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Brian Getting

Brian Getting

Brian Getting is the founder and owner of the Tatemae Consultancy (formerly Terra Firma Design & Consulting), an Internet consulting, marketing and development firm located in Newport, Oregon.

Prior to founding Terra Firma Design & Consulting, Brian was a core member of the Practical eCommerce team from 2005 until 2009, where he served as Chief Architect, in addition to being a regular contributor of articles and blog posts.

Brian specializes in Ruby on Rails development, search engine friendly website design and accessibility.

Find Brian on LinkedIn and on Twitter. Visit The Tatemae Consultancy.

Video Tutorial: CSS Positioning

September 12, 2008 • Brian Getting

The transition from using tables to create a page layout to using Cascading Style Sheets can be difficult to grasp at... Read More »
Video Tutorial: Assessing Accessibility

August 26, 2008 • Brian Getting

There are a number of compelling reasons to make sure that your website is accessible to people with disabilities. In... Read More »
Video Tutorial: Batch Processing In Photoshop

August 20, 2008 • Brian Getting

Got a lot of product photos? Processing a large amount of images in Photoshop can take up a ton of time,... Read More »
Video: Overview of Practical eCommerce Podcasts

August 11, 2008 • Brian Getting

This explanation is for anyone interested in the audio podcast content of the revamped Practicalecommerce.com. Practical eCommerce features three unique podcasts: The eCommerce Minute, eCommerce Conversations and eCommerce Articles. With... Read More »
Tutorial: Understanding Photoshop Layer Styles

August 4, 2008 • Brian Getting

Learning how to use Photoshop can be a very intimidating experience. In most cases, you have an idea of what you want to accomplish but you don't know how to... Read More »
Programmers: Web 2.0 Forms

June 3, 2008 • Brian Getting

Online forms have become much more elegant and usable in the last couple of years as developers take advantage of “Web 2.0”... Read More »
Frameworks For Web Designers

March 26, 2008 • Brian Getting

I've written previously about frameworks and how they help developers build web applications. For the most part, my praise of frameworks has... Read More »
Tech Support: Application Programming Interfaces

March 19, 2008 • Brian Getting

One of the most exciting trends on the Internet today is interconnectedness. Application programming interfaces (APIs) help make this possible. For example,... Read More »
Tech Support: Passwords And Avatars

February 4, 2008 • Brian Getting

Can ecommerce merchants help their customers manage multiple user names and passwords? Many websites require users to create an account to participate. This... Read More »
Programming Notes: Linking To Payment Gateways

January 28, 2008 • Brian Getting

Payment gateways can be intimidating for many web developers. I have always found a certain amount of anxiety associated with them, particularly... Read More »
Programming Notes: Importance of Hand Coding

December 19, 2007 • Brian Getting

Let's be honest. Most people do not go into website design because they enjoy writing code, or because they want to root... Read More »
Software Frameworks

October 24, 2007 • Brian Getting

In broad terms, a software framework is a code library that is designed to facilitate software development. The idea is that... Read More »
What Are “Tags” And What Is “Tagging?”

October 22, 2007 • Brian Getting

Since around 2004, content tagging has become more and more common due to social networking, photography sharing and bookmarking sites. Tagging... Read More »
Video Tutorial: Script.aculo.us Effects

October 18, 2007 • Brian Getting

Script.aculo.us is a JavaScript framework that is built upon the wildly successful Prototype JavaScript libraries. Script.aculo.us allows web designers to create engaging user interfaces quickly and easily, due in... Read More »
Video Tutorial: Tabbed Content – Part 2

October 11, 2007 • Brian Getting

Tabbed content appears more and more frequently in web pages, and is an interesting way to simultaneously save page space and... Read More »
Video Tutorial: Tabbed Content

October 4, 2007 • Brian Getting

Tabbed content appears more and more frequently in web pages, and is an interesting way to simultaneously save page space and effectively present information. In part one of this... Read More »
Video Tutorial: JavaScript Tooltips

September 27, 2007 • Brian Getting

You've probably seen those useful "tooltips" text boxes that are displayed on some websites when you roll over a specific link... Read More »
Video Tutorial: Validating A Form With JavaScript

September 20, 2007 • Brian Getting

In form validation two common questions often arise. The first is how do you ensure once you've asked for an... Read More »
TechSupport: "What's A Relational Database?"

September 10, 2007 • Brian Getting

Q: Our web developer tells us that our ecommerce site uses a relational database, but I don't understand what this means. Could... Read More »
Programming Notes: Transferring A Domain Name

September 3, 2007 • Brian Getting

The process of transferring a domain name from one registrar to another can be daunting, and the exact process can vary slightly... Read More »
Tech Support July 2007: Accessibility

July 16, 2007 • Brian Getting

I keep hearing about accessibility. What is it and why is it important? Accessibility, in the context of a website, is the measure... Read More »
Video Tutorial: Rounded Corners with CSS

July 2, 2007 • Brian Getting

Rounded corners present a unique challenge to website designers, particularly when using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create layouts that are... Read More »
Protect Data From Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks

June 25, 2007 • Brian Getting

Security is always going to be a concern for both developers and ecommerce business owners alike, since providing a secure environment for... Read More »
Video Tutorial: CSS Design, Part Two

June 20, 2007 • Brian Getting

In the conclusion of our two-part video tutorial on CSS layout and design, we will take the layout we created in... Read More »
Video Tutorial: CSS Design, Part One

June 19, 2007 • Brian Getting

Designing search engine friendly websites can be intimidating, particularly for designers who are just learning how to use CSS formatting. ... Read More »
Video Tutorial: Choosing the Right Image Format

May 2, 2007 • Brian Getting

Choosing the right image format for publishing images on the web can be tricky. After all, you don't want to spend hours and hours cleaning up a product image... Read More »
Installing Google Maps On Your Site

May 2, 2007 • Brian Getting

Implementing Google Maps into your website is an easy way to provide rich, interactive map features that can help your customers find... Read More »
Video Tutorial: Removing Backgrounds from Product Images

April 23, 2007 • Brian Getting

Look, we aren't all great photographers, and even those out there that do manage to take spectacular photos still need to... Read More »
Basic Definitions: Web 1.0, Web. 2.0, Web 3.0

April 18, 2007 • Brian Getting

"What do people mean when they talk about the Web 2.0?" is a query we receive repeatedly, and probably has as many... Read More »
What is Ruby on Rails?

April 9, 2007 • Brian Getting

First there was Ruby, and now there is Ruby on Rails. Ruby is an open-source web-programming language that was developed in Japan in... Read More »