Changing the Magento 1.6 Startup Page in Admin Updated on July 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha When you log into the Magento 1.6 admin panel, you will see the Magento Dashboard. While the dashboard may contain valuable information, it may not be the information you want to see when you first log into the backend. You can change the Admin Startup Page in the Magento 1.6 Admin Backend relatively easy. Please Read More >
Changing the Magento 1.6 Login to Case Sensitive Updated on October 30, 2023 by Carrie Smaha When you log into the Magento 1.6 admin panel, by default it is not case sensitive. Forcing the login to be case sensitive will improve the security of your Magento shopping cart and backend. It becomes increasingly harder to hack passwords if they are case sensitive. Changing the default setting to force logins to be Read More >
Disable the Admin Dashboard Charts in Magento 1.6 Updated on September 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha In your hosted Magento 1.6 Admin Panel the main screen when you log in is referred to as your Dashboard. The Dashboard contains statistics about your Magento Shopping cart. The dashboard in Magento by default displays charts with your cart sales statistics. You can turn these charts off. Disabling the charts in Magento 1.6 can Read More >
How to Add the Store Information to Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha Magento 1.6 allows you to enter contact information so your website visitors can contact you. This information will be displayed on the website for your webstore’s visitors to see. You can add the “Store Name”, “Store Contact Telephone”, and “Store Contact Address” in the Magento 1.6 Admin Panel. Please feel free to visit our other Read More >
How to Clear the Cache in Magento Updated on September 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Magento by default includes a caching system to help improve the performance. When you make changes to your Magento website, you may not see the changes immediately. In cases where you want to see the changes you have made to your live Magento website, you’ll need to clear the cache files. Clearing the Magento cache Read More >
Adding Store Email Addresses to Magento Updated on October 24, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Magento uses three pre-defined email addresses in certain situations. By default, you can specify the General Contact, Sales Representative, and Customer Support email addresses. Each address has the default sender name and email address when you initially install your store. You’ll want to update these to your own email addresses during the configuration of Magento. Read More >
Index Content for Joomla 2.5 Smart Search Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our previous tutorial, we walked you through the steps for enabling Smart Search in Joomla 2.5. The next step is Read More >
Enable Smart Search in Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. While previous versions of Joomla include by default a site search feature, Joomla 2.5 now includes a feature called Smart Search. Read More >
How to Change the Default Title in Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha Magento 1.6 has a default title used as the meta-title on all non-content pages that do not have a custom title. You can change this default title to whatever you’d like. You’ll want to use a more descriptive title and it is easily changed in the Magento 1.6 Admin Panel. Please feel free to visit Read More >
How to Add a Custom Favicon in Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha Magento 1.6 allows you to further customize your shopping cart by adding a custom favicon. By default, the favicon is set to the Magento 1.6 logo. You can add a favicon of your logo or change it to any other custom image you wish. Customizing the favicon in Magento 1.6 is done through your Magento Read More >
How to Edit the Footer in Magento 1.6 Updated on October 19, 2023 by Carrie Smaha At the bottom of your newly installed Magento 1.6 shopping cart, there’s a footer that contains the copyright information. Magento 1.6 allows you to completely customize what shows up in the footer of every page in your shopping cart. Editing the footer and changing the copyright information is easily accomplished through the Magento Admin Panel. Read More >
Changing the Default Welcome Message in Magento 1.6 Updated on October 19, 2023 by Carrie Smaha One of the first things you see when you visit your new Magento 1.6 shopping cart is the default welcome message in the upper right corner of the page, which reads: Default welcome msg! This is a simple customization and a good place to start on customizing Magento 1.6. In the last tutorial, we covered Read More >
How to Log into Magento Admin Panel Updated on September 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha The Magento Admin Panel is your gateway to managing and controlling your e-commerce store. Whether you’re setting up your online shop for the first time or you’re a seasoned Magento user, logging into the Admin Panel is the first step towards managing your store’s products, orders, and customers. In this step-by-step guide, we’ll walk you Read More >
Prevent New Account activation email sent to Joomla 2.5 Administrator Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. When users sign up for new accounts on your Joomla 2.5 website, if your new user activation settings are set to Read More >
Creating a Horizontal menu in Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In previous versions of Joomla, the ability to create both vertical and horizontal menus was built in. With newer versions of Read More >
Creating a Voucher Template in OpenCart Updated on December 22, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Gift vouchers can be themed in OpenCart and allows you to easily create vouchers for holidays or events. If a visitor to your website purchases a gift voucher for Mother’s Day, you could have a template that themes the email with an image you choose to represent that specific event. Gift voucher templates are created Read More >
How to display modules on your Joomla 2.5 homepage Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In a previous article, we showed you how to move a Joomla 2.5 module to a different position. As we continue Read More >
Adding a New Currency in OpenCart Updated on December 22, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Since the Internet is global; your customers may want to purchase or see the purchase price of a product in their native currency for the country they live in. You can easily add a new currency to OpenCart through the OpenCart dashboard. Log into your OpenCart Dashboard Go to Localisation >> Currencies Click “Insert” Fill Read More >
Adding a custom Stock Status to OpenCart 1.5 Updated on December 22, 2023 by Carrie Smaha OpenCart comes with the ability to set up different stock statuses. Setting the stock status of a product in OpenCart lets your website’s visitors know when to expect a product. By default, some stock statuses are already set up. You can use the statuses that are already defined such as 2-3 days, In Stock, Out Read More >
Changing the region a block is assigned to in Drupal 7 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha In our last tutorial we walked you through the steps for creating blocks in Drupal 7. During the process you were asked to chose a region to show the block in. Sometimes your needs change and you may want to assign that particular block to a new region. In this Drupal 7 tutorial, we’ll show Read More >
