Ecommerce Developer is a little more than a year old. And although our site is young, we believe we've done a pretty good job of providing some interesting content.
In fact, in this post you'll find a list of the top 25 articles from 2010. These articles received the most reads and helped to guide our editorial schedule.
Let us know in the comments which of these were your favorite articles, and tell us what sorts of posts you would like to see in 2011.
No. 25: Twenty Email Marketing Examples for Design Inspiration
Email marketing is a powerful tool, and ecommerce designers and developers that help clients create great HTML emails can earn a nice living. So, it is little wonder that an inspiring design showcase feature about email marketing would make our top 25.
No. 24: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 13: Turning the Page
Our Magento theme series was extremely well read in 2010—so, yes, you can expect an updated series in 2011—and part 13 of that series was our 24th most read article of the year.
No. 23: Twenty-Seven Stunning Shopify Stores
Shopify is one of our staff's favorite hosted ecommerce solutions. And based on how many reads this Shopify showcase received, it is one of your favorites, too.
No. 22: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Eight: The Boring Middle
In spite of its title, the eighth installment of the Magento theme series was anything but boring.
No. 21: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 14: Facing the Horror
At number 21 in 2010 was "Part 14" of our popular Magento theme-building series. The post dealt with selecting templates for the various pages of your Magento implementation.
No. 20: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Eleven: The Footer
When we said that this Magento series was popular, we weren't kidding. The eleventh episode described how to style to footer in a typical Magento theme.
No. 19: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 12: The Search Form
Some cosmetic customizing made our post about Magento's search form a favorite in 2010.
No. 18: Audio Interview: Adobe’s Justin Everett-Church Discusses SEO and Flash Content
If you have not heard this interview with Adobe's Justin Everett-Church, you missed one of the most enlightening discussions about Flash and search engine optimization anywhere.
No. 17: Create Bar Graphs in Adobe Illustrator CS4
Graphs and charts are an excellent way to communicate with site visitors. Drew Coffin's tutorial is an excellent resource for any ecommerce designer.
No. 16: SEO-Friendly URLs in CodeIgniter
Even in the face of Google's instant search, search result personalization, and Blekko's spam links, SEO related topics are always well read.
No. 15: Tutorial: How to Create a Signup System with CodeIgniter
The CodeIgniter PHP framework can help developers rapidly create working sites or applications. In this post, you'll learn how to create a basic login system.
No. 14: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Seven: More Rounded Corners
In this episode of the Magento theme series, we demonstrated how to implement rounded corners for all types of web browsers.
No. 13: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Ten: The Home Page Home Stretch
Our Magento theme series focused on building a complete theme. In this particular episode we focused on the home page.
No. 12: Twenty-Six Exemplary PrestaShop Sites
Design showcases were very popular on Ecommerce Developer in 2010. This one featured examples of sites using PrestaShop.
No. 11: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Nine: A Content Slider
Content sliders, faders, and movers may be the most important development trend of the past few years. In this post, we described how to install a content slider in your Magento theme.
No. 10: Tutorial: Avoid Two Problems Installing Magento On A Localhost
Help with installing Magento was a popular topic in 2010. And with updates to the Magento platform, it will no doubt continue to be important. Look for Ecommerce Developer to publish an update to this post in 2011.
No. 9: Tutorial: Use Magento’s Translation CSV File to Change Site Labels
One of Magento's strengths as an ecommerce platform is its ability to support multiple storefronts from a single backend. This is especially helpful if your project calls for the site to be translated into any number of languages. This tutorial explains how to use Magento's translation system.
No. 8: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Six: Product Navigation and CSS Rounded Corners
Product navigation is an essential part of any ecommerce site project. In this tutorial, we discussed product navigation in the context of a Magento theme build.
No. 7: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Five: The Home Page CSS Continues
Although there is quite a lot of PHP and JavaScript work required to build a custom Magento theme, there was still a lot of interest in CSS.
No. 6: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Three: HTML Validation and "Your" Labels
With many sites migrating to the HTML5 doctype, validation was a hot topic in 2010.
No. 5: Full 360-Degree Product Image Rotation in JavaScript
This post described in some detail how to use an image sprite and a jQuery plug-in to create 360-degree product image effects.
No. 4: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Four: The CSS Work Begins
Our fourth most read post in 2010 was also the fourth installment of our Magento theme series, and the first episode of the series to focus on CSS.
No. 3: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Two: Page Planning, Templates, & HTML 5
Adding the HTML5 doctype to Magento and planning pages was the topic in this, our third most popular article of the past year.
No. 2: Two Easy Ways to Add the Facebook 'Like' Button to Product Detail Pages
Social media presents an amazing opportunity to online retailers. In this article, we described how to add a Facebook "Like" button to your product detail pages.
No. 1: Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part One: Prolegomena
It has been about a year since we published this post. It kicked off our Magento theme series, which, as you can see from this list, was a big success. This particular article described those things that must be done before you start to code.
Thank you for supporting Ecommerce Developer, we hope our articles helped you in 2010, and will continue to help you in 2011.
