CategoryFrameworks

March 1, 2012 — A lot of community extensions (or modules) are available for the feature-rich open-source e-commerce solution Magento but what if they don’t quite work as you want them to? What if you could understand the structure of a Magento module a little better, to the point that you could modify it to suit your needs or, better yet, write your own module from scratch? Read more…

October 25, 2011 — You’ve probably already heard about responsive design. In this post, the ZURB team present ’Foundation’, a framework to help you build prototypes and production code that’s truly responsive. Read more…

October 17, 2011 — Krysztof Rakowski cover how to separate the view of your PHP application from its other components. Learn some basic MVC concepts, review some popular templating libraries, play around with a small custom-made view class, and explore the basics of using the Twig library. Read more…

September 9, 2011 — LESS and Sass share a lot of basics. oth of them are fantastic tools for designers who code, and they can also help developers work more efficiently and quickly. In this post, Jeremy Hixon presents the main difference between them. Read more…

August 24, 2011 — We are happy to release a responsive jQuery slider plugin created, developed and maintained by Tyler Smith. Released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Read more…

July 19, 2011 — Questions in the world of mobile app development are endless. Jen Gordon shares her knowledge as a designer to decide what’s best for your client -and how to do it- regarding the audience they are trying to reach. Read more…

May 27, 2009 — If you build and develop Wordpress themes often, you will probably be fed up of all the repetitive code writing, the constantly checking of your mark-up and all you really want to do is focus on the design and the project-specific features. The answer is a Wordpress development framework. Read more…

June 26, 2008 — The new generation of web browsers — Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 and Internet Explorer 7 — provides a feature which seems to save a lot of work for web-developers in the future, namely the Full Page Zoom. Instead of allowing users to increase and decrease the font size on a given web-site, browsers now enable users to literally scale the rendered layout including visuals and background images. Consequently, every fixed, pixel-based layout becomes “scalable”; the content area always remains within the layout box it is supposed to be in and there is no chance of producing overlapping boxes as we’ve seen in previous generations of web-browsers. Read more…