Inspiration: Awesome Dark Portfolio Sites
Mar 19, 2010 Ajax, CMS, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress
These days, a portfolio is a must. What we have here is a list of dark portfolio websites that are split up into common groups that most portfolios fall in. The last group will be for those experimental dark layouts, where the designer tries something different.
Tags: Ajax, CMS, Design, facebook-become, html-amp-css, JavaScript, javascript-amp-ajax, march-19, portfolio websites, tools-amp-tips, web design inspiration, web roundups
How to Generate PDFs with PHP: New Premium Tutorial
Mar 18, 2010 Ajax, CMS, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress
PDFs may well be the best format for distributing documents on the web. In today’s tutorial and screencast, I’ll show you how you can generated PDFs with PHP. Help give back to Nettuts+ by becoming a Premium member! Example PDF Created with PHP! By subscribing and becoming a Premium member, you’ll gain access to the best tutorial, screencasts, and freebies that every Tuts sites has to offer – all for a measly $9 a month.
Tags: Ajax, articles, become-a-fan, Design, facebook-become, freebies, javascript-amp-ajax, nettuts, pdfs, premium, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials
Create a Quick MooTools Slideshow with Preloading Images
Mar 17, 2010 Ajax, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
I’ve been creating a lot of slideshow posts lately. Why, you ask? Because they help me get chicks.
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Tags: Ajax, browser, css / design, david-walsh, Design, HTML, images, JavaScript, MooTools, PHP, Style, xml-xhtml
Winners Announced: Introducing CodeCanyon Competition
Mar 16, 2010 Ajax, CMS, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress
For the entire month of February, developers were encouraged to submit their best scripts and components to CodeCanyon . With over $6200 worth of prizes to win, it was a battle full of many top level items. However, the competition has since concluded, and after two weeks of deliberating, the reviewers and I have been our choices for the top three spots! Grand Prize Winner: Sitebase “This script is a must have for every webdeveloper/webmaster that want to save some time.
Tags: basix, become-a-fan, contests, Design, facebook-become, freebies, html-amp-css, javascript-amp-ajax, PHP, prizes-awarded, Tutorials
IE9 May Actually Be a Fantastic Browser
Mar 16, 2010 Ajax, CMS, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress
Today, as part of MIX 2010 , some exciting updates were released on the progress of Internet Explorer 9. The IE team is implementing some incredible features, such as HTML5, CSS3, SVG support, and a new lightning fast JavaScript engine, Chakra! Further, they’re currently scoring a 55 on the Acid3 test – a figure that’s surely to increase substantially before the official release. What about the idea of Microsoft contributing to an open source project, jQuery, with their proposed templating engine ?
Tags: Ajax, CSS, Design, Facebook, HTML, march-16, mix10, news, PHP, Tutorials
Win a Copy of Rockable’s Latest eBook, ‘How to Write Great Copy for the Web’
Mar 16, 2010 Ajax, CMS, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Tutorials, Wordpress
Today we’ve got three copies of the new eBook from Rockable and FreelanceSwitch , How to Write Great Copy for the Web , to give away. Entering takes seconds, just leave a comment below and three lucky people will be selected. Win How to Write Great Copy for the Web About the Book How to Write Great Copy for the Web is the latest book from Rockable Press.
Tags: Ajax, book, CMS, Design, JavaScript, march-15, rockable, Tutorials, write-great
Top 10 best practices for front-end web developers
Mar 15, 2010 CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
Explain which div you’re closing Most of the time when I’m viewing a website source, I see, at the very bottom of the page, an almost endless list of closing </div> tags. In fact, many beginners think they just have to use divs instead of tables to produce quality code. Divs are cleaners than tables, but without proper code organization, it can be as (or even sometimes more) messy as table based code.
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Tags: article, CSS, Design, domains, images, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Style, writing
Introducing 9lessons iphone Web Application.
Mar 14, 2010 Ajax, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Tutorials
Today I am introducing 9lessons labs iphone web application. In this post I want to present application screeshots and some tips about how to design iphone web application. It is so simple just some CSS width changes.
Tags: 9lessons, CSS, Design, hacking, include-data, iphone, java, programming, Tutorials, webdesign
Quick Tip: How to Get Great HTML Meta Tags
Mar 12, 2010 Ajax, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
When you’re reading around the web about what to focus on when creating a web page, and you’re sure to find a host of opinions which, in total, insist that every single page element holds the secret to attracting traffic, pleasing visitors, or simply “doing it right.” Though some page elements are necessarily more crucial in terms of their uniformity than others, designers and developers can count on the essential nature of the HTML meta tag on any given web page. Meta tags are capable of telling search engines and other interested parties key information about the contents of the page, the meta tag is arguably as important as the page’s actual title–yet it leaves greater room for taking advantage of keyword use and relaxing the rules of style. Of the many attributes that can be defined using a meta tag, the description tag is likely to be the most meaningful for modern sites.
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Tags: articles, copy-and-paste, Design, HTML, html meta tag, page-elements, page-meta-tags, quick-tips, Resources, search-engines, syntax, Tutorials
