Archive for March, 2007

New product re-organisation coming soon


March 28th, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Not sure how to subscribe to a RSS feed? Read Subscribing to blogs the easy way. Thanks for visiting!We are getting close to finalising the new shop’s product categorisation.
We have deliberately avoided any big changes. The categorisation is a little deeper than [...]

Using Wordpress as your blogging platform? Install Akismet


March 21st, 2007

We’ve recently been getting a lot of comment spam on the OPENXTRA Blog. You will never have seen the spam because we have manually deleted it all.
Anyway, we’ve now enabled the Akismet Wordpress plugin and things are far far better. Akismet will somehow figure out whether a comment is spam or not and mark it [...]

Unscheduled downtime resolved


March 19th, 2007

Apologies for the recent downtime. The site was down for half a day yesterday and for around an hour of business hours today. All is fixed now…phew! All was a bit of a panic for a while.
The problem for those interested in the techie bits was a PHP config problem. We are moving over to [...]

E-commerce filtering enhancements


March 13th, 2007

Following on from the post about re-categorising the products in the online shop. Not only have we now re-organised the products (you won’t see the change until the end of the month or so) but we will be introducing a filtering mechanism too.
You’ll be able to drill down through the products, not only using the [...]

Cable Testers category rejig thoughts


March 6th, 2007

I thought I’d update everybody about the upcoming re-organisation of our product categories, specifically the cable testing products. Currently, the cable testers have 2 top level categories: Cable Testers and Network Testers.
As I’ve said already, we’re not happy with the current organisation.
I’ve been creating the new site and I’ve been designing the new organisation. I [...]

Ploughing a lone furrow


March 1st, 2007

It occurred to me that a number of the things we sell have an unusual, and totally accidental, common theme. They are made by companies that are not afraid of doing things differently, companies that are prepared to look at things fom a different angle, to plough a lone furrow.
I’m a big fan of italian [...]

Product categorisation rejig


March 1st, 2007

We are in the process of updating our e-commerce system. Yes I know…again!
I think that, quite frankly, our product categorisation is horrible especially for the cable testers. So, we are trying to put that right.
Though, as ever, things are never as simple as they first appear. There is no standard product categorisation outside of self [...]