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Programing, technology, and all things geeky

Jun 05
2007

Ajax Attributes added!

Posted by brian in E-Com Development

We have recently added a new Ajax attributes module to our e-commerce suite. This makes adding attributes and "configurations" so much easier. You can save "configurations" as templates and use them on multiple products.
May 23
2007

Ubuntu with Dual Monitors

Posted by brian in TechLinux

Over the weekend I (finally) figured out how to set up dual monitors on my Radion 9200 Dual head Vid Card... it was actually very easy once I followed the right instructions. Basically all you have to do is modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add a few lines to the video card device section. That';s it ... Before that I tried a half dozen other methods ... including installing open source and private drivers... for this you don't have to do a thing except edit one file.. here is the link

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1773710

This should work for basically any ATI card, if you have nVidia sorry but there are a few methods to try on this link as well

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221174
May 23
2007

Google-analytics under SSL

Posted by brian in TechE-Commerce

So, here is the senario... you have an online store, you want to use google analytics to track visits/conversions etc... so you add the urchin tracker code like they say to. Now when you go to checkout or go under any ssl encrypted page the sight throws an error saying there are secure and non-secureitems....

The default code they give is

< script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

The problem here is that it's including urchin from a non-secure source, I found some javascript at this guys blog ... http://boagworld.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=1324
which will allow us to detect SSL encryption and pull in the urchin from the proper source, so use this instead.

< script type="text/javascript">
document.write( '<scr'+'ipt type="text/javascript" src="' );
if( document.location.toString().indexOf( 'https://' ) != -1 ) {
document.write( 'https://ssl' );
} else {
document.write( 'http://www' );
}
document.write( '.google-analytics.com/urchin.js"><\/scr'+'ipt>' );
</script>

Obviously I took the opening bracket off the script tag... but you get the picture

Jan 10
2007

New Features over X-Mas Vacation!

Posted by brian in E-Com Development

We have recently added several new features to our ecommerce package

  • Added Cross sell feature. Started with xsell contribution from oscommerce.com which allows you to add "recommended" products to single products in your store. I added a few custom features to this to make usingit a bit easier, like the ability to add recommended products to all the products in a specific category. And when you add a recommended product to your cart you do not leave the original products page. I also tweaked the caching function a bit (should be a little faster)
  • Added a condition column to all products in the database. This is something a lot of people in the hardware re-seller industry have been asking for. so now you can have 2 products of the same model or part number but have different conditions IE.. a new and a used version. this also works with easypopulate as well.
  • Did some re-branding in the admin area (finally) now our logo is shown in the header :)
  • Cleaned up the dynamic meta tag generation a bit.
Oct 24
2006

Complete New Features List So Far

Posted by brian in Untagged 

  • New - Icon set using FamFam Icon Library to the Header Navigation bar
  • New - Feed Machine This allows us to configure feeds for virtually any service that uses a csv file to "feed" products like froogle. very configurable setup. Also addedsome check to make sure the products in the feed have a qty greater than zero or NOT NULL.
  • SECURITY UPDATE! - Added Patch so that Register_Globals is no longer needed
  • Added - "container" Div to aid in layout/styling
  • Fixed - Language error in the Authorize.net Payment Module
  • Fixed - strange Border padding issue in Product Listing
  • New - Support for 24 bit alpha transparent .png files for IE versions < 7
  • New - TinyMCE WYSIWYG HTML Editor for all text areas
  • Added - new Image size specific to the Products Info Page. The product image on the product info page is now 150px x 150px (or close to it) Did this because this WAS using the Heading Image Size which should be much smaller than you'd want a product details image to be.
  • New - AJAX Search Suggest Function ... now it will suggest searches (products) while your typing! This is very cool but might be too much for large DB's I left the default search box in as well so we can switch them out if needed.
  • New - Catgories box with images for catagories and catagories that have sub catagories. Looks much better now... much more user friendly
  • New - SEO Assistant under the tools menu in the admin. This lets you check your search engine ranking for certin keywords, gives keyword density reports. and a few other usefull things.
Oct 23
2006

A Few Other Small things

Posted by brian in E-Com Development

  • A new Image size specific to the Products Info Page. The product image on the product info page is now 150px x 150px (or close to it) Did this because this WAS using the Heading Image Size which should be much smaller than you'd want a product details image to be.
  • Added an AJAX SearchSuggest Function ... now it will suggest searches (products) while your typing! This is very cool but might be too much for large DB's I left the default search box in as well so we can switch them out if needed.
  • Added a better Catgories box with images for catagories and catagories that have sub catagories. Looks much better now... much more user friendly
  • Installed SEO Assistant under the tools menu in the admin. This lets you check your search engine ranking for certin keywords, gives keyword density reports. and a few other usefull things.
Oct 22
2006

Added TinyMCE WYSIWYG HTML Editor

Posted by brian in E-Com Development

Added *TinyMCE WYSIWYG HTML Editor to the Define Pages AND product/category creation pages. This just so happens to be the very same editor I'm using right now in joomla!! It works very well IE AND IN FIREFOX & OPERA TOO!!!! Ya it might be a little slow ... but it's a very nice editor. YouHAVE to check this out >>> CHECK IT OUT!

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