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So I got a wild hair today and started transferring my BANS sites over to my Hostgator account. It is going so smoothly I am surprised. I might have to write my exact steps so the next person who attempts it also has a smooth transition from one host to the next.
If you are needing a [...]

Well it looks like eBay has changed their category numbers for some cats recently. A lot of BANS users are going to be up in arms demanding a new Category Export from Adam & Kelvin. The only way to guarantee not being affected (or is it effected) is to manually set your stores up with search [...]

I don’t know how many people out there narrow down their results with the search query but you should. You need to make your visitors enjoy your site and offer some type of value so they come to your site instead of straight to ebay. In order to do that, you need to give them [...]

Here is an easy way to add privacy policy and contact us pages to your BANS site. Only do this mod if you haven’t modified the FrontControl.php file. This will revert the file back to the original BANS file with the 2 pages added to the pages list.
DOWNLOAD THE ZIP HERE
Steps to install this mod:

Unzip [...]

So I finished modifying a template for BANS and I thought about how easy it is to steal templates from other BANS sites. **I want to go on record that I do not condone the theft of templates and themes from others**
This post is for educational purposes only!!
Ok how do you steal a BANS template?

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So it looks like the BANS admins have finally updated their catagories database. If you have a skeleton folder of your customized BANS files all you need to do is copy over the database.sql file. If you have customized the BANS database.sql file you will need to either copy over the categories from the new file into [...]

Thanks go to BansLive for pointing out the link name for the privacy policy was lowercase. I have modified the original file to make future downloads to have the capitalized Privacy Policy. If you want your existing install to be capitalized I made an update for it.
http://www.bidriches.com/downloads/ppup.zip
Sorry about that everyone.

What Happens: You go to take a look at your sitemap.xml and you page gives an error saying it’s not well formed, whatever the hell that means =)
The Error: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
The Fix: One or more of your pages url’s has a symbol in it (eg: & / , etc.) Remove it and [...]

I made a script to automatically add a Privacy Policy to your BANS Store. I based the script off of Rochelle’s instructions on how to add a Privacy Policy found here: http://www.nichestorestrategies.com/how-to-add-a-privacy-policy-to-your-site/
Click here to download the script

Just unzip the file, place in the same place as your index.php and then go to the file:
http://www.yourbans.com/addprivacy.php
This mod [...]