I am close to starting a new website for a small business which imports products from USA to Australia.  The wholesaler says he will allow my client to be the sole distributor for Australia &amp; New Zealand.  I'm not sure what CMS or shopping cart software to use yet, but it will need to include an affiliate system to allow advertisers to push customers our way.  Do you have any suggestions for robust, flexible affiliate software?
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This is a general, community wiki  question to address non-specific "I need a CMS or Wiki that does x, y, and z..." questions.  If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion on .    I have a list of features that I want for my website's Content Management System (CMS) - where can I find a [free] script that includes all of them?
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Simple question: how do you guys develop (write) a landing page and test it? Publishing and waiting for updating url and refreshing?  Isn't that a little bit "horrible"?  Any idea of developing and testing with cloudpages?  How can I see errors in my ampscript code when my landing url throws a 500 error?  Thank you!
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Assuming you are micro independent software vendor (MISV) or one man web shop (OMWS), how do you reduce your ?  In my specific case, I'm supporting a few websites that takes me a few minutes every couple of weeks when there is an update to publish, and once a year I renew the domain name. Easy tasks, but effectively I am the only person who has all the credentials. Ideally I would like to sleep better knowing that even if I become incapacitated there will be someone to support these online entities. I would like to know what are the best practices and what are the interim solutions. In essence: How do you ensure websites run smoothly after your death? (I guess very few have hands-on experience here) My suggestions:  deposit credentials / sensitive URLs in a safe box (next to your will) pay upfront for 10 years of hosting / domain (and teach someone how to extend this lease) create a trusted peer circle so you can exchange credentials (just in case) create a company, become CEO, cash out on IPO  (this is obviously not the case since supporting websites is not a lucrative business)  Or maybe there is already a service that securely stores all the credentials and takes action if the primary point of contact is out of reach? (if you want to grab this idea and build a startup please take me onboard) Related: . Someone can live without my Gmail account, but someone will not be happy if their website dies and domain is squatted on by a main competitor...you get the point.  I believe this is an issue that applies to many webmasters and I'd be inclined to know the answer or at least some ways to make this easier to manage.
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First, thank you in advance for any help that you can give a recent transplant from Windows to Ubuntu. I have a question that I have been seeking the answer too but I draw a blank at every turn.  I design websites, free of charge, for nonprofit organizations that are just starting and do not have the resources to hire a design firm. I am in need of a flash/swf editor and compiler. I had a program that I used with the awful previous O/S, however WINE would not run the program.   Thank you in advance for any help that you can offer. Since I do not earn a dime for doing this, I would prefer if the program was open source, however any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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Currently look after 3 websites. I changed one of them to be HTTPS as it's ecommerce, however have seen a huge drop in organic traffic since this was implemented. Went from around 800 impressions to 400.   Any ideas as to why?   Very concerning as I expected it to improve if anything!  I set up 301 redirects to carry through to old pages to http://www.example.com/product1 would go to https://www.example.com/product1  I also set up a separate webmaster account for the HTTPs version as our integration wasn't working well with Google Merchant Centre, and data is flowing correctly but unsure why/if this would cause conflict.  Very confused!
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This question dovetails with this post on .  I am familiar with some of larger, paid-for business registry's like  and .  While the detailed information their business listings database include (like # of employees, annual sales, industry code, etc) is fantastic, if you are on a limited budget, sometimes the cost of purchasing the data outweighs the value you can get from it.  If you have geocoding capabilities in house, one could potentially create a reasonable surrogate by spatially-enabling (geocoding) a publicly available business listing on your own.    If you were looking to take on this type of project, where would you start your research? Do you know of US agencies at a State or National level that maintain this type of information, AND are publicly available for download or minimal purchase?
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I am switching from old CRM and looking for easy to use tools to import my data
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Does anybody know of any resources that can show me how to make my own "Dropbox, Ubuntu One" server at home?  I really like the idea of these services, but I don't want to put my 'stuff' in the clouds. Ideally, it should have a client that runs on Linux and Windows.  I tried to setup iFolder on my Ubuntu 10.04, but without any success so far.
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I just saw this ad on the side of Stack Overflow:    I currently work for stealth.travel.  It even shows it when I click on the link!    How is it possible that the system does not link 2 + 2 together and not show me the company I already work for in the banner ad? (not that I am looking for a new job, just curious how my own company showed up there)
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I am working on a project for 3 niche stores built on magento (using magento's multi-store function)  that each get roughly 50k unique visitors a day.  The sites don't currently have a blog or forum or any social networking aspects.    Would like to add a cms to each site that can be centrally run and would like it to take over the front end content from Magento.  Also would like it to maintain an online blog/publication of sorts with videos, articles, and the like with privileges to edit the content given to a dozen or so people with different privileges.  Want to add a forum to each site that is fairly robust and to possibly add some social networking aspects down the road, so extandability and available plugins/mods in each cms is important.  Other than shared login between the forums,blog/publication and store, would like to be able to integrate some content from the forums and blog/publication into the store as well.  After researching this a bit, I am inclined towards Drupal, but I haven't found any modules to integrate it with Magento.  Also, since the blog content will be done by about a dozen nontechnical people, I want something that is very easy to work with.  Lastly, since the site gets a good amount of traffic, speed and security are very important.  What CMS would you recommend integrating in this context?  Deciding between Drupal, Wordpress and ModX.  Also Plone as well.  Thanks.
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Does anyone know the SRID for an equal area projection that is suitable for the whole of Australia?  I realize that I could make my own (which I have done) but I am looking for one that is present already that I can use in both PostgreSQL and Proj4
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I was hoping I would find some people in the industry that could help me decide what's the best price to charge to design (in this case) business cards.  What are standard prices for professional designers?  From a firm point of view? From a freelancer?  I don't want to overcharge clients but I don't want to ruin the industry by underselling my services.
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Does Canonical provide paid support for individuals or is it only for multiple desktop/severer businesses? If not for individuals, is paid support available anywhere?   Thank you.
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I'm working with a client who manages real-estate agents. All of these agents have their own individual sites, and they all want the same layout and functionality. So, I have a "master" site designed which is dynamically changed to fit the agent/area/whatever through a MySQL database. We have relatively static content in the DB about the agent and the area, then the rest is very dynamic content from a listing service, which is updated daily.  My question is how to set this up so that we can keep on using all the different domains and identical programming (i.e. all the files are identical, except pictures) and have decent SEO as well.  They had some trouble in the past with Google blacklisting their sites because they were considered "mirrored sites". Which...they pretty much are, but the difference between mirrored sites is that we're searching very different areas of the listings DB.  Ideally, all the listings are relatively unique to each site, but sometimes there aren't any listings for the area, or the listings for two sites overlap...that's when they get busted for the mirrorring.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to both have decent SEO for the individual sites, and keep it easy to manage? There are currently over 100 sites (20 agents, about 5 sites each--one agent site, and a few "area" sites), so not mirroring things is just a ton of work.
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This was talked about a few podcasts ago. And they referenced some other site that does this.  Currently location is a string but adding a country dropdown (and for the usa a state drop down) could be a great addition to the site.  Then allow for user filtering by country / state.
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Ubuntu 12.10 has a new feature to search and buy from Amazon, either from the Dash, or from a unity WebApp. This is quite controversial, but for my part, I quite ok with it. So when I buy something from Amazon (which I did before, and I'll do tomorow), I'd like to make sure the affiliate revenue are really given to Ubuntu/Canonical: I would have bought anyway, so financing my prefered OS by doing so makes sense to me.  How does it work, and how can I know my order get accounted to Ubuntu/Canonical affiliate program ? What if I navigate the amazon site before I buy ? What if I login or logout from Amazon, does Ubuntu still benefit from my order ?