Archive: design

I was recently asked by a client to create a scrollable, navigation menu for their site. However, they wanted it to have an onHover submenu that expanded to the side, over the top of the scrollbar. The problem with this is that there is noway to do this using normal css, over the overflow:scroll hides [...]

Often you will see SSL warnings or errors related to insecure content being displayed on a secure page. This could be as simple as one javascript file or image that is being included via http rather than https, though some times this can be a bit tricky to track down. The easiest solution is to [...]

http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/11/the-end-of-an-era-internet-explorer-drops-below-50-percent-of-web-usage/ Anyone who had had to either do an extra 50% of work to get IE working, or had to pay someone else to do so. I'm sure you are thinking what we think. Yes! More Reading:Freely Available Windows Virtual Machines for Testing IERunning Internet Explorer under Ubuntu LinuxGot the Insecure Content on a Secure [...]

It may be obvious but after a discussion in the office we decided to put together a simple guideline for getting into e-commerce. This is a list of things that you need to do in order to start selling from your own web site. Get a Domain Name These are so cheap yet so fundamentally [...]

If you need to test your code against the (ahem) interesting interpretations of the various iterations of Internet Explorer then this is a great resource for you. Turns out Microsoft have thrown web devs a bone by offering free virtual machine images with the various IE/OS flavours for you to test on. You can download [...]

If you want to include a custom stylesheet for a particular category you can do this very cleanly by specifying custom layout xml in the category admin. Simply find the category you want to apply this to and then hit the [Display Settings] tab Then in the custom layout update box, paste something like this: [...]

Stage Gear – General Site Improvements Stage Gear needed a number of aspects of their OSCommerce site improving, including the look and feel, the addition of SEO URLs to improve site ranking, improving search on the site and adding basic Facebook integration. Stage Gear Stage Gear is a company that specialise in retailing sound and [...]

Over Board – Migration to Magento from OSCommerce Over Board wished to move away from OSCommerce due to limitations encountered while using OSCommerce. Using Magento allows the company the flexibility they desired. This project involved implementing a new site design as well as importing data from the old OSCommerce site. Over Board Over Board are [...]

We are now working on developing a new Magento based e-commerce site for a UK based company called Dressnimpress. Our client specialises in designer clothing for both male and female and will be targeting a world wide marketplace for selling designer clothes covering all the latests and famous brands. The site will be developed from [...]

Another nice and good looking Magento design implementation work for a project that was being migrated from Joomla platform to Magento. We took on board the work that was started with other developers and basically make it work as per client requirements. We did some work on SEO, Implementing Hello Theme design and migrating clean [...]