While most features of your PrestaShop are found in the Back Office administrative area, you may need to make adjustments outside of the interface under certain conditions. Perhaps you need to alter one or more columns in the database directly or in bulk, such as a mass price change. In cases such as this, you Read More >
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Making a mass price change for PrestaShop using phpMyAdmin
While maintaining your PrestaShop store, at times you may need or want to update the prices for all products at once. Perhaps you are having a sale where you allow 20% off all products, or you may simply need to increase your prices due to an increase in supplies. Whatever the case, this can be Read More >
How to perform a mass price increase for all products in Zen Cart.
When building an online store and using programs such as Zen Cart, the number of products you carry can increase exponentially over time. Most of the time, things like price changes will be done on an individual product level or at most small groups. However, there may be times when you need to make a Read More >
How to find your Primary Domain name
In this tutorial: Find in cPanel Find in AMP The Primary Domain name is the domain name you originally signed up your hosting account under. There can be times when knowing the primary domain name is important, for example when you need to contact the Live Support department. If you have forgotten or cannot find Read More >
How to perform a bulk price change for all products in OSCommerce
When working with e-commerce programs like osCommerce, there are times when you may want or need to increase your prices. This is fine if you are working with a limited number of products, but if you have thousands of products, this can be very time consuming and tedious. By default there is no setting to Read More >
How to log into your osCommerce Admin dashboard
In order to manage your osCommerce store you will need to know how to log into the administrative dashboard. Below is a quick tutorial that demonstrates how to locate and log into your admin dashbord for osCommerce. Logging into your osCommerce admin dashboard Visit your Admin URL. Your admin URL for osCommerce is accessed by Read More >
How to enable html files to display php code
Explore the versatility of hosting php: a step-by-step guide for enabling HTML files to display php code via .htaccess. When creating your own site, you have many options. The basic files, particularly on Linux servers like the ones used for our hosting accounts, are either generally either HTML (files ending in the extension .html or Read More >
Allow public access to a file in a protected directory using .htaccess
Within your website structure, there are many times when you may want to protect directories from outside access. This prevents any user from accessing a subdirectory of your site, and its files, without a username and password. There may be a time, however, when you want to allow access to a single file within a Read More >
HTML Tag Reference List
Within HTML there are many tag types you can use to create the perfect website. Below is a table of all currently used HTML tags and their descriptions. Tags that are either deprecated, no longer in use, or are new to HTML 5 are notated in the description. Tag Name What the tag defines <abbr> Read More >
Time zone reference list
As you build your website, you may need or want to change the default time zone for your account or site. You will also need to know the proper configuration for the web server to use. Even though there are only 24 actual timezones on the planet, there are many variations for different zones. These Read More >
Necessary information to know before contacting support
There are times when your website may seem to not be performing as you think it should. Regardless of the program you are using on your site, there can be many things that affect its performance. To give an analogy, they can have issues just like your car or body can. When contacting the Live Read More >
Creating a Link In WordPress
When working with WordPress pages and posts you may want to create a link (also known as a “hyperlink”) to another website (an external link), or even another page or post on your site (an internal link). Internal and external links are part of the backbone of the web, making communication of related information possible Read More >
How to Create a New File
When creating your website, you will often need to create additional page files. These may be display file such as html or php, or text files used for reference or configuration. Although a popular method is to create the folder on your local machine and upload the file to your hosting account, you can also Read More >
Creating an Under Construction or Coming Soon page
When building a website, you may not want random visitors snooping your pages until you are ready for them. Even while some programs allow you to build your site on your local computer and then publish when you are finished, you still may want to test your site on the live server before opening to Read More >
How to create and attach a database user in cPanel
Generally, when you want to create a database in the cPanel, using the MySQL Database wizard is the fastest and easiest way. This creates both the database and a user for that database. However, you may need to either add a database user to a database or wish to create a single user you want Read More >
Troubleshooting a Database connection error
Getting a database connection error, such as this one in Joomla, can be a scary thing to see on your website. It means that a program running on your site is not able to communicate with the MySQL database service to retrieve data. There are two main reasons for getting this error, either the program Read More >
An email I was expecting did not arrive
In the world of email there are various issues and problems that can occur. This particular article guides you through troubleshooting an issue where you are expecting an email yet it does not arrive. There can be various causes and the issue can be from the sending side, the route in between the sender and Read More >
Enabling telnet on a Windows computer
Telnet can be used to test different connections and ports on your hosting server. It is not always enabled by default on Windows machines (Vista, 7, 8), however. When attempting to use Telnet you may get an error like ‘telnet’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.This means Read More >
How to create an image preview style in Drupal 7
After learning how to set the Image Style Preview in the last article, you may need or want a bit more customized image style. Perhaps you want to add a setting between thumbnail and medium, or even one larger than the current large setting. There is a setting in Drupal 7 that allows you to Read More >
WordPress: “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance”
If you are updating your WordPress site via the automatic update script, you may run across an anomaly where you receive a maintenance message on your site. The message reads “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance” and occurs on every page on your site, including the admin login. While this message is supposed to be temporary, Read More >
