Archive for February, 2008

15
Feb

Magento Installation Guide for Dreamhost

I’ve been watching the Magento e-commerce project for about the last month and a half - since Ben sent me a link to it. It’s an open-source e-commerce package, that primarily aims to pickup and improve where OSCommerce, Joomla + VirtueMart, and ZenCart have left off - streamlining a CMS (Content Management Sytem) and E-commerce shopping cart. This also means built-in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Google Checkout integration, varied customer groups, and much more…. straight out of the box. The problem appears to be that there are a lot of people on the Magento forums who are running into problems, and don’t have a clue on how to get it running under their Dreamhost hosting account. Unfortunately it also looks like the previous article(s) for Magento+Dreamhost installs have disappeared, or are outdated. And that’s where this article comes in… Continue reading ‘Magento Installation Guide for Dreamhost’

09
Feb

Floats, CSS, Divs, the Refresh Button, Firefox, and Frustration

Wordpress is a funny beast, really it is.  Usually, building a Wordpress site involves something like digging through a hundred pages of templates until you find one that’s merely passable.  Once you do, you grab it and start hacking away at everything to make it your own - CSS, HTML, everything.  And it’s fine.  Really, it is - the internet’s built on sharing ideas.  The problem appears once you start inheriting other people’s problems.  In this case, I had to hit the refresh key just to get my divs to float correctly.

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