One of the biggest challenges facing any online retailer is the inability to allow customers to pick-up and hold products to check for size, suitability, quality and authenticity prior to purchase. Many of today’s largest and most successful e-commerce websites, such as ASOS and Top Shop, address these potential issues by integrating sophisticated and dynamic multi-view image galleries allowing consumers to quickly and easily explore their chosen items in great detail from a number of different angles. As part of the Pro range of extensions from Brandammo Commerce, ProGallery works seamlessly with Magento allowing complete control over every aspect of the product gallery allowing online retailers to display multiple views of their products in all their glory. Continue reading
Blog
ProNav 0.2.2 for Magento has been released
We are very please to announce the release of ProNav 0.2.2 for Magento.
ProNav now gives you the ability to dynamically pull in your static blocks categories and product links thanks to Widgets. Take a look at this simple walk through video to see how easy it is to create a dynamic drop down that can be easily targeted and styled via css
jQuery load and jQuery Conflict in Magento
We receive many support requests when clients install new Magento extensions that use the jQuery library.
Most of the times, we are told some other extension has stopped working or that they get a bunch of javascript errors.
Fixing this is very simple: Continue reading
Magento 1.5.1.0 Widget Bug
In Magento 1.5.1.0, static block widgets return the error ‘el is null’ when trying to insert them in a static block.
This is a Magento bug… To fix this edit the file lib/Varien/Data/Form/Element/Editor.php . Continue reading
Stop Expression Engine from transforming web addresses and emails into links
It took a bit of time looking and exploring within the Expression Engine administrator panel to stop web addresses being transformed into links…. Google results showed the older administrator panel, but within the later versions, you can find it here:
CP Home > Administration > Channel Management > Channel Preferences – Channel Posting Preferences (accordian) > Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links? No
It’s Official; Age really doesn’t matter- Daphne Selfe, 82 and still Modelling
Meet Daphne Selfe. Britain’s oldest model who, despite being in her 80′s is still revelling in the delights of a modelling career.
Brandammo worked alongside Jamie Morgan following a photographic shoot for Japanese Vogue, which emphasises her timelessness.
Selfe, who is a grandmother of four, had started her career on the catwalk 60 years ago, and she is still going strong, earning 1,000 pounds a day in campaigns for high-profile designer brands such as Dolce and Gabbana. Continue reading
Dr Martens 1461 Collection hits Cardiff
Whilst home for Easter and venturing to Cardiff, in the corner of my eye I caught a glipse of a recognisable image. It was one of the Dr Martens 1461 Collection images which Brandammo have recently collaborated on. Keep your eyes peeled to see our work on a high street near you! Continue reading
jQuery flashy navigation with easing and hoverIntent
Make your navigation a bit more flashy with this plugin… using easing and hoverIntent, customise the rollover colours, easing method and duration…
View the demo for an example… Continue reading
jQuery Toggle Drop Down Menu – jQuery.anyDropDown
jQuery Toggle Menu similar to jquery.naviDropDown using easing, but you can toggle the menu to reveal hidden content, you can place any HTML content in to the drop down element, in the example below; the element is .dropdown_menu, you can pass the name of this hidden element into the plugin as well as the name of the element which the toggle method is acted on (in the example this element is .dropdown).
The plugin needs to be initiated on a containing element which holds the dropdown and its hidden element. Use the example in the demo link to see the structure. Please see jQuery Easing Plugin to see all easing methods. Continue reading
Simple jQuery Dropdown Menu with easing and hoverIntent, naviDropDown 1.0
Here is a simple jQuery plugin I wrote recently which allows you to create a simple drop down menu, utilising hoverIntent, and jQuery’s own slideUp and slideDown effects. You can also set the orientation of the drop down depending if your navigation is horizontal (default) or vertical, and set the duration and easing method of both slideUp and slideDown on initiation of the plugin.
The Plugin – jquery.naviDropDown:
Example below shows initiation of horizontal (default) and vertical orientations. Continue reading