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Adding urchin tracking code from google analytics |
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Written by Cathy Hayes
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 20:57 |
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We all want to know how many people had been trashing our websites right? We are also curios where are these people coming from and what page they are cliking! For whatever reasons, you may want to track your website visitors just to see if there are people interested in your website content. Well, there are also millions of tools out there that you can use to achieve this! Some are free and some are very very expensive. The Google Analytics It is free robusts website visitor tracking tool. All you have to do is go to google anaytics and sign up. Once logged in go to add site link. This will generate your website urchin code that you can then embed to your website page. See below: Make sure that you put this just BEFORE the the BODY tag.For those that uses content management systems like Joomla, simply go to your templates directory. You can then select your default template (shown with the star) and hit edit html. Just before the body tag again, go ahead and paste your urchin code from google anayltics. That's it. Just go check it out! It's pretty cool.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 February 2009 01:03 |
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Getting a toll free number for your business |
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Written by Cathy Hayes
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Monday, 08 December 2008 06:48 |
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After a few hours of looking through google for a good reason why i should get a toll free number for my business, I stumbled up with an e-zina rticle which was really good. Anyway, I went through a whole bunch of companies that offers toll free numbers for you business. They were all good but I ended up signing up with ringcentral.com. They advertise 9.99 per month IF you sign up for 12 months prepaid account. Otherwise it is 15 dollars a month. They are seem okay but be careful with uploading your own voicemail messages. You CAN'T do this if you are using mozilla or safari. You have to have Internet Explorer. I learned this the hard way! Good Luck. New toll free number is 1 (800) WEB-9063 |
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Editing Joomla Footer |
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Written by Cathy Hayes
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Saturday, 06 December 2008 05:56 |
Changing the footer copyright notice:
A quick note about copyright and your site
From the start let's make one thing clear - you own your site, the content of the site is yours and does not belong to anyone else. There is an obligation to maintain the copyright notice within Joomla's PHP source code but you are not obliged to allocate the copyright of your site to anyone but you in the publicly visible page footer
Now lets get on with answering the question at hand:
Essentially there are three ways to change this text.
1. Within your template's index.php file.
2. Within the /includes/footer.php file.
3. Within the language files.
A little explanation of how these methods are inter-related:
Each template set lives in its own sub-folder within /templates//
A template consists of:
an index.php (not to be confused with the scripts index.php in the installation root.
a css file usually css_template.css contained within /templates//css/
additionally image files within /templates//images/
/includes/footer.php is part of the core distribution of the script.
Your template's index.php file 'includes' - programmer speak for merges - footer.php into the final output of the page.
footer.php itself retrieves the Copyright text from the languages files.
There are pros and cons to either of these strategies, which I will explain as I go.
1. Editing your template's index.php so as not to include includes/footer.php and to simply place your text directly into the template.
Pros: Quick easy and efficient. It will also survive any upgrade of the core installation.
Cons: If you change templates, or use multiple templates you will have to replicate your edits throughout multiple templates.
Specifics:
Find and remove this line from the file /templates//index.php
2. Editing includes/footer.php so it does not retrieve the copyright info from the language files. Instead enter your own details here.
Pros: Again fairly quick and easy - possibly more efficient as the info will be available throughout multiple template sets.
Cons: The includes/footer.php file is part of the core distribution - it gets overwritten when you upgrade your favourite CMS.
specifics:
COPYRIGHT; ?>
URL; ?>
Find and remove these lines, or similar from the /includes/footer.php file, and replace with your own html or php.
3. Editing the language files directly - so that footer.php retrieves your info.
Pros: does the job
Cons: less transparent to anyone who takes over from you as editor. Also prone to being overwritten when you upgrade your favourite CMS.
Specifics: edit the file /languages/english.php
Some people have suggested moving the includes/footer.php file, for example into your template's folder, and editing the template to include this file.
Pros: still fairly quick and easy, and will survive an upgrade of the core CMS.
Cons: only compatible with templates that have been edited to work this way. Other templates may cause an error when the file is not found in its default location.
Good news for the future:
In upcoming version 4.5.3 the footer is a module.
No need to hack any code any longer.
This is not my work - I have just aggregated and summarised the work of others.
Thanks Dean
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 February 2009 01:03 |
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Prices displaying wrong at virtuemart |
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Written by Cathy Hayes
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Friday, 05 December 2008 17:40 |
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I have found a fix for mine in another post, within the Shopper Groups, turn off the display prices with tax option on the default shopper group. This now displays the price as entered in the product details, and only adds the tax at checkout stage. |
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Set up Text linking to you shopping cart |
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Written by Cathy Hayes
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Friday, 05 December 2008 17:36 |
Go to the Joomla! menu manager and set up a new menu item
For Menu Item Type, select "VirtueMart"
Enter all the usual info such as title, etc.
Under "Parameters (Componenet)" put shop.cart in the "page" field. |
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