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Prices including tax on uCommerce

Most of our retailers price point their products to include tax i.e. a shirt that costs you £100 would include a proportion of VAT that the retailer would have to pay (at the moment about £16.67). One frustration I've had for a while with uCommerce is

Do you know where your company's skills are lacking?

We're recruiting again and to work out what type of recruit we would benefit from the most, we decided to try and assess our strengths and weaknesses. It was a really useful exercise and meant that we were quickly able to identify which areas we should increase capacity

CSS frameworks and column class names -why I think they are wrong

Before starting the new uCommerce demo razor store, we had a chat through the options as far as CSS frameworks were concerned. The main consideration we had was that it had to be a framework that the community was familiar with as we weren't looking to explain the

New domain name scam

This email almost caught me out the other day: The client has been interested in the .com before but I couldn't recall whether it was something we had bought for them or not so I checked it out and it was actually free -so it's basically

Umbraco powered CheckBoxList or DropdownList nodes in uCommerce admin area

uCommerce is a great e-commerce engine for Umbraco and high on our list of options when evaluating new e-commerce projects at The Site Doctor. One thing that has always bugged me however is the lack of extensibility on the admin backend. This is something I've discussed with Søren

Umbraco developers - remember to disable the umbDebug settings when you go live

Recently I've noticed a growing number of Umbraco developers forgetting to disable the Umbraco debug settings before going live. We all fall foul of this from time to time but it is a security loophole that you can patch incredibly easily. If you're not familiar with

Think about your users when writing your content

Ignoring the aspects of design, SEO duplicate content, underlying code and tone of language, as a content editor you really should give consideration to your user and what they're looking for. I generally steer clear of critiquing -or even commenting on work that isn't our own

Nuget server on IIS6 returns 404 when downloading package after upgrade

We updated our nuget server today and ran into a problem where regardless of package selected or whether it's through the nuget package manager or the nuget package explorer, the server returns 404 (File Not Found). What was odd about this was that the packages exist and the

uCommerce is now free and why it's great news

Those of you who were lucky enough to make it to CodeGarden 11 (or have been following the #CG11 hash tag) will no doubt already know that uCommerce Starter Edition is now free. Why this is good news For quite some time we've been lacking a good all-round

Why we came up with Born in the Barn

Some of you may have already come across our new recruitment drive -www.borninthebarn.co.uk but I thought I would write a few blog posts about the thinking behind the website. This post concentrates largely on the business reasons behind it, I'll post separately about our findings