Recent content by deadgoodundies

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    Using Schema Rich Snippets problem with GeoIP location

    We've just started using Schema Rich Snippets on our pages so we can present things like ratings, reviews and the price of our products. I've come up across a bit of a brick wall though and not sure how to tackle it. We use GEOip location on our site so that our prices are shown ex VAT or inc...
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    Image Optimisation Tools/Extensions?

    I do mine in two stages, manually in photoshop and then run through http://www.balesio.com/fileminimizerpictures/eng/index.php for compresssion (works better than photohops save for web) In Photoshop I just set my marque tool to a fixed ratio (for us it's 353 x 530) , drag out where I want to...
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    Excel foruma question

    Yup but wanted to try and avoid extras steps if possible
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    Excel foruma question

    You beaut
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    Excel foruma question

    I'm having a bit of problems using the SUBSTITUTE function Example I have in A2 & A3 and it's either populated by the words Simple or Configurable In column B2 I have the the formula =SUBSTITUTE(A2,"simple","No") Which works fine in that it will replace B2 to say No but I can't work out how...
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    Using Magmi with the On the fly indexer

    I've come up across a bit of a brick wall using Magmi to import our products into Magento. The issue i'm having is that when I use the On the fly indexer plugin it suffixs all the pages with .html Whereas for SEO and a more visually pleasing URL we don't use the .html suffix. so for example a...
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    multi product size and colour

    I don't think there is i'm afraid. It's one of the things that took me a while to get my head around moving from x-cart to magento that every variation of a product has to be an individual item. Saying that after playing with magento for so long it does actually make sense the way they have...
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    Linnworks, Magento and order notes how???

    We will be using Royal Mail Tracked as a shipping option on our magento store and take advantage of the safeplace option where a customer can enter details on where would be safe to leave a parcel if they are not it. Linnworks state that this can be done here if we suffix a order note with what...
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    Weird thing happening with dataflow export

    Ok just tried it in google sheets as well and the prices come up as for example instead of 36.8000 as it would in open office it comes up as 36.8 BUT still the same issue with the category id's
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    Weird thing happening with dataflow export

    Yeah i've got office as well and excel imports then in the cells as 30,39,12,14 but if you click in the cell on the input bar (not sure what you call it) it's listed as 30391214 , also excel doesn't like the html in one of our attributes so where we have bullet points its only showing the <ul>...
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    Weird thing happening with dataflow export

    For the first time i've been having a play around with product export and import to make it easier for me to update details in bulk (for example price changes, moving categories etc.) and i've got a couple of problems which I don't quite understand so hopefully someone else can enlighten me...
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    Item Not Received Claim on Paypal

    Best thing to do i've found is actually call paypal. If you have a business account with them you get put through to their Irish office and to be honest with you they are so good and helpful
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    Signed for delivery to Europe?

    Surely you mean "supposed" to.
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    Paypal ok for new online sales.. or maybe another choice?

    We've always offered card payments (via sagepay) with paypal as the secondary payment method. In the past we always found that people preferred to pay with with credit/debit card but recently (over the past 3 months) the amount of people paying via credit/debit card vs paying with their paypal...
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    How did you setup your Paypal Account?

    The way we have ours setup is {business name} T/A {website name} T/A of course standing for Trading as