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14 October 2008 1 Comment

CMS Made Simple WYSIWYG table outlines

CMS Made Simple is a great content management system.  It’s free, easy to get to grips with, quite powerful and the forums are fairly helpful when you need help.
There are obviously quirks with it (as there is with all off the shelf software) such as tables inserted within the WYSIWYG editor lacking any outlines, making [...]

12 September 2008 2 Comments

Page redirect with CMS Made Simple

If you’re scratching your head on how to get an HTTP redirect with CMS Made Simple, then save your scalp and scratch no longer!
All you need to do is create a User Defined Tag (UDT) within your CMS MS admin (Extensions > User Defined Tags), call the tag “redirect” and paste the following code:
if( isset( [...]

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.

20 June 2008 0 Comments

MySQL search and replace

It’s something that can have you pulling your hair out in frustration but the solution is so simple.
Finding (and replacing) text in your MySQL database tables has almost become a past time of mine recently, converting a foreign database into reading something a bit closer to the English language.
If you use a frontend to your [...]