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Working with FaceBook and your e-commerce site can be a difficult animal at times, but getting it right means putting your products in front of potential customers.  We were working with a customer recently that wanted the big three in social media available as a shareable link on each of the product detail pages.  Normally this is a standard installation but FaceBook requires a bit more information than Twitter or Google+1 to get the right information to show up when shared.  For example, you can add a regular share link to a page but if the correct Open Graph meta … Continue reading →

I have finally launched the official FaceBook page for BWD. Due to the amount of work over the past couple years, I have just not given the page enough time to complete and publicly link. Today I finished the page and included 3 custom elements: Custom “Welcome” page with a check in place to see if the visitor has “Liked” the page yet.  Once liked, the page reveals a monthly special. Custom blog feed from brackishwaters.com/blog that pulls in the 5 most recent posts to the blog.  Once added to the FaceBook page, this requires no further work as it … Continue reading →

I came upon a problem recently for an e-commerce site that in theory, should have been quite easy to solve.  I have setup redirects many times in the past but this one stumped me.  A redirect is essentially just a detour sign for browsers and search engines to send the visitor to a new page because the page they were trying to reach has been moved, deleted or renamed.  This is common when updating or rebuilding a site to setup redirects after the launch so the search engines and visitors who have bookmarked the old pages don’t get lost. The … Continue reading →

You may have noticed a nice content slider on the new homepage for Brackish Waters Design.  This was implemented using Chris Coyier’s AnythingSlider which I have found to be very useful in the past few months.  Its ability to handle multiple types of data and slide smoothly with JQuery was a definite plus.  It took a bit of work but I was able to get the slider to grab 6 of latest posts to a specific category and automatically display these in the panes. I run a separate include file for my home loop in WordPress which I will provide … Continue reading →