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Javascript – Looping
In programming; looping is a way of repeating a set of instructions a number of times until some condition is…
Javascript Date Compatibility
As you are probably well aware browser compatibility is a hurdle that every web developer must jump over; usually however…
CSS attribute selectors
An interesting and somewhat unused feature of CSS is that it allows you to target elements based on the attributes…
YouTube iFrame z-index fix
Flash appearing behind elements is a common problem with a relatively simple fix — simply add wmode=transparent to the object…
CSS3 and gradients — brief introduction
Gradients have been used in web design for years now. Ever since I started experimenting with FrontPage way back in…
jQuery simple image swap
jQuery has to be my favourite Javascript framework. I use it in almost all of my projects, the more I…
CSS3 Columns
Have you ever had content that you just wish you could split into columns? Columns have always been a difficult…
Rounded corner techniques
Rounded corners have been a rather difficult thing to implement — well until the release of CSS3 — it required us to use images in weird and wonderful ways. Personally now I usually use the CSS3 border-radius property to achieve rounded borders making sure to include the vendor prefixes (-webkit, -moz, -o etc.) to make sure that there is maximum compatibility with my design, and when the browser doesn’t support the border radius property at all it falls back to square edges — graceful degradation, but that’s another story.
In this post I’ll go through some of the ways that I have learned for implementing rounded corners. I’m sure there are other ways of doing it, if you have any other methods I’d love to hear them.
Queenslander — free theme by Web Circle
I’m happy to introduce the first in a line of free themes that we will be releasing. These themes are themed around different parts of Australia, this theme being based on Queensland uses a lot of bright colours. Without further adieu — The Queenslander theme.
Stock tracking in Magento
Recently when setting up a new Magento website we were asked to set up stock tracking. The client wanted to be able to receive email updates when their products were low so they could manage re-ordering and other store owner duties. Now to me; this doesn’t sound like an outrageous request and to be honest I thought that this was a pretty standard feature with e-commerce software (but after looking into the other e-commerce package we use, Virtuemart, doesn’t do it either — at least not without a 3rd party extension).
Magento however does publish low stock notices to a RSS feed, which does allow users to subscribe to and it will post to their RSS readers when a product is low. While this is an excellent way of handling stock tracking, I still think email notifications should be a standard on e-commerce software.
One way we thought to overcome this was set up a Feedburner account and feed to the address Magento publishes low stock to and use Feedburner’s email subscription option to handle emailing the feed — now this might not be the best way to handle it but it works.
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