Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part Five: Install WordPress, Copy Theme
WordPress is one of the easiest web content management systems to install and use, which no doubt contributes to its popularity. Perhaps one in six websites use it. The platform's flexibility also makes it suitable for basic ecommerce application...
Importing Mechanical Turk Results into Magento
One of the most surprising challenges in retail ecommerce is how difficult it is to generate good, customer-facing product descriptions. But savvy web developers can use Amazon's Mechanical Turk service and Magento's API to rapidly import product ...
20 New jQuery Tools and Tutorials
jQuery changes the way that you write JavaScript. Fast and concise, jQuery makes it much easier to implement JavaScript on a website. Here is a list of new jQuery tutorials and articles. There are tutorials to display sliders, text elements, and ...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part Four: Facing Design Challenges
Transforming a graphic design into a working site typically includes challenges. As much as possible, it is a good idea to anticipate and address those challenges before you begin writing code. With this approach, I am going to describe several k...
Book Review: The WordPress Anthology
Experienced WordPress developers Mick Olinik and Raena Jackson Armitage have released a new book that provides detailed, tutorial-like explanations of how to optimize the WordPress loop, create custom content types, and write plugins. WordPress, ...
