// Recently I came across an enquiry from a client that needed a commission-based e-commerce website. Being a wholesaler who on-sold products of which the stock belonged to retailers, their ecommerce website required a "commissioning" system so that payments could be divided between affiliates. The breakdown of the process was as follows: Buyer makes payment [...]
Tags: adaptive payments, affiliates, commission, ecommerce, merchants, multiple recipients, payment gateway, payments, recipients, split payments, transactions
// Social Media is a growing phenomenon and social media marketing services have sprouted up in numbers to capitalize on market factors. The Raw Statistics Facebook alone has over 750 million active users with the potential for this figure to rise to 1 billion if allowed into China. The indexed web searchable by Google, Bing [...]
Tags: content, content marketers, google search engine, media marketing, online marketing, search engine optimization, share, share buttons, social media, social media marketing, traffic
// Chances are you have had to use the PHP $_POST function to collect form values passed to a script via the HTTP POST method whenever you have endeavored to build a new HTML web form. The question most programmers ask when passing values from a HTML form to PHP is, "How do I know [...]
// There are various scenarios where the back button on a browser becomes an obstacle and usability problem to how a web page is intended to function. Browser navigation systems have been developed to store browser history and to cache files that make up a website; such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and images. The problem [...]
Tags: browser back button, browser state, disable back button, location.replace(), meta, meta expires, meta pragma, window.onload
ensure that your form’s regular expression validation captures all possible variations of a telephone number’s local and international conventions, country codes, area codes, and dialing formats.
Tags: form, javascript, phone number, regular expression, validation, validator regexp
// The difference between a website designer and a website developer is one of those philosophical arguments fought on a subliminal scale where the service provider picks a side and defends their decision; kind of like when you purchase a domain name and build your business around that decision. I am not exactly sure where [...]
Tags: industry comparison, website designer, website developer
// The initial online marketing strategy of any business online should be brand visibility. Here is a quick exercise. Type your brand or business name into Google search to see whether it ranked number one. If it did, well done! If your brand is ranked multiple times in the same search criteria, very well done! [...]
Tags: branding, social media
Broken Link Checker for WordPress by Janis Elsts is an effective tool to check your blog for broken links and missing images. I had installed the Broken Link Checker plug-in for several months and almost forgotten it existed. Initially the interface seemed basic, so I had no idea what features lay under the bonnet and [...]
// One of the major browser-specific headaches developers often encounter is the different ways in which Internet Explorer and Firefox interpret the CSS Box Model. IE measures the width of an object from border to border, whereas Mozilla measures the width in terms of the content. For example, IE renders a 100 pixel wide DIV [...]
The journey of an IT graduate to professional service provider has its fair share of pitfalls. It forces its pupils to run in circles because the directions on how to be a success in the information technology field is vague. I have learned from my experiences and hope to pass this onto others who are [...]
