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Tableless, accessible, nearly validating osCommerce — Rewriting the beast
osCommerce accessibility stinks
ArrayosCommerce default installation is a huge mess for accessibility. Every piece of code that the platform spits out has endless tables and poorly coded HTML — finding your way through the code is like trying to clear brush.
The simple solution to osCommerce accessibility is to install the Simple Template System and put together a XHTML/CSS’ed out template. That only solves one part of the problem, however, because your wonderful template is going to be wrapping around a whole slew of undesirable code.
Over a year ago, a client of mine wanted an osCommerce website. I wanted to create a masterpiece of accessibility. I tackled osCommerce head-on and re-wrote most of the code that creates the HTML. It was a nightmare, but I created a nearly validating eCommerce website with osCommerce.
The experience was so scarring that I haven’t yet written about it 
Nearly every file was affected, so upgrading it would be a nightmare, but it’s truly an effort of love.
KWD presents: a nearly validating, tableless osCommerce website
Posted in Code, Web Design Portfolio
Tagged Cart, CSS, customization, eCommerce, osCommerce, project, Shopping Cart, Web Design, XHTML
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Standards-Compliant Shopping Cart with XHTML & CSS!
I’ve been looking for a shopping cart like this for a long time
One of my clients is looking to move from osCommerce to a more user-friendly solution, and I really want to use a shopping cart that is XHTML and standards-compliant…Something that validates and looks pretty with stylesheets off, has a full feature set, and a great admin panel.
I was quite pleasantly surprised when I discovered Tradingeye. They have a well-coded shopping cart solution as well as a CMS. Very, very interesting. Looks like a pleasure to develop for; like WordPress for eCommerce. Check out their Shopping cart demo.
Posted in Web Development
Tagged Cart, CSS, eCommerce, Links, osCommerce, Shopify, Shopping Cart, Standards, Web Design, XHTML
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Setting Far Futures Expires in ASP, Using ASP as CSS
I normally don’t work with ASP; I use PHP for my coding. Recently, I had to create a style.css.asp file, and I needed to find how to set a far-futures header in ASP.
Here’s what I found in 5 minutes :
Cars and Code – Not all that different
Customizing under the hood
I was talking with one of my clients who is a mechanic, and he was telling me about how he used to do a lot of car customization and performance enhancing, and that he really loved it.He told me that the problem with customizing cars is that when you start tinkering around under the hood, every little change presents new problems that need fixing, and soon, the project becomes unmanageable.
I’ve done my deal of modifying code (check out this custom XHTML osCommerce installation) and let me tell you: it doesn’t pay. My clients generally don’t care about how the site is tableless, CSS/XHTML valid, et cetera. They want to know that it works properly.
Posted in Code
Tagged Code, CSS, Customizing, Joomla, Openrealty, osCommerce, WordPress, XHTML
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Multiple Matte Colors for CSS Sprites
Here’s the problem: I want to use CSS Sprites for transparent images, and they require different matte colors.
ArrayThe promise of CSS Sprites is great: you can combine many small images into one bigger image, and use CSS to reveal only the revelant parts. But what if you have a background image, and the background changes color on :hover? When trying to save the smilies, you can only choose one matte color. I need multiple matte colors!
The issue really is a pain when you have already given your object a stroke. Using the Appearance panel, we’ll make everything happy in the world again!
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