To migrate an osCommerce webshop to PrestaShop 1.5 I used the migration module from Presto Changeo. It worked just as specified, importing categories, products and customers from a running osCommerce webshop. One important thing before you start is that the module will empty all your existing customers, categories and products in your PrestaShop so make […]
This example shows how an image (img) can be vertically and horizontally centered inside a div. At the same time it illustrates how to resize the image to fit inside the div. A live view of this code can be seen here. <html> <head> <title>Vertically aligned img in div</title> <style […]
If you need to customize the blog category layout in Joomla 1.5 you do like this: Create the following subfolders to your template directory: mkdir -p templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/category Copy blog.php and blog_item.php from Joomla core: cp -p components/com_content/view/category/tmpl/blog.php templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/category cp -p components/com_content/view/category/tmpl/blog.php templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/category Customize blog.php and blog_item.php in the components/com_content/view/category/tmpl/blog.php templates/yourtemplate/html/com_content/category folder to your needs. These modified files will […]
If a div is set to width (or height) 100% and margins or padding are added, it will be wider than 100% causing the scrollbars to appear in the browser. For example like this (click here to view live sample): <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> body, html { width: 100%; […]
After upgrading to PrestaShop 1.5.3 (and 1.5.4) the subcategories where not showing up anymore in the categories block. The solution was quite simple: Just deinstall the categories block in the modules section and then install it again. After reinstalling, it will probably be necessary to adjust the block position.
When using list items in HTML to create a horizontal list (for example in a horizontal menu) you need to display the list items not vertically which is standard, but horizontally. You will probably also want to remove the bullet. This is how you do it. To display the list horizontally, use CSS display: inline […]
Sometimes you have a need to prohibit a visitor from clicking on a link on your site. For example if you are including content from another soruce via Atom or RSS and they contain links. The best way is of course to remove the link tag (<a href="" >) from the content. But if this […]
In a Joomla 2.5 installation, SEF URLs enabled and URL rewrite using .htaccess enabled I suddenly got internal menu links with URL:s containing Smart%20Search, like: http://www.example.com/some-menu-item/Smart%20Search/some-article The link itself does not work, ending up on an error page. I have no explanation why this occurs. The solution is to go to Menu -> Menus, then […]