Merchant Tutorials Blog
22Jul/09

Miva Merchant Newsletter Features MerchantTutorials.com

Miva Merchant has sent out a newsletter that features MerchantTutorials.com. You can see it here. It's beautiful, if I may say so myself. Check out the testimonials, too.

5Jul/09

10 Questions with Chuck Lasker of MerchantTutorials.com

Susan Petracco of NetBlazon, Miva Merchant module developers and consultants, interviewed me in San Diego a few months ago during the Miva Merchant User Conference. They posted the video of the interview at their DoublePlus blog:

Interview with NetBlazon

Please ignore the way I don't know what to do with my hands, a la Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights...

19Jun/09

Miva Merchant Skins – Free Tutorials!

If you do not have the design experience necessary to create a professional looking online store, and you don't have the funds to hire a professional designer, you might consider using a Miva Merchant Skin. For a relatively low price (discounted at the moment), you can have a professional-quality design that you can customize fairly easily. At the time of this post, there are 26 designs, from Children's Store to Electronics Store.

Go To Miva Merchant Skins Page

I have created four tutorials for the Advanced Subscribers about how to work with Skins. However, in order to help those who are thinking about purchasing a Skin or who have bought one and are struggling, I'm putting them here for everyone at no charge.

Miva Merchant Skin Install Step 1

Miva Merchant Skin Install Step 2

Miva Merchant Skin - Making Changes

Miva Merchant Skin - Failsafe - Reverting to Backup Version

Enjoy!

15Apr/09

New Miva Merchant User Toolbar

Are you like me, tired of going to bookmarks every time you want to go to the Miva Merchant user forum, or to your MerchantTutorials.com tutorials page? Looking for quick access to the best available information about Miva Merchant?

I created a browser toolbar that has hand-selected links to module sites, Miva Merchant related blogs, official Miva Merchant docs, as well as some cool optional features like an email notifier, To Do list, and more. What's best is it's completely unobtrusive, unlike some of the spammy junk toolbars out there. And it's free.

Your first question is, what about spyware and spam and privacy? This toolbar is certified to be free of all that junk. Check out the privacy page. It is certified by TRUSTe, too.

Of course, I have a tutorial showing how to install and some of its features.

Give it a try. If you don't like it, it's easy to uninstall. Available for Internet Explorer and FireFox only, though. Click the image to go to the download page.

If you have suggestions for links or other features, please let me know.

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27Feb/09

Miva Merchant User Conference 2009 – Chuck Lasker’s Schedule

UPDATE: They just changed the schedule, so, if you got my schedule off here before 11:30 am Pacific Time Friday, it has changed. It's now how it's shown below:

I'm at the Miva Merchant User Conference 2009 through Sunday. I'll be Tweeting from @MerchantTuts if you want to follow, and blogging here. My speaking schedule is as follows:

Friday, February 27, 3:30 - 5 pm: Miva Merchant 5.5 using Skins and Dreamweaver, Room 6

Saturday, February 28, 3:30 pm - 5 pm: Using Store Morph Technology, Room 2

Sunday, March 1, 11 am - 12:30 pm: Store Morph Technology Simplified - Customizing Your Store, Room 6

Come join me! It's all hands-on so we'll be answering your questions to the best of our ability.

Be sure to find me at the back of the main conference room (where the keynotes are) at the MerchantTutorials.com booth and introduce yourself.