According to Oneupweb, 59.1% of consumers expect your website to offer a tax and shipping calculator to help them estimate the total cost of purchase before checkout. Linda’s note: The above image is NOT the client in question. Had some comments about the real problem being the high shipping cost and that was not what we [...]

What makes for great site search? Here are 22 features to consider to optimize your site search tool for usability, guided selling and customer satisfaction. Search Box 1. Placement 2. Size 3. Scope Placement Search boxes should be easy to spot where customers expect them (top right hand corner or top center). Avoid “Search” links in navigation menus – most will scan [...]

Error-handling is one of the most often overlooked pieces of usability and conversion optimization. We can become so focused on cart button design, home page layouts, featured products, promotional offers, email subject lines and the like that we forget that the biggest points of friction are when the customer inputs something incorrectly in a form [...]

For those who are itching to know what’s in the works behind the scenes, here is a sneak peek of our upcoming designs, you will love these we promise! These themes have been in the works for quite some time and doing so we have added some great new features to them. The long [...]

If you have HelloPress, HelloMini or HelloUno, and the left vertical nav is not displaying categories, here is the solution: Go to: skinfrontenddefaulthellopressjscustom.js [...]

When you want to change the default HelloThemes logo to your own customized logo, you will have to go in your admin panel to: System > Configuration > Design > Header > Logo Image Src and add there the file’s name of your logo image. For example: images/logo.gif TO images/logo.png REMEMBER: before [...]

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Chimpadeedoo 1.2 is live, with custom backgrounds, fonts