Google Engage Program
Late 2010 Google launched a new program called Google Engage. The program was designed to provide digital agencies and freelancers with training and incentives to help small to medium sized businesses succeed online in the way of online advertising – namely Google AdWords. I applied for the program in November and got accepted. I am yet [...]
Back for 2012
My first post of 2012 and the first for over 9 months. A lot happened in 2011 and 2012 will be another big year for both me personally and professionally. Every year I say that I am going to blog more often and if anything I’ve done less so here it is again – 2012 [...]
Images Disppear after Flushing Image Storage Cache in Magento
Over the weekend we moved our website to a new server. We had our hosting provider do the migration over the weekend to minimise any disruptions and it all went fairly well. The copy of the website was exactly the same as it was on the older server, which was all according to plan. We [...]
The Problem with Selling Online in Australia
FOODO has been up and running for over a year now. It has been a great year for the site as it has grown massively and now we are getting to the point where the site is crashing due to the amount of traffic we are receiving. That I guess is good for a webmaster [...]
Add Facebook Like Button to Magento Products
Below is the code to add the Facebook ‘Like’ Button to your Magento product pages. The code will pick up the current page URL automatically, so your users can individually like each product as opposed to the entire website. <iframe src=”http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<?php echo $_product->getProductUrl() ?>&layout=standard&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=80″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ style=”border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;” allowTransparency=”true”></iframe> Copy the code and [...]
Adding Social Networking Buttons to Magento – Updated
Update: There has been a few updates to the code below, especially the Google Buzz code. ——- I have been building a magento based site over the past few months for a new project I am working on with Ruth. The end product will be an online food store that sell Australian Gourmet Foods. I spent [...]
Back……Again
Today is the first time I have logged into this blog for a long long time! My WordPress dashboard is fill of comment spam, real comments, update notifications and a few posts I had half finished. I have been thinking about getting this up and running again, but not sure what to do with it. [...]
It’s Been a While…
I haven’t post in over 4 months! I decided to login to this blog to see what state it was in and decided I probably should write something! It actually isn’t in too bad a state. I have not upgraded to WordPress 3.0, and I only have a handful of spam! I have been flatout [...]
Introducing…WP Specialists
Over the past few months I have been working with Christina Milburn of The Easy Button on a project for The WorkBook Project. Christina was the designer for the custom theme that needed to be created, and I took care of the WPMU install, setup, configuration and data export/import from the existing WBP site. I [...]
Google Nexus One in Australia
As usual, living in Australia means that we are the last country to receive anything. It has been better in recent years with regards to television and movies, but technology still seems to take at least 3-4 months if not more to catch up with the rest of the world. Living in Ireland, they were [...]
