Author Archives: Clive Sweeting

Quickly create colour themes for Products, Categories and CMS pages in Magento…

Posted on January 5, 2012

It doesn’t seem to matter whether we’re working as a freelance web developer for companies in Bath, Bristol, Wiltshire or Timbuktu, at some point they will give us a design that has colour variations across groups of pages. Some pages … Continue reading →

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Quickly find the id of all Magento categories..

Posted on December 25, 2011

When developing a Magento powered e-commerce, you will almost inevitably have to import product data from a spreadsheet provided by your customer. And you almost certainly will need to convert the text based Categories they’ve used in the spreadsheet into … Continue reading →

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Cheap replacement for a Mac Superdrive

Posted on October 14, 2011

If you find that your Mac’s Superdrive has stopped working, or you’ve replaced your internal Superdrive to fit a solid-state hard drive and need a cheap way to get a working CD and DVD reader or recorder, your options are … Continue reading →

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Cheap Dell P and U series monitors as good as Apple Cinema displays

Posted on September 3, 2011

Whilst I’d love to be able to afford one of Apple’s 27″ Cinema Displays, the truth is they’re hugely expensive in comparison to a 22, 23 or 24″ quality display from Dell or Samsung. About 6 months ago I bought … Continue reading →

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How can I buy Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac cheap?

Posted on August 27, 2011

One of the questions I get asked a lot is “what’s the cheapest way to get Microsoft Office for Mac?” Whether you’re a Windows Switcher, a student or home user, chances are that at some point you’ll have to work … Continue reading →

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Magento – only show categories containing products in main navigation

Posted on August 22, 2011

I was speaking to a client in Bristol who needed a freelance Magento developer to make some changes to their site. Top of the list was to modify the main navigation so that a category would only show if it … Continue reading →

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Wait before upgrading to Lion OS X 10.7!

Posted on June 22, 2011

I’ve just been speaking to a client in Marshfield who’s just bought a new iMac from the AppleStore in Bath. The sales person was enthusiastically telling them how they could get their free upgrade to Lion when it comes out … Continue reading →

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Ultra cheap refurbished Sandybridge MacBook Pro i7 2011

Posted on May 26, 2011

UPDATE: If you look on Amazon for Macbook Pros you can often find brand new ones for prices very close to what Apple are selling Refurbs at… Apple have just started to sell “Sandy Bridge” Refurbished MacBook Pros on the … Continue reading →

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Detecting screen orientation changes in iPhones and iPads

Posted on May 26, 2011

I’ve been working on a freelance web development job for a customer in Bath, and one of the requirements was for the site to be specifically tested on iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads. The site used a lot … Continue reading →

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Overloading functions in WordPress child themes

Posted on May 13, 2011

I was doing a quick freelance WordPress development job for a publishing company based in Cheltenham today, having to modify an existing theme to better fit their design goals. Because the theme was quite complex and included a large amount … Continue reading →

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