March and April were our busiest months ever, with about 10 sites going live. We are also working on finishing up an additional 15 projects that will be launching in May. Hence the delay in updating the blog!

An important note concerning X-Cart this month - we recently learned that most hosts will be updating their servers to run PHP and MySQL 5, as the 4.x version are at the end of their life cycle. In addition, servers running 4.x will no longer be PCI compliant, which is a major problem for X-Cart owners accepting credit card payments. The bad news is that X-Cart 4.0 and earlier versions DO NOT WORK on MySQL 4, and upgrading to 4.1 is a major headache and expense, particularly for highly custom sites. Luckily, a patch was just released that addresses this issue. If you are one of our clients and your host is planning on upgrading, please contact us prior to the upgrade so that we can patch your cart. If you are hosted with us, we will be upgrading later this summer.

Now on to the new projects!

Marlo Beauty - we migrated Marlo from another cart system, and gave them a completely custom site with too many custom features to mention. This was a collaboration with their graphic design firm - designiko.

Dog Collar Boutique - a brand new site featuring a custom size and price filter.

War Game Store - a brand new site specializing in Warhammer.

Starring Fragrances - celebrity sisters Ashley and Courtney Peldon's perfume and jewelry store. We moved them over from another cart system and added a forum and blog.

Mango Madness - we moved Mango over from another store system and gave them a fresh look and feel.

Kashmir Company - it doesn't get much more custom than this! With extensive use of Flash and Thickbox, you can barely tell this was once X-Cart.