http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/ Open discussion of non-technical, non-ecommerce topics en Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:43:54 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/images/misc/rss.png http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/ http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2138-Excel-experts-required-please....&goto=newpost Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:25:57 GMT Hi I have two files....one from my database and one from my supplier. One thing they both have in common is the sku. Is there an easy way... Hi

I have two files....one from my database and one from my supplier. One thing they both have in common is the sku.

Is there an easy way (using some sort of excel formula) I can compare the two and get excel to show sku's from my file that do not appear in my suppliers ?

Thanks in advance

Chub ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business chubster http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2138-Excel-experts-required-please.... http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2122-Wedding-Day-news&goto=newpost Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:21:51 GMT Congratulations to Rich and Priscilla who were married yesterday. The staff at Bluepark wish you every happiness for your future together. :) Congratulations to Rich and Priscilla who were married yesterday. The staff at Bluepark wish you every happiness for your future together. :) ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business Lynne http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2122-Wedding-Day-news http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2117-Mobile-Me-(....-me.com-addresses)&goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:15:16 GMT Is any body else using the Apple mobileme service in conjuction with Blue Park?
I'm testing it out and although I can forward my BP e-mails into mobileme it is difficult to use mobile me to send so it looks like e-mail comes from the BP address. Has any body cracked this? Apple support got their knickers in a right twist about port numbers.
With so many underwear suppliers using BP are there twist-free knickers available for Apple support?:p ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business Bather http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2117-Mobile-Me-(....-me.com-addresses) http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2107-Image-cleanup&goto=newpost Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:50:41 GMT I'm a complete e-commerce virgin, and I'm learning as I go. I've contacted several of my suppliers and discussed my website plans and I'm pleasantly surprised by their assistance.

As a result I've got lots of images for the products I'm listing, but many of them are very poor when viewed on the website. Does anyone have advice on simple and straightforward way to clean and sharpen them up without getting all 'photoshop'-ey?

The emphasis is on the word 'simple'. And 'straightforward'. Also 'quick'... :rolleyes: ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business MyShinyCar http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2107-Image-cleanup http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2106-Stock-control&goto=newpost Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:24:12 GMT I'm very aware that so far my participation on this forum is all questions and no input. I'm looking forward to the day when I'm experienced and confident enough with this system that I can actually provide some answers myself.

In the meantime, may I ask another question?

How do you manage stock levels between online and offline stores? I have an Epos and stock control system to manage the stock levels in my regular shop, but it's obviously not linked to my (soon-to-be-live) online shop. I'm having nightmares trying to figure out how to stay on top of stock figures.

Presumably it's easier if one shop is in control of stock numbers and the other manually updated. But how? And when? After each sale? At the end of each day? ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business MyShinyCar http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2106-Stock-control http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2101-Implications-of-transferring-domain-names&goto=newpost Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:14:04 GMT I currently have a free website with Free Virtual Servers which is just a place-holder for my domain name until I'm ready to transfer the site to Bluepark (not ready to do this yet). They are now asking me to transfer my domain to them or they will close down my current site (the domain is still with the company I registered the name originally).

As I don't fully understand the implications of this domain change, I was looking for some advice:

- transfer to FVS for now, then to BP later?
- just let the FVS site go, and transfer to BP when ready. If I do this, I lose any links to the site name, and presumably the history of the site being in existence?
- some other option... ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business petad http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2101-Implications-of-transferring-domain-names http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2090-Ta-daaaa!-I-m-a-BluePark-er.&goto=newpost Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:30:09 GMT Hi all.

I'm now a fully signed up BluePark-er :D

I'm excited. ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business MyShinyCar http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2090-Ta-daaaa!-I-m-a-BluePark-er. http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2078-Rich!!!&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:15:12 GMT I *love* the new Bluepark website it is very very good and very modern! Huge improvement. I *love* the new Bluepark website it is very very good and very modern! Huge improvement. ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business icegems http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2078-Rich!!! http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2077-PNGs-black-backround&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:04:19 GMT For some reason, whenever I upload a PNG image to the site, it appears with a black background....does anyone know why, and how to stop that from... For some reason, whenever I upload a PNG image to the site, it appears with a black background....does anyone know why, and how to stop that from happening?! ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business Laura@FYP http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2077-PNGs-black-backround http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2069-Stupid-Question-time&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:42:26 GMT Just noticed in the form manager that there is a column for "database". can you access the records anywhere??? or is that purely to show how many times the forms have been filled in? (found that bit)

so now my question is.... does it only hold a certain amount of info, just seen the submission tab, but it only goes back to july.

Cheers ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business Adam http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2069-Stupid-Question-time http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2064-Merging-fields-into-e-mails&goto=newpost Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:07:25 GMT Please could somebody help me to merge fields into e-mails. Do I just include just include "%informal" in the body of the mail, or do I need further other variables. ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business Lindsay http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2064-Merging-fields-into-e-mails http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2051-Thoughts-on-.co-verses-.co.uk&goto=newpost Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:41:24 GMT I would be really interested to hear any thoughts on using a .co or a .co.uk domain name.

I've recently bought both. I grabbed the .co domain because I thought it short and simple and, well, a bit different. I grabbed the .co.uk at the same time just because it was available and to stop anyone else taking it. I'm now in a quandry as to whether I should set up my new company on the short, simple and 'a bit different' .co domain, or whether to be safe and use the .co.uk.

Does anyone have any experience or thoughts on the subject? .co is the Top Level Domain for Columbia, will this have any impact on SEO for me - a UK based company?

I don't know what to do for the best. :( ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business MyShinyCar http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2051-Thoughts-on-.co-verses-.co.uk http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2048-Royal-Mail-Claims&goto=newpost Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:47:38 GMT We have put in many claims with Royal Mail over the years for lost parcels, and usually have no problems with getting compensated. However for the... We have put in many claims with Royal Mail over the years for lost parcels, and usually have no problems with getting compensated. However for the last batch that was sent off, we had the letters, which have usually just been letters confirming that they received the claims, so I just put them aside without paying much attention. However, I checked them again the other day when I realised that we still hadnt received the cheques, and realised that these ones do actually read that they had tried to contact the customers for confirmation of failed delivery, but hadn't heard anything back, so were advising us to contact them. They said that if they didn't hear back from us within 10 days, they would assume that delivery had been completed. Doh!

So now Im wondering, what do other people do when the customers dont respond to the RM requests for confirmation- as if they dont respond then obviously we dont get compensated so lose out....? ]]> General Discussion: Any Other Business Laura@FYP http://www.bluepark.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?2048-Royal-Mail-Claims