Aspdotnetstorefront - Best of Breed in Ecommerce Technology

Years of experience designing, developing and administrating Database management systems enables SolsticeNext to pass on their wealth of information and knowledge. SolsticeNext has been developing ecommerce sites with the Aspdotnetstorefront platform for over 6 years.

We have found it to be the best solution available that offers the most integrated features for the cost.

At SolsticeNext we believe that your site should be as unique as your business. Aspdotnetstorefront offers the ability to use multiple skins to customize the look of your site.

Some of the other important features that Aspdotnetstorefront offers include:

• Web based control panel


• Excel or Xml product import


• Support for most popular gateways: Authorize.net, Verisign, Linkpoint, PayPal, PayPal Express, PayPal Website Payments PRO, and more


• Complete support for robust Search Engine crawling, with full control over static page links, and complete control over all meta tags, titles, keywords, descriptions, alt-text, "noscript" blocks on each and every product and category in the storefront! Some larger sites we know have over 350,000 pages fully indexed in Google!


• RealTime FedEx, UPS, DHL, USPS, and Canada Post Shipping Rates already integrated. Canada Post supported only in ML version currently


• Minimum quantities, restricted products, password protected topics, support for an HTML pages (we call these topic pages), affiliate tracking through to customer and order records, recurring items, download products, subscription items, custom address book, easy one button re-order, auto image watermarking, and more


• NO limits on # of products, database size, etc.


• Supports categories and departments, which can be nested up to 10 levels deep


• QuickBooks Export


• Related Products, Upsell Products


• Auto E-Mailing of receipts, Receipt Customization


• Notify your cell phone on new order arrival


• Multiple ship-to /bill-to addresses (with address book)


• Many payment methods: Credit Card, PayPal, E-Check, C.O.D., Request Quote, PayPal Express, Micropay/Purse, Check by Mail, C.O.D. Net 30, and others.


• Order options supported (e.g. gift wrapping, ship in unmarked box, etc). Each order option can have a fee associated with it


• Robust feature set for truly minimal cost, to jump start your storefront: wish lists, Google site maps, Yahoo! site maps, Froogle support, Pricegrabber support, Skinning Engine, Xml/Xslt rendering engine, gift registry, customer levels, quantity discounts, coupons, multi-lingual support, and many other features...you generally find these features only carts that cost upwards of $2000 or more!

Some of our customers who use Aspdotnetstorefront:

www.kerbeylanecafe.com
www.edinakiss.com
www.anjedesigns.com
www.identiphi.net
www.imagsales.com
www.lorilori.com
www.blissboutique.com

Contact SolsticeNext today for a custom quote to see if the Aspdotnetstorefront Shopping Cart is right for your business.

Contact us for a free quote at (480) 636-6686
or visit our site at www.solsticenex

SolsticeNext Search Engine Optimization Services

Most website owners probably do not realize that their sites are not enhanced for optimal natural search engine placement, with missing important keyword and description meta tags, improper html content formatting that may cause search engines to completely overlook their website.

In an effort to assist businesses to enhance their overall search engine ranking and traffic, SolsticeNext uses a variety of optimization techniques that are considered legitimate practices by the search engine community in-turn reducing any potential red flags or search engine black and or delisting, these techniques may include:

1. Meta tag addition, proper placement and relative content (per page)
2. Proper HTML tag placement and usage (per page)
3. Content enhancement and addition
4. Landing domain names, sites and pages relative to site content
5. Landing pages optimized per search engine algorithm
6. Social networks providing links back to site and/or landing pages
7. Implementation of an XML Site Map
8. Search engine ranking analysis and submission where needed
9. Link trading when possible
10. Image and page names relative to content
11. Potential tag cloud
12. Introduction of dynamic rotating advertisement images and content to allow the sites information to change regularly.
13. Introduction of a Robots text follow file
14. Introduction of a Favicon
15. Targeted keyword analysis
16. Home page changes content regularly

The above optimization techniques are useful in organic search engine placement. An organic search is a process by which World Wide Web users find web sites having unpaid search engine listings, as opposed to using the pay per click (PPC) advertisement listings displayed among the search results.

Contact us for a free site analysis and quote. Visit our site at http://www.solsticenext.com/

IIS cannot share the same Application Pool Between versions of ASP.Net

When running multiple versions of ASP.NET web applications, i.e. Dot Net Framework Versions v2.0.50727 and v1.1.4322, you may receive that following error, when trying to view whichever site was launched after a site using a different version has been launched.

Event ID: 1062
It is not possible to run two different versions of ASP.NET in the same IIS process. Please use the IIS Administration Tool to reconfigure your server to run the application in a separate process.

IIS cannot share the same Application Pool Between versions of .Net. The resolution to this issue is resolved by adding a secondary Application Pool and set each version to use separate pools as follows...

Using Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager:

1. Expand the tree and right click on Application Pools selecting New > Application Pool…
2. Enter and ID for the new pool and click OK for my purposes I create one called ASPDOTNET2 obviously to use for ASP.NET v2.0.50727 sites.
3. After creating the new pool apply it to all sites running ASP.NET v2.0.50727, you can see and or change the ASP.NET version by clicking on the ASP.NET Tab in each sites Properties Dialog. You apply the App Pool via the Home Directory Tab, and on the bottom there is an Application Pool drop down list, your new Pool should now be available. You should not need to restart anything, just refresh your error page and Tada!

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Application Pool not listed in IIS 6

When recently upgrading a server from Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003 it was noticed that the the Application Pool option was not available. After fishing around for a while it was found that IIS was running under IIS 5.0 Isolation mode. To resolve issue here are the steps that were followed:

1. Right click on "Websites" and click on "Properties".
   
2. Click on "Service" tab, uncheck the isolation mode check box.
   
3. You will be asked Do you want to restart your IIS now?, Click Yes.
4. Application Pools will now be listed and available.
   
   
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Fix for drop down menu hiding behind flash in Mozilla and IE Browsers

If your drop down menu disappears behind your flash file in either Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, there is an easy fix for this. In your html code, add the following code to your flash file. < name="wmode" value="transparent">

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This will make the flash file transparent and your menu will be seen.

Code Example :

< src="http://www.website/flashfile.swf" width="500" height="333" scale="ShowAll" play="true" loop="true" menu="true" style="font-weight: bold;">wmode="transparent" quality="1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">