Author Archives: dougal

New LG IPS235V monitor

Finally, my old Samsung Syncmaster 24 inch monitor bust its capacitors and died on me, just a faint flicker when the power came on and and then the picture would disappear. There are various tutorials floating around the web on how to replace the capacitors, however, I decided that the screen wasn’t up to much anyway and wasn’t worth the Read more…

Don’t let them sell you SEO, it is generally a rip off

Search Engine Optimisation by definition should be the process of “Optimising a website for search engines.” Something seems to have got lost somewhere, for example I have had someone call me up and say “Hey Dougal, my cousins husband who is a bit of a geek told me all about “SEO’s” so, can you put some on my company website? Read more…

Stop disabled Magento products appearing in Google Content

Since I can remember there have been problems with Magento’s built in Google Merchant Center product submission called google base in your Magento Admin. Now to align themselves with google’s new api they have released the Google Content API for Shopping extension which seems to work well enough. But like the previous versions it still has the ridiculous quirk of Read more…