I’ve been teaching myself Magento themes as I’m planning on setting up my new websites, MJB PhotoArt and U-Scrap using Magento as the e-commerce CMS. So far, I’ve got the following handy links in no particular order. These are pretty much all that I’ve read so far and have helped me get my head around [...]
The U-Scrap website is now online, though it doesn’t actually do anything yet. Functions and aesthetics are in the works and will gradually become available. U-Scrap is intended to be an online scrapbooking store, but with the aim of being a scrapbooking community. I’m hoping to start to activate the community side of the functionality soon and [...]
Overview Shoeboxed is a service and application that leverages the long tail to target a niche section of a broad market. Shoeboxed targets personal and business customers that are looking for a tool to simplify their expense data entry without the need for a dedicated data entry person and at a cheaper cost than paying [...]
The Skate-Parts.Com Home Page As some of you may know, back in January/February last year, I began working towards starting up a new business. It took a lot longer than I had been hoping to get suppliers on board, but in February this year, the website has finally gone live! You can now buy skateboards [...]
I haven’t come across these guys before, but was recently approached by them to write a short article about them. I figured why not? They provide an interesting service related to one of my fields of interest after all. After having a bit of a look through their website, it’s pretty obvious that they provide [...]
I was just reading a post over at the Global Thoughtz Technology blog about Brian Croll, Apple’s OS X Marketing Vice President, commenting that Windows 7 uses antiquated technology. The post itself I think is valid, Brian Croll’s comments may be fair, they may not be, but either way Windows 7 is a huge improvement [...]
This part of Exodus is largely based around God’s Ten Commandments, and has some really good life advice in general. In chapter 18, Jethro, Moses’ father in law and the priest of Midian comes to visit after hearing everything that God is doing with the Israelites. In verses 13 to 26, after seeing how Moses [...]
It’s great to see a boss pointing these things out to the employees. Sure, a cash handout is great, but ongoing work is much better. Have a read of the letter that this employer sent to his employees here. As a small business owner, I agree with this email entirely, even though I only employ [...]
I came across this nifty open-source piece of web-based software last night that is really quite an interesting and useful idea. Created by Johann C. Rocholl, Browsershots allows you to submit a website for any of the available browsers on any of the available operating systems. You can also specify things such as with or [...]
I’ve just been visiting the Feng-GUI website after reading about it briefly in SitePoint’s Design View Newsletter #40. This is really quite an interesting tool. The idea behind it is that using the algorithm they have developed, it can work out what points of the website are the main points that would draw a user’s [...]