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By popular demand Jaded Pixel have today introduced bulk product import & export to Shopify.

You are now able to export your product database as a csv file and import it back. The CSV file can reference urls to product images which will be automatically downloaded as part of the import process.

As regular readers and many of our e-commerce clients will know, Propeller are huge fans and approved developers for Shopify. Never resting on their laurels for long, Shopify’s developers, Jaded Pixel have just announced the turn-on of their Content Delivery Network or CDN to those in the tech fraternity.

Based in Millis, an hour south-west of Boston (US), Weapons Master and Yoga teacher Jot Singh Khalsa has applied over 30 years’ experience and artistic talent to ‘The Khalsa Raj Collection’, a unique collection of contemporary jewelry and art objects intended to uplift and inspire.

Early in his career as an artisan and knife/sword maker, Jot’s mentor and teacher, Yogi Bhajan, suggested that he apply his artistic gifts to create things that uplift and inspire people. The Khalsa Raj Collection is the culmination of that journey. In his own words…

Propeller have been working closely with e-commerce platform Shopify and Shopify’s developers “Jaded Pixel” since the system was launched in 2006.

Jaded Pixel have just introduced a series of Designer Interviews and Propeller are delighted to be first cab off the rank…

» Read the interview

Propeller have the great privilege to work with some great businesses, from start-ups and SME’s through to charitable and governmental agencies. Although we include all of our clients in our portfolio and news, lately we’ve heard such great success stories that we decided it was time we dedicated a category to it.

From now and into the future, we’ll be bringing you regular articles about how our clients’ have developed their businesses and how Propeller’s services and strategies have helped along the way.

We’ll get the ball rolling today with Productive Gardens.

Shopify store owners will be pleased to hear that Shopify’s built-in web statistics panel has just received a huge upgrade.

Otherwise known as a feed or channel RSS is a format for delivering web content. RSS is used by many news-related sites or blogs and if you scroll up to the right, you’ll see the familiar icon which denotes the link to Propeller’s ‘News’ feed.

Given that some form of news section or blog is commonplace on most modern websites Shopify has always provided a limited support for blogs.

The start of June has delivered the first decent downpours on Australia’s East coast in over two years – potentially bringing with it a windfall of a different kind.

Developed by Dean Allen, Textile is a lightweight markup language – in plain English, shorthand for XHTML. Along with many other popular CMS and blogging tools, Shopify provides Textile support for entering articles in static pages such as your ‘About Us’ page or in your blogs – i.e. ‘News’. Textile allows you to add some style to your articles without knowing any XHTML – Textile will convert your text to clean, valid code, keeping your site in order! Here’s a few examples you can use at home:

Shopify was unleashed onto the web on 2 June 2006 and has since rocketed to the top of the tree for e-commerce applications, winning a ‘Web 2.0’ award in the business category and is shortlisted in the ‘Webware 100, 2007’ awards in the Productivity category. Shopify was also mentioned in this recent article in Time Magazine.