Today we officially launch our Seedling Commerce platform. Designed and developed for small business, Seedling Commerce is a flexible and scalable website platform to market and sell your products and services online. Before we go into the feature and benefits of the platform and how your business can use the platform to grow and serve your […]
Reimagining our website services
This week we are officially announcing our reimagined website service Seedling Commerce. Driven to create an Australian focused website service that not only allows businesses to easily extend their services online, but to also offer a range of built in tools for business owners and managers to better serve their customers online and strengthen their […]
Connecting to WooCommerce.com account
WooCommerce.com offers a great range of WordPress plugins, which WooCommerce calls ‘extensions’ to extend the functionality of the e-commerce plugin’s capabilities. The extensions range from email newsletter and payment gateway integrations to membership and subscription functionality. Pricing of the extensions vary from free to a couple of hundred dollars, it just depends on the complexity and functionality […]
Simplify your WordPress Dashboard
One of the issues that we hear from our clients is the confusion of the standard WordPress admin interface, commonly know as the Dashboard. Generally, we find that clients think it too messy with unnecessary page and post data. We are currently working on a new admin theme that we think will make some great improvements on the […]
Mad Mondays two for the price of one Photography
For the next three Mondays leading up to Christmas 2016 will be offering the two product images or two ghost mannequin images for the price of one! Yes, that’s right two shots for the price of one, this is a great opportunity to freshen up your online store for 2017. You better hurry as this offer […]
Introducing Duelling Pixels Studio
We have being a bit quiet on the blog front in the last weeks, this due to our focus and work on our new online studio. Designed to be a single online portal, Duelling Pixels Studio is a curated collection of quality and reliable service providers of digital and visual services for ecommerce website owners and digital […]
Which online payment gateway to use?
Selecting a payment gateway for your website transactions can be a very confusing process. There are so many different factors to compare and let’s face it, the required information is not aways easily accessible to compare the pro’s and con’s of each gateway. Scouring through the webpages for each payment gateway can be a very time consuming process. Then […]
Branding your WooCommerce email template
With the base install of WooCommerce, the available features to customise the WordPress email template is very basic. The options available are Header Image, Footer Text and Text and Background colour options. There is no real way of changing the template without getting into some coding. Lucky, as always with WordPress there is a plugin to the address this […]
Mobile phone photography – How to take better product shots
Mobile phone photography has almost become an art form in itself and we are using it more and more to replace what only a couple of years ago we would of had one or two camera’s for. There is an old photographer’s saying: “What is the best camera for …”, you can fill in the blanks […]
Australia Post integration with WooComemerce
Adding Australia Post integration to your WooCommerce eCommerce store has never being easier, thanks to the number of WordPress plugins that are now available. In this post we are going to run through adding Australia Post integration with WooCommerce with the Australia Post WooCommerce Extension plugin by WPRuby. The plugins comes in two versions, a free version and a […]
Photo Clipping Paths & Deep Etching
Yesterday, we officially launched our online clipping paths and deep etching services. Originally designed to cater our own needs to simplify our lives, we decided to build a single online portal to send and receive files, track jobs, and pay suppliers. This week Duelling Pixels is super excited to be opening our portal to other businesses. Designed […]
Australian eCommerce store with WooCommerce
When setting up a an Australian eCommerce store with WooCommerce at first you might be confused and frustrated with the focus on the good ole’ USA during the installation and set up process. Lucky, WordPress allows the administrator to easily configure their store for the Australian Market, let’s run through some of these settings. General WordPress […]
Product Photography – 3 tips to great images
Preparing for a product photography shoot for your e-commerce website can take a a little extra time, but the rewards for your business will be priceless. Let’s run through our three points that will ensure a successful photographic product shoot. Create a product photography shot list This may seem like unnecessary admin work, however creating a shot list […]
Shipping Zones – Understanding WooCommerce’s new feature
With the roll out of WooCommerce 2.6, one of the many new features the update included was Shipping Zones within the newly configured shipping module. Designed to help manage the shopping module in a more efficient way, shipping zones allows the shop manager to customise the available shipping methods for a particular geographical region. So what […]
WooCommerce Account page fix for Genesis themes
The latest update of the WooCommerce ecommerce plugin includes a new tabbed My Account page template to a allow for easier user account navigation. Unless you have a purpose built WooCommerce theme, the new WooCommerce account page layout on the front end for users will be functional but won’t look that great for the user. From […]