Preparing Your Web Content for iPad

Safari on iPad is capable of delivering a “desktop” web experience. iPad has a large, 9.7″ screen and fast network connectivity, and Safari on iPad uses the same WebKit layout engine as Safari on Mac OS X and Windows. You can ensure that your website looks and works great on iPad, and even create new touch-enabled web experiences for your customers, by considering a few specific differences between iPad and other platforms.

Instant Blueprint – Create a Web Project Framework in Seconds

Instant Blueprint allows you to quickly create a web project framework with valid HTML/XHTML and CSS in only a matter of seconds, allowing you to get your project up and running faster

CodeIgniter from Scratch: Shopping Cart

Today, we are going to take a look at the Shopping Cart library for CodeIgniter. This useful class allows us to add and remove items to a shopping cart, update them, and calculate prices. I will demonstrate how you can build a simple shopping cart system with the help of this library..

Why Complaining Doesn’t Work

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, but the wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease.

The above is the actual quote (often commonly stated as “the squeaky wheel gets the grease”) attributed to American humorist Josh Billings. It’s from his poem “The Kicker” describing his frustration with being polite and not getting his way with the authorities. A kicker, by the way, is also known by a more common name: a complainer.

7 Tips For Marketing Your Freelance Business Offline

I walked into Wholefoods this past week with a list of things to buy. I walked out of the store with more than my groceries. I had three new business cards in my pocket. Each with hastily-scrawled notes on the back. I grinned as I packed my groceries into the car and headed home.

How to Handle Non-Compete Clauses

I had the chance to talk with another freelancer the other day: she’s been offered the opportunity to take on a six-month project where she’d essentially be working full-time for a single client. The money is good, but there’s a catch in the contract—a non-compete clause.

Learn From the People Around You

There’s more to work than just work. If you’re lucky, you’ll make some of your closest friends from your place of employment. There are many people whom I no longer work with but am still close to. I have learned some very valuable things from them. Here are a few tidbits….

20 + tags introduced in HTML5 you really should know

HTML 5 reduces development costs by making precise rules on how to handle all HTML elements, and how to recover from errors. It aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich internet application (RIA) technologies such as Flash, Silverlight, Pivot, and Sun JavaFX.

The Ultimate Guide To Creating E-Commerce Websites With Magento (Part 2)

In the first part of the Ultimate Magento Guide, we covered the back-end features of this open source e-commerce software. We also created a simple product and displayed it in our e-store.

Today we will focus on “customizing the basic layout of our e-store”, “what Magento Connect is” and “how we can install themes + extensions”

The Ultimate Guide To Creating E-Commerce Websites With Magento (Part 1)

In the process of launching an e-store, when it comes to choosing the right solution, you will get puzzled by the hundreds of solutions available.

The options range from simple and free shopping cart systems to complex and paid e-commerce softwares which can charge you for both getting and “keeping” your shop online.

However, there are some applications which offer great features but still free.