This weekend has to be the busiest on record. Some advice to anyone reading, deciding to set up a shopping cart on their website – please do not choose oscommerce! So many problems have arisen from using it. On Thursday our site was hacked via it, not the first time. Thankfully I have a wonderful hosting company who were onto it like a flash and by Friday afternoon everything was back to normal – apart from my shopping cart that was – it was toast!
I think quite often these things happen for a reason and it was a good thing. We have not been happy with the shopping cart system for the last 6 months or so and on Saturday Nick and I sat down and chatted about our options for a new payment system and in which direction we wanted to go. It has forced us to make some good business decisions and we are now in the process of setting up a whole new shopping cart.
I have implemented the first part of it on the website and its currently only integrated with paypal but the full system should be working by the end of the week. The new system has enabled me to add payment buttons around the site instead of just in one place which I what I had been wanting to do for a while. We now have them on the prints page, the gift voucher page and the payment page. I will be updating our other sites with them next week.
All the while this was happening – we had snow! We were a little snowed in, the postman only managed to get here this morning but Tom has absolutely loved every minute of it as you can see from the photos below. We didn’t have dog training this weekend as you can imagine. The training is higher up than us, so they had a good 4 inches, I don’t expect we will be going this weekend either.
Tom in the snow!
