Guide to Lowering Cost of Ownership For Multi-Store Environments
Enterprise ecosystems are becoming more complex, and their ecommerce platforms are also maturing from single sites to multi-te...
Platforms & Shopping Carts
Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Launches Monday
On Monday April 12, 2010 at about 8:00 in the morning Pacific Time, Adobe will officially launch the latest version of its Creative Suite software, including many of the tools that are essential to modern web design and development. Creative Suit...
Seven Code Editors for the Savvy Developer
A code editor is a developer's hammer, wrench, or chainsaw. Without one, you really cannot get the job done, and not every code editor is perfect for every job or every person. Here is a list of seven code or language-specific editors to consider...
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 13: Turning the Page
The Pine Theme home page has come a long way since this series started. So much so that it is now nearly complete with a content slider, merchandising section, slide-out search form, rounded corners, an eye-catching newsletter form, and several li...
Facebook Lets Developers Add Application Tabs
Yesterday, Facebook announced several updates to its development platform, including the ability to add application tabs to profiles so that users can easily access an application later. "Add to Profile Button" Essentially, Facebook now allows...
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part 12: The Search Form
Search is an important aspect of good site navigation. In fact, I would argue that site search is the most important means of site navigation. Back in episode four of this series, I commented out the search bar on the theme home page, promising t...
Audio Interview: Shopify's CTO Cody Fauser
Cody Fauser is the chief technology officer for Ottawa, Ontario Canada-based Shopify, which is, of course, the Ruby on Rails powered ecommerce plat...
Developers' Relationships with Internet Explorer
Recently, Microsoft offered the development community a test drive of its forthcoming Internet Explorer (IE) 9 web browser. Some developers saw Microsoft's overture as an attempt to win back a web design and development community that has come to...
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Eleven: The Footer
Developing a Magento theme requires a lot of attention to detail. In this episode, I am going to pay some attention to the footer section. If all goes well, we could be finished with the home page in the next episode or two. The Magento Theme Se...
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Ten: The Home Page Home Stretch
The home page matters. Thanks to search engines, just about any page of an ecommerce website can be a landing page. But no matter how a customer gets to a store, at some point that customer is likely to go to the home page, which means that while...
Microsoft Releases IE9 Test Drive
Microsoft has released a "Test Drive" version of the forthcoming Internet Explorer (IE) 9 browser, featuring improved CSS3 and HTML5 support. The IE9 preview seems aimed mostly at the developer community—it has no user interface to speak of—and m...
Magento Prepares for Growth, SaaS?
Magento, the popular open source ecommerce platform, has seemingly retooled for growth with a fresh equity investment, a new corporate structure, and the promise of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. A growing and flourishing Magento also c...
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Nine: A Content Slider
Content sliders can place a lot of content in a small amount of space. So in this episode of the series, I am going to add a content slider to the home page. I still have a little style clean up to do first, but this content slider explanation wi...
Opera Mini 5 Beta Released for Android-Powered Phones
Opera Software just released the second beta of its Opera Mini 5 mobile web browser for phones running the Google Android mobile operating system. Opera, which pioneered many of the most popular web browser features, such as tabbed browsing, ha...
Audio Interview: Yoav Kutner on Magento
Yoav Kutner is the CTO of Varien, the company behind Magento, the open source ecommerce platform. Kutner is proficient in all major web programmin...
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Eight: The Boring Middle
Starting a project is fun, exciting, and even invigorating. Ending projects provides a sense of completion and satisfaction at a job done well. But the middle parts can be painful and even a little boring. For the third consecutive week, this "Ma...
Mozilla Offers Developers a Taste of What's Next for Firefox
Yesterday, the Mozilla Foundation offered web developers a pre-release version of the forthcoming Gecko 1.9.3 engine. It's this engine that will power a future rendition the popular Firefox web browser. Gecko 1.9.2 runs Firefox 3.6, the current ...
Audio Interview: Pipit's Beau Barbour
Beau Barbour is the chief creative officer and co-founder of Pipit Interactive, the company that powers Purchlive, a new consumer-driven ecommerce ...
Building a Magento Theme Start to Finish, Part Seven: More Rounded Corners
By February 2010, more than 30,000 online merchants were using the Magento platform. By some estimates, those merchants had managed $25 billion in transactions, making Magento one of the most popular and most used ecommerce platforms available. M...
Audio Interview: LemonStand Co-Founder Danny Halarewich
Danny Halarewich is an experienced designer, user experience expert, and web technology consultant based in British Columbia, Canada. Recently, Hal...