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16 Resources for JavaScript
JavaScript is a language that you can use almost without learning it. With the success of jQuery and other JavaScript libraries and plugins, many developers have learned the libraries, without taking the time to learn JavaScript fundamentals. He...
WordPress Theme Development Part 6: Integrating the CMS
With a functional HTML5 and CSS page completed, adding WordPress-specific PHP commands and dividing pages into template files are the final steps toward a competed WordPress theme. For the past several weeks, I have been going through the process...
Analyzing Open-Source Ecommerce Platforms, Part 1: OpenCart
OpenCart is an open source and free PHP-based ecommerce platform that includes many of the most important and popular store features. The platform is up and ready after a very short installation process —more on this in a moment — and offers many...
Redefining Color in CSS3
CSS3's color module gives web designers four ways to specify color, by adding alpha channel transparency and hue, saturation, and lightness color values to the style language's red, green, blue-centric coloring system. CSS' color options have bee...
9 Essential Cheat-Sheet Websites
For developers and designers, cheat sheets offer essential help, providing quick reference help to navigate through a myriad of scripting languages and frameworks. But timesavers are pointless if you’re wasting time tracking them down one-by-one. ...
WordPress Theme Development Part 5: The WordPress Theme Tour
WordPress is a powerful content management system that lets you separate your content from your style and allows you to reuse PHP and HTML in a modular way. This article is part of a series describing one approach to developing a WordPress theme....
10 Awesome jQuery Plugins
With a huge community of developers adding and extending it, jQuery is a great choice for modern web development. All by itself, jQuery is an amazingly powerful JavaScript library. In fact, it is one of the most popular and widely used libraries ...
Peachtree Accounting: API Leverages Relational Database
Sage Peachtree offers a small-business accounting package that rivals — or exceeds — QuickBooks, or any other small business accounting application. Peachtree's API offers developers the opportunity to sync with a relational database, and perform ...
Create a Custom Magento Theme Part 21: Product Detail Pages
In terms of ecommerce conversion, the consumer's buying decision most often happens on the product detail page, so ensuring that this page looks good in your theme is essential. For the past several weeks, I have been demonstrating how to build a...
31 Resources for jQuery
Write less, do more. A fast and concise JavaScript library, jQuery makes it simple to get powerful functions in fewer lines of code. Here is a list of tools, tutorials and resources to help you master the simplicity of jQuery. There are tutorials...
Generate QR Codes Using Google APIs
Quick response codes are a popular form of a two-dimensional, matrix barcode that is now being used as a marketing tool. Developers that can easily integrate QR codes with existing sites or transactional documentation have an opportunity to add va...
WordPress Theme Development Part 4: The Style-Making Continues
In theme development, it is often a good idea to first create the markup and style that you want for the theme and then worry about integrating that markup and style with the content management system in question. This is exactly the approach tha...
Meet OpenCart 1.5
One of the fastest growing open source ecommerce platforms is OpenCart. It was launched by a small team of PHP developers in 2006, led by Daniel Kerr. In this series, I will be exploring the new features and customization techniques of OpenCart 1....
The CSS3 Age Has Begun
As the Internet's default style sheet language, CSS3 may ultimately make cross-device development easier, help developers further separate content and presentation, and add powerful font and graphic capabilities without damaging performance. What'...
60 Tools and Tutorials for Magento
Magento is a highly customizable ecommerce platform to build and run online stores. But with that flexibility comes some level of complexity, and sometimes you need help. Here is a list of Magento tutorials and resources. There are tools to hel...
Create a Custom Magento Theme Part 20: Product Category Pages
Product category pages are extremely important in ecommerce site design since they often serve as the bridge between one section of the site and another. What's more, category pages are increasingly becoming the actual locale of the buying decisio...
Add the New Twitter 'Follow Button' to Your Site
On May 31, Twitter announced a new site widget, the Follow Button, built for marketers to encourage site visitors to "follow" them on the popular microblogging platform. The Follow Button can be implemented using a simple snippet of JavaScript an...
WordPress Theme Development Part 3: Getting Started on Style
Cascading style sheets (CSS) are the web's presentation language, directing the web page's positioning, font and color specifics. This article is part of a series of tutorials demonstrating how to create a WordPress theme. In "Part 2", I demonstr...
Create a Custom Magento Theme Part 19: Updating Templates for Account Pages
There are two basic approaches to Magento theme development. First, a developer may start with a completely blank slate, write out the HTML markup, and then integrate the server side script within this framework. This is how I tend to create Word...
Attracting Mobile Searchers on Ecommerce Sites
Mobile search is growing quickly, and more ecommerce companies are launching mobile sites alongside their primary sites to attract mobile customers. Recent studies show that somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of searches are mobile, and Google, w...