Book Review – Magento Beginners Guide
First impressions
Upon receiving my copy of the Magento Beginners Guide I took a moment after dinner whilst my girlfriend watched some ‘Celebrity Increase My Profile’ program to absorb the first chapter. I was presented with a nice introduction explaining the scope of the book and the conventions that are used throughout. A nice and easy ‘in’ perfectly suited to reading on the couch. … more
Problems accessing admin after upgrading to Magento 1.3.0
Having received an email from the Magento Team the other week bigging-up the latest release of Magento and encouraging me to upgrade as soon as I could, I dutifully upgraded the Mage_Core_Modules to 1.3.0. This appeared to go without a hitch and after I made a couple of adjustments in the admin and tested … more
Lots and lots of photos
Photography is something that fascinates me and intrigues me. So when I decided to organise the product photography for Bytemart Limited I had not really grasped the concept of how much effort it was going to take.
First of all I put together a ‘lightbox’ to use as the environment to take the photos, this required some mounting board and a roll of white paper and … more
Setup local installation of Magento 1.0.19870 WampServer
Prerequisites:-
WampServer2 installation http://andij.com/blog/2008/05/15/installing-and-configuring-wampserver2/
Now to install Magento http://www.magentocommerce.com/ Including the Sample Data pack.
Note: Ensure to install the Sample Data pack before performing the installation of Magento itself.
Download both the ‘Sample Data’ pack and ‘Magento’, save these somewhere, decide … more
Installing and Configuring WampServer2
Step One
The Installation process of WampServer2 was painless. http://www.wampserver.com/en/
The harder part was getting it configured the way I wanted to use it. Now I’ve sussed it, it’s a beauty. … more
