Web Development Category
Creating a Second Language Section in WordPress
by Jacqueline Sinex
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
Let’s face it: automated translation software just does not cut it. So what if I want to translate my English-based WordPress website into Spanish or another language? This can be done with a little bit of template editing and some unique pages. The suggestions below will help you establish an alternative navigation menu, display an […]

Easy Steps to WordPress Sectional Sidebars
by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Situation: You have a Wordpress developed website and you want additional sidebars for different sections in the website, so you can display different widgets on different pages. This is especially handy for adding various sub-menus to different sections (like one for About Us section, a different menu for Contact Us). Solution: You don’t need to be

Transparent Little Dropdown Menu
by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
So you have some dropdown menus on your website, but you would like to make them a little fancier. With just a little effort in your stylesheet, you can add a nice transparency effect to the background of the dropdown list. The CSS is usually applied to the style id created for the drop-down div. […]

Minimizing JavaScript
by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Sometimes a little bit of JavaScript is necessary to control certain features in a website, such as a simple slideshow element on a page, which was a better choice over the heavy Flash animation. But as organic SEO becomes more prominent, we must learn to minimize the presence of javascript among our web page code, […]

Why So Static? The Difference Between Static and Dynamic Websites
by Bobby Martinez
Monday, February 8th, 2010
A brief overview of the difference between static and dynamic web pages.

What’s Great About Drupal?
by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
My favorite feature about Drupal content management software is how easy it is to edit a content page. With the top toolbar administration setup, you can simply stay logged in and browse the website as if you were a visitor. When you find a page that needs revising, there is a handy Edit link right […]

What’s Great About Authorize.net?
by Jacqueline Sinex
Friday, October 30th, 2009
In our years of e-commerce development, we have worked with a variety of payment gateways to integrate a business’s credit card processing service with a website. Authorize.net is currently one of the most popular gateway services available, making it very easy to install for almost any shopping cart. Most software already has a module available [&

What’s Great About Zen Cart?
by Jacqueline Sinex
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Zen Cart is a shopping cart software that can be a web designer’s dream. The software was well thought-out by its developers and is managed mostly with stylesheets, making custom layouts within close reach; opposed to a less flexible shopping cart that requires heavy programming to modify the look and feel. Furthermore, e-commerce developers will [
