Thursday, September 9, 2010

Don Campbell

Exploring New Media Design

CRE Loaded Review: Adding Products By Hand

Posted by Don Campbell On July 1, 2010 Comments Off

I’ve been adding products to a client’s store all morning using CRE Loaded and it prompted me to start a new thread on what it’s like to use. Of course, if you already use CRE Loaded then you’ve probably found a workaround for any issues and if it’s the only cart you use regularly then  [ Read More ]

Verisign Notified of Major Security Vulnerability. By Comodo!

Posted by Don Campbell On June 30, 2010 Comments Off

I love it when there’s a scandal in the corporate world. Monumental gaffes are what makes working on the web so very entertaining sometimes. In this case, security giant ‘Verisign’, the supposed ‘Rolls Royce’ of the security world, have come monumentally unstuck. Now when gaffes occur, it’s usually ok if you deal with it quickly  [ Read More ]

Comodo Surpasses Verisign By Securing 15% More Web Sites

Posted by Don Campbell On June 30, 2010 Comments Off

Comodo has surpassed the VeriSign brand in the number of SSL Certificates currently in use. Based on independent research conducted by Netsekure.org, Comodo has now supplied 15% more valid SSL Certificates to Web sites than VeriSign has. This data is also reinforced by Comodo’s extensive research of over 1.5 million valid SSL Certificates. A tool  [ Read More ]

How to: Top-down selling in X-Cart

Posted by Don Campbell On June 21, 2010 Comments Off

By default, X-Cart displays products ascendingly depending on your preferences. In your admin section under ‘General Settings > Appearance Options’ you can configure the default way X-Cart should display products (by product (SKU), default (Name) or price). Let’s say we wanted to display products in Price order. It’s simply a matter of choosing the option  [ Read More ]

Help! My Images Are Not Showing In IE8!!!

Posted by Don Campbell On June 21, 2010 Comments Off

Yeah, I spent ages trying to work this one out. I was using an image uploader in the backend of X-Cart 4.3.2 to transfer client-supplied images from my PC to their website for an ecommerce catalogue and the images all displayed fine in Firefox, but a couple were missing from IE. I figured it was  [ Read More ]

Help! My WordPress won’t upgrade!!!

Posted by Don Campbell On June 19, 2010 Comments Off

Ok, WordPress has a great feature built in these days which helpfully tells you when an upgrade is available and gives you the ability to upgrade automagically via ftp through the admin backend. 9 times out of 10 this will work without hitch, however today I came across one install that just wouldn’t work at  [ Read More ]

What to do when your WP plugins won’t upgrade

Posted by Don Campbell On June 19, 2010 Comments Off

Since WordPress does a major upgrade every so often, it’s important to understand that the plugins you use with wordpress may not upgrade automatically as a result. This is not, perhaps the fault of anyone in particular, it’s just that minor glitches are destined to manifest themselves occasionally. In the case of the recent WordPress  [ Read More ]

How To Setup WordPress Permalinks

Posted by Don Campbell On December 1, 2009 Comments Off

I recently setup a Wordpress blog and knew that I had all the correct settings to allow Permalinks to work (FollowSymLinks, AllowOverride etc.) when rewritten, but still no joy. Until…

Welcome to Don Campbell

Posted by Don Campbell On November 28, 2009 Comments Off

Hi there and welcome. This is just a test post to check everything is working. If you can read this then there are no problems. I make no apologies for the appearance of the site right now – updates have to be made to improve the structure and navigability of the site and I can only do this in my spare time when I’m not looking after other peoples’ sites.

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