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When moving a Magento ecommerce website to a new server, you may need to access the shopping cart website and backend administration on a temporary development url. To manually change the Magento Commerce base url to the new development url:

• open the magento ecommerce database in PHPMyAdmin
• browse the database table ‘core_config_data’
• locate the field ‘web/unsecure/base_url’ and click ‘Edit’ to open it for editing
• change the ‘value’ field to the new development domain url
• click ‘Go’
• Close PHPMyAdmin
• Open the ‘Var>Cache’ with FTP, file manager or SSH
• Delete all the content

Your Magento ecommerce website will now work on the new development url.

POP3 (Post Office Protocol) email is the most popular email method on the Internet. If you connect with POP3, via Outlook for example, Outlook will download all of the email on the mail server to your local computer, storing the email within the Outlook software. In turn, the mail on the server is typically deleted by default. Although there is an option in Outlook that allows you to leave email copies on the server, in today’s mobile world, POP3 is no longer an optimal method.

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is the second most common email method, and IMAP is much more suited for modern email users who often access their email from multiple devices. Instead of downloading your emails, IMAP keeps your email and directory structure on the mail server so you can access it from anywhere, your work desktop, your home desktop, your laptop, your mobile phone, or a public connection.

Here is how to change from a POP3 email account to an IMAP email account in Outlook.

1. Open Outlook.

2. From the Outlook menu choose Tools -> Email Accounts.

3. Make sure the option to “View or change existing e-mail accounts” is selected and then click on Next.

4. Select the POP account and then click on the Change button.

5. Remove the check mark next to “Remember password.”

6. Click on Next and then on Finish.

7. Choose Tools -> Options -> Mail Setup and click on Send/Receive.

8. Click on Edit, select the POP account and deselect the option for “Include the selected account in this group”. Then click on OK, Close and OK.

9. Close Outlook.

10. Open Outlook again and if you are prompted for a password for that account (you shouldn’t be) don’t give it — instead click on Cancel. If you are prompted for a password, ensure you have followed the steps above correctly.

11. Now the POP account has been disabled, setup the new IMAP account via Tools -> Email Accounts.

12. You can now either drag the email from the POP account folders to the IMAP account folders or use the File -> Import/Export utility to import the POP based PST file into the IMAP account.

13. Once you’ve confirmed all the POP based email has been moved, delete the POP account from Tools -> Email Accounts.

When performing a web design production, or a website design rework, there may be situations where both index.html and index.php are active in your root website directory. During a website transition, you may need to keep these files active until youv’e completed the web design production. Your webserver will default to one or the other, and it may not default to the one you want it to.

You can force the file you want with your .htaccess file.

For instance, to force index.html:

DirectoryIndex  index.html index.php

To force index.php:

DirectoryIndex  index.php index.html

That will make your web design transition a little bit easier.

CSS Reset or Reset CSS  are one of the best ways to ensure you have a consistent web layout and design across all browsers. In this post we discuss the different ways and the advantages or disadvantages of using them.

What is CSS Reset and Why use it?

CSS Reset has been around for quite some time now (thanks to Eric Meyer)and the means to achieve the same are numerous.

Smashing Magazine says

Global Reset is needed to ensure the more or less identical cross-browser presentation of your web-sites. By default different browsers use different values for margin, padding or line-height. Global Reset makes sure all (or probably most) browsers render sites identically.

Let me try to explain why the it is important. Let us assume that a browser decides to change the way the visited links are displayed in violet to black. Now imagine you had been using a non resetting CSS.  Once the page is viewed in the new browser, what used to violet links will now be black. The problem is not with the fact whether the link should be violet or black, but with the fact that it will not be what you would have wanted them to be. To add to it, the same element could be different in different browsers leading to confused users. read more…

Software developers commonly use generic naming conventions that provide a large number of unique name sets to allow for simplified version identification. Razworks utilizes such a method with web design theme production. This list of scientific tree names provides an simple, objective means of assigning easily identifiable names to independent web design themes.

Abies balsamea, Balsam fir
Abies cilicica, Cilicica fir
Abies concolor, White fir; Colorado fir read more…