Technical Blog

  • Sep.
  • 17.
  • 2011

My new design for an online store especially for music downloads (with sample audio!)

Music store design - samples, downloads and non-digital cd as products all on one page

Musicians of all types, from Indi-Rockers to Death Metal monsters and even Classic Rock tribute bands need to be able to sell their music online. There are lots of sites they can join that will do it for them like e-music and cdbaby and they make it real easy… But the bands aren’t selling on their own terms, on their …
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  • Sep.
  • 17.
  • 2011

Lightspeed Tech Support Sends Me a Web Store 2.1.1 Bug Report Confirmation

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:31 AM, LightSpeed Support wrote: [edited] the information about the bug and the fix are all public information. When Web Store was converted to “open source”, we moved all the development including issue tracking to Github.com, a huge and public development site for hosting code. It includes an issue tracker where we post the …
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  • Sep.
  • 16.
  • 2011

Embed Audio files for music product in LightSpeed web store

Out of the box, LightSpeed web store is not as robust as some other eCommerce solutions. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to make it more robust. One such example: creating a solution to hear music samples in a Single Product detail page on the web store. We didn’t want to just click over to an external site (like …
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  • Jul.
  • 05.
  • 2011

Theme Authors Beware: WordPress 3.2 needs MYSQL 5 and PHP 5.2.4

Like WordPress states on their WordPress 3.2 pre-release page client’s hosts need to be using MySQL 5 and at least PHP 5.2.4. There’s a plugin called Health Check that will let you know either way. I’d hurry and install this plugin because if the environment is not OK you’re going to have to login to the client’s cpanel and see …
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