I just installed zen cart, one of the free e-commerce applications, to explore the possibility of selling my art online.
The default 3 columns layout is so busy and I need something much simpler than that. This tutorial shows exactly that: http://www.imakewebsites.ca/zen-cart-layouts/
I’m currently building a site using Drupal. It’s a powerful framework, but customization is a pain in the ass.
2 of the most powerful and useful modules to customize Drupal are CCK and Views. Here’s a great video tutorial that shows how to use both modules: Drupal CCK and Views Tutorial
I’m building a web site that requires a simple web form to capture user’s contact info then send the info as an email to the webmaster/account executive for a follow up.
I found the following script: Basic Emailer with PHP at scriptplayground that is very straightforward and implemented it in less than 10 minutes. Very nice indeed.
If you’re looking for a more advanced script with error handling, this script will be inadequate, but it’s a good starting point.
I’ve been working on a web site for a photographer friend of mine.
She would like to show her photos in a nice slideshow with fading effects and thumbnails.
To minimize the maintenance effort, I need a simple web app that would do most of the work for her so she won’t need to touch the code at all. Ideally, she’d just dump a bunch of pictures to a folder, and voila! the slideshow is populated with the new pictures.
The Smooth gallery 2.0 by JonDesign looks promising.
I’ll give it a try and report back.
A cool UI component for in-page browsing. here’s the link to the page where you can learn and grab the code from: http://billwscott.com/carousel/
Here’s the link to grab them from Yahoo! Developer Network.
If you want to know what’s available, read this excellent blog post from Ajaxian that describe what each component does.
I just learned how to apply blur filter from with Actionscript 3 from this easy-to-follow tutorial.
If you’re using the tween class in your Actionscript, most likely you’ll use easing and it can be frustrating not knowing the options that are available to you.
Luckily Adobe makes it available to us, but you have to dig around to find it. Here is the link to that list for your reference.