This is more of a general post relating to Magento and e-commerce development than a Magento technical post. In the past week I’ve been involved on one capacity or another with two big Magento sites that have been heavily customised to suit the particular needs of the two clients. I’m not going to name either …
This is one of those painful IE7 tribulations (how much has Microsoft cost developers over the years with their awful browsers? – Answers on a postcard). Plugged it in and all working, then I realise during testing at the end that the thumbs are not being properly hidden in IE, despite the overflow on the …
Thought I’d blog my first proper stackoverflow answer; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7125499/use-backstretch-inside-a-division-and-reduce-width-to-width-of-division/10209027#10209027 Let’s see it get downvoted into the bowels of the earth 🙂 I wanted to use backstretch to fill an element which was full width but took up only the top 560px of the screen. And if the image had to be resized larger than the …
I really like the stuff that Stephane Caron does at No-Margin-For-Errors, he’s published some awesome jQuery plugins. For my money prettyPhoto is the best lightbox out there, and I recently had need to put a small image slider in a Magento site for a client in West Yorkshire. The main Magento product image was to …
After yet another example of truly brilliant service I thought I would quickly dash off a blog post with a nicely optimised anchor text link through to NuBlue, who are truly exceptional for hosting. I wouldn’t say I’m hard to please but it’s not very often I’d describe any service I’ve got as phenomenal. I …
I don’t use Cufon much these days, I prefer to use @font-face if possible. I still use it from time to time though (say what you like, it does render the fonts absolutely beautifully) and of course I sometimes have to work on sites which have employed it. This is just a quick post because …
Countless people who have commissioned a new website come to rue a very simple mistake. It’s important enough to justify a line of it’s own, some bold text, and exclamation marks; REGISTER YOUR DOMAIN NAME YOURSELF!!! Many businesses allow their web developers to do this for them, and there’s nothing wrong with that…until something happens …
I got a call from a sales guy yesterday evening, he was representing a company who have set up a new Software as a Service (SaaS) business and were trying to drum up some new clients. A nice bloke but very much a graduate from the old school of sales – he just went into …