interested in your opinion why this could happen to such a big player with apparently enough of marketing budget.
A Fantastic Pre-Christmas Week in Freiburg
Last week, all OXID stuff came together in Freiburg, Breisgau to work together in workshops and meetings. At the end of the week, our Christmas party took place.
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A Personal Recap of dmexco, Salon E-Commerce Paris and MOW
Do not ask what the open source software can do for you – better ask what you can do for the open source software!
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Installing OXID eShop via a Linux Terminal Using the Official SVN
If you have a chance to work via a terminal, it could sometimes be much quicker than via front end clients. In this blog post I describe how to gather OXID eShop files within seconds from the regular SVN and how to install a database without phpMyAdmin.
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Technical Facts About Newsletter Distribution for Online Merchants
There are a lot of (even technical) things to know before you start your email campaign from your shopping cart solution. Please read this blog post to get a certain overview to the technical requirements.
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HLkomm Might Be Taken Over By Employees
A short update to “Should HL komm Be Sold by Leipzig Council?”. Apparently, Leipzig city council is heading for cheap and fast money without even facing the future.
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Holidays in July
I’ll be on holiday for three long weeks. You will not reach me via telephone, e-mail nor IM.
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How to Install a New Language on OXID eShop Store Front
First of all, you for sure will need the translated front end file for your language that you may find in the language section of OXIDforge. In this example, I am using Spanish. Mark and copy everything that you find under the headline Language file /out/basic/es/lang.php. Make a new file on your computer and name it lang.php. Paste the text copied in #1 and save your file. Copy the content that you find under the headline Transliteration List for URLs on the same OXIDforge page and paste it to the field Characters which are replaced in SEO URLs in your admin panel -> Master Settings -> Core Settings -> tab SEO. (OXID eShop is doing it the old way in URLs: just provide clean and readable latin characters and leaving out the special ones. Imagine that “Geräte” [transl: tools] could become “gerte” [transl: wipe] which might be used in a sexual manner… 🙂 ) On the OXIDforge page, open the flag image you find under the last headline Flag and download it to your computer as es.gif. Copy es.gif to /out/[your_template]/img/lang/ Go to your OXID eShop installation /out/[your_template]/ and make a new directory /es/ for Spanisch. Copy the file lang.php into this new directory. Go to the admin panel of your OXID eShop now and open Master Settings -> Languages. Activate this language, enter “es” to the field Abbreviation and “Espanol” to the field Name. Save your work. Go to Service -> Tools and press the Button Update DB Views now. This is important from version 4.5.0 on, as the language handling is using database views to allow an unlimited number of languages. You are done, mate! If you can’t find the translation of a language that you need on OXIDforge, also for the admin panel, please feel free to contribute your translation on this page, the community will appreciate it! If you have a translated file and have no clue how to use the OXIDforge wiki, please turn to me. In case you translated the front end file, the admin file and the demo data into another language, please feel free to upload this package to OXID eXchange.
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Recap of the Developer Meet-up in Leipzig on Friday, March 11th
On Friday, March 11th, our first local developer meet-up took place in Leipzig, Germany. Read who took part, what we were talking about and see some pictures of this event.
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Should HL komm Be Sold by Leipzig Council?
HL komm, my ex-employer, is about to be sold by the Leipzig council. Read about the pros and cons in this blog post.
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