What Your Clients Don't Know About Email Marketing
In this webinar, Brandon Founts, Head of Deliverability with MailChimp, describes email list etiquette, explains how to avoid e...
Ecommerce Developer Content
Twenty-Seven Stunning Shopify Stores
Website aesthetics are as important as function. Online shoppers judge a merchant’s professionalism and trustworthiness by how good that merchant’s site looks. With this in mind, I have collected 27 examples of nice looking ecommerce websites bui...
Coding for Tax Calculations: Everything You Never Wanted to Know – Part 2
Editor's Note: This is part two of our two-part series explaining the complexities of coding for taxes arising from ecommerce sales. The author is David Brokenshire, a programmer with Elastic Path, an ecommerce platform for enterprise-level mercha...
Ruby on Rails: "Views" and "Controllers" Explained
Ruby on Rails is one of the most popular programming frameworks, in part because of its model-view-controller architecture. In this screencast, we look at views and controllers. Models can stand alone and provide value without views or controlle...
New SSD to Speed Up PC/MAC Performance
Web designers and developers spend thousands of hours each year working dutifully at their computers, focused on task after task as they endlessly tap keys, stair at pixels, and wiggle a mouse. With such a close relationship between man and machi...
Coding for Tax Calculations: Everything You Never Wanted to Know – Part 1
Calculating sales-related taxes is complicated enough for a single retail store in one location, let alone when you have multiple customers and locations worldwide, as is the case with ecommerce sites. Every jurisdiction has its own rules and you ...
Focus On Features and Trends to Grow Revenue for Your Practice
Focusing on features and trends may help freelance web designers and developers earn more business. It is no secret that freelance web designers and developers must do more than create compelling user interfaces or write beautiful code. Rather th...
Magento Commerce Theme Basics
The Magento Commerce platform's template and theme structure makes it a flexible, extendable, and downright muscular ecommerce platform that can also be somewhat complex. With the Magento platform each “page” is a set of .phtml template files ren...
Tutorial: Making Web Button Graphics in Adobe Photoshop CS4, Part Two
In this tutorial, you will learn to create mouse-over and mouse-down versions of web buttons for use with CSS. This is a continuation of part one of the web buttons tutorial. I'll show you how to take the web buttons previously created in that pre...
Seven JavaScript Tutorials We Wish We’d Written
JavaScript adds interactivity to web design and development. The language is one of the most important aspects of modern website creation, and without it, many user interfaces would be bland indeed. Often, we find skilled developers who have take...
Google and Facebook Introduce Short URL Services
Google and Facebook both introduced URL shortening services, similar to bit.ly and TinyURL, this week. These new shortening services are currently aimed at the respective company’s own products, but should still be of interest to web developers, p...
Tutorial: Gold Text Effects in Photoshop CS4
Artistic typography is one of the hottest trends in site design and something that many designers and developers will want to integrate into projects. This video tutorial will show you how to create a gold text effect using Adobe Photoshop CS4. T...
Tutorial: Transforming XSLT with PHP
One of the mistakes many new PHP developers make is not separating their code layer from their presentation layer. When creating applications for the web, for instance, new developers will often mix backend database calls and other programming l...
Twenty-Four Trend-Setting T-Shirt Shops
The humble t-shirt has become perhaps the most outstanding icon of popular culture. It is more than garb, but rather a vehicle that communicates its wearer's faith, politics, hobbies, and lifestyle. With so much of a potential customer's social ...
Use On-Demand Collaboration Tools To Manage Client Projects
Your clients want to be informed. They want to know how the project is going. They want to see milestones reached. And with the help of a good project collaboration tool, you can actually provide your clients with the information they want in a wa...
Tutorial: Creating A Flash-based User Form and Attaching a Database, Part Two
Adding Flash development skills to your toolbox can make you a much more marketable developer. So to help improve those skills, Flash and web design expert Jonah Were describes how to create a database and uses PHP to connect that database to a F...
W3C Seeks CEO
The Internet’s leading collaborative open standards organization, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is seeking a new chief executive officer to “lead the organization in changing times.” Former W3C CEO Steven R. Bratt stepped down in June. Wh...
A Look at Audio and Video Elements in HTML 5
HTML 5’s audio and video APIs offer web designers and developers an alternative for delivering rich Internet content. Internet users in the U.S. watched some 27.9 billion online videos in October 2009, according to comScore, the Internet tracking...
Ruby on Rails: Ten Essential Resources For Getting Started
Ruby on Rails is an important, open-source web development framework for the Ruby programming language, using a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture pattern and adhering to the Agile Manifesto for software development, the framework has become...
Book Review: “Designing Social Interfaces” Helps Encourage User Interaction
Creating an engaging user interface—one that encourages site visitors to interact—is at the core of Internet and ecommerce success. Applied correctly, there are known best practices and principles that generally foster online interaction and conne...