Dragnet Systems Limited is proud to launch its new flagship online store software. Our software has a number of benefits to businesses:

• No nonsense, simple to use interfaces for your customers and your site admin team.
• Excellent reporting tools showing you what products were sold in any timeframe you choose, view all sales for the last 30 days, view all sales for the last year, etc.
• Reminder emails automatically sent to customers. Useful technique to get your customers to return to your site.
• Promotions tools giving you the flexibility to offer your customers discounts.
• Auto image resizing for product images uploaded. you don't need to worry about resizing your images, our software will manage it all.
• SEO friendly page links. Site fully optimized for Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc.
• Email Marketing. Your customers can easily sign up, and opt out of email marketing on the site. You have total control over the email's sent to your customers. Includes filters to effectively targeting the right people.
• Site optimized for speed. Sites load insanely fast and fully tested with over 100,000 products and orders in the system - it's fully robust!
• And much much more!

If you think you might be interested in taking our store software for a spin simply contact Dragnet Systems today and see how this software could help your online business succeed.

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This ends my shameless plug ;) Sorry about that, I'm just very excited about this new product!

I posted about this issue in the previous version of my blog but I came up against it recently on my new home PC so I thought I'd blog about it again, if only so I can check this out the next time it happens to me.

Problem: Visual Studio 2008 incorrectly defaults to showing the url www.localhost.com when opening a browser for debugging which stops your page from loading.

Solution: You can type in your local home IP address - 127.0.0.1 - in place of www.localhost.com Visual Studio put in the browser URL but this means that you have to wait for ages for the browser to stop searching for www.localhost.com before it will let you type this in. What you should do is locate the following file:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Open it in Notepade and remove the line that says

::1             localhost

If you can't overwrite the existing file because of Vista's UAC then save to your desktop as a txt. Once saved, knock off the .txt part of the filename you just saved and then copy and paste the file into the Windows\System32\drivers\etc. Click Yes to overwrite the existing file. Your debugged site will now show up with the correct address. Easy when you know how....I won't say how long I was looking for that solution!