A nice little tutorial on manipulating WordPress using CSS. In this tutorial we’ll review the basics of CSS and WordPress, such as image alignment and useful classes, and then next week in part two, I’ll show you some examples of seemingly complex things you can accomplish with just a bit of CSS. http://wpcandy.com/articles/tutorials/a-guide-to-css-and-wordpress-part-1.html

Check out this nice collection of both free and professional Magento Themes for full service e-commerce sites. Magento is the next big thing in e-commerce, and so far it seems really powerful. I just installed one on my site for testing. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/05/25-magento-templates-for-your-e-commerce-business/

We’ve all been on one of those sites that takes entirely too long to load and chances are most of us weren’t there for very long. Long loading sites lose more traffic than they think. So, what makes sites perform so poorly? http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2007/01/site-speed-performance/

This script is meant to notify you of any missing pages, odd traffic and overall bad behavior from any visitors. By adding this to your 404 page you’ll be able to track missing pages as well as when hackers are invariably try to steal or hack into your site. What it does: Once the user [...]

When writing CSS you’ll often find yourself with an extremely long CSS doc that could pass the 1000 line mark. Commenting every block of CSS can be very helpful and benificial especially if working within a team of developers who may need to change items in the future. http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2008/10/css-keeping-it-organized/

From time to time we’re all guilty of rushing through a site design and development phase and using poor organization and bad file naming habits. The more you work on professional sites the better you’ll get at it but that’s no excuse. Someone else may be working on your site in the future and you [...]

PHP was at one time known as “Personal Home Page” but evolved into something so much more powerful than just that. http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2007/02/what-is-php-and-why-should-you-use-it/

So, why should you validate your CSS and XHTML code? There are many reasons but primarily so the so the site functions and looks exactly the way you intend it to. http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2007/01/the-importance-of-valid-code/

Most of the challenges when working with CSS and PHP development are “making it work” in all browsers. Previewing properly is the designers main concern and the difference in browsers makes things a little difficult. Some browsers have all kinds of bugs when it comes to previewing CSS, especially transparent PNG’s. http://www.thatagency.com/design-studio-blog/2007/03/update-your-browser-youll-be-glad-you-did/