This is the kind of thing that happens out of nowhere when you’re in the middle of finishing off something simple, and sends you into a rage shouting “What the fucking hell…this is just bizarre!” and so on, until you finally fix it by fiddling about intuitively, and then just move on. For once, professional discipline compels me to record the problem and its solution, partly for my own benefit but also to help others avoid the drastic solutions offered in several places on the web.
After working primarily in Django for the last while I had to do some WordPress work yesterday, implementing SEO improvements to one of our e-commerce client’s web site. I added a function to functions.php and … read on »
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E-commerce for Small Business in The UK: A Starting Point For Web Developers
NOTE: see the comments for updates about how this went in the end.
I think I’ve unearthed a conspiracy. In the wonderful world of the world-wide web (that’s WWWWW for short), with so much information available, and so many companies selling online, surely there must be a collection of standard procedures for implementing an online shop, and reliable sources of information covering them? Apparently not. How else to explain this except an evil conspiracy? In particular, an evil conspiracy against web designers and developers.
This post is drawn from an e-mail that I sent to a tech savvy client, a small business owner. The email summarized their options for e-commerce, in the specific context of the UK, and it was the result … read on »
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