Web standards and why I still really don’t care
I really don’t care about web standards. There I said it. I feel slightly guilty and ashamed about this but I’m rather hoping that there are plenty of people out there who feel the same way.
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Magento shop launched – AnythingSurf.co.uk
It’s been a while since this actually went live – but at last I can show off a few of the pages from the latest Magento eCommerce site I have built – AnythingSurf.co.uk.
Lite Website Content Management Options
Building websites that can be quickly and easily updated is vitally important but with so many content management systems available how do you make the decision as to which one to use. Here are a few approaches you may not have come accross.
Loc8tor Multi-Region Multi-Language Magento eCommerce Website
This new site follows a design I was provided and is built using Magento and a number of specialist plugins. The core Magento functionality for different websites and stores was used to create versions of the site in multiple languages and with slightly different product ranges and pricing. All of this was done with the minimum of repetition within the admin portion of the site.
Catherine Best Magento eCommerce Website
This Magento site had a really fast turn-around and I think everyone has been really pleased by the results. We are aiming for a high-end market and trying to make the most of the Jewellery.
Order product list on your homepage in Magento
I recently found that having worked out how to place a cateogry of products on the homepage of my Magento site I wanted to specify the order that those products were listed in. Mainly this was because I was hiding the standard Magento toolbars, so the customer could not do this themselves. The first place I started looking was the system configuration menu
Should your tweet button, tweet the current page or your homepage
Is it better to use tweet buttons to promote your homepage, or the content the button is placed on – and what do users expect it to do?
Five Star Payday Loans WordPress Site
This was a simple site based on a HTML home page, with a javascript calculator and a wordpress blog simply attached with the same design. The application form is a third-party component and so I simply built the design in HTML, CSS and Javascript and implemented in Wordpress.
Barras Car Centre Website
A simple Ruby on Rails based site for displaying cars for sale at the Barras Car Centre forecourt in Guernsey.
Carey’s Pipe & Tobacco Shop Magento/WordPress eCommerce Website
For this website the real key was enabling customers to engage via social media and to create a place where pipe smokers could discuss their hobby. Due in part to the way in which smoking in public is becoming less tolerated but also due to the banning of advertising through so many traditional channels the internet and especially social meda was an avenue our clients were very keen to utilise.