Category Archives: Website design

Custom Website design; WordPress customization & content management (CMS); E-commerce shopping carts (WP e-Commerce, OSCommerce, Zen Cart, Magento); CSS, FTP, minor MySQL & PHP, site database connection; PayPal, Google Analytics & AdSense integration; Optimized Web graphics; Website hosting.

Website Design – CSS Resource – Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine is one of the best Website design resources out there! I’m currently researching CSS techniques and Smashing Magazine is consistently a great resource for Web design, CSS, jQuery, javascript. 45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/12/45-powerful-css-javascript-techniques/ Site: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ Follow them on Twitter: @smashingmag
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Website Design – Zen Cart Ecommerce Integration – HolidayHope.net

Zen Cart ecommerce integration and design “skinning” by Designparc. Website design by Joshua Estes. Project management, including merchant account and product fulfillment integration by Designparc. Zen Cart product orders/shipping export modification by Joshua Estes.
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Zen Cart Shopping Cart – Editing Zen Cart “Order Email Confirmation” text

Editing Zen Cart “Order Email Confirmation” text This is the file that a customer receives as confirmation for their purchase: 1. (Template override) file located at: root/includes/languages/english/musicforhope/checkout_process.php 2. Original file copied from: root/includes/languages/english/checkout_process.php — Editing Zen Cart “Email Disclaimer” text at bottom of “Order Email Confirmation” email This is the lower half of the info that a customer receives as confirmation for their [...]
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Banner Ad Design – Hope for the Holidays CD

“Wow, I really like [the banner ad design]. I really like the way it looks – bold and eye catching.” Kristian Darling, Founder HolidayHope.net Music for Hope benefiting JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) December 2009
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Zen Cart – Adding jQuery Tabbed Content Box to Zen Cart EZ Pages

(Using Zen Cart 1.3.8a) 1. jQuery source: http://net.tutsplus.com/javascript-ajax/create-a-tabbed-interface-using-jquery/ 2. Zen Cart integration: - CSS: Delete “*” and “body” classes from file. Put in template’s css folder (root/includes/templates/CUSTOM TEMPLATE/css). I changed file name from “style.css” to “style_tabbed_content.css”. - Javascripts: Put all 3 javascript files in jscript folder (root/includes/templates/CUSTOM TEMPLATE/jscript). Must also add jscript_ text to the beginning of each file name [...]
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Website Banner Ad Design for Chargify.com

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Magento Ecommerce – Run under PHP 5 on 1and1 Web Hosting

Some hosting providers do not yet provide PHP5 on their servers, opting instead to stay with PHP4 for the time being. As Magento is a PHP5-only application, this can be a barrier for some users. This document outlines a possible workaround for such a scenario. The goal is to install PHP5 as a CGI binary [...]
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Manual Credit Card Processing Shopping Carts

Website client has a need for manually processing credit card orders because he already has a credit card terminal in his office and doesn’t want to incur any extra gateway processing fees. Magento and Zen Cart have successfully passed the “manual credit card processing” test. Magento keeps the full 16-digit credit card number in the admin back-end Zen [...]
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Magento Ecommerce – v1.3.2.4 Install Tips on 1and1 Hosting

Brief, non-detailed, overview of installing Magento Ecommerce Shopping Cart v1.3.2.4 on 1and1 Hosting Download Magento 1.3.2.4 and Sample Data 1.2.0 from http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/noregister Import Sample Data SQL files into database Copy Magento Sample Data’s media/catalog folder to Magento/media folder Follow Magento Installation Guide (http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide#installation1) Create a cgi-bin folder in Magento root and add the php5-cgi file from http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide#step_1upload_the_php5_cgi_binary FTP everything to the [...]
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