osCommerce, osCommerce Design, osCommerce Hosting, osCommerce modules, osCommerce developers

Through natural and organic growth and promotion in the Internet our main web site www.Holbi.co.uk has achieved a 7 out of 10 Google page rank after the most recent Google page rank update in April 2010.

This proves the importance of our site and its content to Google. We will keep improving the web site further by improving its design and adding more content in Q2 2010. Please do let us know if you have any ideas of how we could make www.Holbi.co.uk better - we are always looking forward to hearing such ideas from our customers!

Taking into account our increased workload we will be working through the Good Friday but will be having a proper day off on Easter Monday. Our team is back to the office on Tuesday the 6th of April.

The Holbi team wishes everyone a very Happy Easter!

Site load speed has always been important for usability but it is now getting increasingly important to have top positions in Search Engines.

Google pays more and more attention to how quick web sites are. They even launched a special site speed monitoring service as a part of Google Webmaster Tools and released a new tool called Site Speed Checker (connected to FireBug).

To prove the quality and robustness of our TrueLoaded version of osCommerce we took a screenshot of how a web site based on TrueLoaded is performing under the scrutiny of Google speed test:

As one can see it is faster than 82% of all sites indexed by Google and loads in less than 1.5 seconds on the average. This proves the fact that Ecommerce web sites based on Holbi’s TrueLoaded version of osCommerce are fast and efficient.

On Friday the 11th of December Holbi took part in the osCommerce meeting in London.

The meeting itself was the culmination of Harald Ponce de Leon’s visit to London; he also spent some time with other team and community members in the days before the meeting.

The meeting was held in an European-style bar just off Oxford street (area of Central London). Unfortunately it was quite loud in there so talking to other people was a bit challenging.

We came up with a short list of the most important questions we wanted to discuss with Harald and other osCommerce activists. Our main question and biggest concern was about if osCommerce was going to be developed further, whether it was still an alive project or not. Good news - we were reassured it was the case. Harald confirmed the Beta version of osCommerce 3.0 was due very very soon and additional versions (3.1, 3.2, etc) would be released soon soon after that.

Our next question was if Harald was working on the project on his own. Interestingly enough this was the case up until October or November this year. As of then one more person (Mark) joined as a member of the Core Team. Mark is based in the UK and we hope to be in contact with him any time soon.

Our final question was about competition with Magento and other Ecommerce solutions, whether Harald was going to try to make osCommerce #1 open source Ecommerce solution again. We received a confirmative response. Harald thinks of version 3.0 as the new core of osCommerce. He reckons a lot of features will be easily added in further versions that will follow soon.

We also discussed our company’s profile, our values, where our business is going and touched the history of our involvement with osCommerce. We offered to give reasonable support and feedback based on the practical use of osCommerce on our projects.

Overall we were quite pleased with what we heard last Friday, and will now look forward to seeing all those things implemented soon!

osCommerce hosting is one of the services provided by Holbi - a leader in osCommerce development.

Holbi’s osCommerce Hosting department currently manages over 15 servers in the UK, USA and Germany. We host over 250 online stores for our customers. And numbers keep growing - we will be adding more servers to our network in Q1 2010 and are signing up new hosting customers every day!

All our servers are optimized for osCommerce and osCommerce-based shopping cart solutions, we only host not more than 30 online stores per server and ensure our hosting is secure, robust and helps our clients to improve their online businesses.

We welcome osCommerce hosting clients from all countries. We can help in moving your online store to our servers without any significant downtime. Contact us today to start your osCommerce hosting with Holbi tomorrow!

Holbi renews their osCommerce sponsortship and continues to support the project and the community behind it.

This year Holbi becomes a Gold level sponsor that proves our dedication to osCommerce and also confirms our leading position as osCommerce development specialists.

We also look forward to the osCommerce meeting in London in December 2009.

You can now benefit from a special treat the Holbi team has prepared for its customers this festive season!

Save from £390 to as much as £985 when ordering one of our Turnkey Ecommerce packages along with Amazon or eBay integration module.

Existing customers are welcome to enquire as further discounts are available subject to a special offer from our Sales Manager.

Visit our Christmas Ecommerce offers page today to have your online store up and running this side of Christmas!

Today Holbi proudly presents new online store DiamondRocks.co.uk

Diamond Rocks brings to you a range of high quality contemporary jewellery, designer jewellery and loose diamonds from the capital of the jewellery industry in the UK, Hatton Garden. We are backed by an International consortium founded in 1985 with buying offices in New York, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Antwerp and Mumbai and our jewellery is made by some of the best jewellery manufacturers in the world.

Diamond Rocks provides you with the opportunity of buying jewellery safely and securely online with our peace of mind 30 day money back guarantee with insured delivery to your door or you can come see us at our Hatton Garden office. We have over 1,500 items of jewellery in stock and have access to thousands of loose diamonds. However, if your choice of jewellery is not on our website we can produce it especially for you on most occasions. Diamond Rocks are committed to offering competitively priced products with excellent service.

Please visit www.diamondrocks.co.uk or call 0800 977 4855.

“Holbi have taken my website from an initial concept to a live hosted version with seamless efficiency. They have a number of skilled people across the different aspects of web development from designers, developers and hosting specialists which has made them easy to work with as they are a ‘one stop shop’. Holbi have been very flexible with my changing requirements as I was grasping what I wanted from my website both from a functional and design perspective. I will be more than happy to use Holbi for any future projects and also to recommend them.“

We send our sincere congratulations to Eduard, one of our Search Engine Marketing Account Managers who’s become yet another Holbi’s Qualified Google Advertising Professional today!

Eduard’s Google Advertising profile is available online
here.

Feedback from some of our customers who used Holbi’s Search Engine Marketing or Pay Per Click campaign management services can be seen at http://www.holbi.co.uk/about/testimonials/.

Our Search Engine Marketing team keeps growing and we plan to start offering our clients even more useful products and services within a short time!

We have released a new version of our osCommerce Marketing Newsletter module. The module is available for order from our web site at this link.

You can not only create a nice-looking HTML email but also apply a great number of filters to the customer list choosing exactly who to send the email to.

Contact us today to start using Holbi’s osCommerce Marketing Newsletter module for your Christmas sales!