Acne Vitamins Shopping Cart
At the beginning of September we moved the shopping cart over to a dedicated domain, and I just wanted to apologize for not having a notice up about this for all our returning customers who had created older accounts. There was a bit of confusion caused due to the fact that we had to rebuild the shopping cart from scratch and previously stored user data could not be saved, meaning that returning customers had to create new accounts all over again. I should have posted a notice about this on the shopping cart page, but I’ve just been so busy that it skipped my mind. Of course, many repeat customers didn’t notice due to the fact that many users simply choose to purchase without creating an account. In any case, there will be an update to the shopping cart page tomorrow with a notice for returning Acne-Vitamins customers.
The new shopping cart is bit more customized than the old version, and is now located at Acne-Vitamins-Shop.com. We had a temporary cart up for a while at the same host that Acne-Vitamins.com is located on, but the controls at this host were not ideal for configuring osCommerce (our shopping cart software), so I decided to host the cart elsewhere. The current host is also a bit more stable, as the previous cart was starting to get a number of time-out errors resulting in voided transactions (this was due to inconsistent transfer rates from the host’s servers). I haven’t experienced any such problems with the current arrangement, and it also gives me a bit more flexibility having the site and shopping cart at separate domains. While the cart host is better for osCommerce, the server that our site uses provides the added benefits of mod_rewrite support - so that I can use 301 forwarding (such as when you type in “acne-vitamins.com” and it forwards to “www.acne-vitamins.com” [keeps me out of trouble with Google]) and a better range of options for WordPress (which is the blogging software I’m using now). So yeah, it’s the best of both worlds.
