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Magento Fatal Error – Don’t Panic 6 Oct 2012 | 12:35 am
If you get an error that looks like this on the front end of your Magento installation – at the top of the page: Fatal error: spl_autoload() [function.spl-autoload]: Class Zend_Log could not be loade...
Vanity URL Squatting 29 Sep 2012 | 02:37 am
Vanity URL squatting: Is it Right or Wrong? I believe that vanity URL squatting for profit is wrong, such as what happened when Facebook first released their vanity page names. There was a huge land g...
Using Magento – multiple stylesheets for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome etc. 17 Sep 2012 | 09:34 pm
Magento Tweaks How to use multiple CSS style sheets and create a website that is balanced on every browser. Designing on the web would be a lot easier if we could get our browsers to all do the same t...
Magento Text Area Above Individual Products Using Custom Layout Design XML 30 Aug 2012 | 01:56 am
I recently wanted to add a text area above a selection of products on a Magento site in order to advertise that they we on special offer. Like this: The easiest way I found was to use Custom Layout De...
How to Disable the Annoying Magento Notifications 23 Aug 2012 | 12:47 am
Does it annoy you to see “Reminder: Change Magento`s default phone numbers and callouts before site launch” every-time you log into your Magento back-end – even after you’ve read the notification and ...
Google CTR (click through rate) Table – Positions 1-102 11 Jul 2012 | 02:10 am
After working with a large web marketing consultancy recently on a project, I thought I’d share the below table with the world. It is, as of date of publishing, quite an accurate indication of the per...
Royalty Free Texture Images 8 Jul 2012 | 05:38 pm
Below is a selection of some interesting textures I have photographed, please feel free to download and use for whatever you like, completely copyright free. As I take more I will add them here…
EU Cookie Law Implied Consent 28 May 2012 | 07:22 am
Well done to the EU! In a time of austerity with countries going bankrupt the bureaucrats in Brussels have made it even more difficult to sell on-line by imposing a frankly silly law; You must now get...
Configuring an Adsense Account on Multiple Analytics Profiles 11 Apr 2012 | 07:37 am
I know it sounds easy to achieve but it took quite a bit of fiddling around to figure out how to get my AdSense account to track properly on multiple Analytics profiles (the primary profile I’ve had r...
Using Custom phtml Template Files Rather Than Static Blocks in Magento 11 Apr 2012 | 06:45 am
Magento’s CMS static block system strips out code it doesn’t like causing problems for developers who would like to add for example a javascript feed in areas like the menu or header. Or perhaps Rich ...
