Ebay Templates Coding Guide

Ebay templates coding has some pitfalls, and some research had been made recently to circumvent them. Here’s how to avoid problems with ebay product template coding.
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Site Encoding Siddenly Went Wrong, Response Header Shows Wrong Encoding

Few days ago I’ve noticed that some old sites on my server started to show pages in wrong encoding. I can switch encoding manually for each page, but when following a link I’m getting wrong charset again. This happens even on sites where right proper encoding is explicitly set on each page in meta tag.
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Remove Spacing Between Inline-Block Elements

Inline-block elements in i.e. unordered list will create some spacing between them. Make font-size:0 for the parent element (ul) and add a needed font-size to child elements (li), the spacing will be removed.
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Replace “Read More” Text for Woocommerce Out of Stock Products Listing

Latest updates of WooCommerce had changed the way of how texts on buttons of product category listings were displayed. Text for Add to Cart buttons and texts for variable product links are easy to change with text replace code. But it was hard to find how to change default “Read More” text for products out of stock, but finally I have such snippet.
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New Caching Plugin Gator Cache Compatible with Woocommerce

I like to use Hyper Cache plugin for my WordPress sites. But I recently noticed that it doesn’t work well with Woocommerce shop. Problems with add to cart, remove etc. So instead tried new Gator Cache plugin, and it works well.
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vQmod Script to Modify Core Controllers for OpenCart Theme Template

If you want to add some new texts into OpenCart multilingual theme, you’ll need not only to add it translated to your language files, but also core shop controller files must be modified. But to have a better update compatibility, it is preferred not to modify core files.
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Windows Update, Windows Indexing Service and Troubleshooters Are Not Working After Cloning a Hard Disc Drive

I had to replace my hard disc with cloning software on my Toshiba laptop. Everything went fine, but after logging in to my Windows on the cloned drive I saw that indexing service, windows update and windows troubleshooters were not working.
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Gmail iPhone App Responsive Newsletter Coding

Current Gmail desktop web client and iPhone application remove style declarations from the document head, so  you must build a fluid layout to comply to the phone screen size. Otherwise gmail app will use the declared size of newsletter, commonly it is 600px. And all texts will become too small to read.
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Latest Email Newsletter Coding Tips

Time passes and my old post with newsletter coding tips is already seems to be a bit outdated. I want to write down my new tips based on latest coding experience and tests.
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Migration Issues and Making Development Joomla 2.5 Version Live to the Root

After polishing development version, that I’ve migrated from J1.5 to 2.5 with SPUpgrade help, I just needed make it live with a root domain.
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Facebook Doesn’t Show YouTube Video When You Click on Thumbnail in Firefox

Recently when I click on YouTube video thumb in Firefox video is not playing and shows just blank frame. Until it’s fixed on Facebook, to overcome this problem just browse Facebook under SSL, add https:// to Facebook URL. Video will start to show.
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How to Upgrade Joomla 1.5 to Version 2.5, Migration Process

Joomla v. 1.5 was good and valid for a long time. It has a lot of ready to use extensions. But its official support has stopped from September 2012. They advised to migrate this version to Joomla 2.5. So this is how I’ve migrated old Joomla site to the new version 2.5. And from 2.5 the upgrade will be easy, because Joomla has provided one-click upgrade buttons for the core and extensions.
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