…means to search the Amazon Store's catalog using a RESTful API and integrate data for virtually any product listing into a web page. If you are a programmer with a business mindset and looking for ways to monetize your site, you can sign up to be an Amazon affiliate and…
…me when websites automatically played a lo-fi bloopy version of The Final Countdown while you signed the webmaster’s guestbook. However, in 2016, Web MIDI—and specifically the Web MIDI API—has a lot more potential.MIDI standards for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It’s a protocol that allows electronic musical instruments, computers and other…
…me, considering my needs), but it has a track record of good customer service. I'm not going to review it here, since Jeff Reifman had a take on it a while back. Be sure to check that tutorial out as well. CMS Commander: The One That I Used to Know…
…me topic, I’ll briefly discuss the migration process to Magento 2, and all the important aspects you need to consider for this migration.Things to Consider Before MigrationThe first decision you need to make here is: should you stick with Magento 1 for a while, or start the migration to Magento…
…mething working, learning about a few of the mistakes you've made, refining the code, and then repeating the process.Ultimately, it's about improving the quality of what you're doing such that the end result is better than it would've been had you just left it as it were in its first…
…mes Sync: The Underdog of iThemes iThemes has always struck me as a very successful company with WordPress-based products and services, yet this product, Sync, looks a bit meek in contrast to other iThemes products. It's probably the features: It does offer the basic features like updates or content/user/plugin/theme management, but…
…mechanism for rendering design advice in a reference format. Software design is a massive topic, and when faced with a design problem, you must be able to focus on something as close to the problem as you can get. The code that employs design patterns is easy to understand, maintain…
…mes are everywhere! In ThemeForest, almost a quarter of all WordPress themes fall under the "corporate themes" category, and nearly all best-sellers are a corporate or a "multi-purpose" theme. And it's no different in other theme shops, too: Almost all of their top-sellers are multi-purpose themes, and corporate themes come…
…meone who is just getting started working with WordPress, then it's natural to be curious about some of the advanced features offered by its API. So where might you stand regarding your experience?Maybe you've tweaked the code in a few themes.Perhaps you've altered the functionality of a couple of plugins.Maybe…
…mes are corporate (or multi-purpose) themes. Theme makers might have clogged the market a bit by putting the same designs into practice, but that doesn't mean we can't create something new. In the previous part, I talked about the market a little and started off with making the unicorn of a…