Latest puresilva website template updates

• Update to blog section; now when you post a new blog entry, it's automatically submitted to a random selection of social networks including Jumptags.com, Brightkite.com, and Tumblr.com, for the purpose of speedy indexing - more details here.
• Footer text now has no size limit so you can add footer links etc.
• Switched the currency conversion system to lookup coinmill.com (RSS feed for latest conversion rates) as currencysource.com (previous conversion rate provider) recently went offline!

Typical reasons for basket abandonment include:-

• shipping prices are too high - nasty shock to see a large cost added onto the product cost on the basket page
• not happy with the payment methods on offer (e.g. pay by BACS only)
• lack of trust - perhaps they worry what will happen if they don't like the product they receive

If people progress to the checkout stage (i.e. they click through to a payment gateway like PayPal) and still abandon, it's probably NOT due to the above reasons - it may be the fact that they are simply at the point of decision and decide something like "no, I can't afford this purchase" or something that may be completely outside of your control. However, if you have a lot of basket abandoments that DON'T go to at least the checkout stage, consider your shipping costs and payment methods, as well as using the basket message facility (backoffice > variables > shop options > general shop settings) to put in some reassurances like money-back guarantees, expected delivery times etc.

• new wholesale feature (backoffice > variables > shop options > wholesale options). Allows you to specify individual products to be "wholesale"; these products have their prices hidden - only logged in (and approved) members can view the prices and buy these items. You can still regular products alongside wholesale products.
• new "shop options" area in the backoffice (backoffice > variables > shop options). As this area has grown over the years, it's now split up into basic sections like this :-
  
  

Two updates to home page labels:-

• The phrase "Selected Items" on the home page can be edited in backoffice > variables > shop options > product layout / display options
• "Featured.." (above products in sidebar) can also be edited in backoffice > variables > shop options > product layout / display options

Added new variation filter within categories for your website visitors. This means that when they browse one of your categories, they can refine their search by your product variations. See example image below for an illustration of how it can work. The variations in the dropdown menus apply ONLY to the category (or sub-cat, or sub-sub-cat) the visitor is in. This is good if your various categories have different types of sizes/colours/whatever. For example, in one category you might sell t-shirts which come in small, medium and large. In another category you might sell dresses which come in sizes of 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16. Only the appropriate sizes would be displayed depending on what category the visitor was in. This works in categories, sub-categories and sub-sub-categories.

This can be activated in backoffice > variables > shop options > product variations > tick the box next to "Allow website visitors to search your product range by these variations?"

3 new design templates created. If you wish to change colour schemes for these you can do so in design files - backoffice > design > design files. e.g. for the Xtreme design, you can re-colour images to create thousands of possible colours (some examples follow):-



Xtreme (2 / 3 column)

You can preview this new design via backoffice > design, then select from "Design Templates" dropdown menu, select the "Xtreme" design and then click "Preview Design >>>"):-

Photographer (2 column)

You can preview this new design via backoffice > design, then select from "Design Templates" dropdown menu, select the "Photographer" design and then click "Preview Design >>>"):-

Night Time (2 / 3 column)

You can preview this new design via backoffice > design, then select from "Design Templates" dropdown menu, select the "Night Time" design and then click "Preview Design >>>"):-

• Now voucher codes (backoffice > shop > vouchers) can have a limited number of uses assigned to each one. This opens up a lot of possibilities. You could for example issue a credit note to a particular shopper by way of a one-time-only-use voucher code. You can set the number of times a voucher code can be used (e.g. 3 times).
• Another new feature with voucher codes: for both limited use voucher codes and time-limited voucher codes, these both now have the option to be publicly displayed on a special "Expiring Voucher Codes" page - giving your visitors more incentive to buy with these about-to-expire voucher codes (either they are about to expire because of a time deadline you've set, or because you've set them to be used only a small number of times - first come first served in that case). You must tick a box saying "Make this voucher public" for these to be displayed.
• New page will feature on puresilva.com listing your voucher code offers (the ones you make public that is) - driving more traffic to your site
• "Your Articles" service now just £1 per article written - that means you just need to write a 100 word article and we will publish it on a blog (giving you a link back to your site) - great way to link build with unique, natural articles

• Editable columns for your website (where you see category listings, "more info" pages etc) - now you can add custom text and images in your column(s) via backoffice > variables > Insert Text/Images Into Columns

• When an item is out of stock, a visitor can enter their email address (on the product detail page) so that they can be emailed when the item comes back in stock. They get the email (automatically) when you update the stock level of the product in the backoffice. This facility needs to be activated first in backoffice > variables > shop options (under stock control toward bottom of page)

Further updates:-

• new SEO Stats area detailing how many pages of your site have been included in Google, Bing and Yahoo!, your Alexa and Page Rank - located in backoffice > above visitor bar chart on home page of backoffice.
• Now you can add/remove item counter (see image) from category listings (backoffice > variables > shop options > Hide Item Counter)
• you can now add descriptions to sub-categories of your product range (backoffice > shop > categories > sub-categories).

Updates to on-page search engine optimization :-

• rel=canonical used on product detail pages and blog pages. This consolidates all the various ways of URL rewriting into one single URL for each page and so avoids any duplicate content issues.
• META keyword re-introduction - automatic keywords added for product detail pages and category listings pages
• removed "more info" links (which were "nofollowed" anyway) and kept descriptive links

Also the template has undergone a full code audit and various minor bugs have been fixed.

Two new services:-

• "Your Articles" Service - you write your articles (sent to puresilva) - we publish them on blogs. A great way to link build cost-effectively
• eBay Synchronise Service - Do you have an eBay shop? Import your eBay products to your website - everything updated hourly.

• Now you can remove the Resource Directory from your site if you don't use it or want it there. If you already have a LOT of links listed here, it's wise to keep the resource directory plugged into your site, as you will no doubt have built some links to your site with the directory and it's not a good idea to pull the plug on your link partners whose links are on your site! You can remove it in backoffice > variables > add/remove facilities
• Now you can remove the "new" image next to new products if you want to (backoffice > variables > shop options > Hide "New" image next to new products)
• New "unlink" option in the WYSIYWG editor.

• Added new incentives facility - allows you to offer free gifts to shoppers if they shop over a certain amount e.g. free gift if you spend £25 or more, another type of free gift if you shop £50 or more etc. Very easy to set-up and also easy for end-shopper to make selection. Entirely optional if you want to use it! Can be found in backoffice > shop > incentives.

• Greatly simplified the page editing facilities in Backoffice > Pages; now it's much simpler to add links, images and files to your pages - the page editor is now a much slimmed down version of what was before, without losing any features.

• New "footer popup" window (see example) - you can activate this in Backoffice > Mailings (it's switched off by default) if you want to more pro-actively build your mailing list. It's a lot more discrete than a regular (annoying) popup window, but quite noticeable as it "sticks" to the bottom of the page. It can easily be closed by visitors and NEVER appears again if someone closes it or signs up to your mailing list.
• Now you can add articles to your mailshots (see Backoffice > Mailings > Manage / Send Email Templates)
• You can now see which are the most popular keywords used when shoppers buy items from your site in Backoffice > Orders > How Did Customers Discover Your Site? > View Most Popular Keywords Used

• New facility allowing you to link to pages in the "More Info" sections rather than actually have to add a page (backoffice > pages > add URL instead of page). Example - you add a "More Info" section called "Favourite Websites" then add links (not pages) to external websites. Or add a "More Info" section called "Surveys" and directly link to a number of enquury forms you've developed on your site itself.
• you can now toggle the embedded slideshow on the home page between your photo gallery and your products (by activating photo gallery slideshow in the photo gallery area)
• you can now add your own custom slides to the embedded products slideshow (backoffice > shop > priority order/slideshow) - allows you to add your own custom text and images and place them in the slideshow whereever you like. Example here (see 2nd and 4th slide)
• Files Manager - This area is a useful repository if you want to link to particular files on your website. You can find all the files you've uploaded across your various pages here, as well as upload extra files. This area is particularly useful if you want to add custom slides in the slideshow or use the same file on more than one page (by copy/pasting the file location below).

• Added "Replace Image Files" facility in the esign Files area of the backoffice. This allows you to upload your own custom images to replace the images used in the design of your site. Just like the CSS Editor, you can reset back to the original files if things don't work out! The range of facilities now present in the Design Files area can now give you the scope to actually create your very own design templates (however some knowledge of HTML/CSS is essential here).
  
  Having said that, we will keep producing our own new templates for your use as always to add to the library of existing designs, so it's still easy to redesign your site without any HTML/CSS knowledge if you choose not to customise each template to the degree mentioned above!

• Introduced new subscription-type services. This allows you to sell a service and get paid on a recurring basis for that service you sell. For example, let's say you have a telephone tech support service or perhaps you allow a room you own to be rented out weekly for meetings etc. Those kinds of things can now be sold on your site and the buyer would pay you on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis automatically via PayPal (you would get paid automatically without having to re-invoice the customer). You can set the frequency and number of times for this type of subscription payment (e.g. monthly payments, lastings just 12 months, or indefinitely on a weekly basis).
  
  Firstly you must activate this service in backoffice > variables > shop options - look for "Allow subscription payment-type services". After ticking the box to activate subscription-type services, you will see new options appear when you add or edit a product allowing you to set the frequency and amount of payments required for that service you've added.
  
  You can of course still have regular products you can sell with the single one-off payment! This new service is entirely optional and you can create as many or as few subscription-type products (likely a service you provide) as you like.
  

• Now you can add your own HTML title / META description to categories - backoffice > shop > categories. If you don't, then as always it just populates these with the category name (HTML Title) and category description (META description).
• Removed META Keyword fields from product edit page and general page editor as these are now redundant and not necessary to enter (will give you no benefit in ranking as search engines now officially discount these as being useful in determining the content of your page)

• New Flash photo gallery module option so now your photo gallery can have a slick animated user interface. To try this out, first you need to make sure the photo gallery is activated on your site (backoffice > variables > add/remove facilities). Now go to backoffice > photo gallery and select "Flash" as type of photo gallery and finally click update. Then you can view your new Flash photo gallery on the front-end of your site
• Much improved embeded products slideshow with many more transition effects. You can try this feature out by activating it here: backoffice > variables > shop options - tick the box next to "Embed Products Slideshow on Home Page" (if it isn't already ticked) and visit your home page.

New Design Files area (found in backoffice > design > design files link at top of page). This new area allows you to:-

• edit the CSS file of your website - this gives you very deailed control over the look and feel of your website (requires knowledge of CSS)
• upload a favicon
• upload a banner DIRECTLY to your site (e.g. one you've created in Photoshop)
• create a banner in puresilvabannermaker.com FREE and unbranded (saving $US8), and have it automatically added as your website banner (right size too, no matter what puresilva template you use!).

• new keyword suggestion tool - allows you to find new keyword for you to target in link building campaigns / make sure appear on your site. Link to keyword suggestion tool can be found just above visitor barchart on home page of backoffice.
• New Design:-
  
  Rounded (3 column / 2 column)
  
  You can preview this new design via backoffice > design, then select from "Design Templates" dropdown menu, select the "Rounded" design, and then click "Preview Design >>>"):-
  
  

• new facility in the orders area to allow you to add shipping tracking codes / shipping company information so your customers can track the order directly with the shipping company. These fields appear when you edit an order, and then tick the box "Alert Customer of Status Change by Automated Email?" - the tracking information you enter will be sent in the "change status" email that the customer receives.

• new option for product description display - a "lightbox" feature for lengthy product descriptions. If your product description is 800 characters or longer, it is now possible to truncate it with a "[more info]" link taking the visitor to a lightbox popup which shows the entire description. This is useful because it raises all those important features BELOW the description (add to basket, upsell products, related products) much higher up the page and compacts the overall product detail page into a much more digestable format. This feature can be switched on in backoffice > variables > shop options > Show Full Product Description in Lightbox (NOT on page).
• Page editor (backoffice > pages > add/edit a page) now has HTML table button - useful if you want to display tabular data or arrange photos and text in a particular way

• New facility allowing visitors to publish advertisements on your website (this facility is switched off by default). They can publish their text advert on your website; they then pay you via PayPal, you are notified by email of the new advert - and finally you login to the backoffice to activate/show on site their advert. You decide how much each advertiser pays you on a monthly basis (e.g. 10 per month per advertiser). You can access this facility in backoffice > variables > Advertisments on Your Site. More information can be found here .

• Ability to add text to the basket page in backoffice > variables > shop options ("Basket Message") e.g. you may want to alert shoppers that all items are sent by recorded delivery - that kind of message, or perhaps highlight that you offer free shipping (if you do).
• updates to stock control page - out of stock items are highlighted in red, and items NOT shown on site are labelled as such
• update to Twitter options - now you can show your latest Twitter messages in the sidebar of your website with a link also to your Twitter page, directly under your news/articles (news/articles must be activated to show Twitter messages).

• A 2nd products slideshow that can be embeded onto the home page - see this example. You can embed your slideshow by going to backoffice > variables > shop options > tick box next to "Embed Products Slideshow on Home Page". The slideshow uses the priority list to determine what products are shown on the slideshow and in what order.

• New option allowing your shoppers to give special requirements for products. This is basically a text box that will appear in the product detail page (if activated). It's useful if you are selling a product that may require a special message - like on a ceramic dish, or even birthday cake. Or perhaps special instructions about the configuration of a product. You can show this text box on selected products (where it's appropriate). This facility can be activated in backoffice > variables > shop options > Allow "Special Requirements" box. Then when you add/edit a product you will see a new option appear - a tickbox with "Show "Special Requirements" Box" next to it.
• Ability to import affiliate products

• New affiliate selling facility allowing you to sell other people's products on your site and make commissions if they click through from your site to the selling site and a sale results. You need to activate this facility first in backoffice > variables > shop options > allow affiliate products (tick the box). Once activated, whenever you add or edit a product you will see a new field called "Affiliate Link" (below Product Name). Put in the full affiliate link that this product needs to link to (incl. your affiliate code in the URL of course!). That's it. You can add as many affiliate products as you like, and affiliate to ANY other site (Amazon, John Lewis, anyone). You can even mix up your products with affiliate products or create a special category for affiliate products - up to you.

• "Size" and "Colour" are now editable variations for products, so you can re-label these to anything you like e.g. "Length" and "Material". You can do this here : backoffice > variables > shop options

• New view for product listings with much larger images - see screenshot here. You can set your website to show your products in this way in backoffice > variables > shop options > product layout options
• New view for product detail page with much larger image - see screenshot here. You can set your website to show your products in this way in backoffice > variables > shop options > product layout options

• Ability to export/import prices (backoffice > shop > Import/Export Stock Levels / Prices)
• New Design:-
  
  Polo (3 column / 2 column)
  
  You can preview this new design via backoffice > design, then select from "Design Templates" dropdown menu, select the "Polo" design, and then click "Preview Design >>>"):-
  
  

• Updates to blog commenting system - now comments are accepted via email (link in email to approve comment)
• Screenshot examples of various shop options
• Various bug fixes

• new "customer discovery" facility that records referals which went on to becomes sales. This is a great way to find out how paying customers found your website - and so you can target particular keywords for link building if you're finding certain search engine keywords are leading to more sales than others. It's live since 18th June 2009, so the recording starts from this date.
• improved the WYSIWYG editor in pages to take into account certain incompatibilities with browser versions/security software

• new facility allowing you to export/import product stock levels - you can export import in backoffice > shop > stock level report
• new page that collates all your product reviews and customer feedback. You can link to this page via the main navigation layout (select "product reviews" in page to link to) or when editing pages (you can link to this page easily by selecting "product reviews").
• contact form and product enquiry form no longer use CAPTCHA to make the more accessible (they use another method to prevent form spamming).

• Updated variables section as it was getting a bit too big and complicated to deal with! Now the various sections are broken down into separate pages and it's much easier to find the settings you want to edit for your site:-
  
  
  
• New facility called "Events Calendar". It's similar to the blog/news section except it separates entries into two sections : past and future. Future events are highlighted and promoted, past events are held in an archive. You can also group event entries under one date. It's suitable for sites running events like pubs, DJs, hotels, businesses running training courses etc. You can alternate between running the blog OR running the events calendar.
• A simpler backoffice. Now you only see the sections you've activated rather than everything. So if you're not running a forum on your website, you won't see the link to "forum" in the main menu bar. You can still add/remove section in the same way here.
• An option to show a simpler view for the home page of the backoffice (you can toggle between "simple" and "detailed" view).

• ability to show your products in grid format on home page - you can activate this by going to variables and selecting "grid format" on the "Show Selected Items" option

• design facility now has automatic previews of each design (as thumbnails) when you select them in the dropdown menu
• supporting files for each product - maximum size now increased from 500k to 3MB (apart from MP3 files which will remain at 500k)

Updates:-

• New email support link at top of backoffice. This will appear more frequently (and contextually) in other areas of the site - to make it quicker and easier to send a support email (or suggestions)
• "Getting Started" section if you're new to the backoffice!

Updates:-

• Increased digital download file size limit from 5Mb to 10Mb
• Added video about how to add reciprocal links in the manage links directory

Two updates:-

• new "Quick Add" facility (for products) which allows you to add products using a much shorter form that shows only the essential fields like product name, description, price, show on site etc.
• new shipping maximum cost setting - allowing you to set a limit on how much shoppers pay for shipping. For example, if the limit is £8.25, then no matter what they order, they will not pay more than £8.25 in shipping.

Two further updates:-

• WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Page Editor found in Pages/Links (add/edit a general information page to see) using scalable images for reduced bandwidth.
  
  
  
  
• New (and editable) look to backoffice :-
  
  

Further updates:-

• option to show terms/conditions link on the basket page. You can set you terms/conditions in the Variables section.
• Manually entered orders can now have status changes
• New service - (in Extra Services) - information on checkrate.co.uk - a service that helps increase sales conversions by awarding you a Confidence Seal if your business has a good credit score.

Two new updates :-

• minimum order quantity on a per-product basis. For example, shoppers may need to order a quantity minimum of 5 for a particular product. All products default to 1 as a minimum order quantity. You can set this by adding/editing a product.
• minimum checkout total (optional). Allows you to set a minimum checkout total; for example, if you set the value at £8.25, then shoppers need to add at least £8.25 worth of items to the basket before payment options become available to them. The minimum checkout total can be set in Backoffice > Variables under Shop Options.

• Google Products Submission Service. Our service ensures your products are listed on Google Products 365 days a year (for puresilva website owners only).
  
  Google Products allows everyone to search for your products in Google itself - including showing product titles, product descriptions, prices and even product images within Google Search itself. See an example search here for pashminas. It's a great way for shoppers to compare products and prices between various online shops. It's a bit like Kelkoo / Dealtime except it's free :)
  
  We've found visitor increases on 3 shops to have increased between 10% and 21% directly from using Google Products. It's a very significant (targeted) traffic channel.
  
  
• Update to previous Google Adsense update! The previous update has been superseded by the following update (since this update makes the previous one redundant):- There's a new option in Backoffice > Variables in the Google Adsense area called "Randomize Google Ad text colours + positioning" - as it suggests, this option will randomize the colouring of your Google Ads and also the positioning of them - giving them extra visibility (without being garish). This should result in greater click through rates (having said that, this option is entirely optional and you need to opt-in to it in Variables).

• Update to dynamic categories: There's a new facility here:- Backoffice > Shop > Categories > Dynamic Categories. Now you can VERY EASILY add a list of dynamic alternative categories in just seconds, and even decide which order they appear in. They will appear in a separate location just below your main categories on your website. Why is this useful? Well now you can easily add a list of brand name categories (for example) to augment your main categories. Or you could list sizes, colours etc as an alternative way to browse your product range. This also answers the issue about placing a product in more than one category - now you can! Here's an example of how this works: http://www.lowcostbag.com/ (see handbag colour category range on left-hand column).
• Further updates to referals. Now you can see which sites have linked to you in the last 30 days (that have clicked through and given a referal!).

More updates:-

• Referal statistics can now be searched by keyword
• Introduction of dynamic categories. What are dynamic categories? You know about standard product categories - these are what you put your products into (if you are selling items). Dynamic categories are created by using the following linking covention :-
  
  http://www.somewebsite.com/Keywords-Go-Here!/K.htm
  
  Example: http://www.lovepashminas.com/White-Pashmina/K.htm
  
  The link itself creates the dynamic category. In the above example, a dynamic category was created on your site called "White Pashmina " - your site searches for products that refer to "white" and "pashmina" in the product title and/or product description and will list matching items in this dynamic category.You need to make sure this link ends with /K.htm.
  
  Why is this useful? It's useful for both shoppers and search engines - since you can create a link that lists very specific products like this:-
  
  "Why not checkout our latest paisley pattern clothing range! You can find t-shirts, shirts and ties in this new exciting range."
  
  The link creates a dynamic category called "paisley pattern" and matches all products with these words in them and lists them in the dynamic category. Since contextual links (see puresilva article) are very important for seach engines, you can really go wild with this new feature creating dynamic categories via links in your body text.
  
  Once search engines follow such links, they will index them so that effectively you've just added a new page to your site called "paisley pattern" that lists paisley pattern products!
  
  This is phase one of the development of dynamic categories. In phase two (next update), you will be able to create these dynamic categories in a very user-friendly way and save links that you can easily add to your web pages.

Two new design editions (remixes of current design templates)

Experience Banner (3 column)

You can preview this new design via backoffice > design, then select from "Design Templates" dropdown menu, select the "ExperienceBanner" design, and then click "Preview Design >>>"):-





Aqua Solid (3 column)

You can preview this new design via backoffice > design, then select from "Design Templates" dropdown menu, select the "Aqua" design and look for variations that colour the navigation bar too (e.g. Maroon Text + Nav Bar"), and then click "Preview Design >>>"):-

• General sitemap (listed under "More Info" navigation when cache is next updated). This is automatically generated.
• Watermarking of product images (entirely optional). Watermarking is where you place a faint watermark (with this feature, your domain name) over an image to prevent other websites using this image (they can still use it, but it's obvious where they've got it from, and so this normally prevents people bothering using your images). To enable watermarking, go to Variables and under "Shop Options" you'll see an option entitled "Enable watermarking option for product images" - check the box next to this option and update. Now add/edit a product an image in the backoffice. After uploading, you will see a new button entitled "Watermark Image" - click this button if you want to watermark the image. It will only watermark the largest image (what your website visitors see when they click "Enlarge Image" on front end of your website). Again, this feature is entirely optional and is switched off by default.

Futher Updates:-

• Date-based searches now possible for orders
• Can export orders to CSV (based on search criteria e.g.completed orders in the month of September 2008)
• Completed rel="nofollow" tagging of links that don't matter - 'more info' links on home page + footer links at bottom of page (home, about us etc).
  
  

Futher Updates

• Manual "Add Order" facility in Orders area. This allows you to manually add offline orders to your online accounts, or manually add any order not recorded in the backoffice (e.g. Google Checkout orders which aren't recorded). Manual orders can also be edited (and deleted).
• Automated email sent to customer when status of order changes (to alert them of status change). For example, if the order status is set to "dispatched" (shipped), the customer is notified by email that the order has been sent. This feature is entirely optional.
• VAT-excluded prices can now be entered for products (VAT is automatically added after adding/updating the product) - again this is optional, and only is shown as an option if you have stated you are VAT registered in Variables section of the backoffice.
• Implemented rel="nofollow" tags to links on your site that are no value to search engines (e.g. "more info" links when you have descriptive product links that go to same page). The result means more value is given to the descriptive links which in turn should improve your search engine rankings.

Updated the resource directory addition page (e.g. see this example page)- now the HTML link code that other sites add to their pages (that links to your website) is a lot more random - it will take either a random category listing page of your website, or a random article (if you don't sell items, it defaults to this). If you don't sell items and have zero articles, it will revert to the title/description of your website you've already described. If THAT is blank (default), the HTML code is your domain name and description is blank.

The purpose of this update is to give your site a much more natural link profile. It's a lot better if sites link to various pages on your website and not just the home page.

• You can now see which websites are linking to you according to Yahoo! and Google. This new facility can be found here: Backoffice > Pages/Links > SEO Overview / Which Websites Links To You? You can check the page rank, anchor text and general value of each of these links
• New link popularity/article writing service. You can sign up for a 12 month campaign that secures links pointing to your site on a monthly basis plus unique articles written and published for your website. Click here for more information

• You can now hide content pages (Pages/Links) by checking the "Hide Page" checkbox when adding/editing a page - good if you are preparing content but you don't want particular pages to go live yet.
• Instructions (for shoppers) on how to enable cookies in their browser if they have cookies disabled

• You can now enter your Google Verification Code when generating your Google Sitemap (saving much time)
• For your products, you can now add customised HTML Titles, META Description and META Keywords for each individual item you sell. You can add these on the add/edit product page.

• Category descriptions; you can now add descriptions to shop categories and these descriptions appear below the category title (on product listings page).
• Product thumbnails appear next to products that appear in the sitewide search results
• Thumbnail images appear next to special offer descriptions on the special offers page
• "Recommend a friend" facility added - your website visitors can recommend both your articles and products; you need to switch this on in "Variales" under "General Features/Sections/Layout" - check the box next to "Recommend Items/Articles To A Friend"
• Updated "Review It!" link on product detail pages - looks better and more uniform with the new "recommend a friend" link too.
• Added a facility in the backoffice that lets you see your products being viewed RIGHT NOW - you can also see the path your visitors take in terms of browsing your product range. You can see the current activity of the 3 most recent visitors (past/present). The facility uses AJAX technology so there's no need to refresh the page - you will see products appear as they are viewed LIVE on your site by your visitors. You can view this facility via backoffice > shop > stats > current item views.

• "Move Products" facility making it very quick and easy to move multiple products from one category to another
• Added 3 new video help clicks;
• Increased quality of JPG banners in Design facility within backoffice
  
• Added one new design template with a large number of colour combinations (you can preview this new design via backoffice > design, then select from "Design Templates" dropdown menu, select the "Aqual" design, and then click "Preview Design >>>"):-
  
  Aqua (3 column / 2 column)
  
  

"More Info Sections" allows you to categorise your "More Info" pages which are normally situated in either the left or right hand columns of your site. You can add unlimited sections (categories). This is useful if you have quite a large list and want to break it down into meaningful categories. You can easily sort the order of the categories too. In the page editor, just add/edit a page, and you can easily assign a page to a particular section via the Page Type dropdown menu.