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Pure CSS3 Sliding Vertical Navigation
CSS3 transitions make it possible to create JavaScript-like animations with nothing more than a line or two in a style sheet, enabling web designers and developers to build relatively complex behaviors like sliding vertical navigation with ease. ...
27 OpenCart Tools and Tutorials
It’s easy to understand why OpenCart is a popular ecommerce platform. Feature-rich "out of the box,” OpenCart helps developers get merchants up and running at a minimal cost. Here is a list of tools and tutorials for OpenCart. There are tools to ...
6 Ways Developers Win the SEO Click
Search engine optimization doesn't end with the battle for ranking position. With thumbnail images, social mentions, reviews, news, shopping, maps, paid ads and more clamoring for attention on search results pages, ecommerce sites need to show off...
Storing Form Data in MySQL
From registration forms to ecommerce shopping carts, collecting the data users input into web forms and storing that data in a database is one of the most common web development tasks. In this article, you'll find an introduction to this task tha...
A First Look at the Google+ API
The recently released version 1 of the Google+ application programming interface (API) gives developers read access to pubic user data, making it possible to include Google+ content on almost any website. Google indicated that future versions of ...
Understanding OpenCart Layouts
In version 1.5 of OpenCart, the developers have helped those of us who have, in the past, found it a bit difficult to isolate and manipulate page layouts. With the addition of a new backend menu, we can now begin to get a handle on how to use temp...
Random Redesign: ABU Games
ABU Games is a respected online retailer of "Magic the Gathering" cards, with an inventory of millions of card singles, boosters, tournament packs, decks, and boxes for sale. In this installment of "Random Redesign," you will see unsolicited sugge...
Google Releases New APIs, Tools for Google+
Google has released the first application programming interfaces for Google+, its new social network. This initial API set is intended for feedback and learning. You can experiment with it and build apps on it. Then, if you choose, you can give Go...
22 Examples of Great Web Typography
Written communication — such as blog posts, product descriptions, and page headlines — is an art form in at least two ways. First, there is the craft of choosing words that convey meaning and encourage action. Second, there is art and technique of...
Animate On-Site Merchandising with CSS
On-site merchandising is the concept of presenting relevant, related, and featured products to shoppers visiting an online store. Often on-site merchandising takes the form of web banners or similar graphics. CSS3 makes it easy to animate on-site ...
Build an Always-Ready Project Starter Kit
Web technologies change quickly. But regardless of these changes, many web developers start every project the same way: creating a directory and some basic files. To save time, consider building an always-ready project starter kit that can be easi...
New Developer Tools on Windows Phone App Hub
The new Windows Phone operating system, code-named “Mango,” is now available for developers on App Hub, the developer portal to manage your account, find tools and resources, and submit applications. For the Mango release, App Hub has been updat...
Design Inspiration from Beverage Sites
Beverages like soft drinks, milk, beer, and booze are big business. And the sites that promote these drinks need to engage customers and encourage sales. In some ways, hawking coffee or cola online is very similar to selling merchandise. In this ...
Analyzing Open-Source Ecommerce Platforms, Part 7: PrestaShop
PrestaShop is a free, open-source ecommerce platform with more than 90,000 sites built on it, according to its creators. The solution has a very flexible theme-based design that makes it easy to customize and an extensive list of features and av...
Populating the New Google+ Snippet
Google recently introduced new sharing features that more closely integrate its +1 button with the Google+ social network, including a publisher "snippet" that gives website owners control over how a page will appear when it is shared on Google+. ...
14 Social Networks for Designers and Developers
Designers and developers can improve their own work by sharing it with their peers. The right social network can provide insightful criticism, as well as quick solutions to common problems. Here is a list of social networks for designers and dev...
7 Functional MySQL User Interfaces
The MySQL relational database management system powers many of the dynamic websites on the Internet. But in its standard form, it does not have a graphic user interface (GUI). Fortunately, there are many functional GUIs available. In this article...
Develop a Background-Switching Effect
Online clothing retailer Itself uses product images as section backgrounds on its product detail pages. Many of those pages allow shoppers to step through several background, product images. The Itself product backgrounds give customers large cl...
August 2011 Ten Most Read Articles
In August, Ecommerce Developer readers had many new articles to choose from including tutorials for Facebook, MailChimp, and MySQL, and articles covering Magento and Photoshop. In this post, you will find the ten most popular Ecommerce Developer ...
10 Resources for Facebook’s f8 Developer Conference
The fourth annual Facebook f8 developer conference will take place on September 22 in San Francisco. Typically Facebook uses the conference to launch new products and features. In 2008, Facebook Connect was unveiled. In 2010, f8 launched social ...