Create a Social Media Widget for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube with PHP
"Create a Social Media Widget for Twitter and Facebook with PHP" is a free, 30-minute informational webinar. The presenter is A...
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7 MySQL Commands for Beginning Developers
MySQL is a relational database management system capable of maintaining data stored in tables and the complex relationships between those tables. The solution also allows many separate users to access multiple databases simultaneously. Many moder...
Build a Quick and Easy jQuery Product-Image Switcher
Adding interactivity to an ecommerce site's product detail page is quick and easy thanks to the jQuery JavaScript Library. In this post, I'll explain how to build a functional product-image switcher that smoothly fades from one product image to an...
Make Basic SOAP Calls to the Magento Core API
Magento has a core API that allows developers to access customer, product, and transaction data via the simple object access protocol (SOAP). Magento's SOAP API makes the platform especially easy to integrate with third-party systems, including a...
14 Sites to Showcase Your Portfolio
If you’re a designer, you need a place to display your work. Fortunately, there are a number of online portfolio sites that are quick and easy, and require little to no technical expertise or capital expense. Here is a list of sites to showcase...
Developing Text-Message Tools with Twilio's API
Mobile marketing, including text message marketing, is a rapidly growing promotional segment in the United States. Some reports estimate small businesses could devote as much as 20 percent of their marketing budgets to mobile tactics in the coming...
Create an Interactive Map with jVectorMap
jVectorMap is a jQuery plugin that renders SVG and VML vector maps in browsers ranging from the ancient Internet Explorer 6 to the just released Firefox 6. The plugin comes from self-proclaimed JavaScript addict Kirill Lebedev, who you can follow...
Google Opens Google+ Games to Developers; 16 Examples
Google+ has launched Google+ Games, with the first instance of third-party apps on the Google+ platform. According to the new Google+ developers blog, Google+ has started with a small number of developers to get the kinks out of the APIs, before...
Design Inspiration from Online Travel and Hotel Sites
Travel-related ecommerce is a massive multi-billion dollar industry with diverse companies that often trade on price or luxury. As a result, travel and hotel ecommerce website design is often optimized to create the most possible conversions and ...
Styling OpenCart 1.5
In my previous article, "Tweaking OpenCart 1.5 Layouts," I showed you how to create a new, revised instance of the default theme installed with OpenCart 1.5, and how to modify the footer. Now that we have some understanding as to how OpenCart them...
Copy and Backup MySQL Databases with mysqldump
Making copies of database content is a common web development task. Sometimes you need to move database tables from a development server to a production server. Other times you might just be making a backup. In most of these cases, the mysqldump...
Analyzing Open-Source Ecommerce Platforms, Part 6: Magento
Magento is one of the most popular open-source ecommerce platforms, with more than 100,000 active merchants and a solid brand name in the ecommerce community. Many large retailers use Magento, such as The North Face; Olympus; and Dockers. ...
Create and Manage Facebook Test Users
Facebook has released a simple user interface for creating application test users as part of its Operation Developer Love. Facebook application test users, according to the official Facebook developer blog, "are invisible user accounts associated...
Tools and Resources on Twitter’s New Developer Site
Twitter’s new developer site, Dev.twitter.com, provides fresh support for the Twitter community and its over one million registered applications. The site should help to improve the microblogging company’s strained relationship with its third-par...
Integrate a Newsletter Subscription Form with MailChimp's API
MailChimp's simple and direct API makes it easy to access the email service provider's list management tools. MailChimp is popular with small ecommerce site owners, thanks to the company's "Free Forever" plan that allows a marketer to send as man...
13 Mobile-App Marketplaces
The migration to cloud computing is creating new opportunities for developers to earn money by creating applications, extensions, and add-ons. Many cloud platforms provide marketplaces for developers to sell their apps. The list below is leadin...
Adventures in Ruby, a Book Review
Ruby is an intensely object-oriented and balanced interpreted scripting language that is also easy to use. But to at least some extent, it stands in the shadow of the Rails framework and, sometimes, is unnecessarily opposed to other server-side la...
How to Embed Facebook Wall Content on Any Site
Facebook's Graph API makes it possible to place the contents of a Facebook page's stream of posts (wall) on nearly any website. In this article, I will walk through the steps required to create a Facebook feed section. Although, you will almost c...
19 Sources for Free Photoshop Tutorials
If you're a designer, or if you have anything to do with websites, at some point you'll likely need to use Abode Photoshop. Using the professional standard can be intimidating. Fortunately, if you're looking for help, there's plenty of it. Here ...
10 Must "Circle" Web Developers on Google+
Google+, the new social layer from Google, has about 20 million users so far. The service has attracted some of the web development community's best and brightest. (Meanwhile others in the community seem to have rejected it. For example Remy Sharp...