Tomato Cart: All new shopping cart

Tomato Cart is a new open source shopping cart based on OSCommerce. It tries to offer a much better user experience, as well as a better admin back end. TomatoCart supports sales of both physicals and virtual goods ( for example E-books and other downloads), and they are arranged in terms of quantity, images, description, attribute and variant.

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mooSlide

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mooSlide is a slide class for mooTools which is very easy to use and configure. It’s a functional tool to present any type of content. You can also use it as a lightbox replacer.

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Safari Web Inspector

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We all should know about the Firefox Firebug plugin, but did you know about the built-in web inspector for Apple’s Safari browser?

It’s a powerful set of tools that make it easy to debug, tweak, and optimize a website for peak performance and compatibility. You can view the structure of a page (DOM and CSS), debug JavaScript and graph page resources by either size or load time.

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Firefox productivity tools – Part II

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We have come across some more Firefox productivity tools, and decided to make them available for download directly from our site, instead of just providing links. Less hassle for you, our readers.

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SEO – an update.

Google does not pay attention to your Keywords tag anymore. As a matter of fact – they ignore it.

Matt Cutts explained that due to all the abuse of this meta tag due to people keyword spamming it and stuffing it with irrelevant keyword, the search engine now ignores this meta tag.

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SEO Cheatsheet, part one.

Important SEO HTML tags

Title Tag <head>
<title>Keyword</title>
</head>
H1,H2,H3 <h1>Most Important</h1>

<h2>Second Most Important</h2>

<h3>Third Most Important</h3> Meta

Bold, Strong

(Same Worth)

<b>Keyword</b>

<strong>Keyword</strong>

Image

(XHTML)

<img src=”keyword.jpg” alt=”keyword” />

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Creating a “Drop-Cap” with CSS

There are allot of magazine style sites out there that use “drop-caps” It is a kind-of old style of writing, but it does give magazine style sites a nice touch.

Below is the HTML and CSS code to make the first letter in a paragraph a “drop-cap”

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Refcard: XML

XML  is a general-purpose specification for creating custom
mark-up languages. It is classified as an extensible language
because it allows its users to define their own elements. Its
primary purpose is to help information systems share structured
data, particularly via the Internet, and it is used both to encode
documents and to serialize data. In the latter context, it is
comparable with other text-based serialization languages such
as JSON and YAML.
As a diverse platform, Java has several solutions for working
with XML. This refcard provides developers a concise overview
of the different xml processing technologies in Java, and a use
case of each technology.

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Joomla: Local and remote installations.

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Joomla is probably one of the most popular content management systems (CMS). It enables you to build powerful websites and online applications. Many aspects, including it’s ease of use and extendibility, and the fact that it’s open source, and freely available makes it very popular.

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Refcard: WordPress

Wordpress is definitely the blogging tool of choice for millions of people around the world. There are thousands of templates and plug ins available freely on the net, as well as tools for creating templates.

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