Quick Tip: Display Product Images in the PrestaShop Ajax Cart

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 May 2013 06:14 Written by Fabio Porta Wednesday, 15 May 2013 12:00

Adding product images in the default Prestashop Ajax cart can be trickier than expected, especially if you want to display them on the fly, without a page refresh. Let’s see how to do it properly in this quick tip!

Introduction: the 3 files we need to edit

You might think that it can be simple enough to add a small thumb for each product in the ajax cart. Opening the tpl file, adding the same code you find in the product list. Done.

Image Options for Better Web Performance

Last Updated on Thursday, 18 April 2013 02:34 Written by David Bauernschmidt Tuesday, 23 April 2013 12:00

If you read articles on best practices you will quickly read that one of the best ways to increase performance is to limit your calls to the server as well as “shrink” the size of those files.  Implementing and keeping up with all of the options can actually take a full time job.  However as a small business web developer, I have realized that just implementing some of these can have a profound impact to your site.  We are always loading “assets” from the server to support a page.  These “assets” might include, images, javascript libraries, style sheets, video, audio, etc.  Better managing these assets not only improves performance but in some cases also lowers the band-width requirements.  We are very visual people so it has been my experience that the areas for great performance is to address the images first and then move on to the other areas. I am not saying that the other areas aren’t important but rather some of the little things you can do to images can improve a lot towards performance. My goal is talk about some of the available options as well as give you some thoughts and links that make this even easier.

Plugin Spotlight For WordPress For Febuary 2013: Jetpack by WordPress.com : And How to Install Jetpack!

Last Updated on Friday, 8 March 2013 12:27 Written by TJ Marsh Friday, 1 March 2013 12:00

Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

Features include:

Blur and Desaturation Filter for Images by CMSms

Last Updated on Saturday, 23 February 2013 02:09 Written by Nic Bug Monday, 25 February 2013 12:00

One day I was looking for a VERY convenient way to let the user upload images in CMSMadeSimple with nice blur and desaturation filter without using third party tools. I came up with a very smart solution.

First, you might want to take a look to a real life example: http://www.endlich-urlaub.de/
As you can see, the background image is b/w and has a slight blur on it. The source image for processing is:

How to Assign Local Images to Products in TomatoCart

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 December 2012 11:23 Written by Jack Yin Tuesday, 11 December 2012 12:00

This article talks about how to assign images to products from local files in the admin panel->Catalog->Products.

Figure 1. The products images tab in admin panel