Wooooo! It seems the big 1.0 has finally be released, and is out of beta. From the Magento Blog:
To everyone who spread the word about Magento, told a friend, wrote in blogs, posted and commented in the Magento forums, subscribed to our newsletter, downloaded one (or more) of our 11 preview releases, reported bugs, participated in the Magento community, to the online merchants who waited for Magento 1.0, developers and designers who convinced their clients to wait for the product and our partners who recognized the potential — Thank you for believing
Looks like there are plenty of bug fixes and even some new features in this version! Hooray! Looks like it’s time to update the Dreamhost Magento Installation Guide.
I’ve been watching the Magento e-commerce project for about the last month and a half - since Ben sent me a link to it. It’s an open-source e-commerce package, that primarily aims to pickup and improve where OSCommerce, Joomla + VirtueMart, and ZenCart have left off - streamlining a CMS (Content Management Sytem) and E-commerce shopping cart. This also means built-in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Google Checkout integration, varied customer groups, and much more…. straight out of the box. The problem appears to be that there are a lot of people on the Magento forums who are running into problems, and don’t have a clue on how to get it running under their Dreamhost hosting account. Unfortunately it also looks like the previous article(s) for Magento+Dreamhost installs have disappeared, or are outdated. And that’s where this article comes in… Continue reading ‘Magento Installation Guide for Dreamhost’
And I don’t mean girls in Google-brand bikinis on the beach, duking it out. Mmmm…
What I’m talking about here is the terrible, almighty Google, deciding that your site needs to stand in the corner for a 1-month timeout because it wasn’t playing well with others. Yes. That’s right. The Google Sandbox and Google filtering that everyone secretly fears, but publicly dismisses. How do I know about this? Because I recently fell victim to it. Although it was completely my fault, I’ve since learned from it, and now I’m sharing my tips here, so that hopefully other developers and SEOs can learn from my mistake of building inbound links too quickly. Continue reading ‘Tips to Prevent Google Sandboxing (filtering)’
Need a color scheme, but suck at that whole hexadecimal - where - the - hell - is - the - next - shade - of - blue thing? No biggie, I’ve got you covered. From eyedroppers, to scheme generators, to color blindness tools, below you’ll find my latest list of color tools that make my “Web Developer Must Have” list. While you’re playing with these, please do me a favor and keep in mind that the level of contrast you come up with is directly proportional to how much I’ll probably hate your site. No excuses, really now, if you want me to go into an epileptic shock (which you very well may), you’ll ignore my warning.
Continue reading ‘Top 10 Free Color Tools for Web Designers’
What a title, eh? Yeah, it might sound a bit like buzzword after buzzword, but functional testing in PHP is a serious topic - sometimes it means the difference between spending fifteen minutes doing a bug check and several hours depending on the size of your site. Now, it’s important to mention that functional tests are different from unit tests - we’re not going to be testing individual functions or methods, but rather we’re going to be making sure that the site works the way our users expect it to from their point of view. This means that we can check our site for error messages and verify that they pop up when they should, and stay hidden when they shouldn’t.
Continue reading ‘Functional Testing in PHP using Selenium IDE’
Okay, well maybe top 10 is a bit of a misnomer, since these are just 10 free and public domain stock photo sites that I find useful from time to time, but the list still applies. Everything on these sites is free at no cost to you, though please do check the rights on each image, as they may be licensed under a Creative Commons license that requires you to give credit to the photographer.
Continue reading ‘Top 10 Sites for Free Stock Photos’
Sure, you can use Photoshop, the Gimp, or any number of tools to make pretty Web 2.0 stripes for you. It will probably take you anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes to get what you like, depending on how many hilarious “LOL CLONE STAMP” creations you’ve done in the past week, though I think I prefer having things automated for me.
StripeGenerator.com has a cool tool that lets you create some pretty wild stripe patterns, though I think I’d shy away from the drop shadow since it adds too much contrast for my taste. Take a look, they’ve got a whole collection of stripes you can customize or create from scratch.
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