How to Build a Lava-Lamp Style Navigation Menu

A couple weeks ago , I created a screencast that demonstrated how to build a three-level navigation menu. In a response email, one of our readers requested a tutorial on how to build a lava-lamp style menu. Luckily, it’s quite a simple task, especially when using a JavaScript library.

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Bookmarklet to Quickly Access WordPress Admin Menu

There are times when I have wanted to install a plugin on my blog. The usual process included loading the admin dashboard and going to the install plugin page, or bookmarking the install plugin page and then navigating to it using that. Now I also want to access another feature in the admin dashboard, so I go ahead and bookmark it.

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How to Build and Enhance a 3-Level Navigation Menu

Perhaps more than any other topic, I’m most often contacted about how to build cross-browser navigation menus. Understandably, the reason is because every web designer has built one at some point, if not during every project! Nonetheless, it can absolutely be a tricky task. In this video tutorial, I’ll teach you how to build an attractive cross-browser navigation menu; notable features include CSS3 gradients, multiple sub-menus, and jQuery animations.

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WordPress Theme from Scratch – Day 1: PSD

This tutorial is in the series of “WordPress Theme from Scratch” that help you build a WordPress theme by you from nothing. On 1st day, we will start working with Photoshop. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a cool WordPress layout in Photoshop.

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Incredible Drop Down Menu Solution With CSS Only

There are plenty of drop-down menus using javascript and CSS already available, but most of them are either too basic (with CSS) or too complicated (with Javascript). That’s why I publish this drop down menu solution which is using CSS only, but it has a smooth drop effect and the css sprites that changes the toggle icon jQuery-likely. Honestly, this is the most completed menu solution using CSS which comes along with awesome effects.

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Use Sprites to Create an Awesomeness-Filled Navigation Menu

CSS sprites can dramatically increase a website’s performance, and with jQuery, we can implement awesome transition effects easily. Let’s get started. Tutorial Details Requirements : Basic Knowledge of jQuery Basic Knowledge of Photoshop Basic Knowledge of CSS Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 40 mins What is a CSS Sprite?

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60+ Awesome WordPress Tutorials

Everyone want to have their own WordPress theme, they want to be unique and be able to present their own style.

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