I am currently doing a redesign of the New Internationalist ethical shop’s home page. I just spent about 20 minutes trying to work out how to set the number of products that are displayed in the new products block when it is called from within a CMS page in Magento.If you’re in the …

Its not that I’m a performance fanatic. But a fairly big part of the page weight on my new site is made up of the top logo. Which, until yesterday, was a jpg. Previously it had always been a png which seemed sharper to my eye. But it took 50 kilobytes, although it is cacheable that is still a …

The other day I needed to make a trivial change in the checkout page in the New iNternationalist ethical shop. I always want to visually test a page before rolling it out live. I know how easy it is to mess up the position of an angle bracket or something! Normally you can only see the checkout s …

The original Pragmatic Programmer book was pretyy influential on me when it came out and I’ve really enjoyed a few other books in the series. This book is no exception to that. There's a lot of se …