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Spam: This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing
I received an interesting e-mail over the weekend telling me to “send in your registration and save”. Apparently if I don’t send them some money no one will be able to find me on the web! It is clearly spam so here is a copy of the e-mail. There doesn’t seem to be too much [...]
Engaged to Google
Last month I posted that I had been accepted into the Google Engage program and was about to start watching some videos about how it all works and how I can help small businesses use Google Adwords. Well, I have completed 74mins and 18seconds worth of “basic training” and have unlocked 20 $75 Adwords coupons to use with [...]
Watching Hulu in Australia
By now most people have heard of Hulu, and most non-tech-savy Australian’s know that they are unable to watch it. There has been speculation that it is coming to Australia soon, but we have been hearing about it for over a year and nothing seems to be definite. Even if it does arrive one day, [...]
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. [...]
