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Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part 19: Colors Like a Rainbow
Building a responsive website with eight different color schemes requires a significant amount of style sheet coding. Fortunately, adding the colors of the rainbow can be done fairly quickly once the basic color and layout choices are made. This ...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part 18: 480-Pixel CSS Coloring
Step-by-step and layer-by-layer, a site's visual presentation is built up as one new style declaration is added to another. The process takes time. This article is the 18th in a series created to demonstrate how to use WordPress to develop an eco...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part 17: 480-Pixel-Wide Footer
Site footers are often full of excellent information, including links to social media sites, copyright information, and even newsletter subscription forms. This article is the 17th in a series created to demonstrate how to use WordPress to develo...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part 16: Articles and Videos Styled
Articles and videos are key components of a modern content marketing strategy, and they need to be presented well in an ecommerce design. This article is the 16th in a series created to demonstrate how to use WordPress to develop an ecommerce sit...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part 15: Tablet Layout Continues
Web developers and designers should seek to be appropriately lazy when it comes to writing code, reusing things like style declarations whenever possible This article is the 15th in a series created to demonstrate how to use WordPress to develop ...
9 Free Content Management Systems
A content management system is a platform to create, publish, edit, and track content on a website. It facilitates collaborative workflow, controls access to data, and enables version control. A good CMS manages your content for you. Here is a li...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part 14: Tablet Layout Begins
Tablet users could have a significant impact on ecommerce sales in 2012 and beyond. Smart web developers and designers are working to accommodate these important devices right now. Using CSS media queries, it is possible to provide a unique exper...
Adding Pinterest Buttons to a Magento Theme
The popular Pinterest social sharing site has the potential to be a boon for online retailers, as many customers and potential customers share pictures and video from around the web. Savvy ecommerce marketers are rushing to “Pin it” buttons on p...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part 13: CSS for Social Links, the Footer
Social media has become an important marketing channel for ecommerce sites, so wise web developers and designers need to create opportunities for site visitors to share on at least some of the most popular networks. This article is the 13th in a ...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part 12: CSS for Articles, Newsletter
Web development projects are like marathons. Completing them requires you to be persistent and keep moving step-by-step. Writing the style sheets for a product can seem like one long uphill run, but completing it is very satisfying. This article...
SEO: How To Optimize A Magento Product Detail Page
Product detail pages are critical for ecommerce sites. They are also the ones Google and other search engines have the most trouble with. While Magento provides some basic search-engine-optimization capabilities out of the box, search engines st...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part 11: jQuery Lends a Hand
Developers should design sites so that they offer the best possible experience to users with newer and more capable devices, while still providing consistent functionality to users on outdated or less compliant devices. This article is the 11th i...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part 10: CSS Work Continues
For websites built on the popular WordPress platform, writing style descriptions can be one of the most time consuming portions of the site design and development process. This is especially true for responsive designs that feature different descr...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part Nine: CSS Begins, Font Glitch
CSS is the language of appearance. It shapes and reshapes HTML markup, changing its presentation based on contest. In this article, I will begin writing the style sheets for the Alien Authority website. The site is built on the WordPress platform...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part Eight: Draft HTML5 Markup
Creating a basic HTML markup before trying to add PHP and platform-specific functions can help to speed up the WordPress development process. It can be pretty tempting to just dive into a various template files found in an existing WordPress them...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part Seven: More Functions for the Custom Post Type
Custom post types allow developers to extend WordPress and include content like product detail information. This article is the seventh in a series created to demonstrate how to use WordPress to develop an ecommerce site that sells virtual produc...
45 Tutorials for Magento Go
Magento Go is a software-as-a-service ecommerce platform from Magento. It is a simple and customizable option for developers who need to create and manage cost-effective stores for their clients. Magento Go has four pricing plans that range from ...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part Six: Create a Custom Post Type
In WordPress, custom post types allow a developer to define the administration interface for content like product detail information. Creating a custom content type for product detail pages requires surprising little effort, and what follows is a...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part Five: Install WordPress, Copy Theme
WordPress is one of the easiest web content management systems to install and use, which no doubt contributes to its popularity. Perhaps one in six websites use it. The platform's flexibility also makes it suitable for basic ecommerce application...
Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part Four: Facing Design Challenges
Transforming a graphic design into a working site typically includes challenges. As much as possible, it is a good idea to anticipate and address those challenges before you begin writing code. With this approach, I am going to describe several k...