If you run a Magento shop, and you would like to drive customers to your shop, then an affiliate programme may be one option to look at. This is basically low risk and low cost, since you only pay when you make sales. The Affiliates For All Open Source application is able to support the running of your affiliate scheme. Your affiliates would register on your site, through this application. Your only involvement would be to approve their application, and …
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Designers now boarding at gate … err…
The latest craze for designers seems to be redesigning airline boarding cards (and/or websites). Dustin Curtis started this off a little while ago, after wondering why American Airlines’ website is so difficult to use. Being proactive, Dustin redesigned the site and sent it (with an impassioned letter) to AA. This started a conversation with their web developer which is quite revealing about large organisations and their difficulties in bringing about change. This inspired Tyler Thompson to have go at redesigning …
New WordPress Plugin: role-approved-comment
Update: this plugin is now hosted here on wordpress.org This plugin allows users in specified WordPress roles to have their comments automatically approved, while users in other roles require their comments to be approved by an editor. Until this plugin gets hosted on Worpress.com, here is version 1.0 for download: role-approved-comment.zip
International Classification for Standards (ICS)
The International Classification for Standards (ICS) categories are used to serve as a structure for catalogues of international, regional and national standards and other normative documents, and as a basis for standing-order systems for international, regional and national standards. It may also be used for classifying standards and normative documents in databases, libraries, etc. The classifications can be downloaded here for free as a PDF document (intro page here). This document lists the main categories first, and then a full …
Ripping Karaoke CDs (free software)
I had reason to rip some Karaoke CDs to a hard disk recently, and knew there must be some free software to do this. It was hard to find, so I’m listing it here. Hope it is useful. These tools are Windows only, and only tested on Windows XP, so I have no idea how they perform on Vista or Windows 7. The first thing I needed to do was to rip the Karaoke disks to the hard drive. Now, …
Silencing a DES-1228P Switch
Well, not quite silencing, but they can be made a lot quieter. First a brief introduction. The D-Link DES-1228P network switch is D-Link’s attempt to get into the corporate world. I’ve never much liked D-Link equipment purely because of reliability issues, Netgear being my consumer choice. I gave this one a chance for a client setting up a new office. What makes this switch stand out is that it provides 24 ports of Power Over Ethernet (POE) along with Quality …
Got a new camera
It’s an Olympus SP-590UZ super-zoom. The photos below give you some idea of the range of the zoom on this thing. These photos were taken without a tripod, on a dark overcast day. [flickrset id="72157618881198922" thumbnail="square" overlay="true" size="medium"] I was looking at a full SLR, and if I were a professional photographer then it would make sense. But for the same price as a decent SLR, I could afford the Olympus, and a pocket compact camera, and renew them both …
Ionic – CSS multi column framework
Introducing Ionic, a CSS framework put together to specifically handle layouts with more than 2 columns in CSS. The framework, originally written by Jason under the name ‘fluid1′, has been used on our client’s website, IEMA.net, since 2005. The aim of the project was to make it accessible to all the common browsers, whilst keeping the HTML markup as semantic as possible. Currently the script only supports a maximum of 3 columns, but there is no reason why the algorithm …
Pure CSS Rollover Map Demo – England Regions
A tutorial for producing these maps will be provided soon. With the help of InkScape and a spreadsheet, they are not quite as fiddly as you would expect. Each map consists of a single image, with all the roll-over images as a part of the main map image. It uses a ‘sprite’ technique to move the roll-over background images into position when the mouse hovers over the [square] regions. Why do it like this? Firstly there is no JavaScript involved. …
PHPlist Entity Relationship Diagram (2.10.9)
I’ve started to put together a diagram using the excellent MySQL Workbench (from Sun). The ERD does need splitting up into functional units, but here is what I have done so far: The complete model: phplist-2109.mwb The ERD as a PDF: model2.pdf Hope this is of some help. I will post updates when I get around to them, depending on feedback.