Running an eCommerce website comes with its toll of responsibilities. One of the most important ones is website security.
Not taking all the necessary steps to keep your eCommerce website as secure as possible can have very serious consequences on your business.
As a general rule, there are 3 main elements to eCommerce website security. You should make sure you’re on top of them: (more…)
Magento 1.4 comes built in with a wysiwyg editor that is there to make it easy for less savvy users to edit rich content on their store’s home page, content pages, product descriptions etc without HTML knowledge.
There is also an option to hide the editor in case you want to use external code and paste it there or if you want to edit the HTML directly.
If you know HTML, you’ll probably want to use your favorite editor and only paste the code in the admin when you’re done (with the editor hidden). The problem is that the editor gets very buggy if you do that and then try to make a small edit directly in the admin – or even if you load the edit page in the admin and save again! That’s because the editor is not hidden by default and when loaded it adds <p> tags everywhere and removes empty divs. Depending on the code you have this will either destroy your content’s formatting on the front-end or make it disappear altogether.
Keep reading for a simple way to solve this annoying issue with the Magento editor! (more…)
We recently posted solutions to the most common problems people are having with Magento 1.4 (whether you are upgrading your Magento installation or starting with a fresh Magento 1.4 installation).
Another very common problem is when JavaScript files aren’t referenced properly – which creates a bunch of errors and functionality problems. (more…)
Debugging is a normal part of web design and development. What’s unclear about that? Web developers don’t “create bugs”, or “make mistakes”. It’s just the way it goes. I’ll explain more about that below but for now consider this simple analogy:
When you write a book or a paper – you don’t expect the publisher to publish your first submission, do you? Your copy will go through series of edits, corrections, error fixing, rephrasing, rearranging, proof reading, etc… Often this phase can take longer than the time it originally took you to write the paper or book itself! That’s the way it goes. (more…)