Credibility & Security – Two eCommerce Success Requirements
May 15, 2013 - 6:05 pm by Alex France
Having a successful business and beating the competition is just as difficult online as it is in the real world. In business, owners want to do everything in their power to present a professional, yet friendly, persona to the public to garner the trust and interest of potential customers. It is quite common that if [...]
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Comment Test Video
May 4, 2013 - 8:24 pm by Alex France
A video displaying how comments work on my project. By using a mix of ajax and jQuery, users are able to post comments instantly and easily on products with no need to refresh the page.
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Beautiful Apps
May 1, 2013 - 10:00 am by Alex France
This post is going to serve as a gallery of app inspiration. Whenever I happen across a beautifully designed app I will screenshot and upload a picture here. Over the coming months/years this gallery will grow and grow until it will hopefully serve as a really great collection of beautiful apps.
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Detecting escape press in javascript
April 25, 2013 - 6:47 pm by Alex France
Today for my University project, I was improving the overlay on my current site. I decided I wanted to add a slight extra bit of code so the user can close it by pressing the escape key. Below is the javascript code to use: $(document).keyup(function(e) { if (e.keyCode == 27) { // Close your overlays/divs [...]
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30 Day Challenge – Photo a day
April 25, 2013 - 2:26 pm by Alex France
I have decided for my 30 day challenge I am going to take a photo a day on my iPhone. It’s not going to be arty, it’s just going to be relevant to something I have done on that day, or what happened. All the photos will be added to the gallery, linked below:
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Making Triangles with CSS
April 5, 2013 - 1:45 pm by Alex France
Making Arrows with CSS Arrows are used all over the web but more often than not, they are created with small little png images. No doubt, this is a viable way to create them but I prefer to limit the amount of images to as small a number as possible on a site. So below, [...]
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Word-Break CSS Property
April 4, 2013 - 8:45 pm by Alex France
On a few rare occasions, user generated/produced content could be needed to fill a small text box, be it on a user profile or elsewhere on a site. I have seen once or twice, the text that fills these boxes sometimes overspill the box its in generally because of user error. Though, even if the [...]
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Missing http in url
March 24, 2013 - 10:30 am by Alex France
Recently I have had a number of clients and others ask me why, when im coding, I link to things as //website.com and not http://website.com. It’s a good question and when I first came across it myself I put it down as a mistake on the part of the developer and dismissed it, but then [...]
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Hover for more info
February 26, 2013 - 9:30 am by Alex France
One of my original aims for my project was to strip back an eCommerce site to its bare essentials. I wanted a much cleaner, more physical shop like experience or where you see the clothes, then look at the price. I decided that when you hover over the clothes more information should be revealed, the [...]
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Brandsumo is go
December 20, 2012 - 3:08 pm by Alex France
Today (20th December 2012) Brandsumo Ltd became incorporated as a Limited Company at Companies House, Company Number 08337609. I am looking forward to building the company and working with a vast range of clients and businesses! Check out our website: Brandsumo
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