10 Beautiful Examples of Miva Merchant Sites

If you've read this blog for awhile, ever talked to me, know what I do for a living, or have anything else to do with me in any other way, you probably know that I eat, sleep, and breathe e-commerce...and that my usual platform of choice is Miva Merchant. I've used other systems on occasion, for fun and for work, to various degrees, but Miva is where I started and where I spend most of my time.

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10 Questions with Chuck Lasker of MerchantTutorials.com

Many Miva Merchant users are familiar with Chuck Lasker and the various ways he's been involved in the Miva community over the past several years. We caught up with him at the 2009 Miva Merchant conference to ask him ten questions about his new endeavor, MerchantTutorials.com. Find out how he got started with Miva Merchant, what MerchantTutorials.com is all about, and how you can subscribe to the service to learn how to do more things with your online store.

Quick Tip: Easy Domain Switching for Miva Merchant Stores

Because we do a lot of redesigns and offline development, our customers usually have at least two stores operational at one time - the live store and a development platform. Sometimes that makes it hard to test, though, if links from the development site link back to the live site half of the time. You don't always notice when you navigate away from the development site. Read more

Quick Tip: Including Recent Wordpress Posts in Miva Merchant

The great thing about having a blog for your business is that it gives customers and search engines new content to view. It can increase sales by convincing customers of your product's benefits, or teaching them how to use it, or giving them ideas for incorporating the product into the lives. Read more

Building a Miva Merchant 4 Website with XHTML and CSS

For web development purists, the holy grail of coding an ecommerce site using an off-the-shelf package is the ability to write a fully standards-compliant site. The upcoming Miva Merchant 5.5 release brings this desire into full reality for Miva Merchant developers. Version 5.5 offers a completely-open page templating system, where all aspects of the site are fully customizable at the HTML and CSS code level. Read more