Speed, we all love it and want more of it! Fast computers, faster internet connections and faster internet browsers are all well and good, but what can we do to make a faster web page? Every day, web sites and online stores are getting flashier. CSS and JavaScript can do a lot of cool stuff, and images can help a site grab your attention. Recently, Google has begun using page load times to adjust search rankings, so make that one more reason to speed things up a bit. What I am going to talk about today will Smush your images, compress your JavaScript and minif your CSS, even use Sprites to help bring that slow site up to speed!
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There has been some buzz as of late over ways to convert visitors who would otherwise leave the site for any number of reasons. In a recent article from 
Over time, your store will take longer and longer to publish. Some of the things that contribute to this are the number of items in your store, the number of templates you have and the amount of work your templates need to do to make the HTML for the page. One way to speed up publishing is to remove unnecessary elements from the editor. If you have custom templates you can do a little RTML coding and change how the site will publish. 
Back to Basics will cover the main items that any store owner should know. I will not cover any RTML in this post; just the basics like images, image links, links, small CSS changes, and other tips on HTML for everyone that does not like to learn the major items but just the little ones to make managing a store easier. Enjoy.
The Yahoo Store is a wonderful platform, easy to use as everything has its place: images, text, item info. With the basic setup it will please most customers and Yahoo does a great job with these things. Some store owners want more, such as an 
Today I am going to talk about Trust marks, Yes the “make your customer feel good” marks. Every online store uses trust marks, Best Buy, New Egg, Dicks sporting goods and many more. those are big name company’s and yet they still need to tell their customer that you can trust our cart. So what can you do? you can go to mcafee.com and buy their badge and that will be around $800 a year, I am not saying to not look into the Badge or VeriSign will run over $500 a year and most be name companies use both of them and it’s a good way to go if you have the funds but most of us don’t have the money to spend on that kind of trust a few options I would like to share with you are free and just take some time.