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…
Category: web design
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…
Apple Touch Icons
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…
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…