Zen Cart / osCommerce Archive from June 2006 - January 2006
George Soros Back in the News
(06/2006)
George Soros is once again back in the news, writing that the chief threat to the world is not North Korea,
Islamic extremism or Chinese militarism,
it's the USA.
Google Trends even shows a slight uptick in
news volume
about the zany Hungarian.
My interest in all of this is pecuniary, of course. I just happen to own
soroswatch.com and
georgesoroswatch.com,
as well as a number of other
fine domain names.
Graphics on a Higher Plane!
(03/2006)
A former colleague of mine opened an aviation decal business called
Higher Graphics,
and I set up his shopping cart using
Zen Cart.
Zen Cart is a fantastic open source product with an extremely active
user (and contributor) base that I highly recommend to anyone
who wants to open an online store.
Some of the additions that I made to Zen Cart for Higher Graphics were:
- Dynamic price calculation based on attributes
- Linking attributes for validation purposes (dependent attributes)
- Extra image display
I have put together
my own Zen Cart page to show some of
the modifications I have made that others might find useful.
No More Spacer Gifs!
(01/2006)
You don't have to be an
HTML Extremist
to realize that
using transparent GIF images within tables to achieve placement
is a less than ideal solution. Winding up with
nested tables within nested tables within nested tables can make
your html code clunky, difficult to modify and almost impossible to
validate. And fortunately, there's a better solution: CSS.
Don't worry - it's much
easier to use than you think. Take a look at
how things used to be done,
and compare it with two better ways: one for a
single page, and
another for a
site with many pages.
