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Usability testing is a technique used to evaluate a product by testing it on users. It’s good practice to perform tests in combination with Split testing.
Fivesecondtest helps you fine tune your landing pages and calls to action by analyzing the most prominent elements of your design. Here’s how it works:
Static blocks are a great way to add sections of HTML to your CMS or Catalog pages. I’m going to show you how to add a static block to a CMS page.
It’s a 2 step process and a very simple one. First, create your static block by going to CMS->Static Blocks. You will use the identifier of your static block to reference it on the CMS page. Edit the CMS page you would like this block to appear in, and add this code in the location where you would like it to show up:
{{block type="cms/block" block_id="home-page-promo"}}
When using the LIKE keyword in a MySQL query, I use it the most typical way, LIKE ‘%STRING%’. One day, I was in need to use a column name instead and could not figure out how to do it! At first, I tried to just replace the string value with the column name like this, LIKE (%t.column%). The end-result was not good as the LIKE keyword expects a string.
So, I thought of trying the CONCAT() function since that returns a string. And it worked!
LIKE CONCAT('%', t.column)
Hope this helps someone!
2 commands I use often throughout the day is importing and exporting large databases into MySQL VIA the command line. Here is how I do it where “USERNAME” is your username, “PASSWORD” is your password and “DATABASE” is your database name.
To Export:
mysqldump -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASE | gzip -c > ~/dump_2010-06-14.sql.gz
To Import:
mysql -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASE < database.sql
Also, you may have a large database that may give you errors while importing. You can use this command to force the import without warnings or errors:
mysql -f -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASE < database.sql
Ever wanted to get the total price of items in your Magento cart? Here you go:
<?php echo $this->helper('checkout')->formatPrice(Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getGrandTotal()); ?>
Since the new release of Magento, people have been encountering a lot of problems. One of them in particular, seem to be the contact form. The error is, “Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later.” If you’re on Magento 1.4 and get this error when submitting the contact form, that’s because your template (theme) is not fully compatible with 1.4. Your Magento theme is overriding the form.phtml file with its own version, which doesn’t have the new line in it. Here’s what you’ll need to do to quickly fix this error:
Open this file in your theme folder:app/design/frontend/default/YOUR_THEME/template/contacts/form.phtml
And add the following hidden field somewhere before the submit button:
<input type="text" name="hideit" id="hideit" value="" style="display:none !important;" />
