Easier deleting of multiple products in Magento
Anyone who has used Magento knows that deleting muliple products can be a slow & tiresome process – the “Delete All” function will often result in Server 500 errors if you have more than 100 products.Up until now I have just bitten the bullet, put some good background music on and deleted the products a […]
Custom product type in Zen Cart – how to make it default
In a recent post I waxed lyrical about how great custom product types are in Zen Cart.One thing that has bugged me though is the fact that when creating a new product you have to train the web site adminstrator to make sure they select the correct product type when first creating their product (otherwise […]
Create a script for Photoshop to save layers as separate jpgs
Ahh creating product images for clients ecommerce sites – dontcha just love it?Usually I insist that the client or the designer provide all product images in a uniform size with a suitable naming convention, but in my madness on this current project I said I would do the photo cropping/tweaking.The client sends me a random […]
Useful crontabs for backups & scheduled emails
I thought I would document how I got the following scheduled jobs working on my clients RapidHosts hosting. It involved a lot of trial & error to get them going so thought I should share them. (Note: You’ll obviously need to change the web directory, back up folders & db credentials to suit your setup) […]
Use CSS to make a div the maximum height of the window
I’ve often struggled to make a div that fits the maximum height of the current browser window (without resorting to harcoding a height in pixels) And putting height:100% on the divs stylings appears to do nothing. Then I stumbled across a post which tells me how to do it: html {height : 100%;}body {height : […]