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It’s all about color.

jacquie

strong>is the acronym for the basic colors (also called process colors or 4 color process) that are involved in printing images in color. C=cyan, M=magenta, Y=yellow and K=black. When a picture is printed on paper the colors are formed by a selection of each of these color dots.

If you want to change a color you can go into the color adjusting system and adjust each of these three basic colors separately. If you are designing something to be printed, this is the color system [...]

Don't Go Mad Over Fonts

jacquie

to ever have reached the civilized world, were published. The main reason that they were so bad was that people who always wanted to design publications, but never had, now had a chance to go at it. They tried all sorts of unusual looking fonts - tried them bold, in italics, in all the colors of the rainbow, slanted, wrapped around circles.

I know this for a fact, because I was one of them.

Now when people ask me what is a good font for developing websites [...]

But this IS a good web design

jacquie

text. The idea, as I understand it, is to give a website a more flowing design and fewer boxes on the screen that can't be moved without extensive programming. None of those old fashion "pill" buttons. No crass visual overload with flashing icons competing for attention. Screens are less crowded; easier to read. They have a more sophisticated look.

So we put together several sophisticated, edgy, graphic oriented websites. Most of our clients are in the computer [...]

How to use traditional marketing methods on your site

jacquie

Most of us have read the articles on Search Engine Optimization and are perhaps doing a Pay-for-Click program to get your website noticed, but don't ignore traditional marketing. It may be the way to get your website known.

Everything you give to people should have your website on it - and what you are selling. Or information about your organization.

Business cardsPostcards or flyers telling about your businessAdvertisements in magazines (even in the telephone book)

Then peopl [...]

Ajax Attributes added!

brian

We have recently added a new Ajax attributes module to our e-commerce suite. This makes adding attributes and "configurations" so much easier. You can save "configurations" as templates and use them on multiple products.

Ubuntu with Dual Monitors

brian

;s it ... Before that I tried a half dozen other methods ... including installing open source and private drivers... for this you don't have to do a thing except edit one file.. here is the link

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1773710

This should work for basically any ATI card, if you have nVidia sorry but there are a few methods to try on this link as well

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221174

Google-analytics under SSL

brian

items....

The default code they give is

< script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

The problem here is that it's including urchin from a non-secure source, I found some javascript at this guys blog ... http://boagworld.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=1324
which will allow us to detect SSL encryption and pull in the urchin from the proper source, so use this instead.

< script type="te [...]

New Features over X-Mas Vacation!

brian

it a bit easier, like the ability to add recommended products to all the products in a specific category. And when you add a recommended product to your cart you do not leave the original products page. I also tweaked the caching function a bit (should be a little faster)Added a condition column to all products in the database. This is something a lot of people in the hardware re-seller industry have been asking for. so now you can have 2 products of the same model or part number but have differ [...]

Complete New Features List So Far

brian

some check to make sure the products in the feed have a qty greater than zero or NOT NULL. SECURITY UPDATE! - Added Patch so that Register_Globals is no longer needed
Added - "container" Div to aid in layout/styling
Fixed - Language error in the Authorize.net Payment Module
Fixed - strange Border padding issue in Product Listing
New - Support for 24 bit alpha transparent .png files for IE versions < 7
New - TinyMCE WYSIWYG HTML Editor for all text areasAdded [...]

A Few Other Small things

brian

Suggest Function ... now it will suggest searches (products) while your typing! This is very cool but might be too much for large DB's I left the default search box in as well so we can switch them out if needed.Added a better Catgories box with images for catagories and catagories that have sub catagories. Looks much better now... much more user friendlyInstalled SEO Assistant under the tools menu in the admin. This lets you check your search engine ranking for certin keywords, gives keywor [...]

Added TinyMCE WYSIWYG HTML Editor

brian

HAVE to check this out >>> CHECK IT OUT!