Archive for November 2008

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Magento – Sales Tax Rates and Defaults

This is a tiny little post because I was a bit confused about why my Magento store would be showing sales tax to my visitor before it knew the shipping destination!
To set rates and locations and all that good stuff, there’s a good page in the Magento forum here.
There’s also a little sneaky configuration thing [...]

Magento – disable sidebar cart, tags and newsletter

Magento is a really wonderful commerce package and I look forward to its continued improvement. 
The site I’m building does not wish to display the “Newsletter,” “Tags,” or the “My Cart” sidebar. Just as I was getting ready to delve into my templates, I thought better of it and Google’d and sure enough: it’s a lot [...]

Trent: Halloween Ninja

This post is equal parts “Holy Cow! No Halloween Pic of Trent,” and “Hey, let’s sort out this LifePics thing we have going for Unique Photo, Inc.”

So here’s Trent all Ninja’d Up ready to trick or treat. Lisa always gets the house looking so nice for every holiday and this year was no exception. So [...]

Magento – display SKU on product listing page

In list.phtml, I want to be able to see the SKU in the product listing. list.phtml is a simple if a tad large “if-else” construct, the first part of the if being list view, the else part being the grid view. So, if you want it in both places, you’ll have to hit 2 spots. [...]