It is common in all Magento sites to show the product list in Home page using CMS feature in admin. Recently i had a requirement to display special products in clearance category. I need to create a static block which calls the custom product list block with special product filtering and include it in a … Continue Reading
Monthly Archives
February 2011
Jquery animation
Isotope is an exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts. You can reveal & hide items with filtering and re–order items with sorting. The syntax is very simple, but the layouts can be really dynamic and intelligent. And also, there is progressively enhanced for CSS3 transforms and transitions. However, please note that it is free for … Continue Reading
JQuery says Bye Bye to javascript confirm box.
Tutorialzine are teaching us how to build a cross-browser, jQuery Custom Confirm Dialog Replacement. You can choose the text, buttons, and actions that will be executed when they are clicked. You can customize the appearance of the dialog by modifying jquery.confirm.css. As the message attribute of the dialog takes HTML text, you can further customize … Continue Reading
Traffic Monitoring with LiveStats & Trends system
GoSquared thinks monitoring your website’s traffic should be simple, fun & enlightening. So they have built LiveStats and Trends, which are beautiful and powerful, yet easy to use web application for monitoring your traffic. LiveStats shows you what’s happening on your website right now. It shows you your top content based on how many people … Continue Reading
Git new generation version control system
Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and … Continue Reading
Memcached high performance caching system which facebook uses
Memcached a free open source which helps website with high efficiency and greatest performance. Memcached is the caching technique which allow your website to load your files much faster. It’s fully object oriented caching system. Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of data from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering. Memcached … Continue Reading
Drupal 7 quick overview
Drupal 7 is released officially. Recently I installed and checked the features of Drupal 7. I Noticed some of the new features/changes: 1. Easy Installation profiles are introduced. Now Drupal 7 will work with php 5.2,mysql 5.0. While Installing you have the option to select installation profile(standard or minimal). Standard will contain commonly used modules … Continue Reading