I was moving a Joomla! 1.5 site to a new hosting server. The site had been running on PHP 5.2 on the prevoius server but on the new host only PHP 5.6 or later was available. Joomla! was version 1.5.14. After installing the site on the new server, no menu items were visible, not in […]
In the PrestaShop backoffice (admin), go to Catalog -> Products Above the product list, tick the “Filter by category” Select the “Home” category in the category list that drops down under the “Filter by category” Now far to the right you will find a “Position” column where you can use the arrows to move the […]
A very common design model for websites in fluid/reponsive design is to make a centered container taking up for example 80% of the screen width. It is not very unusual that the designer then wants the background on a header, footer, horizontal menu or any other similar object to have it’s background extended to the […]
Horizontal bullet lists are often used to create a horizontal menu. This is how to make the horizontal bullet list centered. Create a <div> container and set the text-align: center style on it. Create a <ul> <li> inside the div and set display: inline-block style on it. This is an example of how it is […]
After a reboot the web interface on a QNAP TS-420 NAS was not accessible over SSL. A nmap showed the NAS was not listening on the SSL port and it was configured to force SSL connections over the standard 443 SSL-port. So trying to access it over the non-SSL port just directed me to https://<ip-address […]
When you share a video on Youtube you can select to start the shared video at a certain point of time in the video. Like this (selected to start at 0:40). This option however is not availible when embedding a video. It can be solved manually though. The embed code from Youtube looks something like […]
When protecting the administrator folder in Joomla using Apache htaccess to increase the security of the website (which by the way is a good thing to do to prevent too interested individuals to peek where they shouldn’t), you might get an error 404 message when trying to access administrator and the expected password prompt never […]
A server I am maintaining stopped during boot on the "Stopping userspace bootsplash" or "Configuring network interfaces". If Ctrl-Alt-Del was pressed the machine rebooted so it was not completely stuck. I tried booting in rescue mode and checked the /etc/network/interfaces syntax but no problem visible there. The solution was quite simple. Boot in rescue mode […]
I made a customized theme by copying the PrestaShop default-bootstrap theme in version 1.6.0.6. After an upgrade to 1.6.0.9 the theme will no longer show the dropdown submenus. The reason is that after the upgrade, the default-bootstrap has been updated but my customized copy hasn’t causing some needed JS files not being loaded. The quickest […]
Here is the documentation on how to add attributes / combinations to a product in PrestaShop -> http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS16/Managing+Product+Attributes If you plan on using multiple attributes for a product, like size and colour, do use the combinations generator and select both the possible sizes and colours at the same time. If you add them by hand one […]