Importing Images Into Magento Community Edition

I created a new site for a client this week using Magento Community Edition. It’s a highly robust system for handling Ecommerce, but it is not clear how to import images in bulk. Magento GO As I looked for where to import the images I kept finding help files and forum posts talking about System…

Renaming Multiple Files

Ever had a project where you needed to rename multiple files with similar naming conventions? I had a personal project where I was converting multiple images into large PDF files. The list looked similar to this with the numbers 1 through 9 as single digits: ab-01-1.jpgab-01-2.jpgab-01-10.jpgab-01-11.jpgab-02-1.jpgab-02-2-jpg If I selected all the files in Windows Vista…

Manager Mom

ManagerMom.net

A friend from church asked me if I could build a site for her. She owned managermom.net and wanted to have a few static pages. Then she said she wanted multiple streams of consciousness on a few different topics. So, I created a static site with embedded Blogger blogs.  

4CaliforniaRealty.com

4CaliforniaRealty.com

Lorraine Clark has been doing realty for so long I can’t tell you (you might figure out her age). She has made friends with everyone in the San Gabriel Valley and they all come to her house for Christmas (no joke). This site was built in business card style with a nice contact form. If you…

Apple Touch Icons

Evan Davis Apple Touch Icon

While updating the design of my site evandavis.org I noticed that some other sites had links to an icon that made reference to Apple: <link rel=”apple-touch-icon” href=”/custom_icon.png”> Looking into it I discovered that Apple uses them to generate chicklets on iPhone, iPad and Mac products. I also found a few other services that use them…

Ben Knaupp – Lawyer Hillsboro, OR

In my time networking here in Beaverton I have met a rather nice fellow who does law for the Hillsboro, Portland Beaverton area. He commissioned me to create a website for him and I thought it might be worth mentioning. Take a look at Ben Knaupp, the lawyer‘s website and if you have any law…

Made With Notepad

I’ve been doing design for a while and I like to use Notepad. It allows me to see everything without any wysiwyg components messing things up. I’ve noted that on my web pages from time to time by using this image: Feel free to use it on your site.

Getting Traffic for Websites

So, building websites is presenting new problems. People want traffic to their websites and not from the usual sources, they actually want people on the internet to find their sites. This is proving difficult to track down. After some searching (ha ha) I found a paper using results correlation to determine what affects where you…