Design & Inspiration
11 Free Graphic and Image Editors
Web designers do not need to purchase expensive editing software to create compelling images. There are a variety of free editors available — both web-based and software download — to manipulate product images and site graphics. Here is a list of...
7 Tactics for Better Product Detail Page Design
In ecommerce, the product detail page is where business is done. So web designers and developers should be careful to build these pages with selling products in mind. The well-appointed product detail page should be a combination of good content,...
12 Resources for Graphic Design
Designers need not reinvent the wheel. When creating a site, you can find a variety of free online graphic elements, which other designers have shared with the community. Here is a list of free resources for graphic design. These sites provide ...
22 Feedback Tools for Web Designers
Feedback is an essential part of development. Sharing your designs can help identify potential problems and ensure the ideal user-experience. Here is a list of resources to get feedback on your designs. There are sites to present your design f...
10 New Year's Resolutions for Web Developers
Web development is a dynamic career that frequently confronts its practitioners with new challenges. Growing and improving is often just part of the job. Nonetheless, New Year's resolutions are an opportunity to focus that growth and improvement a...
December 2011 Top Ten: The Month's Most Read Posts
WordPress themes, inspirational site design, and CSS3 were among the hottest topics this month on Ecommerce Developer. At the end of each month, Ecommerce Developer counts down the ten best-read posts that we published that month. This top ten l...
2011's Top Ten Most Read Articles
Magento theming and development, mobile tools, OpenCart, and HTML5 were among the topics that seemingly most interested Ecommerce Developer readers in 2011. With the end of December fast approaching, we've look back at the ten most read articles ...
4 Color Design Resources in 2012
In design, a new year means new trends. That is particularly true with color, which draws forecasts from designers across industries. Here is a list of color forecasts for 2012 and beyond, as well as new color tools to inspire your own design proj...
A Dozen Inspirational 3dcart Sites
When selecting an ecommerce platform or starting a new ecommerce design project, it can be a good idea to look at what others have done, drawing on existing site designs to inspire future ones. For this article, I reviewed sites that had implemen...
21 Great, Free WordPress Themes
WordPress is a popular, free and open-source web content management platform that is often used for blogs, magazine or news sites, and even for ecommerce. It is common for developers using existing themes, building on or modifying as needed. In t...
November 2011 Top 10: Our Most Popular Posts
Lists of tutorials, facts, and suggestions dominated developers' interests in November 2011. At the end of each month, Ecommerce Developer counts down the ten best-read posts that we published that month. The idea is that if you missed one of the...
17 Inspiring Registration Forms
Web forms are how customers communicate with businesses online, enabling purchases, access to content, and registration engagement. The questions a form asks, its layout, and its graphic design can impact success. Luke Wroblewski, author of the b...
13 Resources for User Pattern Design
Designing a user interface requires the designer to examine the behavior of the visitors to a website. User patterns can reveal the needs of the visitors and present optimal solutions to common problems. Here is a list of resources for patterns i...
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...
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...
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...