Cellifieds is pleased to announce that it has launched two new mobile web brochures. The lucky traders are Nitelife, who specialise in clothing from the sexy, to the exotic, and Melon Holiday Homes who provide an advertising service for holiday homes from all over the world.

To reach the mobile brochures, please open the following URLs in your mobile phone browser:

Nitelife: http://mobi.cellifieds.co.uk/nitelife
Melon Holiday Homes: http://mobi.cellifieds.co.uk/melonholidayhomes

If you would like us to create a mobile brochure for your business, please contact us for pricing and additional information.

As you may have read, we recently launched our mobile classifieds ads site, called Cellifieds. This service, available throughout the UK, now has an officially registered trademark to protect our intellectual property.

The service, which allows users to sell items via multimedia/picture messages on their phone, was launched by Webcorona recently. In addition to user sales, Cellifieds also gives traders the option of a “mobile brochure” for selling their wears to mobile phone users. Traders can provide a link to their unique, branded mobile catalogue, on their marketing material. Their potential customers can then browse the trader’s items on their phone, using the mobile web (WAP2), which is supported commonly on handsets produced over the last few years. In addition, all items placed on the mobile web brochures are placed on the Cellifieds website, to increase their exposure, which in turn, improves sales.

We also expect to add PayPal Mobile support to give traders the option to fully automate sales through the mobile handset alone.

Please contact us for more information on our Cellifieds service.

In addition, if you are looking to create your own mobile web site, contact us for pricing for custom, WAP 2.0, mobile web sites. We are very experienced in the field of mobile web, MMS (multimedia messages) and SMS (text messages), including integrating reverse billing features. This is both a growing and exciting way to reach more customers, especially those without regular Internet access. Please contact us for more information.

We recently completed the integration of Google Checkout into the Carnage UK site, which uses a PHP 5 platform. We now have fully tested libraries for integration of a shopping basket system and Google Checkout into PHP based sites.

The Google Checkout support uses the level 2 XML API, which allows us to program a sites payment facilities with a fine level of control. For a simple integration, this means the payments can be processed for items placed in shopping baskets. For more complex integrations, it would mean we could provide refunds, charges, progress reports and other advanced features, direct from the shop’s admin pages.

Please contact us for a quote for any Google Checkout integrations you may require. We can develop entire shops or integrate into existing ecommerce websites.

We have scripts to import from the Gotlingerie CSV feed into OSCommerce. This includes downloading and assigning images from Gotlingerie’s site, as well as the product names and details.

As we developed the Gotlingerie website, you can rest assured that the import procedure will integrate smoothly.

While we can do imports to and from any database driven sites, I wanted to point out that this is available, as we have had a number of people enquire about this in the past.

The scripts should work on any OSCommerce platform, including PHP on Windows or Linux.

Now that blogging seems to have taken the Internet by storm, I thought it was about time that Webcorona joined the blogosphere!

I decided that Textpattern was the blogging tool of choice. It is easy to configure and skin to an existing site theme, while adding articles is made simple. It lives happily with the current site style sheet and I have blended in the new styles to make maintenance trivial.

So, who is going to be blogging and what are they going to be blogging about? It will likely be me blogging most of the time, but Steve Green (my father) may also contribute to share with us his wisdom. The content will likely be discussions about programming problems and their solutions, which we come across in our daily site development. I’m particularly keen to share (vent!) about problems with software which has been poorly documented or is overly complicated. The solutions to such problems may save the pain of other developers in the future, while demonstrating to potential customers some of what we’re capable of.

What else will be discussed? Anything which I find new, interesting, exciting or promising in the web design, development or hosting industry. Finally, I’d like to announce any new site launches or software releases. The current news section has been rather neglected (we’ve been rather busy!), but I’m hoping to make this blog much more lively!