Did you drop it? Did it accidentally tumble out of your camera bag like one of my lenses did? I can only guess that this is what happened to some of you. I’m gonna show you what to do in case something like this happens and how to pick up your heart off the ground; after all, its not the end of the world.
For over 5 years, I had successfully removed the category base from my URLs using the Custom Query String plugin. The latest version is currently 2.6 and my pagination with WP-PageNavi stopped working when I upgraded to WordPress 3.8 and it hasn’t worked with other WordPress updates since then.
Learn how to add a Terms and Conditions checkbox to your checkout process on your Magento store. Having a site-wide link in your footer to your Terms and Conditions is good, but when you offer products and or services, having a, “I agree to the Terms and Conditions”, checkbox can be a good idea.
Yesterday I updated one of my client’s Magento installations from 1.7 to 1.8.1 – I didn’t know I had issues until customers starting calling saying they couldn’t login. After I found the solution and fixed it, I found out from another forum thread there was another problem I didn’t even know existed.
I just found about this project on github called, Google Analytics Annotations Manager.
I’m getting older. I’m calling all the new grads “kids”, making me an old guy on the block.
Its necessary this post is, Yoda. In the last year, I hired a handful of interns and some were good while most had their heads in the clouds; its not hard to see which ones lasted.
If you’re a new graduate of any New Media, Graphic Design or Development program, I encourage you to read this post. As an employer, this is what I’m looking for; basic stuff that lets me know you’re going to be a great addition to the team.
Volusion is very secretive about how to integrate analytics ecommerce tracking into your volusion store; paying them $150/hour because, A) you can’t do it yourself or B) you don’t want to, is what they’re hoping for. In fact, the same is true with mostly any customization of their code as well.
Do you shop on Black Friday or Boxing Day? I don’t like going out on busy shopping days, especially Black Friday or Boxing Day (Canada). There’s too much to handle, especially when you think of all the news about people fighting over boxes and even spraying mace in eachother’s eyes – yikes! And although I’m one to go elbow to elbow with crazy shoppers, that didn’t stop me from shopping online! So this past Black Friday, I was price shopping online for a set of Knives; The Bay and Canadian Tire had almost identical sets of Cuisinart knives on sale and wanted to see if they were a good deal or not. And to my surprise, I found a Facebook note ranked 9th in my Google results page for, “Black Friday Cuisinart Knives”:
Comparison Shopping Engines are gold when it comes to product research. They’re filled with all the information you need to make your buying decision, especially if its the lowest price you’re after. Product feeds that adhere’s to specific data structures that Google, Yahoo, PriceGrabber, TheFind, etc is all you really need and they’ll do the rest; some are free like Google & Yahoo, but some are not like PriceGrabber and TheFind – Upload it and let it do it’s thing.
I use PayPal as one of the online payment gateways to process online transactions. At work today, we were discussing the additional International / Cross Border fees credit card companies like Visa started charging about a year or two ago. As there are several pages one could read to find out how much PayPal charges when accepting payments from another Country, I kept looking around the web to see if it was outlined in greater detail.