Blog Category: ‘Web Programming’

  • Using Magento on XAMPP and MAMP for Mac OS X

    Monday, November 8th, 2010

    I was recently testing Magento Commerce on the Mac and went through an afternoon of headaches trying to get it to work on XAMPP. Problem: When using XAMPP on mac os x the following message appears: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please [...]

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  • Displaying your wordpress blog posts on another site

    Monday, November 8th, 2010

    Displaying your posts on an external site doesn’t have to involve time-sapping programming. All wordpress and indeed most blogging sites come with RSS feeds as standard. Why not use these to display a summary of your recent posts on other sites just like the one on Absolute Advantage homepage In fact, if you really want [...]

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  • jQuery Running Slow with Conflicting Scripts – A Solution

    Monday, November 8th, 2010

    In a recent website build I wanted to incorporate two different coda style slider and the jQuery tabs effect together. Although they worked, when running them together on the same page they ran sluggish and the effects rendered slowly. The chaps woking on jQuery have built a quick fix for this exact problem. The jQuery.noConflict(); [...]

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  • Our jQuery Love Child – Mint Innovation

    Monday, November 8th, 2010

    Our recent web design project called for something different. Something with a bit of pizazz and flare. Now convention would turn straight to flash for the visual effects but here at Absolute Advantage we try not to. With the seemingly endless array of visual effects, sites made entirely from Flash suffer from too many downsides. [...]

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  • Designing HTML for Email Campaigns – Tips and Tricks [Part 1]

    Monday, November 8th, 2010

    HTML email campaigns are here to stay. With recent announcements from Microsoft claiming that they are basing Outlook’s HTML content on a MS Word layout, the need design specifically for emails is more important than ever before. Too many people assume that designing HTML emails is just the same as designing a web page – [...]

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