The iPhone’s mobile version of Safari has a useful way of automatically enlarging text on a website when zoomed out. While this feature is fundamentally a good thing as it allows users to read text with zooming in, it can be a nightmare to designers as it can break pixel perfect layouts. The CSS However [...]

While building and optimising a Magento shop for a client’s website we decided to use CSS image replacement with a H1 on their logo as the homepage was predominately taken up with top sellers. However Magento only uses one header.phtml across all the templates and we certainly didn’t want the same H1 across all the [...]

With the iPhone pinned for release this Thursday (June 24th) in the States, UK, France, Germany and Japan, webmasters are becoming more aware of developing websites with mobile users in mind. Many online retailers are creating optimised mobile versions of their websites and redirecting iPhone, Blackberry and Palm users to these mobile friendly versions. There [...]

More and more retailers are using blogs and RSS feeds to help expand their business’s online presence. However Magento, the world’s leading open source eCommerce package doesn’t offer out of the box blog management, so many Magento shop owners are turning to other open-source software like WordPress to help meet their blogging demands. This leaves [...]

Adding content from a RSS feed on website can be quite a task, thankfully the SimplePie library has helped add the ‘Really Simple’ back into ‘Really Simple Syndication’. In this article we will cover how to add the 5 latest headlines from a RSS feed that link back to the articles from the original website. [...]

Galleriffic Plugin Link: http://www.twospy.com/galleriffic/ Demos: Minimal implementation Thumbnail rollover effects and slideshow crossfades Integration with history plugin Insert and remove images after initialization Alternate layout using custom previous/next page controls Description: A hugely feature rich jQuery slideshow that is easy to easy to install, customisable and lightening fast, making it the perfect slideshow for the [...]