Saturday, June 6, 2009 No Comments
In this web development tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a web page template from a Photoshop mock-up from a previous tutorial called “How to Create a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design in Photoshop” using HTML/CSS and the jQuery library.
Friday, May 15, 2009 No Comments
This tutorial will guide you through the process and ideas behind the designing a professional website with a funky flair in Photoshop. The tutorial will read much like a “choose your own adventure” novel in the hopes it will encourage creativity and uniqueness in your design with a little advice and instruction along the way. Adventure time!
Friday, May 8, 2009 No Comments
The Yahoo User Interface Library is a rather extensive set of JavaScript tools for developers. Often left unnoticed are a few other useful components of the library that will speed up your coding: some CSS libraries. I’d like to give you a quick tour of YUI Grids CSS library.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 No Comments
Now that we’ve got a basic framework (see part 1 and part 2 of this series), we can start thinking about integrating designs with our PHP framework. For now, we’ll concentrate on the front-end design, including how we can make it easy to ’skin’ our new framework.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 No Comments
With the basic structure for our Framework in place, it is time to start adding functionality to it. In this tutorial we will create a template manager and database handler, bringing us a step closer to a powerful Framework fit for use for almost any project. If you haven’t already, be sure to review Part 1 of this series first!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 No Comments
With websites becoming more and more dynamic and interactive, developers often look to frameworks to help build websites and web apps rapidly. While there are a number of great frameworks available, a custom framework gives you the ability to easily customize the framework as you need, and to build with it even quicker – as you would already know the ins and outs of it before working with it. In this series of tutorials, we are going to build our very own PHP5 Development Framework! Let’s start with planning our framework and put the basic structure into place.
Monday, May 4, 2009 No Comments
When it comes to simpler user experience, having your form validation happen instantly on the same page is a lot cleaner than reloading pages and possibly losing some form content. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use jQuery to do some instant checking on an example comment form.
Tags: framework, jquery, wordpress
Category: Javascript
Monday, May 4, 2009 No Comments
Believe it or not, there’s a lot of powerful interactivity you can bring to your site using javascript besides slick navigation menus! This tutorial will help you find your inner cow by introducing you to one of the most powerful and modular javascript libraries—MooTools! We’ll be creating a flexible tool for highlighting your sites products or services using the MooTools javascript framework. Also, learn some of the many reasons why MooTools just might be the right javascript library for all of your future projects!
Category: Javascript
Monday, May 4, 2009 No Comments
Grid/Newspaper/Magazine templates are becoming more and more predominant in the wordpress skin and theme community. They look classy, but it can be daunting knowing where to start. In this tutorial we use the power of jQuery to create a grid layout with size-degrading headers!
