[HTN News] Ten Years Old

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Customer Site News

Script for PDG Commerce Users
We have created a script to “clean” special characters that shouldn’t be there from text fields in PDG Commerce. Because the inadvertant appearance of unwanted special characters is such a common issue for folks, we have released this script to the community of PDG Commerce users free of charge. It is released licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. You can find the script along with instructions in our Knowledgebase.  Feel free to use it.

Presidential Election, looking forward to the upcoming US presidential election next year, upgraded their site with a new design and new features, such as the scrolling online product gallery. This site is an amazing resource of non-partisan information about elections.

Coffee Icon asked us to add a shipping line to the mini-basket that displays on every page of their PDG Commerce installation for their US store. Be sure you are shopping the US store (select the tab with US flag in the upper right) and shop. You will see a shipping line in your mini-basket. If you pass the threshold for free shipping, you will see that change to Free shipping on the mini-cart shipping line. This is a nice feedback for the customer. The soft add-to-cart behavior lets the customer stay in the shopping process until they are really ready to view that cart in full.

Clipa offers handbag-hanging accessories that can be customized like jewelry. We built the gem-selecting widget for their Custom Crystal Clipa. A user can design the look of their clipa by selecting one or more gems and deciding in which position each gem should go. When the order is placed, the positions and gems are passed as options through the order process to be used as easy error-free manufacture instructions.

Other News

Browser Version Support

Google recently announced that, as of August 1, 2011, it will no longer support the following browser versions: IE7, Firefox 3.5, and Safari 3. HTN follows the general consensus of “current” browsers in its testing. We have also stopped routinely testing these three versions. We suggest that folks consider putting a browser version courtesy message on their sites so that folks visiting with older unsupported browsers are alerted to the fact that the site is not optimized for their version and are given a pointer on where to get updates. If this sounds like a good idea, but you don’t want to do it yourself, ask us to put up such a browser version courtesy message for you.

HTN Affiliate Program

HTN is pleased to announce the HTN Affiliate Program. This is an opportunity for our customers to earn some cash – and help other folks enjoy great HTN Cloud Hosting services and products. There is no cost to sign up. There is no minimum required. The only requirement is that you yourself be an HTN customer.

Payments to you continue for as long as the referred account is with HTN. It is not a one-time or limited-time situation.

Who might be interested in this? If you are a web developer with customers who need hosting referrals, you are a natural candidate. If you are a corporate body with related subsidiary companies who have hosting needs, you might refer those subsidiaries to HTN hosting. If you simply have lots of business acquaintances who have websites, you might mention HTN services at appropriate times. Do your friends a favor (and earn cash while you’re at it) by signing up as an HTN affiliate.