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Jun 10, 2011

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. From a technical point of view the site uses Magento under the hood, but the product lists have been heavily customised to show large product images and use some flashy javascript to scroll through the product photos.

Jun 9, 2011

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.

Jun 9, 2011

WordPress is a well known CMS that provides a lot of flexibility and useful features. With the help of WordPress, it is extremely easy to manage, edit and update a website. With traditional methods of website development like PSD to HTML/XHTML or PSD to CSS, one requires professional help to make changes to a website, but not with PSD to WordPress. It provides a user friendly and easy to manage website.

Jun 9, 2011

Ruby on Rails being an absolutely free open source excellent award winning web development application and content management system that would take your website to greater heights of success as compared to your competitors and makes the web application development services much easier than other. Ruby on Rails uses the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture pattern to organize application programming which is very manageable and easy to maintain We also offer hire dedicated Ruby on Rails developer(s), Ruby on Rails programming team with highly affordable prices and with the best experience as well as expertise in the Ruby on Rails development.

Jun 7, 2011

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. What you need to do is override the module that you use when placing the login form into your template.

Jun 6, 2011

Magento lets you enter your store address directly into the configuration settings – here is the code snippet to display that in one of your Magento Templates. First of all the setting is found in the system-Configuration page under General – Shop Information. Obviously you can vary this for different Store Views etc. Here is a quick screenshot to make sure you are in the right place… Configuration General-Shop->Information” src=“/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Mageno-System-Configuration-General-Shop-Information-575x212.png” alt=“Magento System->Configuration General-Shop->Information” width=“575” height=“212” /> the code to then display this in one of your templates is then a one line snippet of PHP… echo Mage::getStoreConfig('general/store_information/address'); You probably want to display on multiple lines – by default this will just include line breaks that will then be ignored in HTML.

Jun 4, 2011

When you start building your own Magento modules/plugins, or even just resort to looking at the code to try to work out how to things need to be in your templates it is often useful to output debugging information. Magento helpfully provides such a facility but it is a bit tricky to find. Buried away in the depths of the System->Configuration menu under Advanced – Develop and then Log Settings you can turn on logging.

Jun 3, 2011

I recently found that having worked out how to place a cateogry of products on the homepage of my Magento site I wanted to specify the order that those products were listed in. Mainly this was because I was hiding the standard Magento toolbars, so the customer could not do this themselves. The first place I started looking was the system configuration menu, see below. This seemed like a promising place to start with the dropdown for “Product Listing Sort by”.

May 25, 2011

I have built a number of Magento sites and have managed to avoid the awkward question of setting the order of the footer links, here I describe how it can be done with some extra explanation into how Magento makes it all happen. First let me explain where the links are in the Magento structure, so you can add, edit or remove them from the footer links. The links are added into the page in the template/page/html/footer.phtml file, where there are two links – usually your template will have one called footer_links and a second one called something like cms_footer_links.

May 23, 2011

I have been thinking about this for a while and I am just not sure what the best option is. Not to mention what the user expects or how twitter originally planned it. Twitter themselves provide a way of creating a “Tweet” button, that also keeps track of how many tweets you have had – you can take a look at it here: [Tweet button][1]. I think the original intention was to allow people to quickly tweet about the page they are reading, which is great for them and hopefully their followers.