Design & Development
Web Design Tips: Configuring Templates, Adding a Product Grid in Magento
Adding a dynamic product grid or list to any static page in Magento is as easy as adding a few lines of code. The challenge is ... 28 Comments | Read More »
Ecommerce Know-How: Selecting a Web Designer or Developer
Often with ecommerce sites success is not a matter of how good you are but rather how good you look. Consumers often judge how... 10 Comments | Read More »
The PeC Review: iCharts Has Great Potential
Many online shopkeepers want interactive, Flash-based charts that allow them to compare product features, enumerate benefits, o... 2 Comments | Read More »
Web Design Tips: Compatibility with Older Browsers
As web technology advances and development standards evolve some web browsers are falling behind. Many lack the ability to supp... 2 Comments | Read More »
Web Design Tips: Use CSS to Adjust Opacity
The CSS opacity property lets web designers define how particular page elements will blend, adding both style and emphasis to i... 3 Comments | Read More »
Web Design Tips: Basic CSS for Headers
How your site looks matters. Even subtle improvements—like using fonts or colors that compliment your theme—can have a positive... 1 Comment | Read More »
Add Social Media to Your Site with Google Friend Connect
People want to be social on the web, whether it is to share things about themselves through a personal profile or to discover o... 4 Comments | Read More »
The PeC Review: Firebug Is a Developer's Tool Worth the Buzz
Firebug is a free Mozilla Firefox add on that gives developers a powerful tool to inspect and edit HTML, perfect CSS, or even a... 2 Comments | Read More »
Web Design Tips: Adding a Product Image Feature with ThickBox 3.1
ThickBox 3.1 is a web page user interface dialog widget that makes use of JavaScript and the jQuery library to display images o... 4 Comments | Read More »
Web Design Tips: Rounded Borders in CSS
Consumers often judge online stores by visual aesthetics alone, so Internet shopkeepers are wise to use large appealing images,... 1 Comment | Read More »
Web Design Tips: Add An Image Flip for More Sales
Consumers will judge your website mainly by the size, quality, and interactivity of the images you use. Adding a simple inte... 4 Comments | Read More »
Mobilizing The Web With Cascading Style Sheets
Benjamin Chui isn’t taking ecommerce sitting down. The founder of Ben’s Bargain Center is striding through San Francisco’s fina... 0 Comments | Read More »
Mobile Commerce: 800 Million Untapped Users
Web-capable mobile handsets and their nearly 800 million users worldwide represent a significant and largely untapped market fo... 1 Comment | Read More »
Magento's iPhone Theme: Mobile Commerce for the Masses?
Magento Commerce, an open source ecommerce platform, has introduced an Apple iPhone specific theme that is potentially the firs... 9 Comments | Read More »
Video Tutorial: CSS Positioning
The transition from using tables to create a page layout to using Cascading Style Sheets can be difficult to grasp at first, p... 1 Comment | Read More »
Programmers: Web 2.0 Forms
Online forms have become much more elegant and usable in the last couple of years as developers take advantage of “Web 2.0” tec... 4 Comments | Read More »
Frameworks For Web Designers
I've written previously about frameworks and how they help developers build web applications. For the most part, my praise of f... 1 Comment | Read More »
Determine Analytics Questions In Advance
Once a web analytics solution is installed, the most common initial use is to validate some past event. User testing shows th... 2 Comments | Read More »
Testing Site Accessibility
Here's how to perform a standard test to see if your website and store are accessible to the vision impaired. Let It Be Seen B... 3 Comments | Read More »
What Makes A Site Effective?
A client recently asked me to do a quick-and-dirty analysis of a half dozen competitor websites. I decided to look at each com... 4 Comments | Read More »
