Announcement: “WaterleeBoilerplate” will be open-source and will stand as a replacement for existing Magento Boilerplate. This means that I’m going to maintain “WaterleeBoilerplate” as a free Magento Responsive theme hosted on github. As many of you know via e-mail I’m hoping for release next week although I won’t release it until properly tested across all [...]
So, what’s up lately?
Update: Get updates on progress by reading this post. Long time no posts here. Excuses are numerous: 1. Writing articles at inchoo.net 2. Attending FOWD in New York this year 3. Developing a Magento responsive theme – Codename: Waterlee. So, to cut the story short I’m announcing laying to rest “Magento boilerplate” and replacing it’s best [...]
Lemonstand App flirt becomes a love affair
Before you read: This article series aims at the Magento CE vs. Lemonstandapp comparison A few months ago I ran into this e-commerce platform and after some serious flirting fell deeply in love with this no-frills approach to e-commerce. As you may know I’m experiencing my third year with Magento development and have dealt with [...]
“Lemonstand App” CMS objects
This article is the first in the “Lemostand App” series aimed at developers and content curators, covers LemonstandApp’s CMS terminlogy and how it’s used. All definitions are based on their extensive documentation that can be found here. CMS objects: Page – contains folders corresponding website pages Template – Contains templates, corresponding templates Partial – Contains [...]
Modernizr data URLs
IMPORTANT! All of you developing Magento stores using modernizr.js should correct this: into this: You can take a look at the solution here: https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/issues/218 Basically, you’ll get an “Display secure and non-secure” items on the page if you have it as it is in IE7 of course.
Secure and non-secure css3PIE URL in Magento
The specificity with using CSS3PIE in Magento is when PIE needs to be loaded on the page with “https” enabled. IE treats this as a non-secure item and holds the user at gun point with the warning message. He or she can than choose between displaying “both secure and non-secure items” or hitting the back [...]
Milestone: Added Formalize to Magento Boilerplate.
Yo, everybody! Just added and configured Nathan Smith’s Formalize to Magento Boilerplate. For those of you who don’t know about the Formalize, this should do it: “Break the cycle of inconsistent form defaults, style forms with impunity!” A screenshot from Nathan’s site depicting from elements look: Check it in action here and download from github [...]
Magento Boilerplate on Github
Magento Boilerplate is published on Github. Please comment, add suggestions or just download and let me know if it works for you. I’m constantly updating so check for new versions weekly. Here is the link: https://github.com/zeljkoprsa/Magento-Boilerplate
CSS3PIE is updated to 1.0 beta3
Just in time of my release of the Magento boilerplate with CSS3PIE the guys from 327 Creative LLC released beta 3 of their life saving Progressive IE .htc script. Here’s the rundown of improvements: Performance – PIE is now up to four times as fast as beta2. Lazy Initialization – PIE loads on demand PIE.js: standalone JavaScript [...]
Wassup?
The page is a work in progress but there’s still something interesting for you to check out. Go over to the Magento Bolierplate page and get your click on!