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Selecting DOM Elements with jQuery
The jQuery JavaScript library has an excellent, cross-browser selector engine that uses CSS. Perhaps the single most common task in JavaScript development is selecting and manipulating elements from the document object model (DOM). This is one of...
15 Noteworthy jQuery Plugins
jQuery plugins extend the popular JavaScript library's functions, abstracting commonly used features that for a variety of reasons are better suited as an addition to jQuery rather than part of its core. Often, jQuery plugins are the work of web ...
Consume an RSS feed with Zend_Feed_RSS
RSS feeds from news or information sites can be consumed using some simple PHP and the Zend Framework's Feed component. The Zend Framework is a loosely-coupled, PHP component library that can be used piecemeal or as a well-equipped model-view-con...
22 Feedback Tools for Web Designers
Feedback is an essential part of development. Sharing your designs can help identify potential problems and ensure the ideal user-experience. Here is a list of resources to get feedback on your designs. There are sites to present your design f...
10 New Year's Resolutions for Web Developers
Web development is a dynamic career that frequently confronts its practitioners with new challenges. Growing and improving is often just part of the job. Nonetheless, New Year's resolutions are an opportunity to focus that growth and improvement a...
December 2011 Top Ten: The Month's Most Read Posts
WordPress themes, inspirational site design, and CSS3 were among the hottest topics this month on Ecommerce Developer. At the end of each month, Ecommerce Developer counts down the ten best-read posts that we published that month. This top ten l...
Implementing the VideoJS HTML5 Video Player
Get consistent performance from HTML5 video in modern browsers and an Adobe Flash fallback for old ones with the VideoJS library. HTML5 makes it possible for video to be played natively in the web browser and gives developers a JavaScript API to ...
26 Git Tools and Tutorials
Git is a free and open source version control system, created by Linus Torvalds, for the collaborative development of software. Every Git clone is a full-fledged code repository with a complete history and revision tracking capabilities, not depen...
Twitter's 'Web Intents' Customizes Tweets and Follows
Twitter's "Web Intents" service makes it possible to implement semi-custom tweet and follow links with a simple HTML anchor tag. Officially, Twitter says its Web Intents service provides “popup-optimized flows for working with Tweets & Twitte...
Using a Parallax Background to Change Perspectives
So-called Parallax background animation is an interesting way to add depth to a page depth — using CSS and JavaScript. A dictionary definition of parallax describes it as something like an object's apparent change of position as a result of the o...
13 Powerful WordPress Plugins
WordPress is the popular blogging platform and content management system that powers many established, and startup, websites. The open source WordPress platform has an extremely devoted development community, and as a result there are thousands ...
17 New Magento Tutorials
The Magento open source ecommerce platform has an installed user-base of over 100,000 merchants. Magento supports an active developer community and a frequent stream of helpful tutorials. Here is a list of recent tutorials for Magento. There are...
CSS3 Product Quick View
On ecommerce sites, it is important to provide shoppers with a clear path to purchase and help them make buying decisions as soon as possible. A product "quick view" feature can provide the shopper with important product information directly from ...
2011's Top Ten Most Read Articles
Magento theming and development, mobile tools, OpenCart, and HTML5 were among the topics that seemingly most interested Ecommerce Developer readers in 2011. With the end of December fast approaching, we've look back at the ten most read articles ...
Build a Custom Promotional Page with CSS and jQuery
Ecommerce developers are often called on to build custom promotional or landing pages. Using CSS and jQuery to produce simple — yet visually pleasing — transitions and effects is a good tactic for these pages. A real world example of this sort of...
4 Color Design Resources in 2012
In design, a new year means new trends. That is particularly true with color, which draws forecasts from designers across industries. Here is a list of color forecasts for 2012 and beyond, as well as new color tools to inspire your own design proj...
A Dozen Inspirational 3dcart Sites
When selecting an ecommerce platform or starting a new ecommerce design project, it can be a good idea to look at what others have done, drawing on existing site designs to inspire future ones. For this article, I reviewed sites that had implemen...
Book Review: Head First HTML5 Programming
HTML5 is a draft language standard that improves markup, offers detailed processing models for better interoperability, and introduces a number of application programming interfaces (APIs) for creating functional and efficient web applications. W...
21 Great, Free WordPress Themes
WordPress is a popular, free and open-source web content management platform that is often used for blogs, magazine or news sites, and even for ecommerce. It is common for developers using existing themes, building on or modifying as needed. In t...
7 Version Control Systems for Collaboration
Version Control Systems enable developers and designers to collaborate safely on a project, without having to send files back and forth, by synchronizing files in a repository and providing previous versions if something happens. Revision control ...