Archive | July, 2008

31 July 2008 1 Comment

Blogging due to peer pressure

Not me, I have no problems plucking thoughts and observations of my daily life out of my head and hammering the keys until words appear on the screen.  No, it’s my spikey-haired friend Matt (not to be confused with Mattysmash who I introduced at the start of the year) that I’ve bullied into opening a [...]

24 July 2008 2 Comments

How to get Cubecart 4 friendly URLs on a Windows server

Cubecart 4 includes the option to rewrite the standard URL structure into “search engine friendly” URLs.
This means that instead of a product in your shop having the pretty awful address of
http://www.domain.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=1
you can have it rewritten into something like
http://www.domain.co.uk/test-category/test-product2/prod_1.html
Much easier for humans I’m sure you’ll agree and hopefully search engines will love your keyword-packed URLs too.

6 July 2008 2 Comments

The week that was

The first week of July’s been a little hectic and has seen the launch of the new Remus UK website for performance exhausts, the purchase of a new car (dapper Focus Zetec in a grey colour – probably called Sunset Blue or something by Ford’s fartarse design department) and the discovery of a new (well [...]