Web Design

Beadazzle Boutique X-Cart store goes live

Posted by on June 22, 2011 at 4:43 pm

We have just put Beadazzle Boutique’s new X-Cart e-commerce store live today. The new design is very strong and the functionality is bang up to date. Visit: www.beadazzle-boutique.co.uk

‘Why is it so expensive to pay a developer to migrate my store?’

Posted by on March 2, 2011 at 3:45 pm

‘Why is it so expensive to pay a developer to migrate my store?’ Migration First of all ‘migration’ is a misleading word as there is no magic button. Migrating from one e-commerce platform to another simply means building the whole site again. The devil is in the detail Re-creating a website design to match its [...]

Online html php editor with shiftedit

Posted by on December 12, 2010 at 9:34 pm

I never use dreamweaver or any other code generator. I have always used my trusty notepad++. But I have come across shiftedit.net which allows you to have all the syntax highlighting of notepad++ but through an online editor. It includes an FTP manager to store you connection settings so you do not have to remember [...]

How to create a Welcome tab on your businesses Facebook page

Posted by on November 12, 2010 at 10:23 am

I have been asked this a lot recently. “How do we make the facebook page look nicer?”. Facebook is very limited for styling as they want to make sure your styling does not take away from facebooks images to much. So when a client showed me the facebook page for beauty flash which showed a [...]

Christmas eCards for your customers

Posted by on November 11, 2010 at 9:33 pm

The folks at Heart internet have kindly given us and our customers Christmas eCards to use. If you host with Zone1 Creative then will be on a Heart Internet Shared or Dedicated server. Message packs include: “Merry Christmas”, “Seasons Greetings” and a blank card option so you add your own personal message. You can download, [...]

Popout tutorial using only css.

Posted by on October 31, 2010 at 10:10 pm

I am loving this tutorial from Soh Tanaka on how to create an information popout for images. A bit like google images whenyou move your mouse over an image.

How to Build a CSS3 Mega Drop-Down Menu

Posted by on October 31, 2010 at 9:54 pm

Net tuts+ have published anice article on how to create a CSS3 Mega Menu. As these are all the range at the moment, you would prefer to have one which uses as little Javascript resource as possible.

Cross browser styleable scrollbars with jQuery and CSS using jScrollPane

Posted by on October 31, 2010 at 9:48 pm

I came across this jquery module that allows you to style inline scroll bars within your website. jScrollPane is designed to be flexible but very easy to use. After you have downloaded and included the relevant files in the head of your document all you need to to is call one javascript function to initialise [...]

Credit Card Icons

Posted by on October 20, 2010 at 10:57 am

Louis Harboe, a talented icon and interface designer, is sharing a set of 35 credit card icons in his blog Graphicpeel. Icons include all major credit card providers like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, etc. with multiple versions and also there are items for PayPal, Google Checkout or Amazon too. They are sized 32*32px and come [...]

Arts Foundation before and after

Posted by on October 18, 2010 at 9:18 am

I am currently backing up the old artsfoundation.co.uk site and will be uploading the new Zone1 Creative developed Drupal site to the server. As a case study I have taken snapshots of the old site and will be placing the new pages alongside them to show how we have improved the site. OLD SITE NEW [...]