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In this tutorial, we will create a Magento module that will capture an affiliate referral from a third-party source (e.g. an external website or newsletter) and include a HTML script on the checkout success page once this referral has been converted.
As always, this module will be written in such a way that no core files are modified, making it portable and Magento-upgrade friendly.
Read more...In the construction industry, a “firewall” is a specially-built wall designed to stop a fire from spreading between sections of a building. The term spread to other industries like car manufacturing, and in the late 1980s it made its way into computing.
On one side of the wall is the seething electronic chaos of the Internet. On the other side is your powerful but vulnerable Web server. These computer firewalls are actually more like fire doors because they have to let some stuff through.
Read more...Howdy folks! Welcome to another round of Smashing Magazine CSS Q&A — the final one, as of now. One more time, we'll answer the best questions which you sent us about CSS.
It was a great experience to run this Q&A with you - thanks a lot for sharing all your questions with us! We hope we answered them at the best possible, and we'll surely be back with new and exciting Q&A rounds in the future. Enjoy Chris' last round on CSS performance, best practices on CSS class naming, and more!
Read more...The buzzword “CSS4” came out of nowhere, just as we were getting used to the fact that CSS3 is here and will stick around for some time. Browser vendors are working hard to implement the latest features, and front-end developers are creating more and more tools to be able to work with the style sheets more effectively.
But now, on hearing about CSS4, you might ask, “Hey, what about CSS3? Is it over already?” We’ve been working hard to spread the goodness of CSS3, and now it’s obsolete?
Read more...Whatever you call them — blocks, boxes, areas, regions — we’ve been dividing our Web pages into visible sections for well over a decade. The problem is, we’ve never had the right tools to do so. While our interfaces look all the world like grids, the underlying structure has been cobbled together from numbered headings and unsemantic helper elements; an unbridled stream of content at odds with its own box-like appearance.
Because we can make our <div>s look but not behave like sections, the experience for assistive technology (AT) users and data-mining software is quite different from the experience enjoyed by those gifted with sight.
The varying viewports that our websites encounter on a daily basis continue to demand more from responsive design. Not only must we continue to tackle the issues of content choreography — the art of maintaining order and context throughout the chaotic ebb and flow of the Web browser — but we must also meet the expectations of users.
They’re not sitting still. With the likes of Firefox OS (Boot to Gecko), Chrome OS and now Ubuntu for phones — an OS that makes “Web apps” first-class citizens — delivering native app-like experiences on the Web may become a necessity if users begin to expect it.
Read more...At Velocity 2011, Nicole Sullivan and I introduced CSS Lint, the first code-quality tool for CSS. We had spent the previous two weeks coding like crazy, trying to create an application that was both useful for end users and easy to modify. Neither of us had any experience launching an open-source project like this, and we learned a lot through the process.
After some initial missteps, the project finally hit a groove, and it now regularly get compliments from people using and contributing to CSS Lint. It’s actually not that hard to create a successful open-source project when you stop to think about your goals.
Read more...Vertical rhythm is clearly an important part of Web design, yet on the subject of baseline, our community seems divided and there is no consensus as to how it fits in — if at all — with our growing and evolving toolkit for designing online.
This may be due to a lack of understanding and appreciation of the benefits that follow from a baseline grid, but it is more likely because baseline is notoriously difficult to get right, and no one yet holds the blueprint to its successful implementation.
Read more...JavaScript has been called everything from great to awful to the assembly language of the Web, but we all use it. Love JavaScript or hate it: everyone admits there are serious flaws and not many other choices.
Let's start with some fundamental negatives. JavaScript has no good answer for some really basic features of modern programming languages, such as private variables and functions, packages and modules, standard localization mechanisms and code completion in editors.
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