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Figures In Comfort Project Report

May 23rd, 2010
Figures In Comfort Screen-shot

Figure Cases Product Listing (FIGURE 1)

Figures in comfort asked me to produce a method of ensuring that customers can only select the amount of foam that will fit into the cases.

The previous system allowed customers to choose more foam than would fit, which made it take longer for them to be able to fulfil the order.

This is because some trays are double, triple and even quadruple depth.

The client would first have to contact the customer to explain, costing time and money.

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Publish to Facebook from WordPress using Wordbooker

June 9th, 2010

I have installed Wordbooker on my WordPress blog to post to my Facebook wall when I make a new post. The plugin was extremely simple to install and can be found here.

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Open comment authors website link in a new window

June 8th, 2010

When a user posts a comment on your blog, they are given the option to have their name linked to their own website by supplying the URL when they post. To make these links open in a new window:

find in wp-includes/comment-template.php (~line 148):

$return = "<a href='$url' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>$author</a>";

replace with:

$return = "<a href='$url' rel='external nofollow' class='url' target='_blank'>$author</a>";

And that’s it. If you have difficulties implementing this, contact me for paid support.

Forwarding non-www requests to www domain

June 7th, 2010

Add this snippet to your .htaccess file to automatically and visibly rewrite the URL entered by the user, to a single URL. i.e. ‘www.example.com/somepage/’ and  ‘example.com/somepage/’ should both resolve to ‘www.example.com/somepage/’.

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Give your website an icon

June 6th, 2010

Personalise your users experience with the use of a favicon.ico file. Web browsers check to see if you site has a Favourites Icon which allows a user to easily identify your website in their favourites list. Some browsers; most popularly Chrome, FireFox, and IE 7+; show the icon in the tabs for easy identification.

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Pointing Website Root To osCommerce Catalogue Directory

May 31st, 2010

This is a simple snippet and configuration change which you can use to point the root of your website to your installation directory, normally ‘catalog’. This would mean the URL in the address bar would become http://www.mydomain.com/index.php instead of http://www.mydomain.com/catalog/index.php. An amateur coder could easily modify this code for other web projects. Pointing website root to WordPress installation directory

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