Internet Tips
All too often one is forced to see how web pages render in that awful IE product, especially the dreaded IE6.. To see how a page loads in that monstrosity you can use netrenderer to render the page virtually, and give you a snapshot, nice! in all flavors of IE.
Easyphp is a great app for windows users - To setup easyphp to use short tags, edit php.ini: short_open_tag = On
There's also XAMP for windows users, and this article, 25 Important Web Design Tools, has good info as well.
OsCommerce Tips
When moving the site, or changing the installs, the store's url will sometimes need to be changed. I never found a UI to make these changes - perhaps it's there and i just could never locate it? no matter, cuz all ya need to do is edit 2 files:
- includes/configure.php
- admin/includes/configure.php
and make the necessary changes to the strings contained therein.
