March 6th, 2009 by Richard Lee
David Hubbard’s Best of Miva Merchant – Miva Merchant 2009
David Hubbard’s Best of Miva Merchant – Miva Merchant 2009
Speaker: David Hubbard is the one of the owners of Hostasaurus and one of the foremost experts on using Miva Merchant and third party modules. David will walk you through his favorite modules, what they do and the impact they have on your online business. He’ll also show you pitfalls to avoid and provide you a list of things to do to make your store run great.
Conference Notes:
Emporium Plus – Tool Kit = Extends Miva Merchant with additional features/tools ($30).
Example:
show partial product description that links to the full description
LATU – Wow Wow Widgets = Define a widget (i.e. Daily special)
Example:
Category Mode in Template Mode you can insert widget code (to insert daily specials)
Site Seal Code since you might display it in the various places
You can easily activate/deactive in one place
Sebenza – Category Page Templates = Helps in page layout design
Power Search – Emporium Plus = Can allow to search manuf field
Mini Basket – Emporium Plus = Show basket contents
ADS – ImageXtra = Additional Image Features for Multiple Image Views
Sebenza – Ultimate Coupons = Coupon Module (add free product without others to see, free shipping, discount before checkout, etc.)
UltraBatch from TruXoft for better batch processing but not avaible for MM5
Misc:
Mail Manager to customize email
Note: Emporium Plus (if you have more than one of his modules you can skip re-installing same files i.e. logging module).
If you turn SEO friendly option on:
SEO friendly URL code
Change string in Templates: Category, Page, and Search Results Template
Must change in all places