Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category

Integrated payment from Paypal with PHP

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Micah Carric developed a class PHP that allows the web master to have a major control over their payments, through Paypal. It has 2 Scripts in PHP. If you want to download it or know more about it, check out the developer’s site.

99 useful resources for graphic designers

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

A great link compilation from Web Usability Help, it’s going to be a great tool for both graphic and web designers. You’ll be able to find confederations, contests, freelance networks, color palettes, inspirational sites, port-folios, magazines, fonts, Tutorials, Photoshop brushes, etc.

Tips to improve the resourcefulness of you e-commerce

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
  • Using titles, sub-titles and breadcrumb
  • Contact info always up front
  • A good search engine
  • Category search
  • Advanced searches for specific items
  • Good paging
  • Related products at sight
  • Description texts
  • Easy to access shopping card
  • Buttons to add the shopping card
  • Distractions from the Checkout process
  • Wishlist
  • Product pricings
  • Stock availability
  • Security elements like HTPPS
  • Payment methods and different shipping options
  • Explicit details of shipping

The Best way to use Flash, according to Google

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

There has always been a controvesy around the sites that are designed with Flash and their indexation in Google. There are many opened questions like: Will my content be fully indexed? What choices do I have to make it fully indexed?, etc.

As many of us know by now, Google is the major Search Engine that exists. Reason why we all want to be there. And of course, we all want to be indexed, so we don’t lose a possible customer.

Google tells us that Flash is a visual device. And the Googlebots have no eyes. It’s true that the Googlebots can read the content in Flash, and even extract the content and links from Flash. The structure itself is lost. If the content, on the other hand, is in the graphic object, then since the Googlebots cannot “see”, this content will be lost.

Google presents the next steps to solve this problem:

Use flash only when needed. Use Flash as a complement, not as everything in your site.

Do 2 menus, one in Flash and the other in HTML. So any user can log into the web page without been forced to download Flash.

Non Flash version of the site. Let the user choose what he/she wants to see. Let the Googlebots get all the info.

Source: Google Webmaster Central

More than 300 Xmas bruches for your Photoshop

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

A great compilation for Photoshop, for Christmas, made by All Day I Dream About Photography. I highly advice this for everybody.