Speed up OSCommerce and Zencart
posted on Wednesday 15th April, 2009 by Bluebit Web Design, Southampton, Neil
If you're finding that your oscommerce based shop is extremely slow, try turning on the mysql cacheing to speed up regularly running queries.
You can also change the products table storage type to "innoDB" which can make a significant difference to the speed.
As always, please ensure that you make adequate backups of your data BEFORE applying any of the fixes mentioned above.
If you need any help with any of this just drop us a line and we'll be glad to help.
posted on Tuesday 31st March, 2009 by Bluebit Web Design, Southampton, Neil
Ok so whilst building mailGuu I came across a problem that baffled me for a while; how do I create a 3 bucket layout and make the entire bucket and all its content a clickable link? Well the answer was relatively simple as most of them are.
Read on and follow the screencast for an indepth tutorial on how to achiebe this cross browser, valid technique.
mailGuu launched
posted on Tuesday 31st March, 2009 by Bluebit Web Design, Southampton, Neil
Our new mailing campaign engine mailGuu has been launched and gives our users the power to send email to their subscribers in a controlled and completely automated way. No more need for large BCC lists in Outlook. Get perfectly formatted, validated and spam checked emails. We even take care of the subscriptions and unsubscriptions through an automated technique.
Best of all its free to try so head over there now and get yourself a free account.
For more information visit http://www.mailguu.com.
posted on Monday 9th March, 2009 by Bluebit Web Design, Southampton, Mark Jones
Following on from my post about jQuery expandable navigation using nested UL's, today I am going to explain how to implement this method into a Zen Cart installation.
posted on Wednesday 4th March, 2009 by Bluebit Web Design, Southampton, Neil
Our new mail email engine is almost ready for launch. We've got a few tweaks to make and we'll be letting it loose for the general public.