We thought this campaign for Like.ie was pretty cool. The text is big and well spaced, making it easy to read and the colors are soft and are gentle on the eye. Although the campaign does pass when images are suppressed, we feel that having the call to action buttons as images can be a bit risky if they disappear completely when no alt text is assigned. That said, the phone numbers and the subscribe and visit our website links at the bottom are still visible if a subscriber wants to know more. Overall, a nice design.

Questions regarding the use of iframes in email crop up from time to time. Whether it be to do with adding content from a site, or a 'Like' Facebook box, we figured that we'd finally do some thorough tests of our own and put the matter to rest.

So, what was the verdict? After testing an email with iframes across 24 major web, desktop and mobile clients, we found that the results weren't particularly promising. As iframes can potentially link to shady or plain malicious content (like scripts), a lot of email clients just disable them.

Here's a breakdown of which email clients display iframes, and which ones do away with them altogether:

How iframes Perform in HTML Emails
Client	Is Displayed?
AOL Webmail
Gmail
Windows Live Hotmail
MobileMe
Yahoo! Mail
AOL 9
Apple Mail 3 / 4
Entourage 2008
Lotus Notes 6 / 7
Lotus Notes 8
Outlook 2000
Outlook Express 6
Outlook XP / 2003 / 2007 / 2010
Thunderbird
Windows Mail
Blackberry
iPhone / iPad
Symbian S60
Windows Mobile 5
Windows Mobile 6
Android (default client)
Android (Gmail client)

Our advice: given the notably poor adoption of iframes, we seriously discourage you from using them. Even though this means that you can't add a 'Like' box to your email, there are alternate ways to share your campaign on Facebook that you can consider.

Roar! This campaign from The Lethals will wake you up. It’s loud, it’s proud and it gets in your face—in a good way, of course.

The campaign was designed by fellow table tennis enthusiasts INKLAB for their client, a mean funk band from Canberra, Australia.

The first thing you notice is the roaring lion in that awesome illustration. It opens up the campaign with a bang, screaming "Read me!". If your email client doesn’t support background images, you may not get to see the lions, but you won’t miss any of the news the band has for you. The main message is all HTML text.

The limited color scheme reinforces the band’s illustrative theme, as seen through their online presences, and the simple layout makes it quick and easy to devour. Even with foreground images suppressed, the campaign still hold ups nicely.

Packt has launched their fifth annual Open Source Awards. i would like to call on the community to Nominate OpenCart for the favourite Open Source E-Commerce Application.

You can make the nomination here:

http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home/nominate-best-open-source-ecommerce-application

An OpenCart beginner's guide book is availble for pre-order £36.93 ($63.18 USD).

Here is the description:

• Develop a professional, easy-to-use, attractive online store and shopping cart solution using OpenCart that meets today's modern e-commerce standards.
   
• Easily integrate your online store with one of the more popular payment gateways like PayPal and shipping methods such as UPS and USPS.
   
• Provide coupon codes, discounts, and wholesale options for your customers to increase demand on your online store.
   
• With hands-on examples, step-by-step explanations, and illustrations

You can purchase the book here:

https://www.packtpub.com/open-cart-1-4-beginners-guide-for-professional-online-shopping/book

There is also another book on its way about developing templates for openCart. 

RELEASE CANDIDATE AVAILABLE FOR OPENCART v1.4.9!!!

FIXES:
- Fixed additional email for loop issue causing "Please Wait" and "Error Send To Required"
- Improved featured products query to make all status checks and return all pertinent data to match latest and bestseller queries.
- If no shipping, tax zone set to buyer's payment zone instead of default store zone
- Session uses full path for session to prevent session sharing
- Removed unneeded products variable from admin order.php
- Removed error on empty language file
- admin/controller/catalog/review.php double text validation cleaned up
- Admin Order Edit was completely redesigned. Now supports product options & updated totals

ADDED:
- Feature Module uses category-style selector for products
- Extension install/uninstall hook. Now when you install/uninstall extensions, if they have their own install/uninstall functions, they will be triggered.
- Logout destroys session completely.
- sort by model
- Cache for featured products
- Image class supports proper extension name on resize and transparency for png and gif.
- Extensions will "self-clean" if the files are deleted without uninstalling the extension first.
- Restored "Show Out Of Stock warning" option in setting
- Parent Category pages show image next to description
- CheckAll to all checkbox lists
- Postcode required by default now on all account, address, and guest address pages
- Coupon code can be entered on Payment AND Confirm page, for those payments that skip the payment page
- New Paypal Improved. Itemized products, PDT support, debug messaging and more.

NOTES:
- Admin Order "Entry" is NOT included and will not be for 1.4.x. There are mods available to help admins enter orders.
- Admin Order "Edit" is completely redesigned to focus on the products. Ajax is used to update the product list instantly. However, to see updated totals, you will need to refresh the page. I will see if I can get that added before final release, but it is not a priority. No other fields are editable at this time. If it really a desired option I will see about quickly adding editing addresses to the next RC release.
- Admin Order "Edit" converts all prices to the currency of the original order for convenience.
- Admin Order "Edit" offers a free form Tax field. It adds to the actual product total but not to the the actual tax total. This means the tax line won't update but the main total will still be correct. This is due to the way that totals are stored in opencart order_total table. There is no discernible way to track which of the totals is the tax.

Let me know if there are any issue in either this thread or the "[RC1 ONLY] Post any OpenCart 1.4.9 RC1 Bugs here!" thread

DOWNLOAD HERE

Join us for another Magento U webinar. Tuesday August 17th, at 9AM Pacific time, Magento U will be featuring their episode “OK, I’ve installed Magento, now what?”

Installing Magento is the first move towards creating a successful store but configuring your settings and content, as well as managing your categories, modules and themes is essential in its success.

Learn how to customize your store by changing themes, logos or even creating additional stores, the Magento U team will answer the most common questions and provide useful information about getting properly set up.

Don’t miss out on the valuable information we’re going to be sharing, register for the webinar here!

We’re excited to announce that we are a Gold Sponsor at Paypal X Innovate Developer Conference in San Francisco October 26-27 and we’d love for you to stop by our booth.

The San Francisco developer conference features Paypal’s first open global payments platform and is intended to make great changes in the future of money. October 26th and 27th in San Francisco, Paypal will host the conference and has brought on over 60 sponsors and their exhibits, 40 technical sessions, 30 demonstrations (paired with code samples) and a keynote from open source thought leader, Tim O’Reilly, Paypal President Scott Thompson as well as a talk from our own Roy Rubin.

Don’t miss Magento CEO Roy Rubin and Vice President, PayPal Platform and Emerging Technology Osama Bedier’s presentation “Magento, the eCommerce Platform for Innovation on X.”

Magento is pleased to be a part of such a great event this year and looks forward to networking, learning and sharing. We hope our ecosystem of developers, merchants, and partners will be able to attend and stop by our booth to say hello!

Register today!

See who’s attending the Paypal X Innovate event by visiting their Facebook profile and get up-to-date information on the event on their Twitter profile.