After looking around at my options for dealing with the HTML5 Canvas element I found two libraries that really interested me and am going to go through a quick description of each and compare how they can be used in different situations. These two frameworks are processing.js and JCanvaScript.
DataTables are a brilliant plugin for JQuery that restyle and add functionality to your tables. They add searching, pagination and sorting right out of the box with very little configuration needed – unfortunately the sorting doesn’t support the UK date format so you need to add your own sorting methods – basic ones are supplied by the site itself but I have added a couple of tweaks to handle blank dates.
It’s been a while since this actually went live – but at last I can show off a few of the pages from the latest Magento eCommerce site I have built – AnythingSurf.co.uk.
The standard Magento contact form is built into the Magento framework and doesn’t allow for admins to manage the content, this article describes your options for managing content on the contact page as well as maintaining multiple contact forms and customising their fields.
Building websites that can be quickly and easily updated is vitally important but with so many content management systems available how do you make the decision as to which one to use. Here are a few approaches you may not have come accross.
Magento brilliantly provides a configuration option for each of the built in payment methods to allow you to set the orders status – unfortunately by default the only option you can pick is pending. This quickly explains how to add the other default order status’ to the drop down lists.
I have been working with Ruby and independently with Ruby on Rails for a few years now and although I am really familiar with Gems I have managed to avoid ever creating one myself – recently I had to convert an existing project to a gem and I realise how foolish I was not to “gemify” it from day one. I’m going to talk through the process I went through to help anyone in a similar situation out but mostly to persuade you to create things as Gems from the start of the project.
Most wordpress templates don’t seem to support displaying the descriptions for categories, tags and the author bio’s. Here is a quick explanation of how you add that information into your wordpress admin and then how to change your templates to display it.
This was a simple site based on a HTML home page, with a javascript calculator and a wordpress blog simply attached with the same design. The application form is a third-party component and so I simply built the design in HTML, CSS and Javascript and implemented in Wordpress.
I am pretty sure I missed the boat with this one but I feel like I should do my bit to contribute to the worthy cause of getting some decent Javascript documentation at the top of relevant google searches.