IE wont let you layer <a> tags absolutely over images
Things I’ve learnt today:IE wont let you layer <a> tags absolutely over images – even IE8.I have a flowchart diagram I’m trying to layer over a couple of hotspots in a WordPress page.Easy I think. I’ll add the image as a <img> and then absolutely position some tags over the top that are set to […]
How I finally got Magento working on Heart Reseller hosting
Been tearing my hair out for 24 hours about how to copy a Magento site from one server to another so thought I should document it. It got so bad that I ended up trying to just install a vanilla Magento site, just to prove it runs on these new servers.To install a vanilla Magento […]
WordPress: creating a vertical expandable menu of pages
I’ve been searching the past few days for a good plugin to generate a jquery based expandable vertical menu of pages in WordPress, but there just doesn’t seem to be one out there.So I thought I’d document how I created my own. (Thanks for initial idea from http://www.mathachew.com/sandbox/collapsible-menu/) In functions.php: wp_enqueue the jquery file (the […]
Magento Tip – Change the default startup page
While Magento has some great features – it is very resource hungry, meaning it doesn’t play well with shared hosting providers who have low php memory thresholds on their packages.For example 1&1, who I use, only offer a php memory limit of 40Mb by default on their shared hosting while Magento require a Memory_limit no […]
Get Attribute Value in Magento
Just thought I’d share something cool I found out in Magento.The client wanted to show a short tagline to describe a product that was to appear on the home page (within a static block) – but both the descrition & Short Description fields were already taken. After searching around for ages looking for an easy […]