Tutorials

Firefox 4, the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, was too slow for me. The browser looked good in design, so I upgraded it(regreted it), but in terms of browsing, it was slow, especially when opening new tabs, and got slower when I had several tabs opened.

Here how to make Firefox 4 faster:

1. Open a new tab in Firefox 4, type about:config. If you get a warning, just click the button.
2. Then type network.http.pipelining in the Filter bar.
3. Double click on network.http.pipelining, this will make the value to True.
4. Same with network.http.pipelining.maxrequests, double click on it, now enter a value of 8 or 10.

It's been a while since I wrote a post here on my blog. I have been busy lately with some personal projects.

Let's get started. With the increasing popularity of Facebook social plugins, such as the Like button, many people wonder how to add the Like button to their theme. In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to add it in your Zen theme.

1. Open your Zen theme folder and locate the node.tpl.php. I am using version 2.0 of Zen, and I have my themes saved at sites/all/themes/zen/templates/

2. Once you find the template, find the following code
<?php print $links; ?>
Add the following, right below it(Type it!):

Firefox is my favorite browser, i use it a lot for searching using the address bar, i would just type what i am looking for and i would get the results using Google Search.

Firefox uses Google as the default search engine. But recently, this changed, instead of Google search, i get Bing, the new(just the name) search engine from Microsoft.

If you are in the same scenario as me, let me show you how to change or remove Bing as the default search engine in the address bar.

Here's how. I am using quotes just for highlighting.

Open Firefox, in the address bar, type "about:config", if it does not work, add a space(push the Space Bar) after config "about:config ", then hit enter.

Magento is an ecommerce platform, for selling goods and services online.

Before we start the installation, make sure you have php_mcrypt and php_curl enabled, we need these extensions working and also, ensure your database is already created, I named mine 'magento', of course.

Download the Full Magento Package here, extract it to your www folder.

In your browser address bar, type in '127.0.0.1', NOT 'localhost', otherwise, you will get some Cookie issues, which will not allow you to login to your Magento administration page after the installation.

I will show you how to create a header region and use it to place a banner or add any content to it. We will use the Zen Classic theme in this tutorial.

Open the zen_classic.info file and add this at the begging or at the end of your Regions section. Note that the name of the region we are using is headertwo, you can name it whatever you like, no spaces underscore and uppercase are fine:

regions[headertwo] = header two

Now open your zen-classic.css style sheet and add the next CSS to the very end of it, the CSS will hold the region we are creating:

.headerContainer {
display: inline;
position: absolute;
margin: 0 0.5em;
}


We need to modify the the page.tpl.php template, open it and add this: