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Work smart, control your emotion

Do you know that? Control your emotion is very important.

While IQ (Inteligence Quotient) represents to how smart you are, EQ (Emotional intelligence) represents to how well you manage your feeling in positive way.

Think smart or work smart, you need first control your emotions beside your IQ.
Without controlling your emotions, you will never be able to think; your brain is already in control, either your actions.

People say: "attitude determines our success"
Emotions determine the attitude.
So change our emotion is the first prior to do.
That's still a mathematics! ;)

Of course, there is a book called: Emotional Intelligence, that you can find.
And here, I found a nice presentation about that on slideshare.

Emotional intelligence Intro slides from Desmond Williams

11 Ways to be Seen as a Leader at Work

Come across to a post to distinct our attitude to be a leader at workplace even we are not in the position.

Here are their snapshots before reading the full presentation:

1. Earn Respect For A Big Win, Early On
2. Associate Yourself With A Changemaker
3. Master The Art Of Psychological Priming
4. Make A Tough Call, Then Stick To Your Guns
5. Transform An Established Process Or Assumption
6. Verbally Recognise A Job Well Done
7. Don’t Keep Your Cards Too Close To Your Chest
8. Practice Work-learn Balance
9. Foster Collaboration
10. Think Long-term
11. Personify Your Values, Every Day

11 Ways to be Seen as a Leader at Work (Even if it's not in Your Title) from GetSmarter

5 ways you can get the most out of your people in 2015

With the Cambodian economy still surging ahead, skills shortages and the war for talent, it is vital that you manage your human resources well. Below are some of the best ways to increase the performance of your people and your organisation in 2015.

(From Internet)

Improve policies, procedures, compliance and information:  Many businesses struggle to develop and maintain strong human resource systems. From effective human resource strategies, policies, inductions, performance management systems, legal compliance, accurate job descriptions, employment contracts, salary and benefits reviews etc. These are all necessary for you to manage and motivate your team, and help staff to be clear on roles, rewards, responsibilities and legal requirements.

Focus on your core business:  Many of the world’s most successful business understand that focusing on their core business can often lead to greater performance. Outsourcing non-core services can allow you to focus on what you do best. Look at areas of your business that drain your time and effort, and review if they can be outsourced.

Staff development:  Developing your team is vital in terms of company performance and also staff retention. Training can be delivered within the organisation or by external training providers. Take the time to understand the key skills required for your staff to perform well in their role.

Hire the best talent available within your budget:  We all know that we need quality staff for your business to reach it’s potential. Unfortunately not every organisation has the budget to offer market leading salaries. With so many companies vying for limited talent, a good recruitment strategy or recruitment partner is vital to enhance your talent pool and access to talent. Take the time to really understand what you can offer the candidates regarding salary, training, promotion opportunity, benefits, work environment etc. When considering salaries for key positions, don’t look at cost. Look at value. Achieving a saving on salary can cost you a lot in terms of performance.

Understand your market better: Good decisions require good information. In developing markets, there is often very little public information about particular industries, making it very hard to develop good strategy. With so much time, money and resources allocated to building a business, good information can help pick winning strategies and also avoid disasters.

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The article extracted from the marketing message of HRINC, Cambodia

By Adrian Low, Managing Partner HRINC

Want Clean Online Biz, Careful Watch Adsense Rule [Video]

This video is simplify thing more easier to understand a very important rule of content to use with Google Adsense. Google always check the content of publisher according to the rule.

Online business is a real business if you're really in. Some people in Cambodia, they don't respect well the rule but they could earn much with multiple accounts with them but by the time being, there will be no longer for that.

Let's make a clean online biz and enjoy watching nice animation and explanation on one important rule here:

A Real Online Business

Here is my snapshot screen of Google Adsense from all blogs I write, I've never expected that it could make some money.

I got from March, a 7.50USD which is a lot better from previous month of 2.37USD but it's so impressed that writing a blog, a simple one also could make some people interesting and reward us some amount.

For me, even it's small amount but it's one of a real online business from our hand and head, no other people hurt from what we are doing here.

I will see how to improve the content better.

What do you want to be?

Have you ever asked this question to yourself?
Is there anyone used to ask this to you?

What do you want to be?

A simple question but very difficult to answer. Everyday, life has been changed and according to each situation, we find "what" we want to be.

To answer, we need to discover ourselves.

This question is likely about the career in the future.

Each career has a way to go but we need a starter to be there.

The career can be:

• A staff in a company
• A manager in a company
• A teacher at high school or university
• A boss or the owner of a business in one area

But in anyhow, a starter career is a path to discover well about what we want to.

What should be a starter?

Mostly before reach our goal, we have to find out what is area we need to be with, they are such as:

• Education area
• Product & Service area
• Restaurant, Hotel
• Selling goods at the supermarket
• NGOs
• Telecom
• Software development
• etc.

When we found one of our favorite, then let's find a starter around there.

And dealing, improving, making more connections, taking risk to change one to another or looking for more partners and then go to it!

How about if we already have a starter?

So what you want to be?

We continue this topic later on, it's more interesting to see if some people sharing the answer of "What you want to be?" in comment so we can go further!

4 Inspired Big Ideas of 2014, Outside Cambodia For Cambodia

Big Idea topic inspires me through the LinkedIn posts, here I am interesting to share what I love to share.

The Year for Climate Action

Climate, Environment, Forest... are what we are interesting now related to current situation in Cambodia, we are now facing the issue as other countries. The recent storm in Philippine and around area, the climate changed in Cambodia bring us to think more about it. Let's join, UN/Ban Ki-mon's idea of 2014 for the Climate action!

Big Idea 2014@LinkedIn

In 2014, we must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future. Next year is the year for climate action. - Ban Ki-moon

Mind The Little Things

Let's have a look on the idea of USA on a little thing, how they use it for investment. It might be fit for Cambodia's today and we should be ready for ASEAN community from this little thing of upcoming year, 2014.

Big Idea 2014@LinkedIn

One dollar may not sound like a lot, but when American businesses in general — and travel companies in particular — build their entire ventures on fees like that, it is a big deal. Read More

Insurance Needs To Catch Up With the Times 

Insurance is new in Cambodia but of course, now there are some active insurance companies running and promoting now. Private, NGO or public organizations should be ready for this thing for their organization. Let's have a look to the International idea.

Big Idea 2014@LinkedIn

Creating an innovation mindset for your insurance agency or company will help you prepare and position your organization for the changes that are coming. Read More

How Not to Lose 30% of Your Customers 

It's about sale, about Marketing but in fact, it's about profit from your product website that you should consider more critically on applying it on smartphone. In Cambodia, recently, ITC just opens a new master degree on Mobile Technology and upcoming event by this January is about MobileApp Expo which is about Smartphone, users are using Smartphone in Android, iPhone and more... So critically think about this for upcoming year!

Big Idea 2014@LinkedIn

There's no excuse any more for not having a site which works on mobiles. Yet so many sites fail to take advantage of this, with poorly optimized mobile sites or, even worse, flash based sites which just categorically do not work. Read More

There are more than 60 ideas found in the topic of Big Idea 2014 at LinkedIn posts but above are what I am interesting to share.
Let's have a look all of them at the original website, LinkedIn.

Win a Part Time Job in Cambodia easily by Volunteering - Think Big

Now you might already ready to take yourself to the next level to get part time job since I already mentioned how to make yourself ready in my last post.

Cambodia is the heaven of opportunities but you need to prove yourself to make people trust you and give this opportunity.

Since we are in developing, there are many open opportunities available.

The stories...

I remembered, my first job was got when I was at 18 years old in high school, it was a very great experience to earn and feed myself in the way I got the money. I started by volunteering!
Let's me share the story:

Once, I went to an English class at an institute. I found a class of many pupils without a teacher, I was there and decided to go to talk to the students of pre-elementary class of English, I was having a very good communication with all of them and I didn't notice that there was another teacher there outside the classroom... that was a director of the institute. He offered a job to me afterward, he said: "the way you talk to them was very close as their brothers, you can be a very good teacher since I am also looking for one". Without any doubt, I decided to take this challenge.

That was my first job, even I got only around 24000R (about 10$ for my first few months) and get promoted after.

Keep your hand up for a volunteering offer

I got something more important than the money I got since I had earned a lot of experiences with the activities I spent with my students. Beside, the school allowed me to study free to improve myself in teaching methodology, language skill etc.

Volunteering does not always mean free of charge but you should not care about if you will get paid or how much money you will get, you just care how much you can show your talent to the organization you are volunteering for. That's the only point to prove yourself to them if you are a student and never get a job before.

Of course, that was very simple to get a first job as a teacher.

Another experience I had, that was when I started my university in Phnom Penh, I needed a job very much for my living... I was looking for the opportunity to teach secondary or high school students with the skill I had but it was not easy to get it. At that time, I'd like to be a volunteer at any NGO moment.
I was asked as well to join a team of journalism to create a new newsletter for a new NGO I had known and then I was involved in the website development of the NGO. Finally I got it as my fully part time job with a well paid enough during that time.

Volunteering is time for you to learn

You will earn but before earning, you need to learn and make your skills stronger.

That's why when you have a volunteering full time or part time job, it's time for you to experience all difficulties of any professional have and deal with them.

You should always take as much as volunteering when you are a student.

Be volunteer when ready only

"Ready" means you know that you will do it and already prepare a plan for it.

Do not afraid to decide to take it but quickly plan the actions when you decide.

My experiences, I had met this kind of volunteers, they said or registered their name as a volunteer but they never or rarely take into action. Finally their names always noted as irresponsible person and never get another call.

Again, be responsible... your attitude 

Just a remind, mind your attitude at where you are.

Be smiling, straight and love your work.

Where to find the opportunities

I found that most of NGOs in Cambodia are welcome all volunteers in each specific area, you should consider to get into this area. Also, at some private companies or community or school.

You need to keep your eyes, contact or communication with people around the area you want.

Make clear request or cover letter with your CV and send to them.

If failed, keep looking for next... until you get one.

Always learn from you failure and never lose hope or encouragement.

Me a self-motivated person.

Good luck... and share your though here.

Earn Easily with Part Time Job in Cambodia - Think Big

Are you looking for the possibility to earn more than today? Or are you a student looking for a finance support?

Let's think bigger together! Earn or make money from your hands in a smart way!

Part time job, it could be one of the source of incoming without using much of your full day time, you can consider to work at night or shift morning/afternoon but here you might wondering what kinds of job would enable you this kind of time?

Of course, there are a lot if you are living in a town in Cambodia such as Phnom Penh city, Battambang town, Kampong Cham, Siem Reap, Sihanouk or even other provinces.

In Cambodia today, there are a lot of jobs available such as in training, translating, at super market, in restaurant, with sewing or handcrafting or even stay home doing online job as data entry as example.

Meanwhile, you might not know how to get started but here is some ideas:

Seek your own strength!

Your skill, your creative idea, your attitude, your helpful, your volunteering... are all the way to find your own strength. Learn from yourself by try to do your first volunteer job, be helpful at school and be brave to go the first step.

If you are still not sure about your strength, it's OK, just keep going with hope and ...

Mind your attitude!

Part time job recruiter is seeking a trust person to handle their tasks and they need a person who behave good at their work place. You need to be a proactive one among others so that they believe you are an asset of a company.

Don't mind!

To earn money and experience, do not mind any type of jobs if you think it's a legal job to do because it's depending on time to show you its advantage.

But of course, you should always first select a job you want and keen on it in any case.

One important thing to consider, you are earning by spending your free time so just make sure you have make it good enough.

So, what can I be?

Are you ready? Let's find a position for your part time!

You can be a teacher of kindergarten or elementary or even foreign language for English, French, Korean or Chinese. Now there are many kindergartens, in Phnom Penh as example.

And have you ever think to be a baby sitter? I found as example some people who are very busy with their job to earn their big money, they are seeking school and people to take care their kids, especially found on morning, lunch time or afternoon. You can be one.

Other most found jobs, you might already heard:

• Accountant, Cashier, Seller, Marketing researcher
• Work in the restaurant, hotel, hospital
• Work at market, super market
• Graphic Designer
• Make your own handcraft products and sell to some shop
• Work as a sewer
• Web developer
• Translating document or as a translator
• and more depend on your skill...

But how to find one!

Be active to seek for a job, you can use Internet and search the part time jobs available in online job websites in Cambodia such as:

• http://www.bongthom.com/
• http://hrinc.com.kh/
• http://www.cambodiajobpage.com/
• http://www.camhr.com/
• http://www.happycambodia.com/

Beside online, never forget people around you like your teachers or your friends, talk to them and ask them to help. And of course, newspaper is still a source of information about this kind of jobs.

And make a good CV is very important, please be concentrated with what you are writing and CV format to show how you care on a job you are asking.

Anything more?

Share your though here, let's see if you have some experience or question.

Big Commerce Users - 10 Top Tips, You Need

I found interesting post at andmine.com, here would like to re-share for BigCommerce Users:


1. Get on board with Google
Google has a great range of services to help improve conversion. These include Google Analytics, giving you detailed information about your visitors, Google Merchant Centre, allowing you to place content on the Google database, and Google Website Optimizer, showing you which features of your site are most effective at getting visitors to convert. Best of all, they’re all free!

2. Engage with blogs and forums related to your key products
Regarded as one of the key ways to engage with your target audience online, this one is a must. Ten is a good number to get started with and always make sure you check the terms and conditions before posting your url.

3. Connect to free directories and comparison shopping sites
Comparison shopping sites are regarded as the most useful format for online shopping. Listing your site on free directories will also improve your seo ranking and drive traffic. There are many free ones such as DMOZ, list my website and directory submits.

4. Connect to an Email Marketing Service
This allows you to collect newsletter subscribers and most importantly, send out offers to them to generate sales.
5. Integrate with Social Media
Create a fan page, twitter and if relevant pinterest board. Link these to your eStore and think of a smart strategy to encourage sharing (giveaways, gift with purchase or bonus points to a loyalty system?)

6. Improve your page rank with ‘rich’ content
This means making sure you add a title, META keywords and descriptions for products, photos and pages throughout your site. Each needs to be unique as search engines only recognise unique content.

7. Make yourself easily contactable.
This should include having a dedicated ‘contact us’ page and a listed phone number. There are also many free live chat services that can be integrated with your site such as Zopim and Olark.

8. Include an “About Us” page
To connect with customers better. This should include photos of staff and tell an interesting story.

9. Have a shipping and returns policy
Dedicate a page to this and include FAQ. Make sure the policy is well defined and meets your state and country regulations.

10. Include as much detail as possible on product pages.
Product pages are your selling point so make sure you include a full product description and at least one high resolution image. Videos are a great idea to encourage comments and sharing.

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Source: http://www.andmine.com

How to Add a Brands Page [DESIGN]

By default, BigCommerce brand pages simply list the name of the brand at the top and all of the products underneath that brand name. Customers sometimes want a little more information about the brand and it certainly would be nice to have a well recognized brand logo appear on a brands page, wouldn't it?

In BigCommerce, it is definitely possible to add a logo, text and even tables to a brands page - just like you can with any other product or category page. In fact, it is very easy to do! Here's how it's done:

1. Login to your BigCommerce Control Panel, click the Marketing tab and then select View Banners
2. Click Create a Banner
3. Name your banner anything you want (it is for your own use and is not viewable by customers)
4. Add pictures, text or tables to the editor window
5. Scroll down to the "Show on Page" section and click the For a Specific Brand radio button
6. Select the brand the page is for from the new drop-down menu that appears
7. In the "Location" section, select Top of Page or Bottom of Page from the drop-down menu
8. Click the Save button

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Ref: storecoach.com

What Each BigCommerce Panel Does [DESIGN]

As I stated in my previous post about 3 important elements about BigCommerce design.

One of the big important tip is to get to know about what each of the BigCommerce panel does exactly so that you can use it in the right way for your design.

Of course, as StoreCoach.com said nowhere in BigCommerce states well about each panel did and it's hard to find exactly place to understand it but here, thanks to StoreCoach to experiment it and share it to us.

As my mission for Cambodia is to introduce BigCommerce, I copy fully here of his explanation for each panel as following:

Panel File	Panel Description	Where it Can be Used
SideAccountMenu	Displays a “Manage Your Account” sidebar panel where customers can do things like view messages sent to and received from your store, check their order status, view past orders, and see their wish lists.	Although it can technically be placed in the main page layout area of any page, it displays better when placed in a sidebar.
SideAccountStoreCredit	If a customer is logged in and has store credit available to be used, they can see how much credit they have available in this panel. This panel DOES NOT display at all if there is no store credit available to the customer.	Although it can technically be placed in the main page layout area of any page, it displays better when placed in a sidebar.
SideBrandTagCloud	Shows a tag cloud based upon the number of products available for each manufacturer. The more products, the larger the brand name appears. If customers click on a brand name in the tag cloud, it takes them to that brand's page, where all of the products are displayed.	This panel displays well in the main page layout area or in a sidebar on any page.
SideCartContents	This panel shows the contents of a customer's shopping cart. It DOES NOT display at all if there are no items in the customer's cart.	This panel should only be used in a sidebar on any page. It DOES NOT display correctly in the center page layout.
SideCategoryList	This panel provides links to your categories and subcategories (if your store is configured to show subcategories), displaying them vertically.	Although it can technically be placed in the main page layout area on any page, it displays better when placed in a sidebar.
SideCategoryNewProducts	This panel displays the five most recently added items to the category a customer is viewing.	This panel should only be used in a sidebar and MUST be used in the category layout only. Using it anywhere else breaks your website!!! It DOES NOT display correctly in the center page layout.
SideCategoryPopularProducts	This shows a list of popular products within a category based on customer ratings. If there are no ratings for products in the category a customer is viewing, this panel will not appear at all.	This panel MUST be used in the category layout only. Using it anywhere else breaks your website!!! It displays well in the sidebar or the main page layout.
SideCategoryShopByPrice	This panel displays product price ranges and allows customers to narrow their search within the category they are viewing, based upon those price ranges. You cannot specify your own price ranges; they are automatically assigned by Big Commerce.	This panel MUST be used in the category layout only. Using it anywhere else breaks your website!!! Although it can technically be placed in the main page layout area, it displays better when placed in a sidebar.
SideCategoryTopSellers	This panel shows the top sellers within the category the customer is viewing. If there have been no sales from that category, the panel will not display at all.	This panel MUST be used in the category layout only. Using it anywhere else breaks your website!!! This panel should only be used in a sidebar. It DOES NOT display correctly in the center page layout.
SideCouponCodeBox	This panel inserts a coupon box so that customers can enter a coupon code you have set up.	Although it displays properly on any page whether it is in a sidebar or the main page layout, it is generally only used on checkout pages.
SideCurrencySelector	This panel allows a customer to click a link that will convert the default currency to any currency you have set up in the Settings > Currencies section of your BigCommerce Control Panel. It WILL NOT display if you do not have more than one currency set up.	You can place it in either a sidebar or the main layout of any page.
SideCustomCategoryList	This panel creates a vertical list of links to the categories or subcategories that a product is contained within.	It will only appear on subcategory or on product pages. Although it displays properly in a sidebar or the main page layout, for the purpose of website consistency, it should really used in the sidebar only..
SideGiftCertificateCodeBox	This panel creates a box for customers to enter a gift certificate code into.	It can be placed on any page but a checkout page is the most appropriate place for it. Although it can be placed in the main page layout area, it displays better in a sidebar.
SideLiveChatServices	This panel creates a “Click to Chat” button on your website if you have signed up for and configured Live chat in the Store Settings > Live Chat section of your BigCommerce Control Panel.	Although it can technically be placed in the main page layout area, it displays better when placed in a sidebar and can be used on any page.
SideNewProducts	This panel lists the products most recently added to your website. You can control the number of products it shows in the Settings > Store > Display section of your BigCommerce Control Panel. You cannot specify the products that display nor their order without deleting a product and adding it again (the system simply displays the products most recently added).	This panel displays well in the main page layout area or in a sidebar on any page.
SideNewsletterBox	This panel places a newsletter sign up box on your page.	This panel should only be used in a sidebar and can be placed on any page. It DOES NOT display correctly in the center page layout.
SidePopularProducts	This panel lists the five top products in terms of customer review ratings. If two products have the same rating, whichever one has more ratings will be placed higher on the list.	This panel displays well in the main page layout area or in a sidebar on any page.
SidePopularVendors	This is a “legacy” panel that does not do anything anymore. It has been replaced by the ShopByBrand panels.	n/a
SideProductAddToWishList	This panel adds a button so that customers can add a product to their “wish list.” Customers must have an account in order to save and view their wish list. In order for this panel to work, you must have wish lists enabled in the Settings > Store > Display section of your BigCommerce Control Panel.	This panel MUST be used in the product layout only. Using it anywhere else breaks your website!!! It displays well in the sidebar or main layout but, because your main layout and sidebar may have contrasting colors, you might need to “tweak” the font colors so that all of the words are legible in either (or both) areas.
SideProductAlsoBought	This panel reviews your store's order history and displays other products that were purchased by customers at the same time that they bought the product that is being displayed.	This panel MUST be used in the product layout only. Using it anywhere else breaks your website!!! It displays well in the sidebar or main layout.
SideProductRecentlyViewed	This panel displays any products the customers has viewed during their session on your website.	This panel can be placed on any page and displays well in both the sidebar and the main page layout area.
SideProductRelated	This panel shows up to 5 products that are related to the product a customer is viewing. In order for it to display related products, you need to set them up in each individual product's “Other Details” tab. You can click the “Find and show related products automatically” and the shopping cart will pick products that it believes are related, based upon previous customer purchases and/or other products in the same category. You can also hand pick up to five related products to show.	The panel works on the product layout only. Placing it on any other page's layout does nothing. It displays well in both the sidebar and the main page layout area.
SideShopByBrand	This panel's vertically lists all of your store's brands that have products and provides links to those brands' pages, where all of the brand's products are listed.	Although it can technically be placed in the main page layout area, it displays better when placed in a sideba and can be placed on any pager.
SideShopByBrandFull	This panel's vertically lists all of your store's brands, whether they have products associated with them or not, and provides links to those brands' pages. and provides links to those brands' pages, where all of the brand's products are listed. If a brand has no products associated with it, a “There are no products listed under this brand” message is displayed.	Although it can technically be placed in the main page layout area, it displays better when placed in a sidebar and can be placed on any page.
SideSubPageList	This is a “legacy” panel that was subsequently replaced by BigCommerce's built-in sub category/page fly-out menus. It does not do anything now and placing it on most pages will break your website!	n/a
SideTopSellers	This panel lists the top five products that have been purchased on your website. You cannot control which products are displayed here – it is totally controlled by the shopping cart.	It can be placed on any page and displays well in both the sidebar and the main page layout area.
SideVendorPageList	This is a “legacy panel” that no longer does anything.	n/a
HomeFeaturedProducts	This panel will show products you have marked as “featured” on any page that you place it on. It is typically only used on the Home page, however. To mark a product as “featured,” simply click the star next to any product's name in your BigCommerce control panel to make it a gold star. You can also configure the number of products that will display as featured products in the Settings > Store > Display section of you Control Panel.	Although it technically can be placed in the sidebar or the main page layout of any page of your website, it displays much better in the main page layout area and is normally only used on the Home page.
HomeNewProducts	This panel is essentially the same as the SideNewProducts panel except that it has been designed specifically to contrast with the default colors of your store's main page layout area. It lists the products most recently added to your website. You can control the number of products that display in the HomeNewProducts panel by going to Settings > Store > Display and changing the number in the “New Products” box. You cannot specify the products that display nor their order without deleting a product and adding it again (the system simply displays the products most recently added).	Although it technically can be placed in the sidebar, it displays much better in the main page layout area (use the SideNewProducts panel for the sidebar) and can be placed on any page.
HomeRecentBlogs	If you are posting blog articles to your News Items section, this panel lists the titles of your most recent blog posts as links to those articles. You can configure the number of posts that it will display by changing the number in the “Recent News Items” line in the Settings > Store > Display section of your BigCommerce Control Panel.	Although it technically can be placed in the sidebar, it displays better in the main page layout area and can be placed on any page.
HomeSaleProducts	This panel lists any products that you have marked as being “On Sale.” To set up a sale price, click the More Price Options link in the “Pricing & Pre-Order Options” section of the main Details tab of your product and enter the special price in the “Sale Price” box. You can control the number of products that display in this panel by going to Settings > Store > Display and changing the number in the “New Products” box (the same box that controls the number of “New Products” that are displayed by the Home and Side NewProducts panel).	Although it technically can be placed in the sidebar, it displays much better in the main page layout area and can be placed on any page.
HomeSlideShow	This panel places a carousel slider on your page if you are using a template that has the carousel functionality (at the time of this writing, only the “Classic White” template has carousel functionality). The carousel slider is configured in the Design > Carousel & Social Media tab.	This panel only displays in the main page layout section.
HomeSlideShowJavaScript	This is really a panel within the HomeSlideShow panel and is NOT an actual independent panel that you can place anywhere on your website. It is best to just ignore this panel and let it do its work in the background!	n/a

BigCommerce design in general and Its guide

BigCommerce shopping cart is not a free e-commerce platform, you need to pay per what you use.
BigCommerce provide many free templates to allow you to use as your store and you can modify the design or hire some designers to do the job for you there.

So you have to aware about how BigCommerce design the template?
First, BigCommerce's template comes with something we call: layout, panel and snippet.

• Layout: how each of the webpage will show. Layout contains many panel code
• Layout file is structured in HTML style, you can include CSS, javascript as you wish.
• Ex: default layout, product display layout, cart layout etc.
• Panel: Each part of the layout you want to manage it such as to list product on sidebar, to display feature product part on home page or to make a panel for slideshow etc.
• To call panel, you need to use: %%panel-name%%
• Panel contains many SNIPPET code
• Snippet: That's a piece of code you want to describe, something like how a category will show etc.

BigCommerce recommended for every designer to read their designing guide that you can download from here: [BigCommerce Customization Guide v1.0].

Beside, all simple guides in the pdf file above, of course, I do not find exactly any advance option on design part of BigCommerce that is easy to read. You need to invest your time to read its support forum or tutorials. Of course, if I found, I'll post here.

BigCommerce Tips and Tricks Collections

BigCommerce shopping cart is one of the cloud service shopping cart in the world.

As experience with some of its difficulties in design, I would collect all the tips I have found in one place.

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What to do if you have problems with zoom

The BigCommerce zoom feature may soemtimes stop working. If this happens try commenting out the following line in styles.css:

#ProductDetails .ProductThumbImage {
   height: 220px;
   width: 220px;
   /* overflow: hidden; */
   margin:auto;
}

Changing the default size when you click on product image

You can change the default size of the large image that comes up when you click on the icon within the Product page via Settings > Store Settings > Images. Note that the image will be further limited by the resolution of the user’s computer (ie will not be bigger than the desktop).

Setting your website's favicon

You can set the icon of your store’s website pages (which is a 16x16 image displaying in your web browser’s tabs) via Design > Favicon.

Displaying the same logo at the top of every page

Your store can display your logo at the top of every page by selecting Design > Logo and uploading your image.

Difference between Options and Option sets

Options are used for generic choices. For example one Option could be ‘Sizes’ (1, 2, 3... 10) and another Option could be ‘Colors’ (red, blue, white). Option Sets are used to group Options together. For example the Option Set ‘Shirt Option Set’ could have in it ‘Sizes’ and ‘Colors’.

How to modify an Option whilst assigning it to a Set

When you assign an Option into an Option Set you can REMOVE some of its choices in the process. This allows you to assign the same Option into two separate Option Sets but for example have ‘Men’s Shirt option Set’ with sizes 2 to 10 and ‘Women’s Option Set’ having 1 to 7 without having to create two separate Options.

Applying an option Set to multiple Products

You can apply a single Option Set to multiple Products at once via the Products Page by selecting the Products you want to assign to, choosing from the action dropdown ‘Apply Option Set…’ and clicking on ‘Go’.

How to see which product a customer has ordered

To see which products a customer has ordered, click on the ‘+’ sign next to the customer’s name.

What's a SKU?

Don’t know what a SKU is? It stands for Stock Keeping Unit, and is a unique inventory code used to identify each product.

Setting the order in which products appear in your store

A little known trick in BigCommerce is the ability to set the order that products appear. This is easily done by going to Edit a Product > Other Details and entering a number in ‘Sort Order’ field. This number will determine the display order.

How to display the message SOLD OUT

You can display the message ‘Sold Out’ when a product’s inventory reaches zero by going to Settings > Store Settings > Display and checking ‘Show Inventory Levels’. When the inventory of a product reaches zero, it will display ‘Current Stock: Sold Out’ on the Product page.

Hiding products from displaying on your store

Hiding products from customers is easy (for example because you have run out of inventory). Simply go to Products > View Products, select the product, click ‘Edit’, and on the ‘Details’ tab ensure that ‘This product cannot be purchased in my online store’ is selected.

Adding Free Shipping to products

You want free shipping? Easy! Just go to Edit a Product > Details and check ‘Yes, this product has free shipping’.

Limiting shipping to a particular country

You can limit shipping to a particular country by creating a shipping zone which contains all the countries you want to ship. Then also edit the default zone and disable all the shipping methods set there. This is done in Settings > Shipping Settings.

Enable purchasing without an account

By default, BigCommerce stores will be configured to accept customer logins, but be aware that many customers don’t like registering an account, either for privacy reasons or because they want to make a once-off purchase. To enable purchasing without an account, go to Settings > Checkout Settings and ensure ‘Yes, enable guest checkout’ is checked.

Display Down For Maintenance on your store

You can stop access to the store temporarily, and show a Maintenance page, by going to Settings > Store Settings > Website and select ‘Yes, display a 'Down for Maintenance' message on my store’. You can also determine what this page shows says by going to Design > Template Files and clicking on ‘Edit’ for ‘maintenance.html’.

Does BigCommerce store credit card numbers?

BigCommerce does NOT store the credit card number under any circumstances, for security reasons.

Showing prices in multiple currencies

Payment will always occur in a single currency (called the default currency). However, you can display the costs of your goods in whatever currencies your customers desire – with the added bonus that the conversion will happen in real time per the correct currency exchange rate! To do this, select Settings > Currency Settings and click on ‘Add Currency’. To get real time currency conversion ensure that ‘Get currency exchange rate from Big Commerce Currency Service’ is checked.

Setting up PayPal

Setting up payment to handle PayPal is easy: go to Settings > Checkout Settings, select a PayPal version (such as ‘PayPal Website Payments (Standard)’, click ‘Save’, and then on the new PayPal tab that appears, enter your PaylPal credentials.

Knowing your panels and snippets

Want to know all about your panels and snippets? Go to Design > Template Files. An orange row means you have edited it. A white row means it is unedited. A green row means it is newly created by you.

Adding completely new web pages

Completely new web pages, in addition to the BigCommerce supplied files, can be added to your store by going to Website Content > Create a Web Page. To show the new page on the store’s menu, make sure the ‘Yes, show this web page on the navigation menu’ is ticked.

Removing a panel

Any panel can be removed from a page easily and quickly. This can be done in two ways. The first way is by going to Design > Design Mode and clicking ‘Open My Store in Design Mode’. Right click on the panel you want to remove (such as ‘Categories’) and select ‘Remove Panel’ from the popup menu. The other way is by directly editing the file in a HTML editor, and uploading to your BigCommerce site via FTP.

Setting whether sub-categories are displayed or not

You can set whether sub-categories are displayed or not by going to Settings > Store Settings > Display and entering a number in ‘Category List Depth’. A depth of 1 will hide sub-categories.

Changing your emails' footer

By default your emails will have an ugly footer like ‘is powered by Big Commerce. Launch your own store for free with Big Commerce’. To change this, go to Design > Emails. Click ‘Snippets’. Then edit the file called EmailFooter.html.

Determining which order statuses trigger an email to the customer

You can set which status on the order triggers an automatic email to the customer. Go to Settings > Checjkout Settings. At the bottom of the 'General Settings' tab, go to 'Customer Email Notifications' and tick all the statuses you want emails for.

Getting a copy of the email your customer is automatically sent

To get a copy of the invoice a customer gets emailed automatically when they buy a product in your store, go to Settings > Store Settings > Miscellaneous, and click on ‘Yes, forward order invoice emails to’.

Avoiding SPAM in your store

SPAM can be easily avoided by adding CAPTCHA to your store (which is a challenge response test to ensure that the response is generated by a human and not by a computer). This can be enabled by going to Settings > Store Settings > Display tab, and turning ‘Enable CAPTCHA? [Yes], enable CAPTCHA security’ on.

Adding your store as a subdomain of an exidting website

Your store can be a subdomain of an existing domain. You can set this in Tools > Move to Domain and select ‘I want to keep my domain name with my current registrar, but use it for my store’. You will then have to go to your ISP and set what is called a ‘CNAME’ entry to the store.

Registering a new subdomain with Bigcommerce

You can register your store’s domain name directly within BigCommerce via Tools > Move to Domain and select ‘I want to register a new domain name to use for my store’.

Forcing your customer to buy a minumum and/or maximum quantity

You can set a minimum and/or maximum quantity of any product by going to Edit Product > Other Details and entering the details in the 'Minimum Purchase Quantity' and 'Maximum Purchase Quantity' fields.

Creating a forum in your store

To create a user forum within your store, goto to nabble.com and sign up for a free forum. Within your Nabble account, go to Options > Embedding Options and copy the javascript code that is produced. Then within your BigCommerce account, go to Website Content > Create a Web Page, click on the 'HTML' button, and paste the javascript code you copied.

Changing the Sort By dropdown

The contents of the 'Sort By' dropdown can be changed by editing the snippet CategorySortBox.html. This can be done via Design > Template Files and choosing this under 'Snippets'.

Changing the Thank You message when customers finish their order

You can change the default 'Thanks for your order!' message that comes up after a customer has paid for a purchase. To do this edit the order.html page and change the following line to whatever you wish:

%%LNG_ThanksForYourOrder%%

Removing the Powered By BigCommerce link

If you want to remove 'Powered by BigCommerce' at the bottom of your store, simply edit the Panel Footer.html and comment out (or remove) the line

%%GLOBAL_PoweredBy%%

Changing your store's background color

To change your store's background color, go to your template css file (this will be called something like gray.css or blue.cc) and change the background-color in the following line to the color you want:

body {
   background-color: #fff;
}

Changing the customer invoice email

Customers are emailed an invoice when a purchase is made. This email can be changed by editing invoice_email.html. This can be done by going to Design > Email and clicking on 'Edit'.

Having a splash creen on your store's home page

To create a splash screen with a large image on your store's home page, edit default.html and immediately under the following code add your image:

%%Discount.FreeShippingEligibility%%
%%Banner.TopBanner%%

For example:

%%Discount.FreeShippingEligibility%%
%%Banner.TopBanner%%
<img style="float:right; margin-top:10px" src="%%GLOBAL_IMG_PATH%%/%%GLOBAL_SiteColor%%/front_page_image.jpg" width="793" height="500" alt="Online Store"></a>

Also you will need to comment out the following code:

%%Panel.SideCartContents%%
%%Panel.SideTopSellers%%
%%Panel.SideNewProducts%%
%%Panel.SidePopularProducts%%

Editing the global BigCommerce variables

The global BigCommerce variables %%xxxxxxxxxxxx%% cannot be edited - they are server side includes which you do not have access to (this is a big limitation, so get used to it). However, you can replace them with text of your own.

Changing the font or color of any of the text in your store

By FAR the easiest way to do this is by using the FireFox browser. Once you are displaying the page you want in the browser, right click on the background and select the 'Inspect Element' menu item. This will open up the element inspector at the bottom of your screen. Click once on the magnifying glass icon (near the very bottom left of the browser) - this will change the color of the icon from gray to blue. Then immediately click on whatever element you want to change. The bottom righthand side will display the css file (line number and tag) that you need to change.

Adding a special link on the left column

To add a special link on the left column, edit the SideCategoryList.html panel, and change the following section:

%%SNIPPET_SideCategoryList%%

to something like:

%%SNIPPET_SideCategoryList%%
<a href="http://wwww.yourspecialink.com">Your Special Link</a>

Hiding the search bar from your store

To hide the search bar, edit styles.css and change the following code:

#SearchForm {     float: right;
    margin: 15px 10px 0 0;
    padding: 10px 0 0 0;
    display: inline;
}

to

#SearchForm {     visibility: hidden;
    float: right;
    margin: 15px 10px 0 0;
    padding: 10px 0 0 0;
    display: inline;
}

Displaying credit card logo in your payment page

You can display a credit card logo in the bottom of your credit card payment page by first uploading an image of the creditcard logo to your store's website, then b y changing the code in the snippet file ExpressCheckoutConfirmation.html from:

<div class="PL20" id="provider_list" style="display:%%GLOBAL_HidePaymentProviderList%%">
   %%GLOBAL_PaymentProviders%%
</div>

to something like:

<div class="PL20" id="provider_list" style="display:%%GLOBAL_HidePaymentProviderList%%">
   %%GLOBAL_PaymentProviders%%
   <br />
   <img src="%%GLOBAL_IMG_PATH%%/%%GLOBAL_SiteColor%%/creditcards_image.gif"/>
</div>

Redirecting a deleted or old link

Redirecting an out of date link in your store to a new page is easy. Select Tools > 301 Redirects. Click 'Add Redirect...'. In the 'Old URL' field enter the old link (fr example /pages/old.html). For 'Redirect Type' select 'Manual Link'. Then enter your new URL (for example /pages/new/html). Any time a user tries to go to your old link, they will be automatically redirected to the new page.

Adding Google Analytics to your store

Google Analytics is a must! It provides, free of charge, huge amount of statistics such as how many hits and visits your site has had on any particular day, from which countries, etc. To add Google Analytics to your store go to http://www.google.com/analytics and register for a free account, and enter your store's details (including URL). At the end of registration, you will see a section on Google Analytics with 'Paste this code into your site'. Copy the code, then go into your BigCommerce store and select Settings > Analytics Settings. Choose 'Google Analytics', press Save, and paste that copied code segment into the Google Analytics tab. This will automatically put analytics code into every page in your store.

Displaying your products by brand as well as by type

A common feature is to have on the left of the store two category trees: one by category type (dresses, shirts, shoes) and the other by brand. To add the brand tree, firstlyt create brand names by going to Products > View Brands. Then assign brands to each product by going to Edit a Product > Other Fields and assigning the Brand Name. As soon as any products are assigned a brand, you will see an additional panel on the left called 'Shop By Brand'.

Guest Checkout

It is very important to provide customers a capability to purchase without creating an account, due to time or privacy reasons. This is called Guest Checkout and is enabled by going to Settings > Checkout Settings and selecting 'Yes, enable guest checkout'.

Going directly to shopping cart after purchase

The default behavior within BigCommerce is that after a purchase is made, a dialog box is opened asking the user 'What next?'. This is actually quite ugly, and can be improved by taking the users directly to their shopping cart. To do this, go to Settings > Store Settings > Display and in 'Add to Cart Action' select 'Take Them To Their Shopping Cart'.

Avoiding American Express and Diner's Club

Adding a credit card capability to your store is straight forward, however often you want to limit the choice by avoiding cards such as American Express and Diner's Club. This can be done via going to Design > Template Files and editing genericcreditcard.html. Then add the follow to the end of the file:

<script type="text/javascript">
$('#CCType_AMEX,#CCType_DINERS,').remove();
</script>

Store Credit

You can provide customers store credit rather than returning money. This is done by going to Customers > View Customers, finding your customer, and entering in an amount in the 'Store Credit' field. A customer that has sdtore credit then selects 'Pay using my store credit' on the checkout page.

Adding Telephone field to account signup

To add a new field when a customer signs up (such as Telephone) go to Tools > Form Fields > Account Signup Fields and select 'Create a New Field...'.

Different prices for different options

To have different prices for different product options, set up an Option Set for the options. Then go to Products > Product Options and select 'Manage Rules' for the Option Set you want. and click 'Create a Rule...'. On the popup that shows, tick the option you want the price change for, tick 'Adjust its Price' - and that's it!