Global Creations LLC – Blog

After setting up blogs for many clients,  we finally got around to creating one for Global Creations’ CEO, Jerry.  This blog is an esoteric combination of  posts related to technical website development issues and various random topics.  For the most part the  information here documents things we have tried.  We use this information so as not to reinvent the wheel if the same issue arises again. We figured if we solved a problem,  perhaps others will be looking for solutions to the same problem.  Look around and see what you can find.

Hold an Element in Place While Scrolling

I’ve been building lead capture pages lately.  They typically have a logo at the top, some header text, an explanation of the valuable things a person can get free for signing up, a sign-up form and a footer.  It’s pretty simple.  See, for example,...

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Integrating First Data e4 SIM with osCommerce

Integrating First Data’s payment system with osCommerce is very simple once you understand that First Data’s instructions are both incomplete and inaccurate. In this post, I’ll take you through the entire process of this integration, step by step.

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Simple Popup Plugin

There are a variety of reasons you might want to display content on your WordPress website in a popup window rather than on a separate page.  A plugin titled “Simple Popup Plugin” promises to let you open any link in a pop up window.  This post demonstrates...

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osCommerce Order History Issues

Background After a customer places an order on your osCommere store,  the store should keep track of that order and allow your customer to see what they ordered.  There is a side menu that displays the list, if you wish to have it on your site.  Sometimes the items...

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Session Variables in osCommerce

Introduction Session variables can be very helpful if you need to get data from one of osCommerce’s subsystems and use it in another.  In this post,  I will use an unusual example to show how to  create a session variable in checkout_shipping.php then use it for...

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