Articles by: Jim Creech

Lunascape 5 Genisis. Yep, It’s a Browser!

OK, who here enjoys developing for all the browsers out there? Especially CSS and IE6! What a match made in heaven. I’ve been developing now for almost 12 years and nothing has ever irritated me more than having to develop for so many browsing platforms. [Continue reading this tutorial]  Read More →

Information Architecture And You

Information Architecture (IA) is defined as… “The art and science of organizing and labeling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability.“ On the web, information is exponentially growing at a pace that is almost impossible to keep up with. Companies these days need personnel and proven architectures in place to get their message out to the minions of prosumers in a highly efficient manner. Notice I said prosumer instead of consumer. Applications are... [Continue reading this tutorial]

Kuler It Up!

As I’ve been going through this blog, I noticed that there isn’t anything on Adobe’s color theme creator Kuler. Kuler is a free online repository of nothing but color palettes and themes created by developers and users for a wide variety of applications based on rules of color theory. It has an established community sharing color palettes and you can create a theme for anything online or out in the real world. [Continue reading this tutorial]  Read More →

Ecommerce + Magento = Growth!

If you’re like me, the task of developing an ecommerce site usually begins with a shot, Tylenol and a new keyboard. However, an open source architecture called Magento is making a few developers turn their heads. And, with 500,000+ downloads, there must be something to the buzz Varien is creating. This store is everything and the kitchen sink. Its feature list and roadmap are comprehensive, It’s a great CMS, their forums are a good source of support, there is a ton of documentation and the... [Continue reading this tutorial]