Category: Computer
September 10th, 2014 Posted in Computer, Web Design, Web Development
WooCommerce problems saving products with lots of variations
A client recently added a product with over 100 variations to their WordPress/WooCommerce site. The product seemed to save OK with no errors, but seemed to be missing some of the variations when viewed on the front end of the site. Long story short, it was down to a PHP variable in PHP 5.4 that […]
Phone spam from PC support company “PCEFIX”
I keep getting calls about my “Windows computer” from some idiots who say they are from the “Service centre for windows operating system”. This looks to me like an attempt to sound like they are calling from Microsoft. I get other phone spammers trying to make out they are calling from Orange when they are […]
Delete of steam.exe failed, Win32 Error 5 Access is denied
After a fresh install of Steam on Windows 7 64bit, I got the following error message when it launched and tried to update itself: “Delete of steam.exe failed, Win32 Error 5 Access is denied” After much swearing and Googling, the answer was to turn off AVG completely during installation and update of Steam. FFS. This […]
Textpattern on 1and1 hosting – “Error 500 – Internal server error”
If you are trying to install the lovely Textpattern CMS on 1and1 hosting (you poor thing) then you’ll probably get the following error: Error 500 – Internal server error An internal server error has occured! Please try again later. Most hosts work with the default .htaccess file that comes with Textpattern 4.3, but 1and1 don’t […]
New Zen Cart site for Serenitie.co.uk
FCS Websites recently launched another of our heavily customised Zen Cart shops for a Nottingham business selling organic skincare, jewellery and baby products. The front end templates have been completely changed, social networking links and attractive icons added and the admin system has our Paramita theme applied to make it more pleasant to use. We […]
New WordPress and some theme frameworks
Ferret’s Domain is now running on WordPress 3, which seems like a significant increase in smoothness since the last version. All the plugins I use carried on working much to my relief. I’ve also been checking out theme frameworks. This month I have seen: WooThemes commercial framework and template – extremely slick and transforms the […]