http://amcho.co.uk/blog amcho blog Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:44:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are running a one day Build Your Own E-commerce Website Workshop as a fund raiser for Calstock Development Trust at the Oasis Centre in Gunnislake At the end of the one day workshop each attendee will have built their own web shop and be ready to take orders online. The workshop is aimed at ... http://amcho.co.uk/blog/32/build-your-own-e-commerce-website/ On one of my websites I use a feed that has a limited bandwith quota, normally the quota limit is not a problem, but occasionally the website gets hammered by various intenet spiders, bots, and screen scrapers, so whenever I get near to the quota I implement a simple throttle ... http://amcho.co.uk/blog/31/number-1-on-google-dead-easy/ Have been playing about with gallery and drupal this last month as my daughter is about to graduate and join the real world and wanted a gallery website to display her ceramic art, so please have a look at her Ceramic Art Gallery Website. I also found a great bit of ... http://amcho.co.uk/blog/29/new-website-goes-live/ Just did some cross browser testing - all works OK in firefox and safari and seamonkey and google chrome, but internet explorer croaks. The customer (not totally unreasonably) objected to dates being displayed as YYYY-MM-DD and wanted them displayed in the UK format of dd/month/yy. Unfortunately somewhere in ... http://amcho.co.uk/blog/28/more-dates-madness/ Just been working on a booking system for holiday lets and stumbled on the next millennium time bomb - I was using php mktime to add days to a date and discovered that if you add 1 day to Jan 1st 2037 the result is correct, but if you add ... http://amcho.co.uk/blog/27/the-next-millennium-time-bomb/ I like the idea! Similar in someways to the concept of sending the next tax demand back with a note along the lines of 'Thank you for your offer but just at the moment , due to other financial commitments, we regret that we must decline your request". I was clearing out ... http://amcho.co.uk/blog/25/boycott-the-depression/ When doing documentation it is easy to do a screen shot: Just open a window with the page you want to take a screenstot of and click PrintScrn, this will automatically copy your whole screen into the clipboard, You can then paste your screenshot as an image into any other ... http://amcho.co.uk/blog/23/screenshots-how-to-do-a-screenshot-and-a-warning/ We created the Tamar Embroideries Website to sell custom embroidered gift items online back in September last year. On Monday Tamar Embroideries had the bright idea to expand into the custom workwear market, and so we built a brand new website based on the well knows oscommerce shopping ... http://amcho.co.uk/blog/21/from-concept-to-online-business-in-a-week/ We are going to be switched over to digital later this year. I am quite happy with the four standard channels, but for the sake of domestic harmony I needed to sort out something before the switchover or our resident teenager has threatened to leave home. Given the choice of no TV ... http://amcho.co.uk/blog/19/digital-tv-services-for-after-the-switchover/ Happy New Year to all our readers (hello Mum!) and looking forward to the UPTURN..... http://amcho.co.uk/blog/18/happy-new-year/