Adding webcam interaction to jazz up the ecommerce

Papa John’s Pizza added an unorthodox but seems fun webcam interaction to their ecommerce site.
“The campaign’s plot is simple. Weird, but simple. Consumers go to a Papa John site and grab an icon of the “1972 Z28 Camaro that founder John Schnatter sold 25 years ago to open his first restaurant,” the chain [...]

Mobile phones: The fourth leg of your business

Using the Internet on a mobile phone was not widely adopted in the United States until the birth of the Apple iPhone. Before the iPhone, the mobile Internet experience was very cumbersome and difficult for common people. The screens were too small and sometimes it took a lot of effort to make the Internet work on your cell phone.

With a 20 million and growing user base and with 80% of them using the Internet every day, iPhones and other smart phones now offer retailers a whole new market segment that retailers can no longer ignore.

Smart Marketing :)

Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a farmer for $100.
The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. But, the next
day he drove up and said, “Sorry son, but I have some bad news, the
donkey died.”
Chuck replied, “Well, then just give me my money back.”
The farmer said, “Can’t do that. [...]

Embedding Fonts through CSS

Some of you may not know but now you can embed font file directly via CSS. Starting at Safari 3 and Firefox 3.1 beta both support direct linking to OpenType (.otf) font files. Presumably Opera will soon support this too. For IE user, it supports direct embedded open type file instead (.eot). [...]

Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework

Click on the link below to check out the Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework. It is cross-browser compatible and easily styled.
Features highlight:
* Modular, with themes. Not only HTML is separated from CSS, but even CSS definitions are categorized into structural and thematic types. Thus creating a new drop-down means [...]

RSS feed for your MSN Live search result

To create a RSS feed for your MSN search result, simply do the following steps:
1. Go to this URL: http://www.live.com/?searchonly=true&mkt=en-US
2. Type whatever search term you want to search and hit SEARCH
3. On the result page just append the following at the URL bar “&format=rss” and hit ENTER

Agent String for Safari on iPhone and iPod Touch

For those of you that programs your site to display different site for iPhone, dep ending how you do it, you may want to readjust your code to make it work with the iPod Touch. Here are the agent string from the Safari browser on those 2 devices:
* iPod Touch [...]

Making your homepage iPhone friendly

The new iPhone is out and you probably ready to set your website to make it look nice and dandy on iPhone safari browser. Here is the trick that I found that will make sure that your page is displayed correctly on iPhone safari browser:
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=320″>
That’s it; that’s all you need and then [...]

TheBoxOffice – Wrap your text around image using CSS

I stumble upon the following site called boxoffice which I thought is pretty cool. This code-generator website allows you to create CSS and DIV to simulate text wrapping around irregular images. Check them out and play with it. Check the image below for the sample on how the page looks like.

Microsoft announces “Surface”

Microsoft announces today its mystery product. It is called Surface, an interactive desk that allows interaction between the software and stylus, hand gestures, objects etc via RFID. This product is not meant for home users but primary focus right now is for places like hotels, restaurants, etc. Currently the demo is available [...]