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 the current system.
The main focus of the new system is to make products easier to find. The re-categorisation is just one part of making things easier to find.
The current categorisation looks [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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