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An Introduction to the LESS Dynamic Stylesheet Language

October 15, 2012 • Armando Roggio

LESS is a JavaScript library that extends cascading stylesheets (CSS), allowing the style language to support variables, nested rules, operations, functions, and mixins. Alexis Sellier — who also goes by Cloudhead — developed LESS to help himself and other coders write,...10 Comments • Read More »

Creating Elementary Lists in jQuery Mobile

October 8, 2012 • Armando Roggio

Mobile websites and mobile web applications have become an important part of nearly every ecommerce business. The most popular mobile user interface is likely a list. Fortunately, the jQuery Mobile Framework makes creating lists easy. Lists, as a user interface, are...Read More »

Using WordPress for Ecommerce, Part 54: Archive Page

October 1, 2012 • Armando Roggio

Whether displaying a list of articles or a product grid, category pages are an important part of nearly any web development project. I have taken a pause, if you will, in the Alien Authority development, project to look back and make...Read More »

19 Tools and Tutorials for CSS3 Buttons

September 25, 2012 • Sig Ueland

Cascading Style Sheets add style to the web. And what could be more stylish than buttons? Here is a list of tools and tutorials for creating CSS3 buttons. There are CSS3 button generators, tutorials for creating buttons entirely in CSS3, and...1 Comments • Read More »

jQuery Mobile, Show Products as Pages

September 24, 2012 • Armando Roggio

jQuery Mobile is a touch-and-swipe optimized web framework built to make it much faster to develop mobile web applications, including ecommerce applications. Once downloaded and installed, jQuery Mobile can treat content from a single HTML5 file as separate pages. As an...1 Comments • Read More »

Articles • Code • Developers

Yii Framework Basics

September 20, 2012 • Armando Roggio

The Yii PHP5 framework makes it possible to rapidly develop web applications under the relatively new three-cause BSD license that allows the framework to be used for either open source or proprietary projects. The Yii Framework was first released in December of 2008. It is built ... 1 Comments • Read More »
Articles • Code • Developers

Fast Style Sheets with Bear CSS

September 19, 2012 • Armando Roggio

Bear CSS is a handy little web application that automatically generates a blank, cascading style sheet template customized to match the HTML markup from a given web page. CSS is the Internet’s style and layout language. It is responsible for describing how a web page or ... Read More »
Articles • Design & Inspiration • Developers • Photoshop & Illustrator

16 New Illustrator Tutorials

September 18, 2012 • Sig Ueland

Adobe Illustrator is a dynamic tool for creating scalable vector artwork. And there is always a fresh supply of tutorials to master Illustrator’s tools and effects. Here is a list of recent tutorials for Illustrator CS6. Practice Illustrator’s new features to strengthen your scalable vector design. ... Read More »
Articles • Code • Developers

Use PHP Webbot to Complete GET-Method Forms

September 17, 2012 • Armando Roggio

A simple webbot can submit GET-based web forms with just a few lines of code, meaning that some often repeated development or business tasks may be thus automated. Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is the Internet’s most basic method of data communication, and it supports a ... 1 Comments • Read More »