Free WordPress Plugins: Pay-with-Tweet & WPEC Related Products

Written by on October 10, 2011 in Resources, Tokokoo's General - 5 Comments
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Hi, Tokokoo Mania! I’d like to spread some happy news for you guys. In the past few weeks, Tokokoo had released two free WordPress plugins to the sacred Plugin Directory.

Installing these plugins is easy, yet it will give extra value to your ecommerce website. Hope these free plugins will be useful for you. :)

The Author

Meet the author behind these free WordPress plugin made by Tokokoo: Onnay! This guy has good sense of humour and he happened to be a back-end developer at Tokokoo. Visit his WordPress profile Onnay Okheng or reach him via @onnayokheng to know him more.

Pay with Tweet

Why put your products as free stuff while you can add marketing value when each download happens? With more than 175 million registered users (2011), Twitter is a social media big player. Analytically talking, combining free stuff with social media power will definitely add big exposure to your brands. Just like throwing lighter into a box full of gasoline, this is an efficient way to promote your brand and free products in a less tiring way.

By the way, one more developer also joined to make this Pay with Tweet plugin ready in the market. His name is Erric Gunawan. Get follow him on @erricgunawan.

Mini installation guide: Upload the “Pay With Tweet” plugin to your blog, Activate it. 1, 2, 3… You’re done!

Download “Pay with Tweet” 




WPEC Related Products

WPEC Related Products is a WordPress Plugin to extend the WP e-Commerce Plugin by displaying related Products to site visitors, this provides a cross-selling opportunity to other Products available from your store. It automatically selects related Products based on the Category that the currently displayed Product belongs to.

WPEC Related Products for WP e-Commerce uses information available within the Single Product template to display related Products that belong to the same Product Category.

Mini installation guide:

  1. Upload the folder ‘WP e-Commerce Related Products’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Top UX Features For Your Ecommerce Sites – Part II

Written by on August 15, 2011 in Ecommerce Tips and Trick, Resources - No Comments
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Hi, people! Let’s recall Tokokoo blog post from a few days ago, Top User Experience Features For Your Ecommerce Sites.  Today, we will continue our previous discussion about user experience features. If we had had user experience features like: Product Videos, Price Drop Alert, and Image Testimonials from Customer on the former blog post, now we are going to have Customers Review, Shop Together, and What Others Are Viewing. Sip and enjoy!

Customers Review

Customers Review – UrbanOutfitters.com

Customers Review – UrbanOutfitters.com

This user experience (like one in UrbanOutfitters.com) feature allows your customers to review your product. Their review (including ratings, comments, and their identity) will appear in each product description page. Just make sure if you are confident enough with the quality of your product so the bad ratings risk can be reduced. Otherwise, it would make those potential buyers think twice before buying your products, or worse, cancel it.

Shop Together

Shop Together – Buy.com

Shop Together – Buy.com

Which one do you prefer, go shopping all alone or pull someone to accompany you? If you already know which product to pick, maybe go shopping all alone is not a big deal. But in most situation, don’t we all need a second opinion? That’s why there are user experience features called Co-Shopping or Shop Together that connects different users from different areas, virtually. Some ecommerce sites also add up facility to chat online with their customer service.

What Others Are Viewing

What Others Are Viewing – Buy.com

What Others Are Viewing – Buy.com

Still on Buy.com ecommerce sites, right below the shop together widget, there is a column whose title is “what others are viewing”. Now, imagine yourself when visiting an online store. First, I bet you’ll click the Shop tab then select a product category that attracts you the most. Then, you browse their products, read some descriptions. If you get interested, maybe you’ll use the Shop Together user experience feature above. If not, mostly you’ll just close the web browser tab. That’s the use of this What Others Are Viewing: to prevent potential buyers to navigate away from the ecommerce sites while probably there are some other products that they’d like to buy.

That’s all for now. Any opinion?

WordPress eCommerce Related App: The Pinky Not Piggy

Written by on June 20, 2011 in Resources - No Comments
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Introduce Piggy, a recommended web-app for your WordPress e-commerce website. Piggy is a web-app that provides mobile access to view sales data for your WordPress e-commerce powered WordPress website. It works on iOS and Android mobile phone. Piggy also integrates smoothly with your WordPress and WordPress e-commerce admin panel.
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Top 10 Furnitures Online Stores’ Theme Designs

Written by on June 3, 2011 in Ecommerce Themes Showcase, Resources, WordPress Ecommerce Themes - No Comments

Are you pro or con about minimalist theme? Have you ever seen some themes claimed as ‘minimalist, fresh&clean look, etc’ while what exactly present is a plain and lack-of-usefulness themes. Didn’t intend to be mean, it’s just a food for the thoughts. :D

The real minimalist theme is one that remains to has full features, but the appearance still necessarily does  not over the top. Today we will try to list down top ten furniture e-commerce themes as references for your design interior products online stores. Read more…

10 Amazing WordPress e-Commerce Designs

Written by on March 25, 2011 in Resources - 2 Comments

It’s time to have a feast for our eyes with those superb e-commerce WordPress designs that are basically created on our favorite WordPress.We believe that these designs can be inspiring and inspirational. Shall we?

Ink Mutt Interactive

Cute design, extremely catchy for dog lovers.

Ink Mutt Interactive

Studio Chic Design

From logo design, blog design, to web design, this is the place to go when you need one. Greyish and turquoise with chic fonts. Perfect.

Studio Chic Design

1plus Design

Belongs to one of us, a WordPress nut, you can find everything you need to know immediately on the first page. Simple but has-it-all design.

http://1plusdesign.com/

1plus Design

Chippi and Chilli

A shopping adventure guarantee. Eye candy design.

http://www.chippiandchilli.com.au/

Chippi and Chilli

Need A Poster

Offers made to order custom posters for a variety of occasions. The social networks they’re in immediately available on the top side of the front page, just a click away.

Need A Poster

Orbis Flash

Dark background with bright pictures deliver the message perfectly

Orbis Flash

Digital Pig

Dark colors never fail to blend with any color. And they don’t give you sore eyes too.

Digital Pig

Paper Magnolia

For paper craft lovers, this is heaven.

Paper Magnolia

Queer Hot!

The queer of style. A queer online mag with teasing simple design.

Queer Hot!

Silver Lion Trading Company

Added WP e-commerce to this existing WordPress site, including a countdown for products ‘on the boat’.

Silver Lion Trading Company

Are those all we have on e-Commerce WordPress designs? Nope. Coming right up, 10 (more) Amazing e-Commerce WordPress Designs.

15 Shopify Powered Stores for Your Inspiration

Written by on February 21, 2011 in Ecommerce Themes Showcase, Ecommerce Tips and Trick, Resources - 1 Comment

Sometimes, you needs re-evalution your stores about usability, typography etc. If you’re an expert in this field area and you have a bigger store than before, you could start thinking about and do it by yourself, started from now. But what if, you as a starter in this area and doesn’t know what you have to do by re-evaluate your e-commerce store? You need some benchmark or inspiration store that you have on your mind. By seeing some inspiration store, you’re be able to compare them with you own store.

That’s okay if you haven’t some design inspiration for your stores in your mind right now, cause we’d like to share 15 Shopify Stores for your inspiration. What, Shopify? Why? Shopify will do everything to make your daytoday online store business run smoothly. With Shopify, you can make your very own online store. Starting from choosing your online store themes, managing your store, accepting credit cards payments, they will set up everything for you with very affordable prices you can choose to meet your needs.

How’s that? Is that really what you need to build your own store? Yep, that’s right. Now let’s have take a look 15 Inspiration stores powered by Shopify below

DODOCASE

A handmade iPad Case inspired by the journals of your favorite artists. DODOcase cover has its own unique character as it washandmade in San Francisco using techniques developed hundreds of years ago. From tech celebrities to the Hollywood set, DODOcase has become the case of choice for the discerning iPad owner.

ddc

One+Only

Founded in 2006, One+Only™ Custom Headboards is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are proud to offer their own designs in addition to reproductions from select Vancouver, Canadian and international artists.

Cuba Gallery

Design and photographic enthusiasts who love to bring stunning imagery out into the open. Cuba Gallery based in New Zealand but enjoy seeing and dealing in work from all parts of the world.

Lady Bugs Picnic

LadyBugsPicnic is based in the UK. What LadyBugsPicnic.net aims to do, bring you all types of gorgeous clothes for your own kids or pressies for your friends little ones.

Madsen Cycles

Madsen cargo bikes ready to ship direct to your door fully assembled and tuned

Robin Piccone

Dace

Dace arose from the skill and creativity of designer Dace Moore. Since its launch in spring 2002, her collections have attracted a growing following.

Unotre Store

Alpine Exposures

About 3 years ago They’re starting doing a lot of high quality printing work and realised that whilst there was a lot of demand there was not a lot of people supplying fine art prints of their work. Having contacted a few photographers we decided to invest in Alpine Exposures and the result is what you see now.

Nestliving

With a passion for retail, design and quality, nestliving was conceived during the spring of 2007 in downtown Jacksonville. Nestliving studio is located in the Five Points shopping district of Jacksonville, Florida. With it’s immediate popularity, they decided to launch our online store nest-living.com.

GitHub

Who doesn’t know about GitHub? I bet you know well what GitHub about. If you’re ordering a tshirt, you probably know that this isn’t the main gig.

Good as Gold

Good as Gold are a small independent streetwear / fashion boutique run by Ruben Bryant, his super friendly staff and a couple of lazy British Bulldog. GAG sells the best boutique clothing, footwear and accessories that we can find

The heads of state

The Heads of State is the award-winning design and illustration studio of Jason Kernevich and Dustin Summers. Together, they produce work for a wide range of clients, and occasionally they make it just for you.

Zoku

Zoku is dedicated to providing unique products for the home. They are a collective of creative individuals who create things that will make our lives better through intelligent design and engineering. The Quick Pop™ Maker is their first product introduction.

Designing Obama

The Obama presidential campaign was an innovation in American politics and American design. For the first time, a candidate used art and design to bring together the American people—capturing their voices in a visual way. The Design Director of the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas, has collaborated with artists and designers to create Designing Obama, a chronicle of the art from the historic campaign.

Conclusion

Finally we’ve done about this inspiration, how about your store? Now we have a suggestion, recommended for you all actually to visit and read our previous article about Shopify Themes, see what things could be done by Shopify and Our Shopify Offers. That’s all, and see you next time!

Free Shopify Themes with Minimalist Design Taste

Written by on February 15, 2011 in Ecommerce Themes Showcase, Resources, WordPress Ecommerce Themes - 2 Comments
Today we’ve think about free themes for Shopify that can make your stores looks more attractive and fresh in your visitor’s eye. We already creating a list for Minimalist Shopify Themes which are simple, minimalist and it’s totally free to use without any compliments from the Theme’s Author. Creating a theme from scratch isn’t easy but with the help of the available themes, you can easily modify them to fit the design that I have in mind.

Here we go, with the first one:

Prettify

Prettify is an official Shopify theme by Marceline Smith from askingfortrouble.org

Theme details or view demo

Moderno

An official Shopify theme created by Jared Burns of Pixallent.com

Theme details or view demo

Onyx

Onyx is an official Shopify theme by Daniel Weinand. It comes with many presets (Onyx, Ivory, Royal, Summer) and is highly customizable through theme settings.

Theme details

Tribble

Tribble is an official Shopify theme designed by Topher Wilson of cssrockstars.com

Theme details

Spotless

Spotless is an official Shopify theme that has many customization features, so you can change the colors and add your own logo. The theme was made by Pixellent.com

Theme details or view demo

Solo

An official Shopify theme made by Pixellent.com

Theme details or view demo

Latest our themes from Tokokoo

We realize that not too much about Shopify themes out there if you try to find the terms into google machine. But we want to keep those people who loves Shopify, so we decide to create some themes from Tokokoo that you can use, started from now! Let’s take a look around about our themes below, we were not tired to introduce our themes again and please spread the words for the community.

TokoBuku

TokoBuku is a Shopify E-Commerce Theme from Tokokoo to gain your business into the next level and also it will perfectly match with your business, any kind your own stores on the net. This theme come with a ‘book store’ inside, for illustration and the demo for visualizing.

Theme details (Release Page) or view demo

TokoBajoo

Tokokoo and Shopify brings you those important things you need for your fashion e-shop. Looks, simplicity, and style.

Theme details (Release Page) or view demo

Tonalite: And Your e-Commerce Design Will Never Be the Same

Written by on December 24, 2010 in Resources, WordPress Ecommerce Themes - No Comments

Look at those beautiful, eye candy icons and tell us you’re not in love with them right on the first sight.

Tokokoo together with Petshopbox Studio brought you these 20 e-commerce related icons, most suitable for your website design or printing projects. We provide you with two types of Tonalite: Vector and Bitmap. Tonalite vector is 256×256 pixel size in Ai 10 and EPS 10 format. Tonalite Bitmap format consists of 128px, 48px, 32px and 16 pixel perfect icons.

Tonalite, taken from the name of the oldest rock formed on Earth, is Tokokoo’s first icon set with more to come. It is our wish that Tonalite e-Commerce icon set will become our strong foundation for the upcoming icon sets.


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10 Online Bookstores Design for Your Inspiration

Written by on October 24, 2010 in Ecommerce Tips and Trick, Resources - No Comments

In modern era we will find it annoying our busy time if we must visit bookstores to browse new best-sellers or our waiting-list books we have been waiting for. Why can’t we get new books update on the Internet? There are many online bookstores showing us the latest books, trends, that they even offer us good deals and discounts if we purchase from them online. No need to leave our work to stay updated!

So let’s find out some of the most intriguing, online bookstores, that with a powerful, selling and clever design and also a comprehensive payment method will trap you in precious, valuable papers you’re easy to get.

Borders

The brown, woody background, and the sepia tone is going to turn your mind into the word “books”.

Borders

Druck Deine Book Binding

It’s a professional-like bookstore design you may creatively imitate.

Druck Deine Book Binding

Chapters.Indigo.ca

A simple one but the colors they choose are the plus value.

Chapters.Indigo.ca

The Book Garden

The header is of course the grand interesting point.

The Book Garden

Editorial Pencil

This site plays with lines and colors. Very vintage yet elegant.

Editorial Pencil

Barnes & Noble

A perfect sample if you want to build complex bookstore, or if you want to equip more with other kind of products.

Barnes & Noble

Erlangga

Put your newcoming titles at the header. Use textured color for background. They’ll work, just like this one.

Erlangga

Collins Booksellers

Another simple case, short-width layout with rounded corners and rainbow colors.

Collins Booksellers

Powell’s Books

A very catchy one with a grabbing point located in the huge slider pictures.

Powell's Books

Eureka Book House

Create a captivating design for your slideshow and people’s eyes will focus on it. Your “ordinary” design will step aside.

Eureka Book House

10 Luxury Online Jewelry Stores with A Taste of Elegance

Written by on September 7, 2010 in Ecommerce Themes Showcase, Resources - No Comments

Building online store for jewelry may not as easy as it seem. Not only technical stuff, you have to consider the art side. When people buy jewelry, it will connect with their sense of taste, especially if you want to build an elegant one.

Remember, colors have a very powerful influence in it. Basic color such as black and white is two of best options. You can combine those two colors, or pick only one of the basic colors and mix it with other attractive color or the color in line with your store theme, such as blue or red. And there, you have your elegant background for our online jewelry store.

When customers decide to visit online store to look for jewelry, it doesn’t mean they really have intention to buy it online. Maybe they are just looking for the latest collection or comparing the prize. So, make sure you have information about the address of your store or how customers can really contact you.

Unlike other consumers goods, security is one of particular issue for jewelry online store. You have to convince your customers that your stuff is real and there are no risk shopping in your store. So does making transaction with your store. When you are selling jewelry, you can’t deny that you will be having niche customers. Make sure you know which one your customer is and all informations you give to them is useful. If you aim for middle age woman for your customers, than pick your collection which is undeniable for them. Ok, let’s check out our 10 elegant jewelry online store. Maybe they will inspire you one way or another.

Store Nomination

Simple and unique collection. These two words are perfectly combined in this online store. Makes a good sense of taste and elegant one.

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with Taste of Elegant

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with A Taste of Elegance

Zales

White background color combined with Grey, make a strong sense of high class. With the rings as big diamond pictures,  customers can immediately sense what kind of jewelry they can find in this online store.

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with Taste of Elegant

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with A Taste of Elegance

Cartier

This is one of my favorite online store which has black background. Cartier as a world wide brand really knows how to please their online customers with their best collections in it.

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with Taste of Elegant

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with A Taste of Elegance

ICE

This is one of online jewelry stores which have paid attention to categories and all the help they could provide to customers. Their unique icons showing their features also very attractive.

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with A Taste of Elegance

Silver Tiffany

If your online jewelry store is aiming young customers, this design could inspired you. Customers can sense this store is not so exclusive but still could sense the taste of elegance.

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with A Taste of Elegance

Jewelry Online Store

Not so many words in this online store. With black background, whoever visited this sites will sense how elegant the jewelry they are offering.

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with A Taste of Elegance

Blue Nile

This site is one of the most recommended online store. Sleek design withe elegant information buttons from Blue Nile could give assurance for customers about how serious the merchants is.

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with A Taste of Elegance

Union Diamond

If you think this is one of regular jewelry online store, maybe you could reconsider again. Look at the right bottom side, you can see all awards and testimonials about the services on Union Diamonds which made this site is one of the most trustful online jewelry store.

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with A Taste of Elegance

Helzberg

This jewelry online store is one of my favorite. Clear specifications and features with one main pictures and some other collections. Helzberg also one of the trusted diamond jeweler since 1915. So, they really concern about everything they do on the site.

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with A Taste of Elegance

Diamond Store

There are three main colors in this jewelry online store from United Kingdom, which is  red, black and white. But, it is blend with very elegant and tasteful way.

10 Luxurious Online Jewelry Stores with A Taste of Elegance

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