How to Use the JSON Decode Function in Mivascript

Miva Merchant Modules and Development
JSON is a great way to store and move text data. Decoding the JSON data into a usable array is also easy using Mivascript.

Archives for February, 2016

Useful articles about Miva Merchant, Miva Merchant SEO, Miva Scripting, general eCommerce best practices, Miva Merchant module information, and more. We've also posted some Miva Script tutorials, guides, and downloads. This blog is run by Scot's Blogger, a Wordpress style Miva Merchant module.


How to Make a FAQ Page in Miva Merchant

Create an elegant FAQ page using very little CSS or javascript.

Make your FAQ entries easy to scan on first glance by hiding the FAQ text until someone clicks on a FAQ title. This is easy to do with very little coding.

Scot Ranney, February 02, 2016

How to use Font Awesome in Miva Merchant

Add modern icons to your store with Font Awesome

Font Awesome gives you hundreds of useful icons that can be used just like text and styled in any way with CSS. Font Awesome is easy, useful, and cool. Actually, it's kind of awesome.

Scot Ranney, February 18, 2016

Easy Way to Stop Flash of Unstyled Web Page Content

A flash of unstyled content when a webpage loads is ugly and annoying, and easily fixed.

As helpful as jQuery and other website plugins can be, a common issue is unstyled web page content coming up a moment before everything looks good. Luckily there's an easy five minute fix to keep unstyled content hidden until it's ready.

Scot Ranney, February 13, 2016

HTML/CSS Trick: How to Turn Off Auto-Complete

Sometimes you need to turn off autocomplete in forms for a good user experience.

If you have a web app with forms that come up on a regular basis, for example if you're entering blog posts, you don't want the inputs to have auto-complete turned on because it is annoying.

Scot Ranney, February 18, 2016

How to Fix qBittorrent Magnet Links

It's only a minor annoyance, but nice to have fixed.

qBittorrent is a great peer-to-peer client and is what I recommend to people who are into torrent files. However there's a small file association bug that adds some extra steps to using magnetic links that we'll fix here.

Scot Ranney, February 22, 2016

Edit your CSS as a Miva Merchant Page

Edit your CSS files without modules or downloading.

Most people edit their Miva Merchant CSS files by downloading them or using a module. There is an alternative that makes editing CSS as easy as editing a store page.

Scot Ranney, February 23, 2016

The blog posts on Scot's Scripts are made using by Scot's Blogger, a full featured Wordpress replacement Miva Merchant blogging module.