5 Things To Make a Successful E-commerce Website

In: E-commerce| Web Design

26 Feb 2010

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.

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SMARTY globals in PrestaShop uncovered

In: PrestaShop

24 Jul 2009

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.

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How To Create A Simple Display Module For PrestaShop

In: E-commerce| PrestaShop

15 Jul 2009

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).

How To Create A Simple Module For PrestaShop

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5 Good Practices In E-commerce Design & Development

In: Web Design

18 Jun 2009

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.

5 Good Practices In E-commerce Design & Development

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CSS horizontal menu with search form tutorial part 2 – coding

In: CSS Tutorials

14 May 2009

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.

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