Create mouseover effect on Catalog page in Magento
UPDATE: For a smoother transistion see my solution that uses jQuery here: http://blog.kineticpulse.co.uk/2011/02/create-smoother-mouseover-effect-on.html Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays everyone! As a small present for you all here’s how to create a neat effect to showcase your products better in a Magento catalog view.The client had wanted to mimic the functionality she had seen on the […]
Fix: Excel 2007 not opening shortcuts in Windows Vista
I’ve been having problems with Exel 2007 not opening .xlsx files from Explorer – either as shortcuts or the actual file locations themselves. I could get the file open by using the Open command within Excel – but that was a pain if someone mailed me a spreadsheet; I just wanted to be able to […]
Creating New Product Type in Zen Cart
I needed to create additional fields for products in Zen Cart – namely 2 extra description fields for a “Soap” product being sold in the storeNow in the past I have hacked Zen Cart – like using the products_url field as a fake extra description field! But thought I would investigate the “Proper” way of […]
Magento – getting a list of Manufacturers & landing pages
Well I”ve bitten the bullet and taken the step from the safety of ZenCart to the brave new world of Magento.Boy is it complex!? The thing I love about Zen Cart is that you can hack it about to get it to do pretty much what ever you want. Magento seems just too clever for […]
Using multiple Google Analytics accounts on one site
I found this useful code snippet on the Google site:http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncUsageGuide.html for how to use two different Google accounts to track page views – so I can let client view his own anayltics, plus I can keep an eye on it with my account: <script type=”text/javascript”> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push( [‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-XXXX-USER-1’], [‘_trackPageview’], […]