Graphic design print ad – Instant Motivator, Psychology Today Magazine, Nov 2009

Graphic design print ad - Instant Motivator, Psychology Today Magazine, Nov 2009
Software: Adobe Illustrator, CMYK color

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Upgraded to WordPress MU 2.8.5.1 & BuddyPress 1.1.2

Just upgraded to:

  • WordPress MU to 2.8.5.1
  • BuddyPress 1.1.2

Let the testing begin!

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Manual Credit Card Processing Shopping Carts

Website client has a need for manually processing credit card orders because he already has a credit card terminal in his office and doesn’t want to incur any extra gateway processing fees.

Magento and Zen Cart have successfully passed the “manual credit card processing” test.

  • Magento keeps the full 16-digit credit card number in the admin back-end
  • Zen Cart keeps half of the 16-digit credit card number in the admin back-end and emails you the other half
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Magento Ecommerce – v1.3.2.4 Install Tips on 1and1 Hosting

Brief, non-detailed, overview of installing Magento Ecommerce Shopping Cart v1.3.2.4 on 1and1 Hosting

  1. Download Magento 1.3.2.4 and Sample Data 1.2.0 from http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/noregister
  2. Import Sample Data SQL files into database
  3. Copy Magento Sample Data’s media/catalog folder to Magento/media folder
  4. Follow Magento Installation Guide (http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide#installation1)
  5. Create a cgi-bin folder in Magento root and add the php5-cgi file from http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide#step_1upload_the_php5_cgi_binary
  6. FTP everything to the server
  7. Make a bunch of permission changes in a couple different places. See http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide
  8. Run install
  9. Ran across 2 errors during installation and searched/found/was successful via Google searches (can’t remember what the errors were)
    • One of the changes involved removing all of the countries except “English (United States)” and all of the currencies except “US Dollar” in the magento > app > etc > config.xml file
  10. Front-end 500 Server Error messages when trying to click on page links:
    • Tweaked the .htaccess file
    • Also made change in Magento Admin, under System > Configuration > Web > SEO > NO
  11. That may not be everything I did, but that’s most of it
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Business card designs

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Logo designs

Custom logo designs for Web and high resolution print materials

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WordPress Tutorial – WP e-Commerce 3.7.5 RC3: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for Shipping & Handling

WP e-Commerce shopping cart (v 3.7.5 RC3) for WordPress: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for shipping & handling on product page.

- For WP e-Commerce shopping cart, version 3.7.5 RC3 (released Oct 20, 2009)
- File located at: wp-e-commerce/languages/EN_en.php
- Line 757:
Change: define(’TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘P&P’);
To: define(’TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘S&H’);

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WordPress Tutorial – WP e-Commerce 3.7.4: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for Shipping & Handling

WP e-Commerce shopping cart (v3.7.4) for WordPress: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for shipping & handling on product page.

- For WP e-Commerce shopping cart, version 3.7.4
- File located at: wp-e-commerce/languages/EN_en.php
- Line 749:
Change: define(‘TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘P&P’);
To: define(‘TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘S&H’);

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Technology: Augmented Reality & Google Wave

Diggin’ Jason Kolb’s blog. http://bit.ly/tnmcD is about “Augmented Reality” (overlaying digital displays on the real world, typically using a mobile device as the viewport). I learned about Jason from my brother, Lance, who mentioned another one of Jason’s posts, “Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this” – http://bit.ly/M93E5

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Technology: The Real Meaning Of Google Wave

Tom Mornini from Engine Yard (he and my brother, Lance, are co-founders) explains the real meaning of Google Wave in this interview with Forbes.com: http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/08/google-wave-internet-technology-cio-network-google.html

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