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Some useful Magento template code snippets

Some useful Magento template code snippets

Over the last 2 month, I’ve built a few Magento sites during which I’ve had certain requests to add some basic extras to the site template – basic it may sound however if you have even a little experience with Magento, you’ll be aware of its complexity.
Product Reviews and Review form in a tab
1. Add [...]

Is Your Web Design Driving Customers Away?

Is Your Web Design Driving Customers Away?

Nowadays, websites have become so critical to the success of practically any company.
A good website in many cases can spell the difference between a viable business enterprise and a failed disaster. It is true that a poorly laid out website can actually drive the firm or sole proprietor’s potential customers away.
With so many competitors only [...]

Some Interesting Usability Statistics

Some Interesting Usability Statistics

More and more people are realising the importance of Web Usability and the benefits it can bring. A quick search on Google will yield thousands of examples.
My aim for this article is not to explain usability in detail or explain it’s need and importance, rather I’m going to present some very interesting statistics of how [...]

Web Design across Cultures – 9 Advices

Web Design across Cultures – 9 Advices

There’s now over a billion people online around the world, and 78% of that one billion do not speak English as a first language (Internetworldstats.com), so if you’re launching a website that’s just going to be in English, it’s worth taking into account that you’re only going to be reaching out to 22% of your [...]

Free Social Media Icon Set for 2010

Free Social Media Icon Set for 2010

I thought it’s about time I publish a freebie on this site.
All the 10 social media Icons were design in Illustrator CS3 and are all completely vector based. (i.e. you can resize them to any size without loosing quality!)
I have Also attached the Illustrator Source files.
So, for our Free Social Media Icon Set, you get:

10 [...]

11 Lesser known SEO Ranking Factors. Analysis of Just Search.

11 Lesser known SEO Ranking Factors. Analysis of Just Search.

Over the course of this year, I have worked with hundreds of websites and have seen some great first page Google rankings for them. However there are those few sites which didn’t rank too well until some minor changes were implement. Such small changes that most people would consider them to be worthless. In my [...]

Web Designer Online Update

Web Designer Online Update

HI Guys! I thought it’s about time I give you an update on how Web Designer Online (WDO) is progressing.
WDO was launched on the 9th of July and so it’s been around a little over 4 months.
General Progress
The site is doing great and much better than I expected!! I’ve had to upgrade my hosting package [...]

16 Awesome WordPress Admin Themes and Plugins

16 Awesome WordPress Admin Themes and Plugins

Daily, we see blog posts written on WordPress Themes that 327 people have featured, 974 people have linked to 34,883 times. I’m sure you get the idea!
Well, it may seem we’re doing the same!!?! No, we’re not. Here, we are featuring 16 themes and plugins that can be applied to your WordPress admin interface to [...]

10 great Alternatives to phpMyAdmin

10 great Alternatives to phpMyAdmin

Most people in the web development world are under the impression that phpMyAdmin is the only MySQL client out there for websites. Going a step further, some users are aware of alternative however assume that phpMyAdmin is the best.
Now, I agree that phpMyAdmin is one of the best out there and is is very user [...]

CSS Sprites Showcase

CSS Sprites Showcase

I’m going to skip the long introduction to CSS Sprites as they have been discussed in detail (see ‘Detailed tutorials’ below) many times across many websites.
This post is primarily here to only showcase websites that use CSS Sprites.
What is an Image Sprite?
Basically, an image sprite is one big (master) image that contains many smaller images. [...]

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