How to add character count to just about any OpenCart 2.x comments box

This article will show you how to add a character counter to any text area on your OpenCart website. Without further ado let’s see what steps you need to take to implement this.
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How To Upgrade OpenCart From 1.5.6.x To 2.2.0.0 In 3 Easy Steps

Why update when my site is running OK, you might ask. Even if you are perfectly fine with how your site performs there is always room for improvement. As a software product, OpenCart gets better with every new version.
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OpenCart 2.x Modification System

OpenCart Modification System known as OCMOD is a simplified virtual file modification system that is native since OpenCart 2.0. It allows store owners to modify and extend the behavior of their stores, without modifying core files, just by uploading a compressed file containing XML, PHP or SQL files extending the core system files. This approach guarantees trouble-free performance even after the modification is removed.
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10 High Impact OpenCart Modules To Help You Sell More

Meeting your customers expectations has always been a key part in running a successful online business. Completing this task is not always an easy job. To achieve maximum results and stay on top of the competition, you would need the right set of tools. Choosing amongst the large variety of extensions and plugins can be a tedious task. This blog post will show you our carefully picked 10 OpenCart extensions to help you increase your sales and customer satisfaction.
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How to Add a Favicon to Your OpenCart Website

Favorite icons or as you probably know them “favicons” are small images, which you could see at the top of your browser's tabs or next to each of your bookmarked sites title. These tiny images have a great impact on the overall perception of a user for your website. Most often they are minified version of a site’s logo or any other distinctive site’s characteristic. Their sole purpose is to make your site more memorable and recognisable.
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How to Create and Manage Attributes in OpenCart 2.0.x

Providing your customers with detailed and exhaustive information about the products they find in your store is a key component in the decision-making process each one of them goes before making a purchase. The default Product Comparison functionality of OpenCart makes this tedious task easier.
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How to Create and Manage Gift Vouchers in OpenCart 2.0.x

September 11, 2015
Online gift vouchers are a great opportunity for online store owners to improve the benefits of their business. Recently incomm.com conducted a survey about the “Rising popularity of digital gift cards”, where they have found out that nearly 70% of the interviewed customers are more interested in buying a digital gift voucher. This data shows that in the light of the omnichannel experience customers are looking for, providing digital gift vouchers is a perfect opportunity for improving the performance of their business.
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Buying Online, Picking Up in Store - Delivering the Omnichannel Experience Your Customers Need

September 4, 2015
Today’s consumers are no longer playing the game of online versus brick-and-mortar retailing. The technology that surrounds us allows us to connect, shop and work from almost any point in the World. In commercial point of view this could mean only one thing - the traditional shoppers became multi-channel oriented customers. This trend, also known as omnichannel is a sales approach, which as Google describes, seeks “to provide the customer with a seamless shopping experience whether the customer is shopping online from a desktop or mobile device, by telephone or in a bricks and mortar store”. Retailers struggling to meet this criteria are more likely to lose business in favor of the competition. Closing the omnichannel gap appears to be not an easy task for more than 70% of retailers who took part in recent Mozu research stating that they have not completed the omnichannel integration for their businesses.
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5 beautiful examples of coming soon pages to make customers eager to visit your ready website

Coming Soon pages are well known and widely used concept in web pages design and marketing strategies. They have been around since the dawn of Internet but I doubt any of you has spent more than two seconds on them. We all know the ugly “Under construction” text accompanied by a picture of a traffic cone or something similar. A couple of years ago however, web designers saw the potential which lays behind this empty page. That’s how coming soon pages were born. A coming soon page is more often than not a one page website, whose sole purpose is to inform your audience about your upcoming or reworked project. But the way you put it to the public - well that is the key part. Creating buzz and expectation even before your website's official launch could sometimes be the difference between success and failure.
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How to drive revenue by improving user's post order experience

The goal of every business is to generate revenue. You are a successful online store owner and your business is heading upwards. In order to keep the momentum, you have to offer your customers something worth coming back for. The tricky part here is that unlike real life shopping, when someone purchases something from your online store you don’t get to see them in person. One of the best ways to keep the interest in your website constantly growing is to deliver one of a kind user experience. To achieve that, you need to pay special attention to little details.
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