for keeping track of my digital experiments

Today I finished up a major contract coding job today for this clothing company called Hullabaloo Apparel. They create very unique designs and then print them on various clothing items. Their idea of clothing is not for quick laughs or in-crowd designs (like most online clothing shops), but universally sweet designs. From the various things I’ve heard from Erik and Yuriah (the co-founders), they have already been doing quite well, and needed a web-presence to expand their market and for explaining their brand. Which is where I came in.

About two and a half weeks ago, after showing Yuriah a few tricks with his Mac, he asked me if I would be up for doing the website for Hullabaloo Apparel. They needed a website up asap. So I cracked out various designs from what Yuri described to me and settled on the fourth design in a series of high-contrast xhtml/css designs I put together.

So I jammed away this past week, after getting approval, and am now done.

A couple of things I wanted to write down:

1. PayPal has an integrated shopping cart that can take in many different variables (such as sizes)
2. PayPal has integrated shipping calculators (for various locales) when a user checks out
3. Instant Payment Notification works best for subscriptions and individual (digital service) items; it looks best to have the IPN script running on a SSL host
4. It is possible to give site owners access to Google Analytics on the fly, by setting up a Google account with an email of your choice; and then use said account via an auto-login script
5. Submitting a form via a JavaScript link is done like so (where “monkey” is the name of the form. <form name=”monkey”></form>: <a href="javascript:document.monkey.submit();">Submit Form "Monkey"</a>

I needed to post up a couple of useful links/tools so I could find them again easily. Maybe you, the reader, will find them useful as well.

1. Internet Anagram Server: Perfect for getting new ideas so as to avoid copyright and trademark infringement.
2. Wireless Phone Number – Carrier Search: After receiving a random text from +16126367372 which said, “Gurl do u no where i can buy a cute prom dress”, I wanted to see what kind a person was wasting my cell phones minutes. Yes, I’m on a pay as you go plan.
3. The MINIX 3 Operating System: I am looking into creating my own embedded game server and wireless access point that I could jack into my high-gain antenna I’m working on.
4. PC Tools Malware Research Center: For finding out more information on what is going on in the end-user security sector.
5. PHPList: Possible starting point for mailing list script I’m putting together.
6. CushyCMS: Content managing made easy. Perfect for the busy webmaster.