Website Services
New Tweak Service
Posted by admin on February 18, 2013
Tweak your Ecwid shop to look the way you want it.
I'm excited to announce the new Tweak beta service for e-shop designer.
Use the Tweak feature to interactively change many aspects of your shop appearance. Start from one of the default styles, or an e-shop designer theme you have saved, then tweak it till it looks how you want.
Key Features
- Interactively change your shop appearance.
- Work on your own shop (or the Ecwid demo shop) independently of your live shop.
- Change or translate text strings.
- Includes CDN hosting for your images (on Rackspace Akamai Content Delivery Network) - no more hassle copying images to your server.
- Easily copy one of your saved e-shop designer themes to your "tweak" account, optionally tweak it, then use it with your CDN hosted images for as long as your account is active.
- Upload your own button images.
- Easily use custom fonts
- Facebook mode - shows how your shop will look in Facebook.
- Upload site frame images for a realistic mock-up of your shop page (here's an example)
- Manage many "tweaks" for different ideas, shops and clients.
- Tweak is in free "beta" right now, and will eventually be charged for at an affordable rate.
Take a look at the Quick Start guide and Using the Interface.
Loss of Service
Posted by admin on November 19, 2012
My apologies for the recent loss of service. My ISP had some disk problems and have been unable to recover my server. I have now rebuilt the server and am using a different ISP.
My most recent backup was from Friday evening, so unfortunately, any user data, or accounts created between 22:15 GMT on 16th November and 09:56 GMT on 19th November have been lost as a result of this problem. I am very sorry for any loss of work my users have suffered.
The server is now hosted with Rackspace temporarily, while I decide where I will ultimately host the site. I hope this is more reliable.
Languages and New Theme
Posted by admin on November 16, 2012
New "darklight" theme
This new theme is like the "dark" theme, but uses minicart and button images from the default theme. The main difference is that the "minicart" icon has a white background which may be more suitable for some site designs.
Button images in your language
Until now, e-shop designer could only create button images in English. Now it supports all of the 43 Ecwid store-front languages. Just select the default language you want from the new "options" dialog.
The new "darklight" theme.
Setting your default lanuage.
Example of the default French buttons.
Try e-shop designer
Easier testing of your e-shop designer themes
Posted by admin on October 21, 2012
Now you can quickly test your saved designs. Just cut and paste the CSS from the e-shop designer page into your Ecwid Control Panel.
Also, I've created two new help videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/EshopDesigner
New Themes for e-shop designer
Posted by admin on October 12, 2012
I've now added support for different themes and made two more available:
- Dark - based on the default Ecwid "red" theme.
- Bootstrap - based on the default Ecwid theme but with Twitter Bootstrap style buttons.
Now on a faster server
Posted by admin on September 25, 2012
The site is now on a new server!
This should speed things up a lot, especially for users of my e-shop designer service. Generating a full set of images and css now typically takes less than 10 seconds. On the old server it could take 10 times longer.
e-shop designer is the new name for Ecwid Designer
Posted by admin on June 10, 2012
I've renamed my Ecwid Designer service to "e-shop designer" to avoid confusion with any official Ecwid service.
Try Ecwid Designer without restrictions
Posted by Ian on June 4, 2012
Now you can unlock the colour restrictions without paying.
- Try the full service before you buy.
- All features available except you cannot save a design for downloading.
- Just click the "try unlocked" button.
New Ecwid Designer service
Posted by admin on May 22, 2012
Free Ecwid themes in all the colours of the rainbow!
I've just launched my new Ecwid Designer service for users of the fantastic Ecwid e-commerce solution.
Use Ecwid designer to easily colour the default Ecwid theme to match your website design.
Get the CSS and images you need.
Free to use for 12 x 12 colour combinations.
Option to pay to unlock millions of colour combinations and get the exact style you need
Import Ecwid Shipping Rates
Posted by admin on November 25, 2011
Ecwid (the e-commerce service) doesn't support import/export of shipping rates. Find out how you can easily do this from a spreadsheet using the Selenium Firefox extension.
I provide an example spreadsheet with three UK Royal Mail tables.
