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E-nabled Facebook Pages are designed to help businesses, harness the power of social marketing on Facebook! With E-nabled Facebook Pages you will reach new customers and actively participate with existing customers on your own social network.
E-nabled Facebook Pages are perfect for business owners, e-commerce websites, shopping websites, E-Bayers, Realtors, home-based businesses, social marketing, advertising, and much, much more!
Sell On Facebook!
You can sell your items directly from your Facebook Page. E-nabled Facebook Pages works with most open source shopping carts, rss feeds and more! You can also sell using PayPal and Ebay!
Custom Designed for Your Brand!
We will incorporate your brand and website theme into your new E-nabled Facebook Page that will make a great impression, get more fans and communicate your message more effectively.
No Website Needed!
If you need something more than a business card but don’t quite need a website, E-nabled Facebook Pages are for you! With E-nabled Facebook Pages you can have your own micro-site on your Facebook page.
Micro-site!
With E-nabled Facebook Pages you can have your micro-site (multiple pages) within your Facebook page. With our WYSIWYG page editor you can edit your micro-site in a snap!
Coming Soon!
Polls, surveys and contest on E-nabled Facebook Pages will be available by March 1.
E-nabled Facebook Pages offers a full-service social marketing platform that includes everything you need to run a successful Facebook fan page! You get your own branded Facebook application jammed with features!
Our new Super Backups are running and we have completed our first cycle!
Super Backups make a complete off-site backup of your website’s files everyday and saves them for 31 days. Let’s say you mistakenly delete an image, we would have that image saved for the next 30 days. Super Backups not only save deleted items but also any file changes. If you were to overwrite a file, Super Backups would also backup the original file that was overwritten.
Super Backups also backup your MySQL databases several times a day and moves them off-site everyday and saves them with your changed files. Super Backups would give you over 100 restoration points for your data.
To recover a file just contact support and we’ll recover your data, it’s that simple.
Super Backups are now included with all Shared E-Cloud Servers and available with Dedicate E-Cloud Servers.
USPS on January 2nd made unexpected changes to their API which will effect all shopping carts using USPS real time shipping quotes.
Shopping Carts Affected:
1. OSCommerce
2. CRE Loaded
3. Zen Cart
Current Issues:
1. USPS Domestic (within USA):
a. Saving the shipping method names strangely when viewed in admin. For example, it is saving names like this now: United States Postal Service (1 x 0.1lbs) (0lbs, 1.6oz) (Priority Mail<sup>&reg;</sup>)
b. Issues viewing/printing orders/ invoice/packing slip in admin due to the above.
c. Customers complaining that they selected one method / price, but would be saved & charged as a different method / price (i.e. shows PRIORITY $5, but saves / charges as EXPRESS $10).
2. USPS International (outside USA):
a. Not showing international method rates any longer.
We have been able to determine that this issue was caused by a change made by USPS on January 2nd, 2011 as to how method names are passed back for real time quotes. These differences in names include minor changes to method names and includes various HTML code that should NOT be passed back.
We have been working around the clock and we do have a solution and are doing rush repair jobs for clients.
USPS Retiring Current API:
In an email received from USPS on December 12, 2010, USPS notified us of upcoming changes to their current USPS Shipping API (quote system). Of the various changes they will be making to their systems, the one item which does effect everyone who is offering USPS Shipping quotes on their site is:
Rate, RateV2, RateV3 and IntlRate will be retired in May 2011, requiring all integrators to migrate to the latest versions.
Most clients currently have RateV3 installed, thus prior to May 2011 will require an upgrade from your current USPS Shipping Module to the new replacement one using RateV4 BEFORE May 2011 to ensure your customers will continue to receive real time shipping rates.
This new version will address a number of updates including:
- Upgrade to DOMESTIC RateV4.
– Upgrade to INTERNATIONAL RateV2.
– Address all Method Name changes seen above.
– Patch USPS Insurance portion of module to ensure if insurance is turned off, that customers will still see various methods USPS does NOT offer insurance on.
We are working towards a fix at this time. Unfortunately, USPS clearly states they are discontinuing support for RateV3 system and indicate you must upgrade to RateV4. USPS has YET to release any reference documentation for RateV4 so this is causing a delay in developing a fix.
This recent change on January 2nd without prior notification, in addition with to the notification of “end of life” for RateV3 without the supporting RateV4 API documentation being available, has been creating some havoc for all website owners who offer USPS Real Time Shipping Quotes.
Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.
As of today there is still no official release of a stand alone Zend Optimizer for PHP 5.3.3. This should work with most Linux distributions. Please make backups and test before using in a production environment.
In this tutorial we be using Zend Optimizer 4.1 that is bundled in the Zend Server community edition.
You can download Zend Server CE from here http://www.zend.com/en/products/server-ce/ . You would need to download Zend Server CE 5.3 32bit or 64bit extract the ZendOptimizerPlus.so file from the package.
I have made it a little bit easier and have extracted the file.
You can download from here:
32Bit http://e-nablemybiz.com/files/zend32/ZendOptimizerPlus.so
64Bit http://e-nablemybiz.com/files/zend64/ZendOptimizerPlus.so
For this tutorial we will install the ZendOptimizerPlus.so file here:
/usr/local/Zend53 copy the file to the folder.
Now update your php.ini file. Add this to the end of the ini file.
[zend]
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend53/ZendOptimizerPlus.so
zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend53/ZendOptimizerPlus.so
; Optimizer+ On/Off switch. When set to Off, code is not optimized.
zend_optimizerplus.enable=1
; If set to On, use the current directory as a part of the script key
zend_optimizerplus.use_cwd=1
; If enabled, the Optimizer+ checks the file timestamps and updates the cache accordingly.
zend_optimizerplus.validate_timestamps=1
; How often to check file timestamps for changes to the shared memory storage allocation. (units: seconds)
zend_optimizerplus.revalidate_freq=2
; Enables or disables file search in include_path optimization
zend_optimizerplus.revalidate_path=0
; The verbosity of the Optimizer+ log
zend_optimizerplus.log_verbosity_level=1
; The Optimizer+ shared memory storage size. The amount of memory for storing precompiled PHP code in Mbytes. (units: MBytes)
zend_optimizerplus.memory_consumption=64
; The maximum number of keys (scripts) in the Optimizer+ hash table
zend_optimizerplus.max_accelerated_files=2000
; The maximum percentage of “wasted” memory until a restart is scheduled (units: %)
zend_optimizerplus.max_wasted_percentage=5
; Check the cache checksum each N requests
zend_optimizerplus.consistency_checks=0
; How long to wait (in seconds) for a scheduled restart to begin if the cache is not being accessed (units: seconds)
zend_optimizerplus.force_restart_timeout=180
; The location of the Optimizer+ blacklist file
zend_optimizerplus.blacklist_filename=
; If enabled, a fast shutdown sequence is used for the accelerated code
zend_optimizerplus.fast_shutdown=0
; A bitmask, where each bit enables or disables the appropriate Optimizer+ passes
zend_optimizerplus.optimization_level=0xfffffbbf
; Enables or disables the optimization passes that may take significant time, based on an internal runtime calculation
zend_optimizerplus.enable_slow_optimizations=1
Restart Apache, and Zend Optimizer is now installed:
PHP 5.3.3 (cli) (built: Sep 7 2010 23:56:01)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
with Zend Optimizer+ v4.1, Copyright (c) 1999-2010, by Zend Technologies
with eAccelerator v0.9.6.1, Copyright (c) 2004-2010 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
with Zend Optimizer+ v4.1, Copyright (c) 1999-2010, by Zend Technologies
with eAccelerator v0.9.6.1, Copyright (c) 2004-2010 eAccelerator, by eAccelerator
Twitter Analytics Added to WEB2STATS
Are there a lot of people talking about you or your web site. But do you know what they’re saying, when they are saying it? It’s hard to keep track of it all. That’s why we created the best Twitter Analytics service on the planet, and built it right into E-nable My Biz!’s WEB2STATS. You simply enter in keywords that you want track on Twitter, we’ll automatically do the rest for you, creating beautiful reports like the one below.
You can filter the individual tweets by all sort of criteria (e.g. ones containing links, one with questions, ones with a positive tone), and you can reply or retweet directly from WEB2STATS.
Here is a solution to adding Google Analytics tracking code across multiple sites without having to edit any pages using mod_layout. Google Analytics uses a java-script code that must be placed on the bottom of each displayed web page.
You’ll need root access, Apache and some technical expertise install mod_layout.
Let’s get started!
mod_layout is an Apache module that provides both a Footer and Header directive to automatically include output at the beginning and ending of a web page.
You can download mod_layout from here:
http://tangent.org/index.pl?node_id=362
We’ll download the Apache 2.2 version and extract the tarbar on the server.
Install mod_layout using:
make
make install
mod_layout will install the link to the library in your http.conf as such:
LoadModule layout_module /usr/lib/apache/mod_layout.so
Restart Apache server.
Adding the GAC
Now go the web site’s document root where the web site’s web pages are and create a text file called gac.txt. You could really name it anything you want but for our purposes will use gac.txt (google analytics code).
In the gac.txt file, cut and paste your Google Analytics code from Google’s site. Your file should look like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-123456-8");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>Update the Virtualhost
Now we need to add the following to your <Virtualhost>..</VirtualHost>:
AddOutputFilterByType LAYOUT text/html
LayoutFooter /gac.txt
Depending on your Apache setup the <Virtualhost>..</VirtualHost> could be just about anywhere, for us, we use DirectAdmin. DirectAdmin makes this very easy. Just click on the Custom HTTPD Configuration link, select the Domain and add the above code and save.
Restart Apache
Now every displayed web page will have the Google Analytics code placed in it, view the web page source code to verify. How this works is that mod_lay is adding the text from the gac.txt file to the web page when it is displayed. The LayoutFooter directive places the added text right before the </body> tag of the web page to be displayed.
You may not want to add the footer to certain type of files, like .cgi, .pl, .rss etc., like so:
LayoutIgnoreURI *.cgi
LayoutIgnoreURI *.pl
LayoutIgnoreURI *.xml
AddOutputFilterByType LAYOUT text/html
LayoutFooter /gac.txt
Now you can easily add Google Analytics to many accounts having thousands of pages in minutes!
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