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Top 10 Things Customers Expect from Your Online Store

Top 10 Things Customers Expect from Your Online Store
Oneupweb has recently put out some interesting research which includes the top 10 consumer expectations that influence purchase decisions. Let’s take a closer look at these items: Pricing/shipping information clearly stated – 95.5% No surprises here, as several studies have found that “sticker shock” (the unexpected inflation of final price due to shipping and taxes) is the number one reason for cart abandonment. Crutchfield does a good job presenting not just the price but shipping, warranty and servicing prices on this product page: Looks credible and trustworthy – 76.5% If you’re not a household name, you can improve your site’s “trustworthiness” by having a clean and professional design (yes, first impressions count). You must also avoid things that scare off your customers like expired SSL certificate warning messages (even the largest sites can fall victim to this). Product displayed on homepage – 70.8% Most online stores show products on the home page, but not every site.

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Project Seven: Dreamweaver Menus, CSS Templates, Widgets, Slide Shows, Tooltips, and More Animated Content Menu with jQuery Today we will create a slick animated content menu with jQuery for a restaurant theme. The menu items will be animated and when clicked, a content area with more information will appear. Also, he background image is going to change according to which menu item was clicked. The main idea is to […] View demoDownload source Today we will create a slick animated content menu with jQuery for a restaurant theme. The main idea is to have a restaurant menu with the different menu categories displayed. So, let’s get started. The Markup The HTML structure is going to contain some elements for the background image, the grid overlay, the loading icon and the main menu. As a default background image when the page loads, we will have the image Default.jpg. The menu content will be wrapped by a div with the class “ac_content”. For each menu item, we will have a div “ac_subitem” which will contain the submenu content box. Let’s take a look at the style. The CSS @import url('reset.css'); The JavaScript

15 Fresh and Powerful CSS3 Tutorials CSS3 is here, it’s fun, and allows us to evolve the look of the web as we go. Features like gradients, drop shadows, rounded corners, animations, and opacity are giving us the promise of more fun. In this post we’ve collected some new and brilliant tutorials that will help you in mastering your CSS3 skills. We’ll create a document icon with pure CSS3. Even better, this effect will only require a single HTML element. When applying CSS3 inset box-shadow or border-radius directly to the image element, the browser doesn’t render the CSS style perfectly. There are so many great things we can do with the additional properties and possibilities that CSS3 brings along. Designing a table is a challenge. During this tutorial we’re going to use CSS3 to create ticket-like tags, without relying on any images. We are going to create some thumbnail hover effects with CSS3 transitions. See how easy is to create a spinning rays animation with a bit of CSS. Imagine a cop drama taking place in the 1930s.

The Four Key Components of a Great Web Design There’s a lot that goes into creating a web design, but I believe it can be broken down into four main components. If you’re able to execute on all four, you will have a hit web design on your hands. However, if you come up short on one, the entire design will suffer. That’s the challenge. All aspects of a great design must compliment each other while helping achieve the end goals of the website. 1. The importance of having a good foundation applies to just about everything in life. Use Wireframes A common practice by web designers to nail down a layout is to create a wireframe, which is basically a bare-bones representation of the various elements that will appear on the page. Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain of 31Three is great about posting his design processes on his blog. Be generous with whitespace One key aspect of a great layout is more about what’s in between (or rather not in between) your various page elements. Mutant Labs is another great example of good use of whitespace. 2. 3. 4.

Creating a Complete HTML5 Drag and Drop File Uploader with jQuery Today we’re going to be creating a file uploader using HTML5 drag and drop, along with the file reader API and some PHP. We’ll also be using local storage to remember which files were uploaded by the user. Getting Started For this tutorial I’m using jQuery and an icon font called symbolset. If you don’t want to get symbolset you could use an alternative or just not use a symbol font all together! Next lets do the main HTML in the body: There is also a little bit of simple CSS. jQuery Effectively what we want to do is get the Data URI for all the images that the user drags into the drag area. To begin, we need to initiate some variables: Next we need to bind a function to the drop event. Now we want to check for any errors. When the user drops an image in the drop box, the first 5 will be shown as images. Now we can run the file reader function. The rest of this function is to do with grammar and placing the images in the correct div. And that’s all the Javascript! And now we’re done! Support

Incredible Drop Down Menu Solution With CSS Only There are plenty of drop-down menus using javascript and CSS already available, but most of them are either too basic (with CSS) or too complicated (with Javascript). That’s why I publish this drop down menu solution which is using CSS only, but it has a smooth drop effect and the css sprites that changes the toggle icon jQuery-likely. Honestly, this is the most completed menu solution using CSS which comes along with awesome effects. If You want to stay updated and get news regularly consider subscribing to AEXT.NET feed and following on Twitter. This menu solution is compatible with all major web browsers (excepts IE6): Firefox: Perfect support.Chrome: Perfect support.Safari: Yes, it display perfect with rounded corner.Opera: Yes, but with no rounded corner.IE7+: Off course, but no rounded corner The problem with IE6 is she cannot handle the hover event in all HTML element excepts the link:hover. It also has a transparent effect that displays correctly on all web browsers, take a look:

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