Happy Holidays from Plank
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3 Steps to Design Success
There were some great speakers at the Design Thinkers 2010 conference in Toronto this year.
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Baking PDFs with CakePHP
Working on another project, I needed a way to output PDFs with CakePHP. After looking around, I ended up choosing dompdf as the library to use to generate them. Overall, it went fairly smooth. We did hit one or two limitations (like nested tables (special circumstances!)) but otherwise it worked really well. In our case,...
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Pro-Bono 2010: Project Chosen!
We posted about 2 months ago that we'd officially be taking on a pro-bono client for 2010/2011 here. As mentioned in our original blog post, we've been doing this informally for years now, but we wanted to open it up to the general public to make sure that we could take on the best project...
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Adding a product image rollover to your shop
When working on the WowweeTechShop, we decided to begin with the free Solo theme, and modify it to our clients needs. One change we wanted was to not use the lightbox on product pages when a product has multiple images. Rather, we wanted something that displayed thumbs of all the product images, and when a...
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Ajax’ed Shopify Cart Page
Last time, we looked at placing an ajax’ed Add to Cart button everywhere. The next place we want to ajax-up will be the Cart page. When the user updates the cart from that page, we will want to do it without a page load. The base theme I am modifying for this is the free...
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Pro-Bono 2010: Call for Submissions Closed
The 2010 Plank Pro-Bono Project will be announced in the next few weeks.
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Router tweaks go a long way
We've been using the Cisco/Linksys RVS4000 Small Business Router in our Montreal office, which has suited our needs for some time. Recently, we upgraded our Internet connection to a lean 100Mbps/100Mbps fiber connection from Openface here in Montreal. Once the new connection was installed, we fired up a speed test to see just what our...
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Web Directions USA 2010 Wrap Up
So, as Web Directions USA 2010 (WDUSA10) draws to a close, time to reflect. Inevitably, I can’t help but compare some aspects to SXSW, even though this is a much smaller event. (prolly less than 300 people at anyone time). Only 2 tracks - design & dev. WDUSA10 clear winner on the name badges. I...
