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.
As with most things in Magento the configuration of tax is extremely thourough and flexible – but you do have to think a little bit to set it all up, here is a quick guide to doing just that.
A quick overview of simple do’s and don’ts for the first few turns of a game of VGA Planets.
Just been gifted a copy of this fantastic game and it made for an entertaining evening of carefully planned tactical moves, mostly going terribly wrong. If you are a fan of tactical games then you will love this game – with it’s simple yet deep gameplay it is rewarding and frustrating in equal measure. So [...]
Just returned from a fantastic canoe trip in the wilderness of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Minnesota. There really is nothing like this in the UK, or Guernsey, so it was well worth the effort to go and spend six days trekking by canoe through this genuinely unspoilt wilderness.
An explanation of how Magento layout XML works and how you can use it to add custom content to specific products categories and CMS pages.
This Magento site had a really fast turn-around and I think everyone has been really pleased by the results. We are aiming for a high-end market and trying to make the most of the Jewellery.
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.
Magento provides a very nice way of placing a login form directly onto your page design, instead of the user having to click a login button, the only problem is that the login form inadvertently sets the page title to “Customer Login” for any page it is placed on. The fix is fairly simple, if a little bit of a hack.