Date Archives → March 10, 2010

Contactable jQuery Plugin on The Right Side of Page

Contactable is a great jQuery plugin by Philip Beel to include a nice sliding contact form, even if you only understand a tiny bit of jQuery and PHP.

I needed to use this plugin for one of my project, but I want it to be on the right side of the page instead of left. In order to do this, you need to change a small portion of the CSS and JS files. No special skills required. Still, you can save your time since you can download it directly below:

» click here to download Contactable on right side of page «

All credits go to Philip Beel. Instructions and demo can be checked directly on this plugin’s homepage.

Upgrading Interspire Shopping Cart Using SSH

Interspire Shopping Cart (ISC) is one of the best self-hosted e-commerce system in the market. It has most of the features that you will ever need. Another big plus with ISC is it is still actively developed. Interspire regularly releases minor updates every few months to fix some bugs and a major one in 6-12 months.

One inconvenient thing that might prevent you to do an update immediately is it cannot auto-update (WordPress style), so you need to manually reupload the necessary files. Official documentation from Interspire to upgrade your ISC installation can be found here.

Following the instructions there is the safest method for sure. But if you do not have the super fast connection via FTP to your server, overwriting the files one by one might take at least a few hours. So I tried to find with a faster way with the help of SSH. Let’s start. Continue reading →