Archive for November, 2009

Adding SMTP server support in CRE Loaded 6.2

Till version 6.2 cre loaded was only capable of sending emails using sendmail program using php mail() function. Some time it happens that our site is hosted on shared hosting where same server IP is shared between many sites. These sites may include site which send spam emails and in result the server IP get [...]

Protecting WordPress blogs from spam

It is very exciting to have your blog appearing in search results. Commonly the traffic received, includes a good number of visitors which promote spam. They commonly add comments on posts to get back links and may be visitors. Percentage of spam comments can be very high. For example comments posted on this blog include [...]

Google Caffeine is coming

Google’s search based on new technology will be rolled out in early 2010. Google caffeine will be first rolled out on one data center. Developer preview of caffeine is now removed so you can’t perform any testing on it anymore. According to google caffeine is technology to improve indexing infrastructure and performance.

Compress your web pages

When optimizing web performance, most consideration is given to reduce number and file size of images, CSS and JS etc., and less consideration is given to size of HTML being sent to browser, called “document size”. Optimizing document size can be very beneficial. There are two ways you can reduce the document size Reduce HTML [...]

Home of SPHINX search is down

Home of great SPHINX search http://www.sphinxsearch.com is down. Complete site including Forums, Downloads are unavailable. It is now almost 12 hours since we realized that the site is down. One reason behind this might be that this site is NOT powered by SPHINX, yes its true forums searching is not implemented on SPHINX. Hope to [...]

Categories Breadcrumb not working, CRE Loaded Pro

I was amazed to see that Categories breadcrumb is not working http://demos.creloaded.com/creloaded_pro/index.php?cPath=3_10 on category pages. You can see proper cPath in url still the breadcrumb is missing. This happens on in CRE Loaded 6.4 PRO. Breadcrumb is not only important for visitors, it is also important for SEO aspect. The issue is due to bug [...]

Why specify image dimensions

Some times for connivance webmasters don’t specify dimensions of images (using height and with attributes). If thumbnails of user uploaded image are created proportionally it become difficult to specify a fixed size of an image as one dimension may be smaller then other. See in example page here image dimensions in listing are not specified [...]

what Google search parameters do?

Some one forwarded an worth sharing post, explaining different parameters used in google search. Here what parameters are being used in Google search and what they do. Parameter Description (Value) Search modifiers q / as_q the search query as_epq matches exact phrase, same as searchphrase surrounded by quotes in searchbox as_oq with at least one [...]

Installing "Output Queries Debug" in CRE Loaded 6.4 PCI

Output Queries Debug is very useful contribution for osCommerce. This contribution captures each query used to construct a page and can be output if desired. This information can be very useful for developers working on CRE Loaded performance optimization. To see more details about the contribution please refer to this page. In this post we [...]

SEO URLs addon for CRE Loaded

SEO url is a commercial addon for converting links to SEO Friendly format. Almost every cre loaded site requests to have seo friendly urls. In CRE loaded 6.4 pro the addon has become built in feature. Over the time using this addons I realized a major issue regarding SEO. As you may know issue of [...]