web design & development explained
I'm a webmaster living in Manchester and I specialise in user interface and user experience design, although I do like front-end development too. One day you can see me designing user-focused web interface for e-commerce client, the other I could be developing it using XHTML, CSS, JavaScript libraries (like jQuery) and progressive enhancement approach. So take a look at my work, maybe you'll find something nice to look at. And don't forget to subscribe to my RSS feed top get the latest headlines!
Nowadays web designers and developers are looking for the best way to create a successful website for their clients, one that is going to look great, be easy to use and will have decent content to attract users. But in these difficult times there is little response from clients that would like to have a website that would knock the competition down few steps. Here are few things to remember while building an e-commerce website.
Many designers and developers who encountered PrestaShop are impressed by the features, easiness in creating new themes and complete scalable structure which allows us to PrestaShop modules and other add-ons.
Presumably many of you have wondered how to unleash the full power of PrestaShop, a bright light in the dark area of e-commerce platforms. Let’s have a look at the modules subject for PrestaShop and try to create one almost from scratch. This tutorial is of medium difficulty (OOP).
One way or another you will get to know what e-commerce website is, and believe me – this won’t be an easy task to cope with. Especially if it comes to designing one. Well, if you struggle to get something other than standard 3-column osCommerce layout, then this is the article for you.
Yesterday we have started designing our new menu bar in Photoshop. Today we will focus on coding our menu to HTML and CSS. With the ready PSD template provided before we can all begin by opening it in Photoshop and hide all text layers.
Using rectangular marquee tool select the inner part of the menu (without borders) and transform selection to achieve width around 2px and the full height of the menu (mine is set to be around 35px). Copy the merged selection (you don’t need to merge the layers, just use Ctrl+Shift+C to hard-copy the selection) and create a new file with clipboard image dimensions and paste the content into the new canvas.
