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Measured Designs works with local Essex and UK businesses, helping to take their successful high street stores online. We'll help guide you through the categorising of your products, payment gateways, shipping methods, the unique design of your site and site security. Measured Designs is an ecommerce web design company, delivering tailored shop websites to clients in Essex, Norfolk and London. Its founder, Andrew Taylor, has worked with big clients in London's media and finance sectors, and is bringing his expertise to Leigh-On-Sea and its surrounding area.

At Measured Designs we enjoy finding out what makes your business special and endeavour to translate that into your ecommerce presence. Measured Designs is just a stone's throw from Leigh Broadway, Rayleigh, Basildon, Benfleet and Southend, and visits clients across the East of England. Talking to a designer face-to-face is vital to getting the site design and functionality you need. Arranging a visit or just a chat is easy.

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Setting a minimum order value in Magento

On 03.17.13, In ecommerce, Magento, By Andrew Taylor

A client that largely deals B2B, selling stationery and sweets wholesale to smaller shops recently asked for a minimum order value to be added to their Magento store. Here are the steps to setting up a min basket value.

In admin select System-> Configuration,

then select Sales from the left handside menu,

choose the Minimum Order Amount option.

Magento admin minimum order options

Select Yes from the enable dropdown. Enter a minimum order amount, message (this appears in the basket summary as shown below) and error message.

This is what it looks like on the front end.

Minimum order warning message

Information about the new minimum order restrictions are then outlined on the customer services cms page.

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IE8 pains with Bootstrap and less

On 02.13.13, In General, By Andrew Taylor

Developing a new celebrity magazine website with Bootstrap and less, has been relatively painless and fast paced thanks to the responsive grid and javascript library (I love the modals). However viewing a prelive site in IE8 in the early stages of htmling can always be a bit depressing. Here are a few things I noticed working with less and IE8.

1) IE8 heavily caches less files

IE8 caches less files, even frantic bashing of Ctrl + F5 doesn’t seem to have an effect. This is probably only an issue in production when using js to call in the files, but unfortunately when you need to debug it most.

To clear your cache in Internet Explorer 8 go to;

Tools> Internet Options> Browsing History> Delete> Delete Temp Internet Files, Cookies, History

 

2) IE8 doesn’t understand media queries

When building a responsive site, styles for the default desktop view (if you choose that as the fallback) must be available for IE in the main core or global css. Putting desktop layout styles in the responsive css/less files will mean that IE can’t find them. You could duplicate your responsive styles and call them again only for older IEs, but I found this led to much more unnecessary code.

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