How to display Prev/Next buttons on a Nivo slider when MouseOver

Most of slider effects will display the Prev/Next buttons by default once you open the page that contain a slider effect. Whether you build a slider for a CMS or a shopping cart or a regular HTML page, you can be able to change the codes in CSS and slider block on your HTML page. Here’s how you do it. Open the CSS file that supports the slider, add a style for the Prev/Next layer. Hide the layer on display first. .parent .navigation-links { display:none;…

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How to add an MP3 to a music product

1. Create your Music Genres 2. Create your Media Types (these are the allowed file-extension types you will use for uploading files) 3. Create your Record Companies 4. Create your Recording Artists 5. Create your music products … be sure to select the “Product-Music” product-type from the pulldown menu when creating the product. While entering the product details, you can select the Record Artist, the Record Company, the Genre, etc. 6. Create your media collections using Media Manager …. these are like albums/mixes of songs…

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How to move ZenCart to another server

I’ve moved so many Zen carts to many servers before, so this is my input to help out some developers out there trying to move a zencart over to another server environment. Check for version compatibility: Every Zencart has its version, check to make sure that the Zencart version is compatible with the PHPMySQL version where you want to move the cart to. Don’t proceed next step if the new server is not compatible to your old Zencart version. Try to download the latest or…

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How to stop a webpage from auto refreshing constantly

There’re a few questions related to this matter I received today from my clients. Some of them have tried “break;” and “window.stop();” and “pause();” and “window.location.reload(false);”, … you name it; however, non of them works. There’s a trick to reload a webpage once and stop the webpage from auto-refreshing itself. At the end of the URL, add the pound sign like this # in the Get or Post URL. Then when you retrieve the value by GET/POST variables, remember to remove the # sign by…

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