EU e-Privacy legislation now requires that site visitors are given much more information about how web site owners use cookies on their sites. The legislation also introduces the idea of "informed consent" — essentially if you continue to use the site then you are consenting to the site's use of cookies. It's a watered-down version of the original plan which was going to force web sites to seek specific permission before any cookies could be issued. That would undoubtedly have been a headache for web site owners. But it did recognise the the creeping sharing of browsing data amongst cooperating web sites.

However, to satisfy the new requirements, web sites still need to introduce a clear notification of the site's cookie policy and then detail the cookies in a prominently-displayed privacy policy.

For web site owners we have introduced a cookie compliance service for Typo3 web sites that combines integration of a cookie alert (which must be acknowledged to stop it appearing on every page), with a review and analysis of cookies actually used on the site.

More information on the EU cookie requirements can be found here... but for a useful overview see this recent BBC news story.

The team at Accentika Internet are sadly lacking in both physical and spiritual balance (some more than others)! So we hope a little of the inner wellness is going to rub off on us from one of our newest CMS website design clients Claire Hayhurst at Balance. Not sure we are ready to throw ourselves off hospital buildings as Claire does in here role as a stuntwoman. Go easy on us Claire.

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising can bring customers directly to your ecommerce store. Some web businesses are completely reliant on PPC, spending thousands of pounds a month. But often when a smaller ecommerce site launches, there is little budget available for setting up a pay-per-click campaign. Or a campaign is set up with no real appreciation of how to optimise for best ROI. To allow new ecommerce stores to try out the benefits of pay-per-click we are offering, until May 15th, to set up and configure a Google AdWords pay-per-click campaign at no charge.

Click here for more information on Google AdWords special offer for Accentika Internet Magento ecommerce stores.

We can set up your ecommerce store, help you set up your merchant account and provide full support for your on-line trading. But there are several jobs that you will probably need to do before you can celebrate that first sale. For example, what about actually getting together the product information you are going to need; product shots and deciding what product variations you are going to offer, returns policy, payment policy, shipping policy etc etc. Here is an example list of things to be done in preparing to launch an ecommerce online store. 

Want to trade on line without holding stock, with your suppliers shipping products direct to your customers., Look into "drop shipping".