One of the things that is always challenging with online sites using a 3rd party software like CFWebstore is updating to new versions. Since the application is basically nothing more than a huge collection of text files, there's no real way to provide some kind of executable updater program. So...

It seems more and more common for me these days to get questions about which hosts are best to use for CFWebstore sites. In the past, I commonly recommended popular CF hosts like Crystaltech and HostMySite. But it seems over the years its gotten harder and harder to find a ColdFusion host that...

Sorry for the week-long hiatus on the blog. Had some problems when it was moved to the new host, and just had too many other things more important to deal with first! Hopefully we're all back in business now.

So, thought I'd just post a quickie today. It comes to mind since I...

Once in awhile, I thought I'd post about just some assorted topic that interests me. I had a good webstore topic all lined up and ready to get to work on, when real life intruded. My...

For many years, I did the bulk of my development on Access. It was quick and easy to develop on and with the Upsizing Wizard, I could easily upscale it to SQL server when needed. I ran the cfwebstore.com website and demos on it as well, and appreciated how easy it was when I needed to move my...

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at creating new cfm templates for your store. Today we're going to look at how to add smaller chunks of code into the content areas of your site. I often...

So you're got your great new e-commerce site up and running. It's got content articles and products, and other neat stuff like a search engine, site map and contact form. But sometimes what comes built into CFWebstore isn't enough to handle all you might want to do with your site. In this 2-part...

These days, finding ways to have your store pages pop up in a Google search can be crucial to helping improve sales. You probably already know that you can use the Title and Meta tag fields on the category and product display forms to try and help search engines give your pages better page rank (if...

A fairly quick and easy tip for today. Many users want to know how to use a different page for their homepage rather than the default page.home. There are two typical options for this. First, you can always change the template for the default homepage and use a different one, if you'd just like...

A user posted some interesting articles to the CFWebstore yahoogroup today regarding gift certificates and gift cards. Many states apparently are adding legislation preventing short expirations and even requiring stores to turn over funds from expired cards to the state. Read More