Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
Creating an Online Store with Symfony – Part 2: Design
Friday, December 24th, 2010
This part contains only mockups and designs. There are some hand drawn sketches but almost all design is created with Adobe Fireworks.
The Grid Idea: product grid spans the entire width of the browser. This applies to home page, category listing, search results, filters, etc.
Product details page and shopping cart (together with checkout page):
Grid:
Layout: Categories grid [...]
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Creating an Online Store with Symfony – Part 1: Documentation
Friday, December 17th, 2010
This is work in progress
Content
Project Description
Requirements and Technologies
Modules (Frontend and Backend)
Objects and Database
Frontend Sections
Backend Sections
Graphic Design
1. Project Description
Project aims to create a full-featured ecommerce solution. Backend administration area will include classic features like managing product catalog, categories, standard and custom product attributes, managing sales, users and part of the website content, also viewing [...]
How to build a website layout in 30 minutes
Friday, December 10th, 2010
Ok, it’s more like an hour if you include:
- a bit of pencil and paper sketching (5 mins)
- actually searching for stock images (5 mins)
- coming up with that brilliant and innovative logo, drawing and scanning (5 mins)
- building the layout in fireworks (the video below) (30 mins)
- pondering and day-dreaming (15 mins)
The video below [...]
How I work: My Applications (freelance web developer)
Friday, October 1st, 2010
I’m a freelance web developer. I work mostly with PHP, HTML and CSS, but also javascript and actionscript.
I’m also a web designer, print designer and illustrator.
I’m always interested in what tools other people in this line of business use and always happy to get a good suggestion from people with similar workflows or interests.
So here’s [...]
Symfony – forms in Symfony
Friday, September 24th, 2010
What forms are really like in Symfony
You know what your Book object looks like, Symfony created the Book class and the BookForm class for you.
Once you do
$form = new BookForm()
in one of your actions, displaying the form in the template is as easy as:
<form action=<?php echo url_for(‘book/new’) ?> action="post">
<?php echo [...]
Symfony – starting up with Symfony
Friday, September 17th, 2010
I’ve recently been learning a lot of Symfony in my attempt to make the transition from home-made MVC frameworks to a full-featured OO PHP MVC framework. Everything that follows is my personal view on Symfony and a way to clarify things in my head. I’m just starting out with Symfony, so I’m definitely NOT an [...]
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Monitoring multiple Google Analytics profiles
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Google Analytics is a great tool! I love every little bit of it since the day I discovered it.
But sometimes you just want to know how your websites are doing at a glance. I don’t care about all the other stuff like bounces, time spent on site, keywords, etc.
I just want to know if traffic [...]