rocky Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Hi, Some of you may remember me from when I was actively moderating and answering questions on the forums. I used to sell PrestaShop modules on my Nethercott Constructions website, but I closed it down after I burnt myself out from too much programming. I'm now back with a new advertising-supported website Techtonic Guides where I write free guides about technology. I have a section where I've started writing PrestaShop guides. Here are the guides I've done so far: PrestaShop Installation Guides How to automatically install PrestaShop on a server using SimpleScripts How to manually download PrestaShop, upload it to a server and extract it How to create a MySQL database and MySQL user for PrestaShop How to test PrestaShop on a local computer using XAMPP How to install PrestaShop and get all green ticks on the server configuration page How to manually upgrade to PrestaShop v1.4.4 and automatically upgrade to latest version File and Database Management Guides How to create, delete, rename, copy and move files and folders How to set folder permissions to chmod 755 and file permissions to chmod 644 How to edit code, search and replace code and jump to a line number How to manage tables and perform queries using phpMyAdmin How to back up and restore tables using phpMyAdmin PrestaShop User Guides Introduction to the Back Office Introduction to the Front Office Improving the performance of a PrestaShop website PrestaShop Development Guides Introduction to the PrestaShop architecture Introduction to the PrestaShop cookie Introduction to the PrestaShop database Introduction to the PrestaShop module hooks How to override classes, controllers, modules and tabs How to create a PrestaShop module For those of you interested in seeing how PrestaShop compares to other software: How to create a public website and blog using Office 365 I'll continue adding more guides whenever I can. Feedback is welcome. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave L Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Hi rocky, Good to hear you are back in the swing of things. Your efforts in bringing these free guides to the community is appreciated. Hopefully you'll be persuaded to bring us some more free or paid for modules in the future, especially updating your superb gallery module ;-) All the best, Dave. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Patron Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 Welcome back Rocky....remember to balance work and life 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted June 1, 2013 Author Share Posted June 1, 2013 Thanks, guys. I'll try to balance my life better this time. I'm hoping I'll be able to make enough money from advertising, but at only $0.00125 per page view, it will take me about a million page views per month to earn a decent amount of money. If I can't get enough visitors, I'll have to try selling PDF versions of my guides and resurrecting my modules, otherwise I'll have to give up on my self-employment dream. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 Added articles on how to use the cPanel File Manager to manage files and permissions, edit code, search and replace code and jump to a line number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dh42 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Rocky, you might try posting them over on reddit to at http://www.reddit.com/r/prestashop/ more exposure and I am hoping to build a nice reddit community for prestashop 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 Thanks for your advice. I'll try writing a post with links to my guides there. I still have a lot of work left to go. I haven't even started covering the individual tabs in PrestaShop, but I suppose people will appreciate reading what I've done so far. I've already got a nice boost in traffic from this post (Thanks!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 Added a guide on how to test PrestaShop on a local computer using XAMPP. I also added another guide I wrote about Office 365, since it has some interesting features to create a public website and blog. I'm impressed with the live editing of content and the option to change the crop area of thumbnails. These are features PrestaShop could emulate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted July 20, 2013 Author Share Posted July 20, 2013 I've now finished my guide on phpMyAdmin including how to manage tables, perform queries and back up and restore. As a side note, I've discovered earning money from advertising is extremely difficult. I was expecting to be paid per page visit, but I'm actually only paid by ad impression. Every time a visitor uses an ad blocker or a mobile device that can't display ads, I am not paid for their visit. Also, the advertiser may run out of ads to display to a user, in which case I won't be paid when that user visits until more ads are available. So I must now increase my goal to 10,000,000 page visits a month to earn a decent amount, which I believe to be unachievable on a smaller website like my own. Anyway, I thought I'd share in case anyone else was considering making money from advertising. I'm going to have to return to paid programming and modules to earn a decent amount of money. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share Posted August 23, 2013 Added a new guide on improving the performance of PrestaShop websites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted August 26, 2013 Author Share Posted August 26, 2013 I've now added my PrestaShop v1.4 development guides and started updating them for PrestaShop v1.5. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannaleng Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 hi, do you teach how to reinstall a fresh new presta wo losing the data? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocky Posted August 30, 2013 Author Share Posted August 30, 2013 Do you mean upgrading to a new PrestaShop version? I haven't written a guide on upgrading yet. PrestaShop has one in their documentation here. Edit: I wrote a guide today on how to manually upgrade PrestaShop to v1.4.4 and then automatically upgrade to the latest version. If you're having problems with a PrestaShop database, it is hard to recreate the database without losing data. Even if you do manage to it, you'll probably end up restoring the error you were trying to fix. There is an Export button in the toolbar of many tabs such as Categories, Products and Orders that you could use to export your data to CSV files. You could do a clean install of PrestaShop in a separate directory and then use the CSV Import tool to import all the data you previously exported from the bad install. If everything works, you can delete the bad installation and move the good one to the root directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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