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Are your prices for multiple domains too large? Are you trying to get licences for test domains but being asked to pay full cost? Don't worry; we can add test domains to your licences manually. Just purchase a single domain addon/upgrade for what it is that you need, and then email us about your situation regarding the remaining domains and we'll liaise with you over the options. email us at: support@bigyellowkey.com. We shall do our best to get back to you promptly. click here for more information regarding multiple domains, upgrades, and discount policies.

BigYellowKey News
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Released: 7/30/2011 11:50:00 PM
We've now got 4 maillists you can signup to, eg "My BYZ Updates" for personalized upgrade info on your products so that you get informed as soon as a new version of *your products* come out. click here for more info.
Released: 4/12/2011 6:00:00 AM
Twitter: You can now keep up with BigYellowKey developments/news using twitter: http://twitter.com/bigyellowkey If you're a Twitter user, Click the "Follow" link on http://twitter.com/bigyellowkey to keep up to date.
Released: 4/9/2011 2:05:00 PM
Do you sell website tools/applications? We are currently looking for developers and software vendors to help beta-test the new system. Want to sell your own stuff via this site? Contact us and beta-test the system and see what you think.
Released: 3/26/2011 2:05:00 PM
Our software has now been categorized on the right-panel of the site, so you can get a quick/easy overview of what's available.
Released: 3/10/2010 2:05:00 PM
Twitter: You can now keep up with BigYellowZone releases and news using twitter: http://twitter.com/bigyellowzone If you're a Twitter user, Click the "Follow" link on http://twitter.com/bigyellowzone to keep up to date.
Released: 12/14/2009 2:45:00 PM
VPASP V7 status for BigYellowZone Addons:
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Released: 8/25/2009 2:05:00 PM
We've decided to extend the discounting of the BYZ subscription services, where the initial fee element is reduced by the cost of BYZ Addons that you've purchased in the last 12 months. This relates to the subscription services of BYZ147, BYZ148, and BYZ149. The reduced price will be shown when you get to the confirm-order page (ie after you have entered your domain).
Released: 4/25/2009 10:45:00 AM
BYZ Subscription Services added! You can now subscribe to get addons, or hosting, or both. For people who have bought BYZ addons in the last 12 months, you can trade-in what you've spent on addons in the last 12 months against a reduction in the relevant initial-fee element of the subscription service. This trade-in offer will only last for the next 30 days, so trade-in now! This trade-in relates to BYZ147, BYZ148, and BYZ149. See "subscription services" in the right-panel above or click on "services list" at the top. You'll get/see your discounted price of the subscription when you get to the final "confirm order" page (ie before you make payment, but after you've chosen your domain(s)). For example, if you've spent £120 on BYZ addons in the last 12 months, then you can get BYZ147 for just £37. If you've spent £200 on BYZ addons in the last 12 months then BYZ147 would only cost you £7. The prices concerned relate to prices excluding vat/tax and do not include installation cover/services. PLEASE NOTE: If you already have BYZ072/02 (Installation Cover) then that installation cover becomes invalid after you subscribe.
Released: 4/14/2009 2:00:05 PM
The My-Software screen has been changed to show a traffic-light system which shows a red cross for any modules which need upgrading, and a green tick for any modules which are up to date, which allows you to see at a glance if you need upgrades. NOTE: Please check your my-software screen regularly to see if upgrades are available.
Released: 4/14/2009 2:00:00 PM
Upgrade protection has been added which you can optionally purchase whenever you buy new modules, domains, or upgrade. It will give you permanent cover against the cost of future software upgrades for your module/domain. This is a major change to the bigyellowkey.com system; please let us know if you have any problems/questions.
Released: 2/23/2009 11:05:00 PM
**Notice: There was a temporary glitch with the bigyellowkey.com checkout process today; we have now investigated/fixed the problem. Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Released: 12/1/2008 12:00:01 AM
VAT Reduced to 15% - Following the recent government announcements in the UK, VAT (only payable on orders placed from the EU) has now been reduced from 17.5% to 15% with immediate effect from Midnight 1st December 2008, and will remain at 15% for 13 months. All of the bigyellowkey.com ordering and payment processes have been changed to accommodate this. Customers outside the EU do not pay any VAT. Customers from the UK always pay VAT. Customers from the EU (but outside the UK) who have a valid VAT/Tax number do not pay vat. Customers from the EU (but outside the UK) who do not have a valid VAT/Tax number pay VAT.
Released: 11/10/2008 1:05:00 PM
FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) section has been added. Click on the Help link at the top of the page, or click on the FAQs link on the right panel help section.
Released: 10/17/2008 5:05:00 PM
What's New Link added to the top of the BYK screens. This allows you to see all new software released, and all new versions (upgrades) released, in descending date order. Want to know what's been happening on the software front? Just click on "what's new?" at the top of the screen.
Released: 9/2/2008 6:00:00 PM
New Software Vendor! SQLInjectionScanner.com (a sister company of BigYellowZone) is now using the BigYellowKey.com site to distribute anti-hacker tools and other products/services which site owners will find very useful. Visit SQLInjectionScanner.com for more info. If you previously bought the BYZ "hack checker", then check your my-software screen to grab the latest update; it has now become the "SQLInjectionScanner.com Scanner" and the new version has lots more features. A data cleaner is also available, as are check/fix services.
Released: 11/22/2007 4:29:00 PM
Mail-Lists (with discounts) added. Your profile now has a mail-list option at the bottom where you can optionally sign up to mail-lists. Some mail-lists will give you discounts (these discounts will be explained on the mail-list description). Default will always be "no sign up" for any customer, either historic or new customers. You will need to explicitly tick the sign-up box and save the changes to get added to the mail-list (and receive the relevant discount).
Released: 10/16/2007 11:57:00 AM
Live/Archived radio buttons fixed - the live/archived/all radio buttons at the top of your "My Software" (and other "My") screens have now been fixed. They were previously one-step behind what you pressed, but are now correct and automatically refresh as soon as you click on one of the radio buttons.
Released: 10/16/2007 11:56:00 AM
localhost assigned for free - you can now add localhost to any of your licenses during purchases/upgrades, or via your "My Domains" tab, and it will automatically give you the localhost key for free.
Released: 10/16/2007 11:55:00 AM
New version of byk released - if your customer control panel shows you the login screen, then please login again. Once logged in you will no longer need to login again.
Released: 10/11/2007 12:30:00 PM
Upgrade fix applied. There was a problem when upgrading Backfilled BYZ licences, this has now been fixed, but if you upgraded on BYK prior to this news item being added then go into your "My Software" screen, and check if you have multiple versions of a given product for a given domain; if you have multiple versions then press the archive link on the old versions, then go to your license keys page and create a new license key file, then download that key file and upload it to your site.
Released: 10/8/2007 11:50:00 PM
Sub-Modules added to your software lists - We have now ensured that all of your sub-modules are now listed for your main modules on your software screen. This means that you can now upgrade/download either the main module, and/or the sub-modules. Our upgrading and purchasing procedures use "intelligent" bundling, whereby if you've upgraded/bought all the corresponding sub-modules then you'd automatically also be assigned all appropriate parent bundls, and if you buy/upgrade a bundle then it will automatically assign access to all the sub-modules as well. Checkout your "My Software" screen, as it may now be showing you additional/new sub-modules.
Released: 9/28/2007 8:15:00 AM
BYZ Interface Improved - We have now changed our sister site (bigyellowzone.com) so that you will only get directed to bigyellowkey when you checkout, and not each time you add an item to your cart. This means that you can continue freely shopping/browsing on bigyellowzone.com without having to jump between byk/byz sites for each item. Note that for upgrades you should always use bigyellowkey.com for browsing/purchasing, and not bigyellowzone.com.
Released: 9/25/2007 11:45:00 PM
Version History Displays - We've added a link on the product-codes on your "My Software" screen which will popup a printer-friendly page that displays all the product details and the full version history (ie all the release notes of all versions) so that you can now see if you want/need to upgrade specific modules.
Released: 9/23/2007 2:05:00 PM
We're Live ! - BigYellowKey.com has now become a live system. There might be some teething questions/problems following its release, so if you have any questions/problems then please do let us know.

Tag Cloud (Word Cloud) Generator/Display for VPASP - BYZ174

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Generate and display word clouds (tag clouds) for your vpasp products and/or for your top selling products.



Tag Cloud (Word Cloud) Generator/Display for VPASP - BYZ174
Latest version:02/27-NOV-2011
From vendor:Big Yellow Zone
Price:£35.00
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Compatibility, Bundling, and Status Notes:
Compatible with VPASP V4.5 to V7.
Before installing, you must have installed:
BYZ038
BYZ036
BYZ033
BYZ025

This product includes:
BYZ038
BYZ036
BYZ033
BYZ025

Sample Admin Screen SnapShots:
Screen 1 - Excluded Word List Maintenance
Screen 2 - Generate your Word Cloud Data
Screen 3 - Analyze and Download your Cloud Word Data

Sample Display on the Customer Side:
Sample 1 - The Top 100 Most Important Product Words
Sample 2 - The 100 Most Important Product Words for Top Sellers
Sample 3 - Per Product Clouds (see below the tab section where we've shown 3 types of per-product clouds)
Sample 4 - Search Results Clouds (see the bottom of the page on the linked screen which shows a cloud that relates to the user's search results).


Examples on a Live/Real Site:
1. Products Cloud Display
2. Top-Sellers Cloud Display
3. Product-Detail Cloud Display (at the bottom of the page)
4. Search Results (Product Summary) Cloud Display (at the bottom of the page)


What is a Word Cloud?
A Word Cloud is a list of words shown in a "cloud" format, where the words are shown in different sizes depending on how important they are. It's like a visual sitemap of the kind of words that are relevant to what you sell. It allows customers to easily see words that are relevant to what they'd like to look at but where they hadn't thought of doing a search on that word before. Each word is linked to the corresponding search for that word to show you products which are relevant to that word.

It's a great way for your customers to get an overview of what you sell (and the properties/aspects of those products) and for them to be able to do relevant searches easily.

Word Clouds are not cluttered with common words like "and", "but" etc, they only show words that are relevant to the kind of things that customers would want to search on and words that are relevant to your business/products.

The most common use of Word Clouds is in social media (such as twitter to show "trends"), but they're quickly becoming increasingly used in e-commerce sites too as they're a great way for customers to browse the site and see what you sell.


Technical/Developer Information:
Configurable Options
  • Min Font Size (in pixels) - (ie the size to display the smallest/least-important word in the cloud) - A configuration value, but also overridable on a per-call basis.
  • Max Font Size (in pixels) - (ie the size to display the largest/most-important word in the cloud) - A configuration value, but also overridable on a per-call basis.
  • Words to Display - (ie the maximum number of words to display in the cloud) - specified as an argument on a per-call basis.
  • Minimum Words to Display - (ie the minimum number of words to display in the cloud, ie don't display the cloud if less than this number of words would be in it) - A configuration value, but also overridable on a per-call basis.
  • Product Restriction Where Clause - optional, specified as an argument on a per-call basis - allows you to show clouds for specific sets of products, eg products in a certain category.
  • Order Restriction Where Clause - optional, specified as an argument on a per-call basis, and only relevant to the top-seller cloud display - allows you to show clouds for specific orders, eg orders placed after a certain date to show the current/latest "trend".
  • Subsequent Word "weights" - This is a config option on the admin side to help calculate the weight (or importance) of cloud words on products - you can assign a weight value for when a given word appears more than once in the same product. eg a subsequent weight of 0.1 (the default) means that if a word appears once in the product it'll be given a weight of 1, if it appears twice then it'll be given a weight of 1.1 (1, plus 0.1), if it appears 3 times then it'll be given a weight of 1.2, and so on. The 0.1 value is configurable so you can decide how much extra weight to give words when they appear more than once in your products.
  • Minimum Cloud Word Length - Specify a length (default is 3) so that any words smaller than that length are ignored.
  • Source Columns - You can source your cloud words from as many products columns as you want (usually a subset of the columns that you've specified in your xsearchfields config option).
  • StyleSheet - The word cloud display has its own stylesheet (css file) so you can easily change the colors

How It Works:
Press a button in admin to generate cloud word data for all your products.

All the values from your Source columns (that you've specified as your Product Sources config option) will be processed and turned into cloud word data. It'll automatically get that data and create a copy of it as clean words, eg it'll strip-out html, and do various other things to help turn it into real/proper words.

Then, on the customer side, you can display word clouds on any page/panel you like (ie multiple calls per page are allowed).

You can display "global" clouds (ie clouds that are relevant to all your products), or you can use the built-in template fields to show clouds specific to a product that you're viewing (eg from shopexd.asp), or you can use the built-in functions to show clouds that relate to the user's search results (ie on shopdisplayproducts.asp)

If you're using per-product clouds, then for vpasp v7 you could also use BYZ166 (Customized Product Tabs; available separately) to show a cloud inside a tab of its own.

When you display a cloud, you pass across arguments to the display-cloud function for what kind of output you want to use for that display, eg the number of words to show as a maximum, the min/max font size in pixels to use, as well as optionally product restrictions (and/or order restrictions for the top-seller call).

It also has a maintainable list of excluded words (ie words not to use in the clouds), and those excluded words are automatically populated as part of the installation procedure (you can edit them once the addon's installed).

We've found that by using the excluded words list, and only allowing words that are 3 characters or longer (which is a config option that you can change), most sites usually only have around 5 to 10 cloud words per product, so your cloud tables won't actually hold many more values than, say, prodcategories, even when you have very long product descriptions with lots of html in them etc.

The data analysis screen gives you summary stats of your cloud data, and also allows you to download your cloud "dictionary" to excel so that you can look at it in Excel to analyze the words and see if you need to adjust your list of excluded words etc.

There are 2 types of functions you can display cloud words with, one is a product based function (ie purely the weighted words on products), and the other is a top-seller based function (which combines the product weights of the words with the number of items sold of the relevant products, and then shows you the selling-weighted words)

The cloud word data is not stamped onto your products, it uses its own cloud-words table (with a catalogid column to join back to products), so your products table/data is totally uneffected.

You don't need to generate cloud data for each "call" - you just generate cloud data for all your products in one shot in admin, and then each display queries the relevant cloud data for the relevant displays.




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Full Version History:
VerNo Version Date Release Notes
01 06-JUN-2011 Initial version - Big Yellow Zone Tag Cloud (Word Cloud) Generator/Display For VP-ASP
02 27-NOV-2011 Changed functions to use the generic BYZ cursor opening/closing functions to help avoid cursors getting blanked-out with 8k/memo (text/ntext) bugs and to use less memory.
Upgraded BYZ038 (from V13 to V15).
Upgraded BYZ036 (from V08 to V10).
Upgraded BYZ033 (from V11 to V13).
Please Note: If upgrading from a previous version of BYZ174, you must make sure you are using V14 or above of BYZ038 before upgrading to BYZ174 V02 or above.
Files effected:
README*.htm (changed files)
vpaspv4.5to5.5/byz$174_version.asp (changed file)
vpaspv4.5to5.5/byz_tcg_admin_analysis.asp (changed file)
vpaspv4.5to5.5/byz_tcg_admin_excluded.asp (changed file)
vpaspv4.5to5.5/byz_tcg_admin_inc_fun.asp (changed file)
vpaspv4.5to5.5/byz_tcg_admin_products.asp (changed file)
vpaspv4.5to5.5/byz_tcg_customer_inc_fun.asp (changed file)
vpaspv6.0to6.5/byz$174_version.asp (changed file)
vpaspv6.0to6.5/byz_tcg_admin_analysis.asp (changed file)
vpaspv6.0to6.5/byz_tcg_admin_excluded.asp (changed file)
vpaspv6.0to6.5/byz_tcg_admin_inc_fun.asp (changed file)
vpaspv6.0to6.5/byz_tcg_admin_products.asp (changed file)
vpaspv6.0to6.5/byz_tcg_customer_inc_fun.asp (changed file)
vpaspv7andabove/byz_tcg_customer_inc_fun.asp (changed file)
vpaspv7andabove/admin/byz$174_version.asp (changed file)
vpaspv7andabove/admin/byz_tcg_admin_analysis.asp (changed file)
vpaspv7andabove/admin/byz_tcg_admin_excluded.asp (changed file)
vpaspv7andabove/admin/byz_tcg_admin_inc_fun.asp (changed file)
vpaspv7andabove/admin/byz_tcg_admin_products.asp (changed file)