Yesterday I gave a presentation to the Corvallis e-Tailing Group in town on Magento eCommerce Community Edition. We used Magento to build the 300dpi web site so we have experience skinning it, adding plug-ins, get plug-ins to play nicely, and extending Magento.
Overall, I have mixed feelings. I think its very powerful and has [...]
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Handout From Corvallis e-Tailing Magento eCommerce Presentation
Umbraco Package: Google Map Macro for the Rich Text Editor
First Umbraco Package!
OK, its simple, but we needed to let a client insert Google Maps into content areas via the Rich Text Editor in Umbraco. Macro to the rescue!
Package: Google_Map_Macro_for_the_Rich_Text_Editor__1.0.zip
After installing the package, you should be able to insert a new Google Map in the Rich Text Editor by doing this:
1. Find your location in [...]
7 Excellent Free Web Design Resources
I’ve found that building a library of graphic resources such as textures, patterns, brushes, icons and vector artwork has been valuable to creating quality web design in a short time. You never really know what exactly you’ll need for any project beforehand, so why not go out and grab everything you find interesting now? That [...]
Conclusions on Google Caffeine (New Search)
If you haven’t heard, Google has been working on a the next generation of their web search dubbed Google Caffeine. For the past month web professionals have been trying to figure out what impact this will have on the all powerful Google search engine rankings. After researching information from Google and independent sources my personal [...]
Using Flickr For Your Organization, Business, Product, or Charity
I’ve been using Flickr for about 6-7 years now for my blog and personally and I love it. It is the YouTube of photos. Tons of people use it and what make it really useful are all of the social media parts built right in.
One of the reasons I like using Flickr is [...]
6 Essential Photoshop Brush Resources
Using brushes in Photoshop is a great way to quickly breathe life into any design project. Sometimes it’s just not time effective to create your own, however, so building up your brushes library from web resources is a great idea. Whether it’s certain effects, design elements, texture, or atmosphere you’d like to create, there’s plenty [...]
Sitecore vs. Umbraco Terminology
Here at ProWorks we have built a web site using the Sitecore CMS (Wasatch Funds) and had a great experience. We are Sitecore Partners and like to use Sitecore when it makes sense. Sometimes the web sites we are asked to build have budget constraints or are just to small to warrant using [...]
Corvallis .NET Users Group Talk: ASP.NET and jQuery
Tonight I’m presenting “jQuery and ASP.NET” at the Corvallis .NET Users Group June Meeting.
I’ve been having lots of fun developing with jQuery with or without .Net. My first slide:
What is jQuery?
Lightweight JavaScript library
Fast (http://cli.gs/urQzG7)
Cross-browser
Cross-platform
Enables separation of behavior markup
Easy AJAX
Animation and interation API (events/DOM manipulation)
UI/plugin framework
Fun!
I have posted my jQuery and ASP.NET live demo and [...]
Top 5 Color Tools on the Web
I used to have a rough time coming up with web design color schemes. I would look through the color books in Photoshop and Illustrator and sort-of randomly choose colors that looked good, and do my best to apply the color theory I’ve learned. Problem is, you just can’t get a good sense of the [...]
No iPhone? How To Effectively Use Twitter On Your Mobile Phone
With all of the iPhone buzz over the last few days, I thought I’d give some tips to those of you that don’t have a 3GS in your future. I’ve been using a Sony Eriksson w810i to browse, check facebook, tweet, and generally browse the internet sucessfully for almost 3 years. This post is for [...]