conGuu CMS upgraded to 1.6.0
We’ve recently upgraded conGuu CMS to V1.6.0. This delivers some bug fixes and some nice additional features that make using the CMS much easier.
Tooltips on forms using jQuery
Just recently someone posed the question to me, “How would I use a span as a Tooltip when someone hovers an input?” I was feeling particularly helpful so I decided to take a few minutes to come up with a solution. Whilst its a simple bit of script, as any developer knows, its sometimes the…
DetailsBluebit Go Limited
On July 1st 2009 Bluebit Web Design became a Limited company, thanks to our clients and staff and their continued support. We’ve grown over the past few months and now have 4 members of staff in the Bluebit offices and it really is a busy place. We’d love to see you so if your ever…
DetailsSpeed up OSCommerce and Zencart
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…
DetailsmailGuu launched
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…
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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. The main problem is with IE6 and IE7…
DetailsmailGuu
Our latest 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. MailGuu enables you to manage a full email marketing campaign completely from your browser. Packed full of clever features such as a comprehensive analytics package and reporting functions,…
DetailsjQuery expandable navigation for Zen Cart
Edited on the 25th March 2009 due to errors in the post and amendments to the code, apologies to anyone who has run into any problems, it should all go smoothly now. Introduction During the development of this tutorial, I discovered that my previous post on jQuery Expandable Navigation actually described a method to allow…
DetailsjQuery expandable navigation using nested UL’s
Before I begin, I am not claiming this to be a definitive technique, in fact as a relative new comer to jQuery it can no doubt be vastly improved, however I thought I would share my technique and invite people to tear it apart if they so wish! My aim Create a navigation menu using…
DetailsDifferent coloured bullet points in a CSS list
Whilst browsing round the interweb I realised that there are no really clean ways of delivering different coloured bullets to the text unless you want to use SPANs or create your own bullet images in JPG, GIF or PNG. Lets take a look at both these methods: wrap your LI text in a SPAN A…
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