Recently, I redesigned my photography community website, The Lens Flare, and everything has been positive so far except for one thing. The pages viewed per visit has dropped in half.
I suspected that the problem had to do with the navigation. I wanted to test a few things out to see which one would be […]
Xcart is a fairly popular e-commerce shopping cart program, and one of the add-on modules that you can buy from a third party company is called CDSEO. This rewrites all of the links to be SEF using a folder-style syntax instead of the regular ?variable=value syntax.
However, it causes some problems with X-Cart. One […]
I recently redesigned my photography website, The Lens Flare. I had Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 installed, and thus wrote the site to make it work with those browsers. Once I had it working on those 2 browsers, I tried it on IE6 and the template was horribly screwed up. Here, I’ll […]
I’m pleased to announce that the 3rd revision of The Lens Flare is now live. The Lens Flare is a large friendly community of artists and photographers who use the site to upload images, share ideas, and learn from each other. It’s located at http://www.thelensflare.com
The new features include:
More Images: Up to 500 images on the […]
This is more of a set of modifications rather than an actual module, but the end result is the same.
First thing you’ll need to do is backup your existing site and database. I’d recommend using a test install of Xcart so that nothing in production gets messed up. With that in mind, the first […]
If you’re getting started with Ruby on Rails, one of the better platforms to program in is Eclipse largely due to RadRails and the SVN plugin called Subclipse. Eclipse and the community versions of the plugins are free, so it’s definitely worth taking a look at.
This article is assuming that you have a working […]
Ruby on Rails is a programming framework for building websites using the Ruby language. Everything is set up to work a certain way; for example, the MVC (Model-View-Controller) model. What this means is that database stuff is put in the model area, the controller contains application logic, and the view contains mostly HTML. […]
Lately, discussions seem to rage about whether to lay out your web pages using tables or divs. One side of the coin suggests all HTML related to laying out a page should use CSS, and thus the use of divs and spans to achieve this. It’s reported to be faster to render divs […]
For web developers interested in making sure their HTML is valid, an excellent tool is the Html Validator. This is a FireFox extension available at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/249
It adds a little icon to the bottom right of your status bar that indicates whether or not a page is using valid html markup. If it finds […]
There are a few things in the X-Cart shopping cart that typically needs to be edited before the site is ready to go live.
The order notification that is sent to the admin includes the credit card number in the email. For obvious security reasons, this is not desirable.
There’s a variable you can turn off […]