CSS has a value for the display attribute called run-in. It’s like this: h3 { display: run-in; } The point is to allow a header to run into text below it, without sacrificing semantics or running into the problems you might run into trying to force it with other layout techniques. Let’s take a closer [...]
Every now or then we need new column on some grid listing in Magento. It is quite simple task, but you will probably want to format values way you want or whatever. This is where writing your own renderer would be usefull and simple. To pull this out, you would overide some grid, add column [...]
The crew from Unmatched Style are the folks that run ConvergeSE which I was lucky enough to attend this year. They are really great folks! While I was down there, I was interviewed by Gene for their podcast. Thanks to Gene for having me! I really recommend to everyone to check out Unmatched Style. A [...]
Dude, you browse with JavaScript on? Uhm, yeah, why wouldn’t I? It’s totally insecure. Hackers could destroy your computer. Hackers? What is this 1995? And, no they can’t. They can definitely steal information about you without you knowing. Like what? Like you’re address book information or your browsing history, depending on your browser and settings. [...]
Here is a little snippet of code that can come in handy if you are like me handling a task of programatically creating an order in Magento. My issue was that I had to disable emails beeing sent out to the customers, while at the same time leave the normal frontend process. Thus I could [...]
TextMate is a mac-only code editor. Sorry to all the PC users this time around. If you’ve been watching these screencasts for a long time, you know I used to mostly use Coda. Since I’ve been working a lot more locally, I’ve been using much more TextMate, which I’ve always considered to be superior as [...]
The new CSS3 property border-image is a little tricky, but it can allow you to create flexible boxes with custom borders (or drop shadows, if that’s your thing) with a single div and a single image. In this article I explain how the border-image shorthand property works in today’s browsers. The basic idea The border-image [...]
A little while back there was a guest post about Ajax image previews. It’s a nice technique but it left myself and a few other commenters thinking: wouldn’t it be cool if you didn’t have to upload the image at all to preview it? After all, the image is on the persons computer already why [...]
Oh, <textarea>’s. How many quirks you posses. Here is a collection of nine things you might want to do related to textareas. Enjoy. 1. Image as textarea background, disappears when text is entered. You can add a background-image to a textarea like you can any other element. In this case, the image is a friendly [...]
The internet has the potential to put a global audience at your fingertips, but there’s far more to reaching across cultural divides than simply putting your website out there and waiting for people to visit it. There are issues to do with language, design and SEO that all need to be addressed before your website [...]
Google Maps has a JavaScript API now in it’s third version. I remember playing with some version of the API back in v2 and thought it was kinda cool but a bit obtuse. For one thing, v3 no longer requires applying for an API key which is nice. I’m sure it’s partly me getting better [...]
Have you ever seen those two things (in the title) being used in jQuery? Here is a simple example: $(“a”).click(function() { $(“body”).append($(this).attr(“href”)); return false; } That code would append the href attribute as text to the body every time a link was clicked but not actually go to that link. The return false; part of [...]
Whether your web-shop is already generating revenue or it’s at it’s very beginning, it’s always good to enhance it where it’s needed especially if it’s for free. These 10 extensions for magento are here for their value and usefulness. Also, almost all of them exist for quite some time so they have been tested and [...]
Whether your web-shop is already generating revenue or it’s at it’s very beginning, it’s always good to enhance it where it’s needed especially if it’s for free. These 10 extensions for magento are here for their value and usefulness. Also, almost all of them exist for quite some time so they have been tested and [...]
Inchoo has officially become a Magento Professional Partner. With this step, Inchoo joins an international roster of Magento Solution Partners as the first partner in Southeastern Europe. After two years of dedicating ourselves to a great ecommerce platform that is Magento, it was about time we formalized the relationship. For those of you who have [...]
We’ve covered using CSS media queries to assign different stylesheets depending on browser window size. In that example, we changed the layout of the entire page based on the space available. It isn’t required that we make such drastic changes with this technique though, so in this tutorial we’ll go over a design tweak with [...]
Here is small example which will explain how to create a simple Magento payment module. I hope that you know how to create magento module and I will skip this step. First of all, you have to create in etc folder config.xml file with next content: < ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <config> <modules> <inchoo_mycheckout> <version>1.0.0</version> </inchoo_mycheckout> [...]
CSS has a property called content. It can only be used with the pseudo elements :after and :before. It is written like a pseudo selector (with the colon), but it’s called a pseudo element because it’s not actually selecting anything that exists on the page but adding something new to the page. This is what [...]
Today is America’s birthday and also (more importantly) the birthday of CSS-Tricks, which turns 3 today. If it was a human being, that means it would be starting to string together sentences of five words or more, socializing well with others, and not wetting himself most nights. I guess it still has some work to [...]
I first knew of Jeff through his website Perishable Press, which has long been a fantastic web design resource blog focusing on CSS, WordPress, and a lot of hard-to-find-elsewhere .htaccess stuff along with a good amount of Jeff’s personality (which I consider to be a prerequisite of any good blog) . As you may know, [...]
Branko Ajzele, our project manager and senior developer is scheduled to speak at Magento Developers Paradise conference in Mallorca (October 10-12). Clone Yourself: How to Effectively Share Magento Knowledge with New Developers will be the title of the session where he will share the tips and tricks on the best ways of training new developers [...]
If there is one (non-superpower) skill I wish I could acquire without having to spend thousands of hours practicing, it’s illustration. I took a bunch of drawing in college but I was never that great and I’ve let myself go out of practice. I look at a lot of illustrators work today and it makes [...]
Let’s say you were writing some text-only documentation describing how to do something on a website. The idea was that you came to a point where someone was presented with a list of users and their job was to select one, then there was a button below that they needed to interact with in order [...]
20+ (14%) 10-20 (12%) 5-10 (24%) 2-4 (31%) 1 (13%) 0 (6%) I’m probably in the 2-4 camp myself, which is the winning choice. I don’t freelance, but I do do sites for family and friends once in a while. Even when I was at Chatman Design the vast majority of work we did was [...]
While I was checking today some Linkedin profiles, I noticed the fact that some people abandoned Varien. For those of you who don’t know, this is a company that created Magento. I’ll be honest and say that I had a moment of fear since our business is closely tied to Magento success. My worries went [...]