Those of you that have been customers of mine for awhile are probably aware of my star dog Taz. This little sheltie is the most amazing dog that I have ever had the privilege of knowing. Taz and I have traveled all over the country competing in various dog sports and appearing on TV. From numerous...

Anyone that knows me knows that I am a pretty avid recycler. And it's not easy in my area. To recycle cardboard, I have to break down boxes into small enough sizes of cardboard for the trash company to accept them. Many types of plastics are not accepted, and some items have to be taken to special...

CFWebstore has a lot of different settings that will allow you to do a really wide range of custom shipping methods. In version 6, even more options were added to custom shipping methods that improved the flexibility of options even more. Of course all the complexity does make things a bit more...

The default WSIWYG editor used in CFWebstore comes with a variety of pre-configured CSS styles that you can use in your product layouts. These are taken from the default.css style sheet included with the software. But what if you use another style sheet or want to add some additional style to the...

Did you know that CFWebstore comes with a ColdFusion scratch pad that you can use for testing code? This is a great little tool for trying out code that you don't want to actually implement into the fusebox structure. Let's say you want to check out a new web service. Open up test.cfm in the...

Here's some exciting news for CFWebstore users that want to run their own servers, be it VPS or dedicated. New Atlanta has announced that later this year they will be making the BlueDragon/J2EE version of their server open source. The latest versions of CFWebstore are fully compatible with this...

CFWebstore includes two different types of PayPal integration: PayPal Standard which is the original PayPal transaction method which redirects the customer to the PayPal site at the end of the checkout process, completes the payment on their site and uses IPN behind the scenes to finish the order....

You'll probably read this entry title and think, sure, I have my host run daily backups of all my databases. But what happens if there is a major problem and you can't get to those backups? I've had so many problems with web hosts over my many, many years of running websites, and have...

Just a quickie tip for today that may save you a little hassle in the future. Whenever I create a new webstore, the first thing I do after filling out the settings in the config.cfm file and making sure they all work properly is to save a backup of the file on the site (config.bak). This ensures...

Once in awhile I hear from someone who is having problems with customers receiving their emails. Usually it's just a configuration problem and easily fixed. But sometimes it seems like once in awhile an email gets lost for no apparent reason. This is typically not a CFWebstore problem, but rather...

I frequently get emails from CFWebstore users wanting to know if this or that error is a hack attempt. Recently there have been a rash of these where a URL shows up in some portion of the query string. It does seem obvious that these are some type of hack attempt, albeit not a very effective one....