If you have ever tried to add a page to Zen Cart it is a total pain in the ass. To give my clients’ Zen Cart sites a boost in SEO and usability I have been moving their non-catalog information over to WordPress. I have been hosting WordPress in a sub folder of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘HTML’
WordPress Plugin – Sidebar Widget for Displaying Zen Cart Categories
By Levi Senft in WebgBeard Forces the Pirate Google to Walk the Plank
By Levi Senft in WebA while back I was reading an article on Arstechnica about The Pirate Google. The Pirate Google was created as a response to the verdict in the Pirate Bay Trial. The argument was that Google indexes torrents as does the pirate bay – why isn’t anyone prosecuting Google? The Pirate Google works by appending filetype:torrent to the end [...]
JavaScript For Testing Layouts
By Levi Senft in WebHere is a little script I wrote for testing layouts. It injects random lorem ipsum texts, lists and headings into a documents content area. To start using it include the script at the bottom of your HTML page and give your content container an the id stretchme. An absolutely positioned div with [...]
Tags: HTML, JavaScript
Stop Mobile Safari From Zooming
By Levi Senft in iPhoneA while back I used iPhoney to create an iPhone version of Humaniz Interactive’s website. I stripped out all the flash components and tried to optimize the graphics and text as best I could. Knowing that it may or may not work right on a real iPhone we didn’t release it. Right [...]
Tags: HTML, iPhone, Mobile Safari
Adding a Persistent Flash Element to an Ajax Application
By Levi Senft in WebTo illustrate adding statefulness to our application I’m going to add a flash music player to our application. Using web 1.0 techniques getting our player to remain static would require either a pop-up or some sort of frames setup. We’re going to add the player to the masthead of our page and let [...]
Ajax Anchor Component for Prototype
By Levi Senft in WebThe Ajax Anchor Component allows you to quickly create ajax applications with a minimal amount of code. When the component is initialized it looks for anchor elements with rel attributes starting with a hash. Like this:
Tags: AJAX, HTML, JavaScript, Prototype