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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 [

What’s Great About Joomla?

by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

With a long-established history and a stable, growing community of supporters, the content management software Joomla is still a popular favorite. The software has a large database of existing modules and other add-ons that extend its functionality quite easily. There are several dedicated developers and software firms that actively provide support servi

Choosing a CMS for Your Website

by Jacqueline Sinex
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

A lot of folks crave the ability to self-manage their website. But, no two content management system applications are equal. When researching software with your web developer, these are some factors to consider: You need CMS software that runs efficiently and won’t bog down the server and site speed. You want an administrative interface that [&hell

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