As part of a piece I’m writing for MacUser magazine I’m trying to explain how to easily add jQuery and an associated custom script to a Child Theme in WordPress (v3 onwards). If you’re a designer primarily, the following code snippet may well help you. It assumes you have already made a child theme. With [...]
Archive for the ‘Tech-tip’ Category
August 9, 2011
How to easily add jQuery scripts to a WordPress Child Theme
By benfrain in Tech-tip, Website DesignJuly 25, 2011
Mail not opening after Lion install? Here’s the solution
By benfrain in Tech-tipSo you have installed Lion and imported your mail back from a TimeMachine backup you did in Snow Leopard. You click Mail and it updates/imports the messages and then… nothing. I got the menu bar at the top of the screen but no actual application window. Bum.
June 9, 2011
OS X Subversion setup quick start (for use with Coda etc)
By benfrain in Tech-tip, Website DesignThe piece on Version Control I wrote recently for MacUser magazine covered the basics of version control with GUI based programs. But what if your code editor doesn’t give you the ability to create repositories? In this case it’s easy to do the basic repository setup with Terminal and then use your code editor (e.g. [...]
April 27, 2011
Magento – how to add a cart summary to the header using local.xml
By benfrain in Tech-tip, Website DesignThis post will demonstrate how to add a shopping cart summary to the header of your Magento store using the local.xml file
February 15, 2011
2011 MacBook Pro update. Apple – please ditch the optical drive!
By benfrain in Rant, Tech-tipI’ve owned (and sold) just about every computer Apple has made since 2000. My current weapon of choice is the MacBook Pro. It’s the only solution when you need a bit of oomph but you also need to take it with you (I’ve tried but a Mac Pro won’t fit in my rucksack no matter [...]
November 12, 2010
Migrate IMAP mail accounts and messages from one server to another
By benfrain in Tech-tipI recently switched the hosting of a customer from one server to another. I always set customer’s email up as IMAP so the mail is stored and can be accessed and synchronised on multiple devices. This ‘How to’ is based on you having a similar setup. There are tools out there that perform this task [...]
September 9, 2010
Cubecart: How to show sub-categories in the sidebar
By benfrain in Tech-tip, Website DesignBy default, Cubecart v4 shows only the ‘top-level’ product categories in the sidebar. If you’ve added additional sub-categories, you can enable the DHTML menu in Admin which gives drop down style ‘fly-out’ menus. However, what if you want to show your sub-categories all the time? The DHTML menu option in Admin makes Cubecart creates nested [...]
September 8, 2010
iTunes 10 doesn’t work on NAS drives, how to downgrade to iTunes 9.2
By benfrain in Tech-tipYou may not like the new icon, but iTunes 10 has additional woes in store for NAS drive owners. In a staggering act of absent-mindedness, Apple has managed to break support for NAS drives in iTunes 10. When you try and access your NAS stored library you’ll get problems with it not opening, unable to [...]
July 13, 2010
Beginners guide to HTML5, what you need to know and how to use it.
By benfrain in Tech-tip, Website Design, WritingHTML5 is the successor to HTML 4.01, the language most web pages on the Internet are written in. HTML5 offers new semantic elements, direct support for video and audio, built-in form validation and a smart new canvas feature. In this article I’ll attempt to explain what’s important about HTML5 and what you need to know [...]
