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Customer Paradigm Review: Responsive Site Design
Customer Paradigm Review Reviewed by Karl F. on Dec. 16, 2014. Summary: "Thanks so much... More importantly, thanks so much for help and support of you and your team!" Type of Project: Mobile Website Development - Quick Fix. (iOS 8 update broke their responsive...
Another Magento Certified Developer on the Customer Paradigm team
A big congratulations! We had another programmer today here at Customer Paradigm successfully pass the Magento Certified Developer program. The Magento developer test was designed as a way to ensure that the programmer working on a Magento site has studied,...
Yellow Moon Rising Over Boulder, Colorado
Last night, one of my daughters noticed that a yellow moon was rising above Boulder, Colorado. I grabbed the camera, threw on a lens, and here's an image: View full size image >> Tech Specs on this image: Canon 5D Mark III, 400 mm lens with 2x Extender (800 mm...
Introducing Watchdog 3.1, Daily Sales Summary & Trigger Email Reports for Magento
A long, long time ago, I worked as a professional dog trainer for search and rescue. It was an amazing job, and one that taught me lessons that I still use today. As you probably know, dogs can hear and smell things that humans can't, and detect trouble before we can...
How to turn on Template Hints for the Magento Admin Area
Need a quick way to turn on Template Hints for the Magento admin area? It's easy to turn them on for the front-end of the site, but if you need to do this for your Magento Admin area (for example, you're building new modules or funtionality into the Magento admin...
I’m Paranoid: Human Testing vs. Automated Testing
It's possible that I'm paranoid. But one of the most frustrating things in the technology world is when something that was working perfectly yesterday... stops working today. But nobody notices for a day or two. Automated testing scripts don't always catch this. And...
I’m a Google Analytics Addict, and that led to a discovery
I'm an addict. I admit that I often have a window open on my computer, watching how many people are visiting the CustomerParadigm.com site at any given moment. To me, it's fascinating where they're coming from (all over the world) and what they're looking at (we have...
Review of Customer Paradigm – Website Development
Customer Paradigm Review Reviewed by Grace N. on Oct. 30, 2014. Summary: "Quick response and provide prompt solutions! Always doing great jobs!! Highly recommend!" Type of Project: Website Development - Quick Fix. Budgeted Hours: 2.25 Site: San Francisco Soup Company...
Amazon continues to dominate eCommerce (although they’re losing money)
Amazon has 23% marketshare for online retail sales (2nd quarter for 2014), according to an Internet Retailer estimate: http://www.internetretailer.com/2014/10/23/amazon-q3-revenue-increases-20 Even though their sales were up, Amazon lost half a billion dollars due to...
How to get an image to go viral on social media
Social media works best when it's a conversation with fans of your organization, who contribute images and content, because they love your brand. This weekend, I was flying over Copper Mountain, Colorado, and managed to take an ariel photograph that I shared with my...