In the recent months, I attended all of the main trade fairs of the e-commerce industry in Germany and France: dmexco (Digital Marketing Exposition & Conference) in Cologne Salon E-Commerce in Paris MOW (Mail Order World) in Wiesbaden I joined the OXID eSales crew at our booths and I would like to share my very personal take aways of the events with you. Don't just ask me what [Read more...]
Sometimes, it is necessary to install a new version of OXID eShop quickly. Downloading it from the official download page, extracting the archive and uploading it again to your hosting provider can be a time-consuming and error-prone process due to CRC errors. If you have SSH access to your server terminal or if you work on a local Linux machine or VM-ware appliance, there is a much smoother [Read more...]
There are many different aspects to consider when distributing a newsletter to clients of your online store: categorization, definition, content, legal conditions and technical facts. In this post, I’ll concentrate only on the technical aspects. Newsletters are emails containing information or promotions that you, as a shop owner, wish to send to your registered customers. In some countries, [Read more...]
Due to my last post, you might have noticed that I was on holiday and didn't check my email and neglected my telephone during this time. Furthermore, I didn't configure an automatic email reply given that I am subscribed to various mailing lists that might have been playing ping-pong with my automated answers ;) Now I'm back and thanks everybody for your patience! Today, I'd like to head back [Read more...]
Yeehaa! It's summertime! Just in case you miss me in the OXID forums and other virtual places: I'll be on holiday from July 11th until the end of the month, back to business then. I will not read my e-mails, I will not be available via mobile phone and I will have no Internet connection for three long weeks. Cheerio!
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 [Read more...]
As earlier announced in my blog post on oxid-esales.com, Friday, March 11th, was our first local developer meet-up in Leipzig, Germany. I personally was really surprised to see 16 people attending, including developers from our partners D³ Data Development (Thalheim, Saxony), GN2 netwerk (Coburg, Bavaria), marmalade.de (Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt), dotSource GmbH (Jena, Thuringia) and Ontraq [Read more...]
Some of you might know that, before I came to OXID, I used to work as a Network Operator at the Network Management Center (NMC) of HL komm. HL komm is a local ISP/network carrier that is mostly active in the areas of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, Germany. Although I personally don't like their marketing strategy very much (Knut, where did the "Globish" = English HL komm website which we [Read more...]
like described in https://marco-steinhaeuser.de/switching-to-ubuntu-part-iii-working-with-virtualbox.html, I couldn't get USB devices mounted. for permanent mounting do the following: $ /proc/... installed and connected the VPN checkpoint client without problems installed M$ outlook without problems installed iTunes without problems install guest additions after starting your guest [Read more...]
After publishing my last blog post about switching to Ubuntu, I took a short break for a while. I had a few problems: I couldn't get the VPN running as my company was using a proprietary protocol. I couldn't find a good Exchange client replacement under Linux. My company had bought me an iPhone and iTunes was not available on Linux. I came up with a solution to bypass these problems. I [Read more...]