MISCELLANEOUS Tutorials 
Drupal CMS e-Commerce Module Basics
By Michael J. Ross
Regular e-commerce shopping carts work fine if the functionality of the store site is limited to listing products, allowing customers to purchase them, accepting credit card payments, and all of the other e-commerce features offered by these shopping cart solutions. But what if you also want to support collaborative editing of content, community forums, and other capabilities that could help increase traffic to your site, but are usually only found in content management systems (CMSs)? Is it possible to combine the best of both worlds — shopping carts and CMSs?
Wednesday, 20th August 2008
Creating an Online Newsletter with Drupal
By Michael J. Ross
As part of the Information Revolution that is changing the way that the world works and plays, people are increasingly turning to the Internet for the information they use to make decisions — financial, professional, health, etc. Consequently, news publications that are printed and mailed through the post are being supplanted by portal news sites, blogs, and online newsletters (oftentimes referred to as "e-zines" — electronic magazines).
Friday, 11th July 2008
Setting Up Subversion for Development on Windows
By Akash Mehta
When developing web applications on your own, a common challenge is keeping track of your changes. Mature version control systems make it easier to manage development as projects increase in size and complexity. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to set up Subversion on a Windows machine and get started with a simple project.
Wednesday, 2nd July 2008
Stylize Your Digg Count
By Leon Chevalier
A digg count normally comes in badge form I’m sure you’ve seen it. It shows how many diggs a web page has, and provides a link for you to digg it. Learn how to customize this in this tutorial.
Tuesday, 22nd April 2008
Installing Apache on Windows
By Michael J. Ross
Even though it is possible to do Web development and testing on a remote server, it is better to fully develop a new Web site on a local Web server, and then upload everything when it is finished, for many reasons: 1) Keeping the unfinished site off the Internet is safer, because as you begin developing the site, you probably have not put in all of your code for neutralizing any potential attacks against your site, including cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities...
Wednesday, 20th February 2008
Ecommerce Imagery: Persuading with Pictures
By Mrudula Kodali
The power of images in making a sale has been well known in traditional marketing for a long time. This becomes even more important online when there's no physical product for users to handle. The images on your website alone have to work even harder to convey the true look and feel of your product.
Monday, 18th February 2008
Customizable Websites - The Definitive Guide
By Abid Warsi
Several popular websites have let their homepages be customized by users. New web technologies have made it possible to add slicker customization interfaces so more sites are allowing users to customize their pages. But, should you do the same?
Wednesday, 6th February 2008
7 Usability Guidelines for Websites on Mobile Devices
By Abid Warsi
More and more mobile phones users are browsing and searching the Internet on their handsets. The UK, for example, has neared saturation for mobile phones and many handset browsers can now handle sites designed for viewing on computers. Indeed 20% of UK mobile phone users now use the Internet on their mobile devices (source: 3G.co.uk1).
Wednesday, 30th January 2008
10 Common Errors When Implementing Accessibility
By Trenton Moss
Web developers attempting to build accessible websites often make the same mistakes time and time again. Although they're trying their hardest sometimes their overzealousness gets in the way and actually hinders the accessibility of their websites.
Tuesday, 29th January 2008
WordPress Customization
By Justin Laing
A presentation on customizing WordPress. It gives an introduction to WordPress, and covers the basics of customizing themes.
Wednesday, 9th January 2008
RSS Tutorial
By Mark Nottingham
This tutorial explains the features and benefits of a Web format called RSS, and gives a brief technical overview of it. It also includes information on a similar format called Atom. The reader is assumed to have some familiarity with XML and other Web technologies. It is not meant to be exhaustive; for more information, see the ‘More Information about RSS’ section.
Sunday, 23rd December 2007
Caching Tutorial
By Mark Nottingham
This is an informational document. Although technical in nature, it attempts to make the concepts involved understandable and applicable in real-world situations. Because of this, some aspects of the material are simplified or omitted, for the sake of clarity.
Saturday, 22nd December 2007