Add slideshow to Squarespace using Jquery
[PLEASE NOTE: This post relates to an old version of Squarespace – version 5 and previous. Things have moved around in version 6 so this post will not help v6 users, I’m afraid] I was asked by a client to add a simple fading slideshow animation to their Squarespace website: This works best for images […]
Beware the one-click install for WordPress
I love WordPress most of the time. It simple, has an extremely customisable front end, a lovely intuitive admin interface that almost all clients can get to grips with easily – oh and its free! So I have built many a site with it – some simple, some complicated – always to great effect and […]
$_POST Variables for Image input buttons
I’ve just run up against something weird.My PHP code which was detecting which of two buttons a user had clicked on a form had suddenly stopped working. Or to be exact, had stopped working in Internet Explorer.I was using the $_POST variable of the button name to detect if it had been clicked.For example the […]
Remove all products and categories from a Zen Cart
Don’t you just hate it when you realise you need to clear out all your old products and categories froma ZenCart install and start again? Particularly if you have done an import using EasyPopulate and the client(ahem) has given you a spreadsheet of duff data?! Simply login to phpMyAdmin and run these statements on your […]
Painful PNGs
So my latest website I’m building is a portfolio site for a makeup artist. Cue lots of lovely photos of beautiful models in lovely frocks etc. I promised the designer we could do a slideshow of images behind a custom “scrolly” frame, thinking I’d use CSS absolute positioning to layer the transparent PNG frame over […]