eCommerce Blog

Whether you're just starting out and aspiring to build your own online shop, or you're an established business keen to start selling on the Internet for the first time, we can provide you with the ecommerce software and expertise to get your project off the ground. This structured tutorial will give you an overview of the entire process from inception to launch.

A question we get asked often is why have I exceeded my webspace quota and what on earth does it mean? Never fear, we've answered all of your webspace questions below and have also included some handy tips to help maintain your usage in the future.

Bluepark has partnered with NetDespatch, UK's leading SaaS parcel data management platform for postal and parcel carriers, to make your despatching process quick and easy to do via Royal Mail and we are currently the only UK based ecommerce provider to do so. Find out how to set up your ecommerce website with NetDespatch with our helpful guide and look out for more carriers such as UK Mail being added in the near future.

One very important section of the Bluepark CMS that people often miss is the Order in Progress area. This section is exactly what it says, in here you will see orders that are currently in progress, i.e. not yet completed. In the Bluepark system a completed order means that the customer has reached the very last checkout page which thanks the customer for their order. Find out why it's important to keep a close eye on this area and not just ignored.

There are right ways and wrong ways of doing 301 redirects and, as we have seen first hand, doing them the wrong way can have catastrophic effects on your search engine rankings. Don't panic though, just follow our guide to make sure you do them the correct way and you'll have no problems.

Before 2010 if you wanted to add a non-standard font to your website you would've had to install the font's files on your website's servers and linked to them using complicated code within the CSS to make sure it showed correctly. Nowadays you don't have to worry about complicated code or placing files on servers you might not be able to access thanks to Google Fonts.

When building your website one thing you need to remember is that it’s not just a matter of adding products to it and hoping people will purchase from you. There are many aspects to creating an enticing online shop that will make customers come back time and time again. One thing that can help with this, and give your website a dynamic feel, is the Bluepark built-in product blocks.

A bundle promotion can be used to help increase volume of sales as well as the volume of each order. All sorts of industries offer bundles that we don't even think about when purchasing. So why can't you? Find out how in our helpful guide.

We all know the standard homepage layout of left hand menu, slideshow banner at the top of the centre column, followed by a block of featured products and a welcome message. This has become the norm for many ecommerce websites but sometimes it’s good break from the mould and try something different. Find out how to create three different layouts to use on your online shop.