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Mobilizing The Web With Cascading Style Sheets

Mobilizing The Web With Cascading Style Sheets

Benjamin Chui isn’t taking ecommerce sitting down. The founder of Ben’s Bargain Center is striding through San Francisco’s fina... 0 Comments | Read More »

Mobile Commerce: 800 Million Untapped Users

Mobile Commerce: 800 Million Untapped Users

Web-capable mobile handsets and their nearly 800 million users worldwide represent a significant and largely untapped market fo... 1 Comment | Read More »

Magento's iPhone Theme: Mobile Commerce for the Masses?

Magento's iPhone Theme: Mobile Commerce for the Masses?

Magento Commerce, an open source ecommerce platform, has introduced an Apple iPhone specific theme that is potentially the firs... 9 Comments | Read More »

Video Tutorial: CSS Positioning

Video Tutorial: CSS Positioning

The transition from using tables to create a page layout to using Cascading Style Sheets can be difficult to grasp at first, p... 0 Comments | Read More »

Programmers: Web 2.0 Forms

Programmers: Web 2.0 Forms

Online forms have become much more elegant and usable in the last couple of years as developers take advantage of “Web 2.0” tec... 4 Comments | Read More »

Frameworks For Web Designers

Frameworks For Web Designers

I've written previously about frameworks and how they help developers build web applications. For the most part, my praise of f... 1 Comment | Read More »

Determine Analytics Questions In Advance

Determine Analytics Questions In Advance


Once a web analytics solution is installed, the most common initial use is to validate some past event.  User testing shows th... 2 Comments | Read More »

Testing Site Accessibility

Testing Site Accessibility

Here's how to perform a standard test to see if your website and store are accessible to the vision impaired. Let It Be Seen B... 3 Comments | Read More »

What Makes A Site Effective?

What Makes A Site Effective?

A client recently asked me to do a quick-and-dirty analysis of a half dozen competitor websites. I decided to look at each com... 4 Comments | Read More »

Programming Notes: Importance of Hand Coding

Programming Notes: Importance of Hand Coding

Let's be honest. Most people do not go into website design because they enjoy writing code, or because they want to root throug... 18 Comments | Read More »

Software Frameworks

Software Frameworks

In broad terms, a software framework is a code library that is designed to facilitate software development. The idea is that a... 4 Comments | Read More »

Video Tutorial: Script.aculo.us Effects

Video Tutorial: Script.aculo.us Effects

Script.aculo.us is a JavaScript framework that is built upon the wildly successful Prototype JavaScript libraries. Script.acu... 8 Comments | Read More »

Video Tutorial: Tabbed Content - Part 2

Video Tutorial: Tabbed Content - Part 2

Tabbed content appears more and more frequently in web pages, and is an interesting way to simultaneously save page space and ... 9 Comments | Read More »

Video Tutorial: Tabbed Content

Video Tutorial: Tabbed Content

Tabbed content appears more and more frequently in web pages, and is an interesting way to simultaneously save page space and ... 8 Comments | Read More »

Video Tutorial: JavaScript Tooltips

Video Tutorial: JavaScript Tooltips

You've probably seen those useful "tooltips" text boxes that are displayed on some websites when you roll over a specific link... 0 Comments | Read More »

Nine Simple Ways To Speed Up Tedious Tasks

Nine Simple Ways To Speed Up Tedious Tasks

Because I’m all about automation of the tedious of tasks, this month I’m offering up some key, yet very simple ways, to speed u... 2 Comments | Read More »

Video Tutorial: Validating A Form With JavaScript

Video Tutorial: Validating A Form With JavaScript

In form validation two common questions often arise. The first is how do you ensure once you've asked for an email address on... 7 Comments | Read More »

TechSupport:

TechSupport: "What's A Relational Database?"

Q: Our web developer tells us that our ecommerce site uses a relational database, but I don't understand what this means. Could... 3 Comments | Read More »

Tech Support July 2007: Accessibility

Tech Support July 2007: Accessibility

I keep hearing about accessibility. What is it and why is it important? Accessibility, in the context of a website, is the m... 0 Comments | Read More »

Protect Data From Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks

Protect Data From Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks

Security is always going to be a concern for both developers and ecommerce business owners alike, since providing a secure envi... 4 Comments | Read More »

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