CMS Made Simple WYSIWYG table outlines

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in web, work | 1 Comment »

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 ...

Page redirect with CMS Made Simple

Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in web, work | 2 Comments »

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 ...

How to get Cubecart 4 friendly URLs on a Windows server

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in web, work | 2 Comments »

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 ...

MySQL search and replace

Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in web, work | No Comments »

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 ...