Speed up your Magento Store

December 15, 2011 eakozel 0

There are a few ways to speed up your Magento Store. Below you will find a list of changes you can make to get a great speed improvement Find the following lines in your Magento .htaccess file and replace them with the following code. ######################################### …

Location of Magento Store Logos

December 14, 2011 eakozel 0

There are four different logo types which come standard with every Magento install. This gives you the flexibility of assigning appropriate logos to the different task. The following list tells you where the logos are located and their use. Website Store Logo: Used for …

Stop apps from re-opening everything

November 30, 2011 eakozel 0

Mac OS-X Lion’s Resume feature is handy, but not everyone wants applications to re-open all the documents you closed when you hit Quit. You can disable Resume on an ad-hoc basis by pressing Option before you head for the Quit menu, which changes Quit to Quit And Discard …

Top 10 Word Cloud Sites

November 21, 2011 eakozel 0

Top 10 Sites for Creating Word Clouds “A text cloud or word cloud is a visualization of word frequency in a given text as a weighted list (wikipedia).” This is a concept that is utilized a lot in education for: visualization, brain storming, and mind mapping.& …

Disable junk mail filtering in Outlook for Mac 2011

November 4, 2011 eakozel 0

When you are connected to Gmail or some other email provider with great spam protection it might be absolutely useless to have Outlook do another round of junk mail filtering, especially when it moves important email to the Junk Folder. Here’s a quick way to turn it off …

Creating a full screen background in CSS

October 28, 2011 eakozel 0

Add the following CSS to your page: Add the following HTML code to the body of the page:   Some other examples here: http://css-tricks.com/3458-perfect-full-page-background-image/ Or use the SuperSized jQuery plugin http://buildinternet.com/project/supersized/ 

Customize Magento’s Image Resize Functionality

October 6, 2011 eakozel 0

If you want to control the aspect ratio or the white border around your image locate the appropriate file and edit the following properties. For example in list.phtml <img src=”<?php echo $this->helper(‘catalog/image’)->init($_product, ‘sma …