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• All About Floats

  Thursday, June 4th, 2009

  Float is a CSS positioning property. If you are familiar with print design, you can think of it like an image in a layout where the text wraps around it as necessary.

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• Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS

  Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

  Studies show that top navigations tend to get the most visual attention when a user first visits a site. Having organized and intuitive navigation is key — and while most drop down menus may look aesthetically pleasing, developing them to degrade gracefully is also essential.

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• Add Site Screenshots for External Links Using MooTools Tooltips

  Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

  Before you send your user to an unknown external website, why not provide them a screenshot of the site via a tooltip so they may preview the upcoming page? Here’s how you can do just that using MooTools.

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• Horizontal Scroll Menu with jQuery Tutorial

  Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

  Just last week, I came accross to this website Narrow Design. His scroll menu caught a lot of my attentions, I played with it for a while. Yes, unfortunately, it's built in flash. And, Yes, we are going to implement it with jquery - javascript based scroll menu that will do the same thing.

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• Advanced docking using jQuery

  Monday, June 1st, 2009

  Some time ago I was doing some proof of concept: how Visual Studio docking functionality can be done with jQuery and unordered lists. Basically, the main goal was to implement multiple docking and undocking functionality. This tutorial will show you the results of PoC.

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• 10 HTML Tag Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit

  Monday, June 1st, 2009

  You best watch out, because the HTML police are about. They scour your code and pick out the most unspeakable crimes against HTML markup.

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• 10 Essential DOM Methods & Techniques for Practical JavaScript

  Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

  10 Essential DOM Methods & Techniques for Practical JavaScript

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• jQuery vs MooTools

  Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

  Most people getting started with JavaScript these days are faced with the challenging task of picking a library to use, or at least which one to learn first. If you're working for a company chances are they have already chosen a framework for you, in which case the point is somewhat moot. If this is the case and they've chosen MooTools and you're used to jQuery, then this article might still be of some use to you.

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• WordPress: How To Display Multiple Values of a Custom Field Key

  Saturday, May 16th, 2009

  In one of my recent adventures with WordPress I came across the need of having one or more custom fields values listed in one page. In my case, I wanted to list press quotes from theatre performances.

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• 9 Useful Snippets for Your WordPress Functions

  Saturday, May 16th, 2009

  Seeing as how the WordPress category is one of the most successful and popular categories on Themeforest, it seems fit to cover some useful tips on the topic. When it comes to WordPress, many designers seem to be scared off or uninterested in the functions.php file, when really it can be one of the most useful files for your WordPress theme. Today, we will review nine superb code snippets you can use to enhance your theme.

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• 101 Techniques for a Powerful CMS using WordPress

  Saturday, May 16th, 2009

  This is the first article in the four-part series, “The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress“. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.

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• A Simple jQuery Slideshow

  Saturday, May 16th, 2009

  In the interest of following jQuery’s motto of “writing less and doing more,” let’s write a simple slideshow using jQuery, JavaScript and a bit of CSS.

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• Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA

  Saturday, May 16th, 2009

  We love CSS at ZURB. We love it so much that we're using the new, yet-to-be released version (CSS3) in some of our projects. In the works for nearly 10 years now, CSS3 is finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel as new browsers like Firefox and Safari continue to push its implementation.

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• Custom Fields Hacks For WordPress

  Saturday, May 16th, 2009

  In this article, we’ve compiled a list of 10 useful things that you can do with custom fields in WordPress. Among them are setting expiration time for posts, defining how blog posts are displayed on the front page, displaying your mood or music, embedding custom CSS styles, disabling search engine indexing for individual posts, inserting a “Digg this” button only when you need it and, of course, displaying thumbnails next to your posts

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• The Ultimate Guide to .htaccess Files

  Saturday, May 16th, 2009

  Apache's .htaccess configuration files have baffled countless developers. This tutorial aims to break through this confusion by focusing on examples and thorough descriptions. Among the benefits of learning .htaccess configuration is automatic gzipping of your content, providing friendlier URLs, preventing hotlinking, improving caching, and more. First, the basics.

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• 20+ Tutorials and Resources for Working with Custom Fields in WordPress

  Saturday, May 16th, 2009

  This article from Justin Tadlock gives an overview of custom fields, and it’s actually the introductory post to a series on the subject of custom fields (other posts in the series are included in the list). If you’re not familiar with custom fields or if you just want to make sure you get the basics before moving further, this article is a great starting point.

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• 30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners

  Saturday, May 16th, 2009

  The most difficult aspect of running Nettuts+ is accounting for so many different skill levels. If we post too many advanced tutorials, our beginner audience won't benefit. The same holds true for the opposite. We do our best, but always feel free to pipe in if you feel you're being neglected.

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