Articles for May, 2010
Opera Mobile 10 quirk for pre tag
It’s the third week we are dealing with Opera Mobile 10, we found this mobile browser to be difficult and glitches kept popping up. Here is another issue we ran into with pre tag that resulting horizontal scrolling in the 320px portrait vertical view in iPhone/iPod. In our Week 4 assignment for Mobile Web Best [...]
Do not use the same name for Website Name and Store Name
A customer who bought our New Green theme wanted us to help find out why the topLinks menus are not showing up in his site. Over two years selling premium Magento themes, we have received many types of support request that the issues were not related to our themes but due to incorrect setting in [...]
Change grid view column for Product Listing
In v1.4 Magento, changing columns in Grid View for product listing page has become easy, however there is still confusion and it does not seemed to be working right out-of-the-box. First let’s see what we have in Default theme. In catalog.xml, around line #97 and line #138 both in “Category default layout” and “Category layered [...]
So you think your site is mobile web ready?
So you think the website you built for your important client or your site is mobile web ready because it looks good in your iPhone or iPod? Don’t be delusional like we did. Testing our first Mobile Web Best Practices’ assignment we discovered Opera Mini on iPhone/iPod. Despite a number of rendering issues related to [...]
Template Path Hints
Magento has a thoughtful feature that can help developers to quickly locate a xml file, a phtml template file, this feature is extremely useful especially for developers who are new to Magento development, as well as Magento store owner who purchased a commercial Magento theme, setup the Magento site by him/herself. To switch on template [...]
Magento Feature: Merge JavaScript Files
In the previous versions of Magneto, all the Javascript files came with Magento and are placed in “page.xml”, were merged in one link automatically and it was only capable of merging up to 10 JS files. Since version 1.4, a new feature, “Merge JavaScript Files” has added and is not set to Yes by default. [...]
An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices
The Online Course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices kicked off today and we are one of the participants – you just can’t learn the best practices of mobile web development anywhere else than from W3C! We anticipate it’s going to be a very busy 8 weeks starts from today as we will [...]
Creative use of Static Block
The power of Static Block and how to use it for your Magento design Of all Magento features, what we like most is the static block, we guess the reason is because we are Magento theme developer therefor we spend a great deal of time contemplating design and layout, and we think hard to always [...]
New design: Temple Gate
Temple Gate is the name for this new design. We wanted a very clean and simple layout for our blog that is easy for the eyes and that it gives a sense of tranquility; the design is inspired by Japanese temple gate, the support of CSS3 border radius in Opera 10.53 and IE 9 has [...]
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