http://blog.tetsutakara.com Tetsuro's Blog Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:57:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in January, I returned to Carleton University to resume my studies after a 1-year work term at Shopify. This week is Reading Week, and I'm temporarily back at Shopify to do some work. It's really nice to be back in the office, although it makes me want to drop ... http://blog.tetsutakara.com/981/reading-week/ I was looking at t-shirts at an online store one day, and it had a nice little bar chart that displayed how much of each size it had left. I thought to myself, "I wonder if this is doable in Shopify?". The answer is yes, thanks to jQuery and JSON ... http://blog.tetsutakara.com/652/adding-a-barchart-for-inventory-using-jquery-and-json-objects/ Just today I launched the new design of my blog. I had been upset over my old design for a while; I couldn't really put my finger on why, but I just felt that the design was really messy and unprofessional. One of things that REALLY bugged me is that ... http://blog.tetsutakara.com/650/new-design/ In this short tutorial, I will be walking you through how to prevent users from going to the checkout page unless they have agreed to the Terms and Conditions using jQuery. We'll be doing this by adding a checkbox to the cart page, which if checked, will allow the user ... http://blog.tetsutakara.com/593/shopify-tutorial-making-sure-a-user-agrees-to-the-terms-conditions-using-jquery/ Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian peoples! I hope you guys are having an awesome long weekend so far. I apologize for the lack of updates recently, I've been extremely busy with client projects, side projects, and moving. I do have a few Shopify tutorial ideas floating around in my mind, ... http://blog.tetsutakara.com/563/happy-thanksgiving/ Last week I posted a tutorial on how to make some text customizable using the settings form. In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to customize the font and background using the settings form. I will be continuing to work on the Minimify theme that we modified in ... http://blog.tetsutakara.com/530/shopify-tutorial-customizing-the-settings-form-part-2-of-2/ You may be wondering, "what the hell is that Boombox thing on the top-right corner of your site?". Allow me to introduce you to Boomi. The idea for Boomi spawned from a picture of a boom box that I saw on Flickr. The boom box kind of reminded me of a ... http://blog.tetsutakara.com/288/the-birth-of-boomi/ A few weeks back, Shopify released a new feature that allows designers to create a form within the theme editor that allow those without programming knowledge to customize their theme. The default themes already come with a form that allows you to customize certain aspects of the theme, but what ... http://blog.tetsutakara.com/248/shopify-tutorial-customizing-the-settings-form-part-1-of-2/ One question I see often in Shopify is “how do I make my metadata for the different pages on my store?”. I’m not sure how this affects ranking in search engines (in fact if anyone can clarify this for me, that would be awesome), but in this tutorial I will ... http://blog.tetsutakara.com/171/shopify-tutorial-conditional-statements-in-liquid-and-metadata/ Hi everyone, thanks for visiting my blog! I know I know, it's looking rather empty in here right now, but starting this month, I'll be writing about web design, music, art... pretty much anything that I think is awesome. I'll also be writing a lot about Shopify. I plan on ... http://blog.tetsutakara.com/34/hello-first-post/