By Nenshad Bardoliwalla

In the wake of the long-running massive industry consolidation in the Enterprise Software industry that reached its zenith with the acquisitions of Business Intelligence market leaders Hyperion, Cognos, and Business Objects in 2007, one could certainly have been forgiven for being less than optimistic about the prospects of innovation in the Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management markets.  This is especially true given the dozens of innovative companies that each of these large best of breed vendors themselves had acquired before being acquired in turn.  While the pace of innovation has slowed to a crawl as the large vendors are midway through digesting the former best of breed market leaders, thankfully for the health of the industry, nothing could be further from the truth in the market overall.  This market has in fact shown itself to be very vibrant, with a resurgence of innovative offerings springing up in the wake of the fall of the largest best of breed vendors. So what are the trends and where do I see the industry evolving to?  Few of these are mutually exclusive, but in order to provide some categorization to the discussion, they have been broken down as follows:

Written by Chris Spooner

Anaglyphs are those amazing 3D images that are created by offsetting two of the red, green and blue channels, and are viewed with those nerdy looking 3D glasses with different coloured lenses. I don’t know if this effect works for real, as I’ve unfortunately misplaced my 3D specs, but it’s a pretty cool text effect nevertheless! Let’s take a look at how a similar style can be created for sprucing up your web designs, while taking into consideration semantics and avoiding the repetition of any markup.

Smoothly Shift Winter Colors While Creating an Icy, Vector Landscape

1.Magnifico

As you’ve might discovered there’s a bug (or an issue) in Magento when you want to define a Custom Layout Design in a category and all its child elements (sub-categories, etc).

To solve this you can change the default category layout. Please note that this will affect all categories.

1. Open up the catalog.xml file in the layout-folder for your current Magento theme (remember to back it up before you continue)
2. Find the element “catalog_category_default” and add the following code:

Great web page design is very important to making sure that your customers see your company in the way that you want them to. Just as you put a great deal of effort, time and resources in ensuring that your bricks and mortar storefront is bright, clean, and attractive, your website needs the same kind of attention. This article will explain the top three ways to make your website work for you!

Bio: Anthony Zinni is an art director and partner at AssociaDirect, in his spare time Anthony likes to discuss graphic design on his blog, Positive Space.

Technology affects logo design in different ways, one of which is the applications of the mark. Just a short while ago this would mean that designers were responsible for designing a mark that would reproduce well when faxed, while this is still true it has become less of a necessity. One of the new applications that logo designers are faced with that is arguably even more difficult is creating a mark that can scale down to the 16×16 pixel dimensions of a website’s favicon.