Today I stumbled upon the v2 of Google Web Fonts

WOW, Blown away. Typekit had better watch their toes with this beast!

http://www.google.com/webfonts/v2

Try it now! It’s everything and more! Still “only” 180 fonts but that seems to be growing insanely quick!

Custom Category Templates and Custom Category CSS for OpenCart relates to the following tested versions:

OpenCart version(s):  1.5.0, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3, 1.5.0.4, 1.5.0.5

> Newly tested on OpenCart 1.5.1.1 and works

This was tested today on OpenCart v 1.5.0.5 today and was working flawlessly.

Ever wanted to have a custom category template (hard coded elements) On certain categories – or to totally change the layout completely?  Or maybe you’d just like different CSS?

These instructions relate to the default theme of OpenCart but should work for any theme provided you change the default bit with the themes name!

Open: catalog/controller/product/category.php

Find (Line 329):

if (file_exists(DIR_TEMPLATE . $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category.tpl')) {
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category.tpl';
} else {
$this->template = 'default/template/product/category.tpl';
}

Replace With:

//start custom category design by ItsAdam.co.uk
if (file_exists(DIR_TEMPLATE . $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category.tpl')) {
if ($category_id == 1) { //Category 1
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category1.tpl';
} elseif ($category_id == 2) { //Category 2
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category2.tpl';
} elseif ($category_id == 3) { //Category 3
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category3.tpl';
} elseif ($category_id == 4) { //Category 4
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category4.tpl';
} else { //default
$this->template = $this->config->get('config_template') . '/template/product/category.tpl';
}
} else {
$this->template = 'default/template/product/category.tpl';
}
//end custom category design

For our new custom categories we will need to create the templates so that they’re viewable and custom.

Find: catalog/view/theme/product/category.tpl

And duplicate it and name it inline with the naming in the above code, ie category1.tpl etc etc

This OpenCart Mod is published for free to the Community, if you require more extensive modifications or OpenCart Themes, contact by email:

opencart at itsadam.co.uk

Sorry for the anti-spam measure, I get lots of traffic and even more spam

New! Download these instructions in plain text format (handy if you copy and paste and it’s not working or wordpress ignores the code tag).

Download the Instructions in Plain Text Format

Today I came across a Second Hand Catering Equipment Website called First Call Catering.  They allow  people to sell your used catering equipment with eBay style adverts and currently have a “free to list” special offer.

I highly recommend checking it out, I sold an item via there for my uncle, it was free, quick and easy, and the advert was on the front page of google moments after posting it, absolutely brilliant!

Had a few people ask about this free relentless book / mag that I had a while back… here’s a few photos.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=320" />

<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0" />

<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=false" />

<meta name="viewport" content="width=480, initial-scale=1.0" />

viewport is a formatting model for media in the css2.1 spec, where it’s a window or other form of viewing area on screen, through users view a document or website.

The iPhone’s resolution is 320x480px or 480x320px in landscape (which is how most people browse really).

This can be very handy for reading terms and conditions and so on.

Craig Hockenberry has figured out the “perfect” viewport and is avaliable here: http://furbo.org/2007/07/24/one-line-of-code/

Thought this would help anyone designing a website for purely mobile purposes.

Don’t forget that the iPad and iPod will pick up on this, aswell as Blackberry’s etc

Ok so we’ve Tweeted the Idea of a faviboob – It’s Basically a Favicon that’s a boob – Olly sort of got abit excited about a Russian SEO Site that had a FaviBoob !

So, we googled it to see if it was a phrase well known, unfortuantly 0 results found for FaviBoob!

Now its time to test the Twitter vs Blogging power when it comes to getting your new word out there!

Shortly before writing this article both me and olly had tweeted with faviboob in it, we didnt hastag it but still, no results on google yet.

Let’s see how long it takes now with a blog post!

You heard it first here folks, FaviBoob! We should use it for breast cancer aweness or something? Who’s with me?

We’re getting close to launching our WordPress Web Design Website.  It’ll be featuring exciting new WordPress Themes built solely around being SearchEngine Friendly.

These wordpress themes will mainly be built as a Framework to allow other designers and developers the ability to creative nice, affordable websites for clients with a large amount of customisation via the Theme Options page, and of course all themes are HTML and CSS 2/3 Valid!

Stay Tuned for the Lauch of the WordPress Web Design Site, I’ll be giving away discount codes!

District 9 Soundboard

FookinPrawns.net is up and down like a yoyo so we’ve ninja’d their D9 Soundboard for our own entertainment and to ensure it stays alive forever!

District 9 is such an awesome movie, and even though this soundboard is missing alot, it’s still fan-fookin’-prawn-tastic!

Of course a thank’s to FookinPrawns.net for making this District 9 Soundboard.

Are you getting this wordpress error whilst trying to automatically update wordpress or a plugin?

Incompatible archive: PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature

The cure to this problem is simple, you’re webspace is full.

Simply add more space to your account or upgrade your hosting account or delete unused crap via FTP and bob’s your uncle you will be able to update WordPress or install those new plugins with ease!

We all know how totally awesome 123-Reg are, they provide an endless stream of funny content, usually in the form of products and services.

The one main reoccuring delight is their crude ecommerce “package”.

I tweeted late last year at the pure delight borderline copyright infringement on their ecommerce video, to be honest it took me until the second viewing to notice.

The latest and greatest appears to be the the “NEW AND IMPROVED” version of their ecommerce **** storm.

So let’s just go through a few things from this Video, which is meant to “Promote” this “Amazing” “Product”.

Infact, theres nothing else I need to say really, the awesome templates that they supply as standard are just breath taking, I’m not going to quit my job as a web designer and practise saying “Would you like fries with that Sir”, the ecommerce crisis has been solved!

To get this awesome ecommerce platform please make haste to:

http://www.123-reg.co.uk/ecommerce/

Unfortuantly there seems to be alot of dead links to their “Theme” “Design” gallery, so you’ll have to watch that awesome video explaining why you no longer need web designers or hosting.