In this article, Maxim Shirshin will introduce us to the history of the BEM methodology. BEM is a collection of ideas and methods. Companies and teams can integrate it into their existing workflow gradually, finding out what works best for them, using a unified language that consists of powerful terms: blocks, elements, modifiers. Learn about the challenges that a big company faces when gradually building an entire ecosystem of services with an ever-growing team of developers.
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Backbone.js is quickly becoming the most popular framework for building modular client-side JavaScript applications. To help you tap the full potential of Marionette, Joseph Zimmerman prepared an entire eBook full of useful hands-on examples!
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In this tutorial, we will create a Magento module that will capture an affiliate referral from a third-party source (e.g. an external website or newsletter) and include a HTML script on the checkout success page once this referral has been converted.
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In this tutorial, we will be covering a number of interesting topics, including: Magento layout handles, layout XML files, blocks and templates, and an alternative to Widgets.
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This is our sixth article in a series that introduces the latest useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for Gmail-like client-side drafts. The fourth shared a free plugin called GuideGuide with us, and in the fifth we’ve announced Erskine’s responsive grid generator Gridpak.
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This article is the sixth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for Gmail-like client-side drafts, the fourth covered a free plugin called GuideGuide and the fifth presented Erskine Design’s responsive grid generator Gridpak. Today, we are happy to feature a toolkit devised by Yandex: BEM.Read more…
This article is the fifth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for Gmail-like client-side drafts and the fourth shared with us a free plugin called GuideGuide. Today, we are happy to present Erskine’s responsive grid generator: Gridpak.
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A lot of community extensions (or modules) are available for the feature-rich open-source e-commerce solution Magento but what if they don’t quite work as you want them to? What if you could understand the structure of a Magento module a little better, to the point that you could modify it to suit your needs or, better yet, write your own module from scratch?
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You’ve probably already heard about responsive design. In this post, the ZURB team present ’Foundation’, a framework to help you build prototypes and production code that’s truly responsive.
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Krysztof Rakowski cover how to separate the view of your PHP application from its other components. Learn some basic MVC concepts, review some popular templating libraries, play around with a small custom-made view class, and explore the basics of using the Twig library.
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