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Why is speed important?   A fast website is just like breathing; we assume that it will work straight away. It is only when we are deprived of what we take for granted that we realize how essential it is.    A fast website is certainly not something that we ..

For many shoppers, buying a product online can be a terrifying idea. I'm sure, like myself, you've all had that heart-sinking feeling when your order arrives and it's completely different to how you imagined it to be. Along with your product photographs, your product descriptions are the only gli..

We've been working on a few improvements and features to the main OpenCart.com site that we hope will improve everyone's experience. 1. Changing to HTML based emails. It's been a long time since the emails have been looked at, although most people would think it is a small change - we send ou..

A random find, but it seems that OpenCart was recently mentioned as an option for a free open source ecommerce solution on the UK BBC news site. You can read more about the full article here Just a shame they didn't add a link over to us unlike the rest!

Increase your traffic, sales and brand awareness with product reviews Anyone that has experience in retail, be it online or offline, understands the power of word of mouth. Businesses that have succeeded in building a product or service that generates a lot of word of mouth is on easy st..

Are you are a technical person who knows the in's and out's of OpenCart and could provide help to others? If so then get in touch with us and send your resume. We're creating a support team for UK & EU and want some great people to join. Working along side some of our UK partners you wil..

OpenCart will be attending the London eCommerce expo on October 2nd and 3rd. If you want to meet up and discusss business we will be there and happy to talk to you.  More details can be found here: http://www.ecommerceexpo.co.uk/ Address: The Olympia Exhibition Centre - O..

Our founder and a group of OpenCart enthusiasts together for a friendly gathering   

The anticipation is now over, as its finally here. OpenCart 1.5.6. Here at OpenCart we have been striving to provide a more user friendly and versatile system. We have looked long and hard about the integrations and feel that we have made huge steps in developing a solution which has superior fun..

There's going to be a OpenCart meeting in Amsterdam on the 1st August at 14:00. The address is: ART HOTEL AMSTERDAM Spaarndammerdijk 302 | Amsterdam art@westcordhotels.nl Tel: +31 20 4109670   If you can make it please come. We are going to have many discussions a..