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 >
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Carrie enjoys working on demand generation and product marketing projects that tap into multi-touch campaign design, technical SEO, content marketing, software design, and business operations.
Verifying your website with Google
Anytime you use a Google Webmaster tools, you’ll need to verify ownership of the website to Google. Verification with Google does not affect PageRank or your website’s performance in any way. It does allow you to use Google’s products. Verifying ownership of a website is easy and you have more than one option on how Read More >
Changing the region a block is assigned to in Drupal 7
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 >
Viewing the Field List Report in Drupal 7
Drupal 7 provides you with a report that lists all the fields currently in use on your Drupal website. This report gives you a basic overview of fields on all entity (content) types. The report displays the field name, field type, and where the field is used in (content type). This report can easily be Read More >
Creating a new Manufacturer in OpenCart 1.5
OpenCart allows you to create “manufacturers” to apply to your products you are selling. Anytime you create a manufacturer in OpenCart, the system allows you to apply products to them. If a customer wants to view all products for a specific manufacturer they can do so. By adding manufacturers to products this can help your Read More >
Adding a manufacturer to the banner in OpenCart 1.5
OpenCart comes with a pre-built manufacturers banner that displays your products manufacturers. Since these manufacturers may already have built brand awareness with customers, using there recoginzable logos on your website can help customers decide to purchase products from your website. You will need to find the images you want to use for each manufacturer prior Read More >
Viewing the Top Access Denied Report in Drupal 7
Drupal 7 contains a report referred to as the access denied report. This report will show you any 403 errors that have occurred on your Drupal website. A 403 error is the server code for access denied, and can help you identify possible navigation or other issues within your site. This report is easily accessed Read More >
Viewing the Top Search Phrases Report in Drupal 7
One of the reports available for you to view in Drupal 7 is the “top search phrases” report. This report gives you insight into what your website visitors are searching for once the land on your website itself. An entry into the report is made anytime someone uses the search bar within your website. You Read More >
How to subscribe to specific IMAP folders in Outlook 2010
If you are using IMAP to connect to your email account you may only see your inbox folder and no other folders you may have set up in another mail application or webmail. An IMAP folder list can be downloaded to your Outlook 2010 email client so you can subscribe to it. Open your Outlook Read More >
303: Finding 404 page not found errors in Drupal 7
Drupal 7 makes finding “page not found” errors simple. Page not found errors are easily found through your Drupal 7 admin dashboard. Log into the Drupal admin dashboard Go to Reports Click on “Top ‘page not found’ errors“ Now that you can see the ‘page not found’ errors on your website, you can work on Read More >
How to view Recent Log Messages in Drupal 7
One of the features that is built into Drupal 7 is various reports. One of the reports in Drupal 7 that you may find handy is the recent log messages. The recent log messages report contains various events that have occured within your Drupal site that have been logged. These may include actions taken by Read More >
Accessing the status report in Drupal 7
Drupal 7 has many reporting features built into it. One of the first reports you may use is the status report. The status report will give you a short overview of your website’s parameters, as well as any problems that you may have had during the installation process. While this information is a great overview Read More >
Using Fetch as Googlebot in Webmaster Tools
If Google search results is displaying an old result for your website, it’s likely Google needs to re-crawl and index your website. The Fetch as Googlebot tool will allow you to see your webpage as Google sees it. The Fetch as Googlebot tool can be benficial if your website has been hacked as well. If Read More >
Installing the “Powered By” vQmod Extension
OpenCart is free and open source and at any time you are able to remove the “powered by OpenCart” if you want. As per the OpenCart website, its generally accepted practice to make a small donation in lieu of removing the backlink. If you want to donate via PayPal to [email protected] We’ve created a simple Read More >
Error with vQmod after upgrading to OpenCart 1.5.2
Recently I upgraded our OpenCart testing site to OpenCart version 1.5.2. While the installation process went quite smoothly, I noticed after further investigation, that vQmod seemed to not be working. This was a fairly large problem since we use vQmod to make changes to our shopping cart. If you’re not familiar with vQmod please see Read More >
How to install updates for modules in Drupal 7
Now that we showed you how to find which modules need to be updated in Drupal 7, you’ll need to update them. This is done easily in the Drupal 7 dashboard. To update modules in Drupal 7: Log into the Drupal 7 Dashboard Go to Reports and click on Available Updates Change to the Update Read More >
Finding Modules that need to be updated in Drupal 7
If you have modules installed in Drupal 7 it’s extremely important to make sure the modules are up to date. Modules get updated for many reasons but most important is to patch any security holes in the code. You can update the modules through your Drupal 7 dashboard. Before you can update the module you Read More >
Understanding Forums in Drupal
Before you enable the Forum module in Drupal, you may encounter some terms that you aren’t exactly familiar with. Forums have a special terminology that you’ll want to understand so you can set up your forums appropriately. In this tutorial, we’ll explain what forums, containers, messages, and comments are and how they interact with one Read More >
How to delete a menu in Drupal 7
Sometimes, you may find it necessary to delete opne of the custom menus you created in Drupal 7. This tutorial is for a complete deletion and not simply disabling the menu, so once this is done, the menu will be gone forever. This is easily accomplished in the Drupal Administrator Dashboard. Log into your Drupal Read More >
Customizing the Footer of OpenCart 1.5 by removing “Powered by”
The powered by OpenCart footer link appears on every page and is an easy way for you to promote and help support OpenCart. Alternatively, this makes it easy for hackers to determine what your shopping cart is built with and target. It’s relatively easy to remove using File Manager in cPanel. Log into cPanel Go Read More >
