Skip to main content

Posts

Why use shopify?

Are you looking to setup an online store? You can setup your store and you can start selling in a week. There are many platforms available to use but Shopify is easiest, reliable and SEO friendly.   Not familiar with Shopify ? It is a great way to sell tour products, without worrying about managing a server, payment gateways, etc. as for a small monthly fee everything is included.  Click here to create a free trial store and start exploring. 

How to create an online shop/store or eCommerce website?

E commerce is great way to reach more customers and significantly increase profits. Global eCommerce sales have increase to a $1.25 trillion in 2013. So how can you get your share out of this market? Building a ecommerce website requires skilled software engineers to manage orders, payments and reports. Good designers are required to make site more appealing and easy to use. But good news is you do not need to hire these professional to start selling online.  There are many pre-built platforms that let you create online shop in hours or even minutes. These plateforms allow you to - List products with categories, images, descriptions and customization. Almost everything that you can thing of. - manage order and payment process and notify you whenever new order arrives - manage inventory and shipping costs - Have support for Search Engine Optimization(SEO) and  Social sharing and marketing. There are tens of such platforms but most popular ones are Woocommerce ...

How to add a favicon to your wordpress site?

Favicon is the small icon that appears on left of the title bar  when your website is opened in browser. Figure below show favicons of gmail and blogger. This is a very good way to brand your site. To add a favicon to your wordpress follow these steps. Create favicon favicon is a 16 x 16 pixel image so you have to either shrink your logo to this size or create a new image for your favicon. You can save image in either gif, png, jpg or ico.  Adding favicon Once you have the image ready install " All in One favicon ".  Then in your website admin dashboard goto            Plugins-> All installed Plugins and under All in one favicon select settings. This will open this interface Now you can select a favicon in whatever format you have(only one) and save.  Reload your site and favicon should be there.  In case you have any problems leave a comment here.

How to display a sitemap on wordpress site?

Sitemap is one of the important pages of every website and very helpful for the user when she is lost. With large number of pages and posts it can be hard to create a Sitemap page manually. Luckily Wordpress has many plugins for that and out of those WP Sitemap Page  is my favourite. To add sitemap on a page just install this plugin and add    [wp_sitemap_page]   shortcode to your page. It can display all pages , posts and categories but you can choose what to show. If you have any questions write it in comments.

How to add JCalendar/ date chooser to WindowBuilder, for Swing GUI in Java?

WindowBuilder is most popular eclipse plugin for drag and drop GUI design. It supports SWT and Swing. Swing does not have a date chooser component of its own. But there are many components available that you can use. My personal favourite is JCalendar . You can add JCalendar components to your WindowBuilder  palette  by following these instructions. Download and extract JCalendar.  Right-click on the palette   in WindowBuilder Select jar file of Jcalendar select all componetnts Restart Eclipse. Now you will see JCalendar components in your  palette . For more information about  visit this page.