If you want to open an e-commerce website can be useful to take a look at this list with eigth interesting Content Management System which can help you to reduce your programming effort for developing e-commerce projects. If you know other products or have some opinion about this CMS please add a comment, thanks!

1. Magento
Magento is an interesting platform for your e-commerce website. It's modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility means your business is no longer constrained by your eCommerce platform. Magento is total control.

2. PrestaShop
PrestaShop is professional e-Commerce shopping cart software that you can download and use for free. It supports a lot of interesting features for a total control of your e-Commerce shop.

3. Drupal e-commerce
Drupal e-Commerce is a package of modules to let you create your own online store. It is totally free, open source, rich featured and flexible. The system can use PayPal, Authorize.net, eWAY, C.O.D. or you can roll your own.

4. Zen-Cart
Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

5. CubeCart
CubeCart is an "out of the box" ecommerce shopping cart software solution which has been written to run on servers that have PHP & MySQL support. With CubeCart you can quickly setup a powerful online store which can be used to sell digital or tangible products to new and existing customers all over the world.

6. osCommerce
osCommerce is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

7. VirtueMart
VirtueMart is not a CMS but an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with Joomla! (and Mambo). Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made easy for use in a PHP/MySQL environment.

8. FatFreeCart
FatFreeCart is a free shopping cart developed by the team behind E-junkie shopping cart. It works inside your website, your blog and will even work from your MySpace page. It is simply a copy-paste cart and does not require you to register with us or install anything. It works with PayPal and Google Checkout. It supports product variations, shipping, handling and sales tax.

Do you have any suggestion or other interesting CMS? Add your comment please!

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Today I received some requests about The Woork Handbook template I published yesterday. Some readers asked to me to distribute that template for their eBooks. So in this post I want to illustrate some guidelines to create an awesome eBook template, quickly and in few steps.

I prepared the template which you can download (for Apple Pages and Microsoft Word) and reuse it for your eBooks (I used Apple pages to write the eBook!).

Download Apple Pages template Download Microsoft Word template

eBook Format

You can print the eBook on A4 format page (2 pages for each facade). This is the screenshot:

Document structure

The document is divided in sections. Each section is a chapter. Use "section break" to separate each chapter in this way:


Adding a section break:

- Apple Pages: Insert > Section Break
- Microsoft Word: Insert > Break > Section break (next page)

Page header

This is a not necessary element but i like have a short description in the header of the my pages. It's a simple text on top of your page with above a line which separete the header from the rest of the page:


In general "page header" isn't placed on the first page of the chapter:

- Apple Pages: select layout button on the inspector and flag the option: First Page is different.


- Microsoft Word: double click on the page header and select different first page from the header/footer toolbar.

Chapter structure using document styles

When you work with a text document (using Word, Apple Pages, OpenOffice...), a very good practice is to define your custom styles for the elements of your pages. In this way, every time you decide to modify the look of an element (for example "chapter title"), it will be update automatically in all elements of your document which use that style. For example take a look at the following picture which represents a generic chapter structure:

Table of contents

Adding a TOC it's very simple:

- Apple Pages: Insert > Table of content.
- Microsoft Word: Insert > Document element > Table of content

Your TOC will be updated automatically every time you add a new content in your document but (this is really important!) you have to use style elements created for the chapter title and article title (Heading 1 and Heading 2).

It's all! I hope this template can help you to prepare quickly your eBook.

Every suggestion is appreciated :)

Note: I used Apple Pages to create my eBook, and I simply converted Pages template for Word. I experienced there are some litte problems with formatting which you convert a document in Word from Apple Pages... tell me if you have them!

The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design... directly from Woork!

Ok friends... finally a first preview of "The Woork Handbook" is ready to be released. This book is a miscellanea of articles I wrote on my blog in the past year. During the period form January to December 2008 “Woork” has been visited from over 4 millions visitors and I received a lot of requests to distribute a printable version of its contents. In the past days I worked hard to prepare a first version of this handbook and distribute it for free.


The book contains articles with code sections, images, illustrations and links to original contents on woork. How I said isn't a structured book! but a printable version of Woork!

The Woork Handbook has been selected on Scribd as a featured document.

Featured Documents are documents that our editors have deemed to be high quality, and adds significant value to Scribd's collection of documents.

Are you looking for an optimal on-line photo editor, free and with features similar to your desktop applications? Take a look at this list of five editors you may absolutely to try!

1. Photoshop Express

Photoshop Express is absolutely my preferred online photo editor. Probably it's the best on-line photo editor alternative to desktop products. Flash 10 based interface provides an exceptional user experience, simple to use and with a fluid workflow.


You can crop, rotate, resize, correct, modify exposure and saturation, remove red eyes and a lot of other action from your photos and any change you made on your photo is reversible and you can always go back to your original photo. Basic account also provides 2GB of free storage.

Photoshop Express

2. Pixlr

Pixlr is an "open-and-go" on-line photo editor. Open the page, open your photos and make all changes you want! No registration is required and with a familiar Photoshop interfaces, with advanced features (such as lasso, brush, clone stamp, blur, sharpen, wand tool) Pixlr is one of the best online Photo Editor actually in circulation.


You can use multiple layers, a lot of filters and use all fonts you have in your computer. Flash 10 web-interface provides a great user experience with stunning visual effects.

Pixlr

3.Slashup

Slashup it's a Flash-based on-line clone of Photoshop desktop program, with a lot of interesting features to edit your photo online. If you are a Photoshop or Gimp user you'll find very simple to use and with a "familiar" interface.


You can manage multiple file with a windowed environment, multiple layers, use filters and custom brushes, adding text and share your photo with other web services. You can also save your images in JPEG and PNG format selecting the more appropriated compression level.

Slashup

4. Picnik

Picnik... if you try it, you'll love it! This web application is simple to use, with a clear Ajax based interface, fast and responsive and doesn't require registration to use it.


When you upload a photo you can modify the exposure, contrast, saturation, apply red eyes remover and other effects, add text (there are some interesting fonts to use), save or share your photos on Flickr,Facebook, MySpace, Picasa and on other photo sharing web services.

Picnik

5. FlauntR

FlauntR is another high-quality online photo editor which uses a powerful Flash interface to manage and retouch your photos with a professional quality. With flauntR you can create widgets and slideshows as share photos to social networking sites.


Flauntr supports dozens of editing effects, nice fonts and custom shapes to enrich your photos and un unlimited storage space.

FlauntR

Do you have other links? Add a comment!

This page contains a collection of my favorite free fonts for web and graphic designers. Take a look at this list, choose your font and click above an image to download it. If you want to suggest other interesting fonts or fonts galleries please add them here.

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In this tutorial I explain how to design a vertical menu which use motion and change opacity effect. I wrote this post to show a better use of elastic effect which I illustrated in my latest post.

The effect I want to realize is the following. I have a vertical menu with some links. On "mouse over" the select link goes to the right with an animated elastic effect and change its opacity. When you release the element, it goes in its initial position with original opacity value. The result is something like this:


Take a look at the live preview to see this script in action.


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HTML code

HTML code is very simple. We have a list (<ul>) with some <li> elements with a progressive ID (l1, l2, l3, l4...):

CSS code

I used this simple CSS code to set the look of links but you can customize it how your prefer:

JavaScript code

In order to obtain our effects (elastic motion + change opacity) I used MooTools framework and some lines of Js code. In the <head> tag of the page add a link to MooTools:



Now, copy and paste this code below the previous line of code in the <head> tag of the page (if you prefer you can also copy this code in a separated .js file and import it in your page):



It's all! Download the source code and send your suggests!

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