Educating Web Designers

March 8

Our indus­try is rapidly chang­ing which means it’s a tough area for edu­ca­tors to cover. So in what way does edu­ca­tion ben­e­fit web devel­op­ers that every­day adven­tur­ous work could not? Doc­tors, police offi­cers and accoun­tants need their edu­ca­tion to per­form but do we? If we do not need edu­ca­tion to be fan­tas­tic web design­ers and devel­op­ers, does that mean any­one can quickly learn to make great and scal­able websites?

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Moving Magento To A New Server

March 3

Magento requires a lot from both your server and you. Upgrad­ing to another host­ing account or just mov­ing Magento to a new loca­tion could be a time-consuming task and there are a few things you should be aware of. Hav­ing some infor­ma­tion at hand could reduce poten­tial down­time and make the process quicker and more painless.

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Daniel runs an Amsterdam web design agency called Nordstrom Interactive—you can call it Nintera. Nintera provides quality interactive production and consulting services. During projects, he often finds interesting facts and solutions to problems. Those facts and solutions will sometimes end up here.

Clean Up After Drupal

February 27

For the project tcataxi.nl, I was pro­vided with pre-coded HTML markup and stylesheets. My job was to turn the sta­tic markup into a dynamic Dru­pal pow­ered web­site with every piece of con­tent editable. While I’ve worked with Dru­pal many times before, I usu­ally do the front-end myself and work with Drupal’s extra lay­ers, ID’s and classes from the start.

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