Opencart v1.4.0 has been released and is available to download here.

First off lets review the store front. This continues to improve and has definitely done so with this new release, it is probably now the prettiest cart out of the box! For those without the skills or time to change the template it offers a good look to simply start selling…it hardly needs any setting up…

Well Im sure Im not the only one but my listing has disappeared in Google Local Search results.

Ive got quite a few businesses listed but only one ever got displayed for some reason? The listing that appeared was for the key term “Web Design Perth” and my website www.webdesign-perth.co.uk was the one displayed (although I have two others business websites listed which dont appear?) before I added this…

Once you start messing about with Wordpress and looking to expand it to fit your websites requirements you will undoubtably want to use different headers, sidebars, footers and even comment templates.

Its actually really easy to do in Wordpress and because you will be utilising files that should already exist in your template, it doesnt take long at all.

I guess most people will want to change the sidebar…

I realise this is a very simple thing to achieve in Wordpress and has probably been written about a thousand times, however I thought about what a great tool it is in Wordpress’s arsenal and surprisingly not used on too many sites Ive seen.

Aside from being able to use page templates to create different page designs they are very useful when using Wordpress plugins such as NextGen Gallery…

Opencart is an open source shopping cart written in PHP that is rapidly growing in popularity. This is in part down to its creator Daniel Kerr’s hard work in building Opencart from the ground up using a logical MVC framework.

MVC explained:

Model: The database layer. All calls to the database are done here, referenced from the controller.
View: Template display for front and backend. This is…

Implementing a Google Custom Search into your Wordpress theme is actually pretty easy but requires a little bit of theme jiggery pokery!

OK so first things first:

Create a page called ’search’ or ’search results’ in the admin section of your Wordpress site. Take a note of the page id, this can normally be found if you hover the mouse pointer over the ‘View Page’ link or go to…

Just a little web design hint for your enjoyment.

If you have forms on your website you know how annoying it is that IE renders password boxes smaller than normal text boxes. Well there is a quick and easy CSS fix:

input{

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

font-size:12px;

}

Obviously you can change the family and size to suit your site.