How To Add An Image Rotator In Magento
February 18th, 2010On one of our recent projects, the client requested an image-rotator to display catalog images on their Magento eCommerce site. Since we wanted a simple-to-update solution, after some diligent searching, we came across a fairly obvious one. This article will discuss how to add an image rotator to a Magento eCommerce store.
Embed Fonts Using CSS
February 10th, 2010Embedding fonts; the holy grail of web designers.
Microsoft, since 1997, has enabled web designers to embed fonts in websites, with some caveats. First, the utility they provide to convert .ttf files to .eot, is dated to function in Windows 98. Fast forward 13 years, I have been unable to get this tool to not crash in Windows 7. Second, this utility seems to want to connect to an IIS server (which is useful for about one-quarter of websites).
For Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera, .eot files are not required, and web developers may instead utilize the standard .ttf file format … except CSS rules involving .ttf files don’t work in Internet Explorer!
Fortunately, with some craftiness, it is possible to solve both these problems, as explained below.
Introduction to HTML Canvas
December 21st, 2009New technology typically is met with mixed emotions and conflicting, often polar, opinions. This is definitely in the realm of HTML version 5’s new Canvas element, which threatens to open a wide variety of Pandora boxen for all to enjoy.
What is HTML Canvas?
Canvas is a standard feature of the latest iteration of HTML (now in version 5), originally developed by Apple for Safari, and eventually implemented in Chrome by Google, Firefox by Mozilla, and Opera by Opera Software.
Its namesake closely matches its intent: provide JavaScript developers with access to a canvas upon which to paint lines and shapes, blit bitmaps (translucency supported), print fonts, and render 3D objects.
Adobe Version Cue CS4
November 24th, 2009What is Adobe Version Cue?
Quite simply, Adobe Version Cue (along with its partner-in-crime, Adobe Drive) is a different method of managing your CS-created files. Version Cue enables the Project Manager, Graphic Designer, Web Developer, and Web Designer to coexist in the same project workspace.
One of the challenges of working with others (and indeed, even when flying solo) is the difficulty of managing projects, and files within projects. How many different versions of folders, PSDs, CSSs, etc, from the same project do you have stored on your desktop or laptop? I’m willing to bet your answer is somewhere north of “just one”!