Magento adds new widget features
Magento is perhaps the most popular free, open e-commerce platform source available today, offering dozens of merchandising and customization features like multiple product images, pan and zoom the image,customer opinions, email marketing, cross selling, multi – in-store support, live tracking of customer activity, and more. Now Magento will offer frontend blocks called Widgets to make it easier for users to add products, and customize their websites.
“Magento Widgets are frontend blocks with a predefined set of configuration options,” the company said on its website. “These configuration options are displayed in a special edit form in the backend panel when a widget is being added or edited by a store owner. The ability to easily set widget configuration options allows for the full control of widget placement on a page to store owners.”
Now, a new widget feature allows users to add dynamic content, including any kind of sales functions from the Magento backend without having to know any programming. We are excited for these new developments as more users will be looking to make changes, and update their designs.
How To Format Images For Feed Readers
In this quick tutorial I will teach you how to correctly format your messages so that images display correctly in RSS readers.
To start, you need to make sure you are editing your message in a plain text editor and not within a Rich Text Editor. Many CMS’s such as WordPress, MovableType, and Drupal allow you to switch between the two , I personally recommend that you disable any Visual Rich Text Editor.
Then all you have to do is make sure you treat your reference images, as a separate paragraph of the text, regardless of how you align them, centered, right aligned or left aligned. By doing this feed readers view your images as separate images and will show up perfectly in any feedreader.
Amazing Black and White Photography
Today, black and white photography often arouses nostalgia of 20th century, the old days, before the television was invented, when people read printed newspapers and when people were still imagining cell phones equipped with cameras.
But still, decades later, many artists are using black and white photography for artistic purposes. It is one of the easiest types of photography for beginners to test their creativity.
This is a tribute to black and white.
IMG Source: Thomas Hawk
IMG Source: Gregory Bastien
IMG Source: BurnBlue
IMG Source: The Birds
IMG Source: The Black and White Bridges
IMG Source: Black and White Photographer
Web Apps To Help Designers and Developers
Like I posted yesterday we are here to help Web Designers improve their quality of life, by creating a service that helps them transform their raw designs for popular ecommerce platforms Magento, Shopify, and Interspire.
We’ve come up with a list of some web apps to help designers and developers increase productivity. Here are tools that I use when building web sites for clients.
Here are tools that I have found extremely valuable:
ClickTale
Font Burner
Kampyle
Google Analytics
Get Clicky
TypeTester
PHP Anywhere
ViewLike.us
Five Second Test
Compete
Crazy Egg
Why Should You Use A PSD to eCommerce Service ?
I’ve been working with web developers,designers, and IT folks over 10 years and the one thing that all of us desire is simplicity.
The one rocking thing about a service to help you take a PSD to any of the major eCommerce Platforms is that it allows you to quickly turnaround projects for clients, in an affordable way.
After you send us your layered PSDs it’s a very fast turnaround and we are here to help. We work with you as soon as we get the PSDs and the initial payment to complete your work of art.
3 Important Reasons To Use Our PSD to eCommerce Service
1. We Save You Time
Plain and simple we save you time, time you can use to gain more clients, and improve the quality of your life.
2. We Help You Focus
Great designers needn’t be bothered with the sometimes tedious work of coding. We help you focus by taking this laborious task off your plate so you can focus on what you do great DESIGNing.
3. We Support You
Your quality of life is important to us, that’s why we created our service to help designers improve the quality of their life by making their lives simple. We take your PSDs and simplify the design to finished project process that is often very stressful. By having a partner in your development process working along side you your life will improve exponentially.
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Implementing eCommerce Templates
One of the things that our company does is helping designers and developers implement eCommerce Templates. Imagine your client is used to running Magento, but as a designer or developer you are unfamiliar with the way Magento templates are put together. That’s where we come in. We know how to take your gorgeous designs, and implement them using the leading eCommerce platforms.
Another example is maybe you are already running an Ecommerce site but it’s all manual processing and you want to run it on Magento,Shopify, or Interspire. We can come in and transform your site using one of these popular eCommerce platforms.
Now, lets get started. How can we help you ?