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Web Design Tips: The Laws of Ecommerce Navigation Design

Web Design Tips: The Laws of Ecommerce Navigation Design

CSS, Flash, jQuery, and an arsenal of other powerful web techniques and technologies have unbound website design, creating the ... 4 Comments | Read More »

Web Design Tips: Use this PNG Fix for Attractive Images in Older Browsers

Web Design Tips: Use this PNG Fix for Attractive Images in Older Browsers

For most website designs, the portable network graphic, or PNG, is simply the best available image format. But older, noncompli... 2 Comments | Read More »

The PeC Review: Microsoft Tool Helps Designers with Internet Explorer Compatibility Problems

The PeC Review: Microsoft Tool Helps Designers with Internet Explorer Compatibility Problems

Designing for Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser has always been a problem as designers were forced to choose between w... 3 Comments | Read More »

Web Design Tips: Adding A Featured Section to Your Site Using jQuery and jFlow

Web Design Tips: Adding A Featured Section to Your Site Using jQuery and jFlow

Smooth content sliders are widgets that can show clickable product images, Adobe Flash, HTML, or other content, effectively cre... 0 Comments | Read More »

Web Design Tips: Converting an Older Table-Based Email Template To CSS

Web Design Tips: Converting an Older Table-Based Email Template To CSS

Many email templates were developed using older table-based layouts that "break" easily and are very complicated to maintain. ... 17 Comments | Read More »

Video Ideas: 4 Ways to Engage Visitors and Increase Sales

Video Ideas: 4 Ways to Engage Visitors and Increase Sales

Nearly 80 percent of U.S. Internet users spent roughly 5 hours watching videos in December 2008, with an average view time of 3... 6 Comments | Read More »

Web Design Tips: Configuring Templates, Adding a Product Grid in Magento

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 ... 29 Comments | Read More »

Ecommerce Know-How: Selecting a Web Designer or Developer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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 »

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