popup infobox for zencart products
Posted by: admin in MyBlog |One easy way so customers can see all products information without going to product detail pages is adding a popup infobox and when the mouse is moved over a product image, the product's name, manufacturer and attributes will be displayed on the popup. The demo can be found at: http://www.arearugsclub.com/rugs/karastan-m-1.html
If you want to have something similar to this feature for your zencart site, please contact us.
speed up magento site
Posted by: admin in MyBlog |One of the drawbacks of Magento is currently its speed if default configuration is used. There are certain ways of making it run faster. The best one is to enable GZip compression by changing .htaccess file a little. You just need to uncomment part of the code. In my case, the speed increase was exactly 235%. Let’s start speeding up Magento!
Find the following lines in your Magento .htaccess file and replace them with the following code.
vertical menu with virtuemart categories and products
Posted by: admin in MyBlog |There is many ways to create a custom menu for virtuemart categories. The most popular style of menu for virtuemart is showing all parent categories in a menu and the child categories will be listed in the main content area when the parent one is clicked.
You also can make a module to show the virtuemart categories in a vertical menu on left and when a category is clicked, the menu opens to show all products in that category. Once the product in the menu is clicked, it should go directly to the full 'Product details' page.
The example site with this type of menu is http://www.raoul.ca/heron. With this module, you can choose which category and its products will be listed in a vertical menu or all categories.
Rokquickcart add to cart problem with third party SEF component
Posted by: admin in MyBlog |
If you use any third party SEF component/module for your site with Rokquickcart, JoomSEF breaks RokQuickCart even when set to skip the Component. When adding an item to the cart the page should scroll down to the cart, but with an installed SEF component, instead it changes to the front page and the number of products in the cart is incorrect.
SEF URLs in Joomla! 1.5
Posted by: admin in MyBlog |The primary reason for having search engine friendly URLs is to force keywords to appear in the URL which, from a search engine's point of view, increases the page's relevance for these keywords.
Here's a step-by-step guide on how to implement SEF URLs in Joomla! 1.5.
1. Install Joomla! 1.5.
The most important Joomla security tip
Posted by: admin in MyBlog |Keep your Joomla site updated!
The Joomla Development team are amazing when it comes to responding to security issue regarding Joomla. To fully benefit you need to ensure you are as well. Always keep your Joomla site up to date, and be sure to subscribe to the Joomla Security News Feed: http://feeds.joomla.org/JoomlaSecurityNews You can even subscribe via email.
Next, ensure you patch your installation when security patches are released. The official way to do this is outlined here:http://docs.joomla.org/Upgrading_1.5_from_an_existing_1.5x_version
Why use Joomla for web design?
Posted by: admin in MyBlog |So what is this Joomla thing anyway and why should I use it to design my web site?
The fact is that Joomla is one of the easiest ways to quickly design and create your own website. You can easily create a wonderful looking website with loads of functionality. Wordpress is another way to create and manage your own website - but more on Wordpress somewhere else.
Wordpress custom links
Posted by: in MyBlog |Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A custom Permalink structure will make your blog more SEO friendly.
Especially with "Custom Permalinks" plugin, you can set the URL of any post, page, tag or category to anything you want. Old permalinks will redirect properly to the new address.