There is a new major change to the admin panel inside your shopping cart account.  This change should not affect your website links, it's only an organizational change.

The products menu is now VERY different.  The change is better in that it groups together product options in a more logical way.  So this should make it easier for you to manage your products inside your account.  It also makes sorting your products much easier.

So all the functionality has stayed the same, it's just how the information is organized. 

The shopping cart company has prepared a short video for you.  Unfortunately, there is not audio to go with it (just a music sound track).  My guess is that they did this so that the non english speaking people would not feel left out.  There is text explanations that go with the short (under 5 min) video.

You find that by logging into your shopping cart account, and clicking the link under 'Announcements' on the right.

I will review this next week during my Shopping Cart Club Webinar . During that webinar I will answer any questions you may have about these changes.

If you are not a current club member, you can join me here

What do you want to know about setting up discounts and coupons for your visitors and customers?
Since the new coupon box was released in the new version of the shopping cart, it now makes it much easier to give out coupons to your people. It's a lot of fun to use, and it encourages people to buy from you.

So, since I'm going to relaunch my "How to Setup Discounts and Coupons" program in the coming weeks, and before I do, I'd like to find out what you want to know about using discounts and coupons with your 1ShoppingCart (Marketers Choice) account.

When you give me your questions, no matter how simple or complicated, I can then find the answers and put it together in my training.

So go ahead and comment here and let me know your thoughts.

I learned about 2 cool new tools when I went to  the podcasting conference in Boston this past weekend.

(I'm doing my summer East Coast trip that I do every year to visit family and friends in my old stomping grounds: Boston and New York).

So, I wanted to pass on to you these 2 resources that can help you improve your online website/business.

And the best part about them is that they are both free!

WebsiteGrader.com

The first one is http://www.WebsiteGrader.com

You just put in your website name, and it gives your site a grade, PLUS it tells you how to improve your site.

 BrowserShots.org

The second one is http://www.BrowserShots.org

You put in your website, and it gives you a screenshot of what you website looks like in many different browsers.

I had been looking for a resource for this for a while, so I want to thank Chris Penn for letting me know about it.

The new version of Wordpress 2.6 came out this week and has some cool new features. 

For me the biggest one is the fact that Wordpress now saves your revisions of your posts.  So you can go back to earlier versions of your posts.  This is VERY helpful if you are editing your posts and you make a mistake.  You can go back to an earlier version. 

Plus this is helpful if multiple people are working on your blog/website.

Here's a short video explaining the new features.
The  biggest one is that you can go back to your old revisions.
I'm going to wait a bit before upgrading any of my blogs.  I like the dust to settle first whenever there is a new version of something is released.

Watch this short 3 min video of the new Wordpress 2.6 features