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Does Improving Site Speed and SEO Really Increase Conversions?The speed of your site is one of the key components for running a successful online store. The general rule of thumb is that a website should load within 5 seconds of a customer clicking on the link. Beyond this threshold, studies suggest..

Our CSS only themes have gained a lot of interest and popularity over the years since we released the iStore Theme in 2019. The main reason for creating our own themes was a) lack of good OpenCart themes available, b) themes from theme providers which were hard to work with and c) themes that wouldn..

Our Newly Created Custom Themes Are Now Available to PurchasePosted by AlexDobson on April 29, 2019This has been a project that has been quietly running in the background for a number of months now. The idea came to us as a number of clients approached us over the last 6 months asking whether we had..

How to create Product Specials within your OpenCart StorePosted by AlexDobson on March 22, 2019Setting up a special price for a product either for a holiday season or a specific time period is very important for your ecommerce business in order to push product sales. Therefore knowing how to do this..

Advanced Captcha:Due to popular demand we have now made our Advanced Captcha code into an extension that can now be purchased on the OpenCart extension store. As you would have seen from my previous blog we noticed that spammers were finding ways around the default OpenCart Captcha which rendered th..