About two weeks ago, I asked more than 25 Japanese female shoppers who were vacationing here in Hawaii, whether they have shopped online and what sites they have shopped at. Clearly, the most mentioned were Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auction. A few mentioned Rakuten, and that was about it. Yahoo! is so dominant in Japan. No wonder e-bay gave up and retreated from the Japan market.
Finally…
This is my very first post to this nak blog, so Hello World! It’s made with WordPress 2.2. It was pretty easy to set it up. I tried Movable Type first and I am glad I switched. Trying to customize MT was not easy at all to me. Plus, I don’t like that you have to keep rebuilding the entire site every time you write or make any changes. Not being free for business use is another thing.
I selected a pre-made theme called “organic” and customized it a little - changing colors and the top image - just from the style sheet and replacing an image file. I didn’t want to touch the PHP structure files. And that is all I needed to do to get started! If you are wondering which is better between Movable Type and WordPress, I say WordPress.