Posted on: 15th Apr 2011
By: Ben McManus
Fancybox, the Lightbox alternative, is the king of the floating content world. With slick shadows and the ability to display pretty much anything you can embed into a HTML document, it reigns supreme. If you want to hack up the main templates and are available for a first class ticket to copy and paste hell, [...]
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Posted on: 4th Jan 2011
By: Robert Kent
Happy New Year Everyone! I trust that you all ate and drank copious amounts of poultry and sherry respectively all in preparation for the long hard slog that is January. We’re probably all regretting buying too much last Christmas as we realise we have a good 4 more weeks of no money to look forward [...]
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Posted on: 14th Sep 2010
By: Robert Kent
Not a lot of people realise that magento comes pre-equipped with the scriptaculous package. This means that you can create really cool effects with minimum effort! I would treat this as an alternative to Jquery. I have put together a couple of examples here that you are free to use in your ecommerce website design. [...]
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Posted on: 14th Jul 2010
By: Luci Smethurst
When designing ecommerce websites first and foremost consideration must be usability, and then design. Or, if you prefer, design with usability in mind. I’ve collected (so far) 10 examples of what I think are great ecommerce web designs from across the board. In no particular order: Paul Frank Bright, colourful and straight away in-your-face (but [...]
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Posted on: 22nd Jun 2010
By: Robert Kent
When developing an e-commerce website, whether you are using Magento or creating a completely bespoke system or even if you are simply making a php-based website, you are always in need of the right tools. When you have the right tools you can do the job better, faster and stronger…maybe not stronger but you get [...]
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