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  • Multiple Magento Stores on the Same Server

    Jul092010
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    In this tutorial we will be discussing how to set up multiple Magento stores on the same dedicated server. In this example I will be setting up 2 stores, one main store (TV Mania) and one sub-store (Macs R Us), both of these have been completely made up! Create Root Category Firstly we will need [...]

    WordPress Category Templates

    Jul082010
    category-templates

    We have recently been working on a WordPress website that needed two templates for different categories, one with a serious news article presence and another with a more laid back blog look and feel. We wanted this to be automatic so when the client placed a post into a category it would automatically assign it [...]

    WordPress SEO Friendly Permalinks

    Jul062010
    permalinks

    WordPress has a number of very useful search engine friendly features built-in it’s extremely comprehensive system that has allowed it to move away from being solely a blogging platform to an advanced content management system preferred by the majority of today’s web designers and developers. One of these many search engine friendly features is the [...]

    Add a Static Block to a Magento Template

    Jul052010
    static-block-magento

    Static blocks are one of the many extremely useful features that are pre-built into the Magento to help make parts of your store dynamic and manageable using it’s admin area. You can add a new static blocks by logging in to your admin area and navigating to CMS > Static Blocks and then click the [...]

    Stop iPhone Text Enlargement with CSS

    Jul012010
    iphone-resizing

    The iPhone’s mobile version of Safari has a useful way of automatically enlarging text on a website when zoomed out. While this feature is fundamentally a good thing as it allows users to read text with zooming in, it can be a nightmare to designers as it can break pixel perfect layouts. The CSS However [...]

    Adding a H1 Logo to Magento Homepage

    Jul012010
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    While building and optimising a Magento shop for a client’s website we decided to use CSS image replacement with a H1 on their logo as the homepage was predominately taken up with top sellers. However Magento only uses one header.phtml across all the templates and we certainly didn’t want the same H1 across all the [...]