Musings & Rants

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 [...]

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 [...]

I can’t really remember much of the month of May, well not in a work sense anyway. This is where freelancing really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.  Yes you’re your own boss and you can roll out of bed and be at your desk, but when you’re seriously ill you start to realise [...]

As a web developer, I never claim to be at the forefront of cutting edge website design but I know what I like and what (I think) works. When one of my projects needed some nifty automotive photography, I knew it had to be something a bit special. The first thing I did was head [...]