Since finishing their new website, I have been working with the marketing team at Sky Media, creating digital invitations, microsites and RSVP forms for the upcoming VIP event, but did not expect an invite to the AdWeek and Sky Media Game of Thrones opening Gala on the 18th April at Southwark Cathedral.
I’ve been running Windows 10 for three weeks and Dreamweaver had been functioning fine up until now, but this morning it had different ideas. Each time I tried to amend any (or create a new) web document (.css .html .php or .js) it would crash instantly with a useless “there was a problem” error message.
Recently I was working on a clients website, applying a new responsive template with a fresh new look. I was trying to make sure all the products on a category page within their Magento store would nicely line up vertically with equal heights within each row, without any stray CSS floaters on each category page.
I was looking for a CSS solution to my problem, it turned out that we needed a Javascript solution in the form of a jQuery plugin.
For years, I have been using Fishpig’s free iBanner extension to display image carousel’s on my customers Magento eCommerce stores. It is one of the best extensions to quickly allow non-tech-savvy users to add their own slides quickly and easily without any coding knowledge.
But I wanted to make it responsive and add my own CSS wrapper without editing any source code…
My heart sunk, when a couple of days later my client contacted me asking about their order statuses not being updated and that they received this unusual email from PayPal. With the subject: PayPal Instant Payment Notification Warning
After searching all the error logs, there was nothing to find! Nothing relating to PayPal IPN, any Curl communication errors. No 503’s, 500’s Nothing!
Good old Magento web-stores, they’re a fantastic eCommerce platform for selling on-line, packed full of free features and functionality. However, it can get bogged down and begin to limp as it scales, especially if you do not make a few tweaks here and there!
Well there you go, sometime’s discounts (or coupon codes) come to you! The other day I decided to leave a 5 star review for my Web hosting company on both their Google plus and Facebook pages. One day later they contacted me with a promotional discount code for 15% OFF any shared hosting plan!
When faced with potentially 100’s of micro-sites, you can save time, by quickly cloning each of the sub-sites for different regions in WordPress Multisite.
I came across this fascinating post today on okdork.com, originally shared from BuzzSumo. The article discusses the findings of their research and social share counts from a whopping 100 million articles over an eight month period.
Well ok, it is the first official blog post for this new website! But unfortunately there is nothing exciting for me to say, being that i am pre-occupied trying to finish off parts of this website and ensuring everything is working. Though this lovely picture of Dahlia was grown in our garden by my lovely wife, that I thought I would share.
