One of the things that a website or server may have to do in its lifetime is scale up to a cluster of servers. What's a cluster? A cluster can mean several things, but at a bare minimum it means "more than one server". Yes, I realize that is not all that helpful to understanding all of this just yet, but stay with me. Typical cluster configurations: One web server -...
We often get requests for how you can disable the CS Cart upgrade warnings or notifications that you get in the pop-up modal window inside the admin area of CS-Cart. Often, clients will have us customize their CS-Cart builds in such as may that making use of any automatic upgrade process will overwrite core functions in their CS Cart build. Some recent...
As a designer, developer or even a store owner - you may want to be able to look at a website that the DNS currently does not point to. This is often done during development or the design processes. Here's how you accomplish this. Hosts file instructions: Make sure you shut down your browser before doing anything to the hosts file, or the browser may not pick up the...
Recently we released a free set of scripts to import data into Zen Cart from Squirrelcart as well as a series of scripts for importing customer data. You can view our SquirrelCart Zen Cart import scripts as well as our Zen Cart Customer Import scripts. If you need help with a project like this, anf we mean any project involving importing data to or between:...
Commenting Code Standards The following is an example of a code commenting standard we use, whetehrver applicable - and it doesn't matter if it is to be used for HTML or scripting languages. Comment indicator Start - FDG - Name - Date as MM-DD-YYYY Comment indicator php, javascript, css /*Start - FDG - Name - MM-DD-YYYY*/ smarty {*Start - FDG - Name - MM-DD-YYYY*}...
NOTE - this is an archival article .. and we generally avoid TABLES now at all costs, however they still sometimes do have their place in HTML Email when you need to control some absolutes like width and table data cells. Lotus Notes seems to be a source of frustration for many marketing, designers and …. other folks. As evidenced by this email message we received...
One of the most basic tasks that a developer or even one of our designers or UI/UX integrator must undertake (yes, we're large enough to have these...) is logging and documenting what they may have changed in a development project, basecamp, CVS or other system. Here is an example of a log (info changed to protect the innocent (website) Developer: Thomas Granger...
Throwaway prototyping is a method of development that employs technical mechanisms for reducing risk in a project. There is subtle, but significant difference in this approach that we want to explore. For some companies, projects - pretty much any technical undertaking you can think of, there is a lot of pressure to continue development of the first prototype or...
FDG Web is a graphic design firm and company who has several graphic designers on staff and offers a wide variety of graphic design and design-related services. Including: Brochure Design & Printing Logo creation, branding design and complete identity kits Business cards, product brochures, letterhead, envelopes Custom graphics, signs, trade show banners,...
See, I told you so? This is the content page Tom is currently using for the "Tom Granger is giving a presentation today" example. This page lives outside of his normal site, it was created on November 6th, 2012 while he was furiously typing away setting all of this up in Powerpoint. What this is really all about is a landing page designed for a specific purpose, or...
