Ecommerce Developer Content
Top 4 SEO Web Testing Tools
The new release of a website requires all sorts of testing — from security testing to load testing to testing the functionality of transactional elements. But what about search engine optimization testing? Many feature releases and design changes ...
10 Great HTML Email Designs
Improvements in email clients and the rapid adoption of tablets and smartphones are affecting HTML email design and creating the opportunity for more visually pleasing results. For example, the new Yahoo! mail can load images by default and read ...
October 2011's Ten Most Read Articles
Responsive, mobile-optimized design, a shopping cart review, and hard-core development tutorials and resources were among the most read Ecommerce Developer articles in October 2011. Responsive design is one of the hottest topics in ecommerce deve...
14 New Developer Books for October 2011
This month’s new developer books focus on HTML5, JavaScript, and PHP. Also there are several books on mobile applications and mobile game development. Here is a list of new developer books released in October. Included are both new releases and n...
Scrape Site Content with Simple HTML DOM Parser in PHP
Web scraping is a helpful technique for comparing prices; collecting unstructured site content and organizing it in a way that is easier to present; and even collecting data for a multi-site search feature. Web scraping is similar to web indexing...
5 Examples of What WebGL Can Do
Web-based Graphics Library (WebGL) is a JavaScript extension that can be used in HTML5 canvas elements to bring three-dimensional (3D) graphics to the web browser without the need for a special plugin. WebGL is at least partially supported in mos...
JavaScript Frameworks Galore
JavaScript plays an important role in user experience, providing interactivity, Ajax-driven data, form validation, and much more. Writing the JavaScript necessary for managing a site feature like a content slider, a REST API, or an Ajax shopping ...
SEO: Top 3 Developer Gripes
In my ongoing efforts to work more closely with developers to achieve search engine optimization goals, I decided to poll a few of my developer friends anonymously to understand their side of the love, less-love relationship between search engine ...
Google Releases New Rapid-Prototyping, Scripting Language
After hinting that a new scripting language was in the works for nearly a year, Google finally released "Dart" last week, in what some believe is an effort to replace JavaScript. According to the official Dart website, "Dart is a new class-based ...
Localizing OpenCart for Language, Currency
OpenCart 1.5 comes with the capability to support multiple languages, currencies and other localization features. However, the standard installation only includes one language: English. Furthermore, the British heritage of OpenCart's developer, Da...
Retrofitting Sites for Mobile Rendering
Optimizing a site for smartphones and tablets is a skill that is in high demand as mobile Internet use rises, and savvy web designers — whether freelance or in house — can get a lot of work in this area. A few years ago, special mobile websites w...
Upload and Store Images with PHP
PHP's predefined $_FILES variable and some simple HTML make it easy to upload and store images. From customer profile pictures to product personalization, there are many times when a developer may want to allow users to upload an image. Fortunate...
SEO: PageRank Sculpting for 2011
As recently as 2007, search engine optimization experts were excited by the concept of PageRank or link sculpting, the practice of applying "rel=nofollow" tags to links of lesser value so that more link juice would flow to the other more valuable ...
Create Your Own WSDL-SOAP API
A custom web service can make it easier to share site information, market through affiliates, or better connect business programs. And writing a standards-compliant web service is easy. According to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a web serv...
Quickly Migrate Products to Magento via a SOAP API
Magento's core application programming interface (API) makes it easy to migrate products into and out of the platform or reconcile online and brick-and-mortar inventory and sales. One of the Magneto platform's best features is its API, which supp...
10 Frameworks and Tools for Responsive, Mobile-Optimized Design
Mobile Internet use could be the single most important trend in modern web development, with mobile web access expected to overtake desktop web access in just the next three years. "By 2015," Farmingham, Massachusetts-based analysis firm IDC said...
Random Redesign: Old Will Knott Scales
Old Will Knott Scales is an online purveyor of digital and analog scales, including analytical balances, body fat monitors, hanging scales, jewelry scales, medical scales, and everything in between. The company prides itself on providing excellent...
14 New Developer Books for September 2011
This month’s new developer books focus on HTML5, JavaScript libraries, and mobile platform development. Here is a list of new developer books released in September — as well as pending releases in October. Included are both new releases and new e...
Analyzing Open-Source Ecommerce Platforms, Part 8: Spree
Spree is a Ruby-on-Rails-powered open source ecommerce platform known for providing excellent backend structure and exceptional frontend flexibility. This review of Spree is the eighth installment in a series of articles that provide a brief anal...
September 2011 Ten Most Read Articles
Shopping cart reviews, how-to articles and other tutorials where among the most read Ecommerce Developer articles in September 2011. A review of the PrestaCart ecommerce platform, instructions for building a project starter kit, and detailed inst...