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• AJAX Multiple File Upload Form Using jQuery

  Thursday, June 25th, 2009

  Today I’m going to create an AJAXified multiple file upload form that uses a lot lesser server side code and also provides a very nice user interface.

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• Advanced Uses for Custom Fields in WordPress

  Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

  More than any other single feature, what makes WordPress a CMS (as opposed to just a blogging platform) is custom fields.

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• 10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance

  Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

  This article will present ten easy steps that will instantly improve your script's performance. Don't worry; there isn't anything too difficult here. Everyone can apply these methods! When you're finished reading, please let us know your speed tips.

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• Custom jQuery Selectors

  Friday, June 19th, 2009

  jQuery makes it easy to select elements you need using CSS selectors. It is undoubtedly one of the jQuery features that makes it a great javascript library. On top of standard CSS selectors jQuery introduces some custom selectors that makes your code even more simpler and easier to read.

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• A Detailed Look at the Z-Index CSS Property

  Friday, June 19th, 2009

  Most CSS properties that a web developer deals with regularly are instantaneous in their application to elements on the page. For example, when you add the background-color or font-size property to an element on your page...

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• 24 JavaScript Best Practices for Beginners

  Thursday, June 18th, 2009

  As a follow-up to "30 HTML and CSS Best Practices", this week, we'll review JavaScript! Once you've reviewed the list, be sure to let us know what little tips you've come across!

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• Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3

  Thursday, June 18th, 2009

  Cascading Style Sheets were introduced 13 years ago, and the widely adopted CSS 2.1 standard has existed for 11 years now. When we look at websites that were created 11 years ago, it’s clear that ...

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• Selectors, Animation, and AJAX

  Thursday, June 18th, 2009

  By now I’m sure you have grasped at least the basics and simplicity of the jQuery library. Now it’s time to move on to some more in depth and practical techniques.

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• Find & select all external links with jQuery

  Thursday, June 11th, 2009

  Selecting all external links and amending them in some way is probably one of the most used jQuery tutorials. By selecting all anchor links on the page and for example adding a CSS class with only one jQuery line shows how jQuery is simple and powerful.

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• jQuery Infinite Carousel

  Thursday, June 11th, 2009

  With jQuery for Designer’s redesign I decided to add a scrolling carousel that worked in the same way the carousel worked on the Apple Mac ads page. This tutorial will walk through the fundamentals of the effect and how to recreate it.

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• 15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS

  Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

  There are thousands of sites out there offering tips and tricks for using CSS. But how do you know where that information is coming from? Who says the people writing these “tips” know what they’re talking about? For all you know, it could be someone who has not clue what CSS even stands for, let alone how to use it effectively.

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• 10 Useful WordPress Loop Hacks

  Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

  The loop is a very important aspect of WordPress blogs. In fact, the loop is what allows you to get posts from your WordPress database and print them on the screen. A set of useful and user-friendly functions, the loop is incredibly powerful. With it, you can get a single post, a list of posts ordered by date, title or category, a list of posts written by a specific author and much more.

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• Custom RSS feeds in WordPress

  Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

  I use FeedBurner to track all my feed subscribers, but sometimes I want to provide a different feed to other people (without my feed signature for instance, or using excerpts instead of full feeds).

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• How to Create a CSS Menu Using Image Sprites

  Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

  Follow these steps to build your own modern navigation bar design, starting with the initial steps in Photoshop to flesh out the design, then moving on to constructing the HTML and styling with the CSS image sprite technique. However, if all that sounds too strenuous, there’s also a handy download of the source files especially for you!

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• Setting cookies with jQuery

  Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

  Setting and clearing cookies with jQuery is really easy (especially when compared with regular Javascript) but it's not included in the jQuery core and requires a plug-in. This post shows how to set, get the value of and clear cookies with jQuery.

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• Javascript Best practices & JSLint

  Monday, June 8th, 2009

  In some ways JavaScript could be considered just as lax as HTML when it comes to what is acceptable and what isn’t. For example, most browsers will let you get away with HTML that looks like this:

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• Understanding Action Hooks In Wordpress

  Friday, June 5th, 2009

  Ever wondered what’s the real use of wp_head and wp_footer in your template files? Ever tried deleting them but feared that the sky might fall on you?

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• Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford

  Thursday, June 4th, 2009

  Rarely do I ever command you to do something but I’ve watched this video three times now and I’m completely mesmerized by Douglas Crockford’s tech talk, Javascript: The Good Parts.

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