There have been more than a few updates to Magento in the last 2 months or so, and unless you’ve just installed it or haven’t worked on it, an update is going to be a bit of an annoyance. You certainly don’t want to reinstall Magento and copy or, even worse, add all your products and skin changes all over again.

The best way by far to update Magento is to use the Magento Downloader facility. To do that, all you need is a paper, pencil, a die… no, wait. You need Magento installed and an Internet connection. An FTP client and/or a helpful Web Host will come in handy as well. Continue reading

For Web Developers, text editors are like football - you love your team even though in your heart of hearts you know they’re rubbish. So what happens when you are forced to pick a new team - how do you choose? This is my current predicament - when I’m developing at home I live on my Mac, but after failing to convince the guys here at NuBlue that Macs are superior, I need to find a text editor for Windows that does it for me.

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As a developer I always have in the back of my mind the importance of new technologies, and I am constantly thinking – “what should I learn next?” There is no doubt that web technologies move quickly - that’s a given - but after its initial release in 2004, why is PHP5 only just starting to take off? Well, ever since the release of our new PHP5 hosting platform I’ve been doing my research. Continue reading

Don’t get me wrong. It’s great that Microsoft are offering all Windows XP users the opportunity to automatically upgrade on February the 12th. It’s great that web developers all over the world can start to see more and more users in the IE camp visiting their sites with a browser that won’t mess them up quite as badly as before. It’s just that, well, the king (and here, think of Continue reading

Web standards is the new buzz word on the web. What are web standards? Web standards are basically the use of correct web coding standards as laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The web standards which are of most concern to modern business are XHTML and CSS . In the words of the W3C “The XHTML family is the next step in the evolution of the internet.” Continue reading

After reading Photoshopit’s excellent site seal tutorial, I decided to make one of my own with the addition of a mouse over effect for thatadded sheen!

To start with we need to create the website seal which we are going to apply our mouseover effect. Continue reading