Cranking out Commerce Generation Blogs
Written by: Ryan Coughlin on January 27 with zero comment(s). located in Commerce Generation, Recent Work.
The past week I have been on several blog layouts for the Commerce Generation. We are currently working on launching the new website (which is much needed). Along with the new website is a company blog, as well as two blogs for the founder and VP. I started to browse other blog layouts and got some ideas of to run with and they also loved a very clean, simple, and big typography. Below are the various layouts that I came up with, these are just Photoshop layouts.
They are currently up right now at their locations, but not 100% complete, they’re almost there! I am going to be using WordPress, makes this quite the easy task. I am going to have to say that I like the Commerce Generation blog layout the best (the last one of out of the three). That one was the first round and got it on the first try, but the others went through a couple of revisions.
Once their all up and live, I will post links to the new blogs as well as the new and improved Commerce Generation website. Take care until then next post!
And another went live – PetFoodDirect.com
Written by: Ryan Coughlin on January 27 with zero comment(s). located in Recent Work.
Since I started working at Commerce Generation last fall, we have been working on a very large project for Pet Food Direct.
We launched the site about a month ago and its looking pretty good so far. I was in charge of slicing a PSD and converting to XHTML. Another site that they own is NationalPetPharmacy.com which is similar to their other site, but sells pet medication.
Its great to see a project that you and many others put time in to and see actual customers utilizing the new site. It was probably the largest site I have completed before working with lots of Javascript and CSS files.
The sites backend that was built at Commerce Generation is running Commerce Server with ASP.NET. Some features include:
- Warehouse integration
- Auto-ship prorgrams
- Account management and much more!
Lots and lots of hours, but worth it once you see your work up and running.
Lets get back at it!
Written by: Ryan Coughlin on January 21 with zero comment(s). located in Ranting.
I have found some free time this weekend to sit down and clean up the blog as well as write up some new posts to keep it going! I have been slacking the past couple of months and have been really busy working at Commerce Generation in Burlington, VT. We recently finished up a large project with the websites going live. Along with that news, there are other coding tips and much more. Expect lots coming up.
Ryan
Internet Explorer 6 Still the Popular Browser?
Written by: Ryan Coughlin on November 5 with one comment(s). located in Browsers.
A friend who started Cat on The Couch Productions, tweeted me an article titled “Browser Version Market Share” and I found this extremely interesting, check out this clip that was taken from the website. Most of you are going to have the same feeling as me when you see what the first result is. This article was published along with the data presented in October, 2009. I am sure there might be other data that says otherwise, but I believe this is very creditable, this resource came originally from the CNET website.
Browser Version Market Share
Find Internet Explorer 6 at the top using 23% – was a huge shock to me. Waiting til it dies out and Firefox, Safari, Chrome and others start to take the market share for browsers. Slowly but surely, that number will dwindle as new computers are coming with Internet Explorer 8 preloaded. As for Web Developers, you all know this still means we will be using CSS fixes to fix double float margin and many other issues that we deal with when testing a website on IE6.
