Earlier this month, over 3500 of you responded to our survey asking you to help us prioritize some of the media features that had been suggested for the 2.9 release. While the exact features for 2.9 have not been hammered out yet, as we continue to match up developers with features, we wanted to share [...]
Archive for July, 2009
With this 5th & last post of the "WRD E-Commerce Week" we will be modifying "our Ajaxed shopping cart" to create a one which is very ideal for designs with limited spaces.
The shopping cart will:
be hidden at the top of the page that can be displayed with a show/hide link
open when an item is added [...]
E-commerce has its own dynamics when compared to the standard shopping experiences. It:
is faster
requires collection of data
includes shipping more frequently
has different ways of supporting users
& more..
If the product sold is not something unique, then it probably exists in 100s of other e-commerce websites. So, to differentiate your stores from others, here are 13 tips for [...]
The WordPress team had initially committed to maintaining the WordPress 2.0.x legacy branch until 2010. Unfortunately, we bit off more than we could chew—the 2.0.x branch is now retired and deprecated, a few months shy of 2010.
Many of the security improvements to the new versions of WordPress in the last couple of years were complete [...]
In this 3rd day of the "WRD E-Commerce Week", we will be adding a chic fly-to-basket effect to our previously created Ajaxed shopping cart using jQuery.
Rather than the complete HTML structure & PHP code that adds/removes the products, we’ll be focusing on the details related with the effect.
To findout the details of the complete HTML [...]
Picok (personal information cockpit) is an open source, multi-user script where users can create their own iGoogle-like start pages.
It is ideal for intranets as an admin account can pre-define the available components like feed addresses & users can select items from that list.
Similar to iGoogle, the items can be:
drag’n dropped
minimized
configured
The script has integration support for [...]
Using icons in e-commerce websites is almost a standard as users generally search for a shopping cart icon to view the items in the basket or credit card icons to findout if such a payment option exists.
With this 2nd post of E-Commerce Week, here is a collection of free e-commerce icons that you can use [...]
JoobsBox is an open source job board application which is built with PHP (Zend Framework) & MySQL.
No membership is required to add new job listings & they can be posted under pre-defined categories.
It comes with a plugin system which makes it possible to extend the application easily. There are already several plugins like iPhone plugin [...]
It is a clear fact that Ajaxed interfaces, if not overused, eases using websites so much.
For an e-commerce website, this can mean a better shopping experience for customers where they can concentrate more on the products which may result in better sales.
This is a detailed tutorial which shows creating an unobtrusive Ajaxed shopping cart using [...]
LiveZilla is a very impressive, mature & free live support software which enables you to provide live chat support on any website.
It is managed via a desktop-based (Windows OS) application & a web-based management is in the roadmap.
A chat can be initiated by a visitor clicking the "chat" button or pro-actively by the admin starting [...]









