Everyone talks about Search Engine Optimization to drive traffic to your site via search results. But have you thought of adding an in-site search feature to help people find what they need once they are on your site? If you have a website that contains over 20 pages and you don’t have in-site search yet, [...]
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In-site Search Options and Comparison (Part I)
Friday, June 27th, 2008(3rd-party) Cookie Issues With Frameset and IE6
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008I had an application that requires login and sessions. When the app was loaded to a frame on a website with a different domain name, I found that cookies could not be set in IE6.
The problem is that these cookies were 3rd party cookies, meaning that they were written with a domain name different [...]
Compose HTML emails in Gmail
Monday, June 16th, 2008When you compose a new email in Gmail, you have two options: plain text and rich text. But you can’t really write native HTML code there.
If you want to send out a HTML email, you can do as follows:
Build the html page in Dreamweaver, Frontpage or any of your favorite editor
Upload to a web server [...]
Add a New Field to Products in Joomla! VirtueMart
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Out of box, VirtueMart products have many “fields”, product name, sku, price, etc. If you need an additional field or two for your own business needs, you can do that by changing data model as well as some php code. It’s a bit of work … hope this post can help save you some time [...]
Get mosimage show up on Joomla Page
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008I was custom developing a new feature for a Joomla! site and encountered a problem. I had piggy-backed the new feature on Joomla! content so I don’t have to code all administration aspect from scratch. But the display page I was custom coding to fit my client’s need.
The problem I had was that {mosimage} was [...]
Flash Fade In and Fade Out Effect
Friday, May 23rd, 2008It pays for a programmer to learn some photoshop/flash skills … not only you will be more detail-oriented when coding the css layout (hence less chance to drive a designer crazy or be driven crazy by those anal designer comments), but also you can make some quick changes (like cropping off 2 pixels of extra [...]