June 27th, 2008 at 10:59pm by Lin
This is a continuation of In-site Search Options and Comparison (Part I)
Option C: Build Your Own Custom Search Solution
You can write code to index all content to your database and build your own search feature.
Pros: You have complete control of not only the look and feel of the search results page, but also how […]
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June 27th, 2008 at 10:56pm by Lin
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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June 20th, 2008 at 10:10pm by admin
Last time checked on the Google Web Analytics report for a domain name, saw a number of pages that didn’t belong to the site:
/hacks/deliciouspoetry_web_biennial.php
Consulted help from Google Groups … this is because someone has copied the Google Analytics code (javascript code) onto their site. Why? Don’t know. Have not thought of any good reasons for […]
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June 18th, 2008 at 6:00pm by Lin
I 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 […]
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June 16th, 2008 at 9:06am by Lin
When 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 […]
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June 10th, 2008 at 10:24pm by Lin
Out 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 […]
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June 4th, 2008 at 2:15pm by Lin
I 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 […]
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