May 23rd, 2010

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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Tags: Figures In Comfort, osCommerce, Script, Shopping Cart, Time Saving
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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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Tags: .htaccess, Apache, Server Administration, Web Servers
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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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Tags: Basics, Beginners, Branding, favicon.ico, HTML, XHTML
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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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Tags: .htaccess, Apache, LAMP, osCommerce, Script, Security
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Publish to Facebook from WordPress using Wordbooker
June 9th, 2010I 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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Tags: Comments, Facebook, Wordbooker, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin
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