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Farm eCommerce Site With WordPress

December 29, 2015 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

I recently launched a new customer site for one of our local Strafford businesses, the Strafford Organic Creamery. The site was built in WordPress and featured a wholesale order form customization using WooCommerce.

Woocommerce has become an eCommerce powerhouse in the last year. After being acquired by Automattic (the company behind WordPress itself), it’s now powering a large portion of eCommerce websites (30% of all online stores supposedly). It is very powerful. But while the core plugin is free the very useful add-ons are expensive. They are priced $50 to $100 and you’ll generally need a couple or more.

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Seven Things You Need to Tell Your Web Designer

November 3, 2015 By barrie@compassdesigns.net 1 Comment

Many businesses and organizations are still figuring out the process to get a professional web presence on the web. With social media now firmly in the mainstream, it’s harder than ever to understand what’s needed and what’s not as you build out an online web presence. These new layers mean that many businesses are returning to web “designers” to help them. Even though there is less and less design involved. More on that later.

Here are seven things you need to tell your web designer to make sure you are getting what you need.

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What is it Really Like Sailing With Kids for a Year?

November 1, 2015 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

Coming back to land after our year in the Caribbean has been strange for many reasons. One recurring theme has been the questions people ask. Almost everyone we meet always asks, “how was your year, was it great?” The answer, strangely enough, is difficult to articulate. One person who has asked that same question is Jenn […]

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The Float Plan (After the Fact)

July 9, 2015 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

This is probably of interest only to us and other cruisers, but here is a list of all the places we anchored, moored, or stayed at a marina during our 10-month trip, starting from Lake Champlain in Vermont and sailing through the Caribbean to Dominica and then back again. If you make it all the […]

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Gear Review -Spade Anchors

June 7, 2015 By barrie@compassdesigns.net Leave a Comment

It’s 1:00 am in the morning. Tornados have been seen ten miles away. There is a two knot current. The wind is gusting to fifty knots across the current. Boats are dragging onto the reef. What are you anchored with? These were the exact conditions that we experienced in West End in Grand Bahamas. Tropical […]

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I am an entrepreneur, web consultant, author and educator.

I have been involved in starting a K-12 School District, a Private High School, and three web tech companies. I also wrote one of the original and best selling books on Joomla.

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