Every couple of weeks I seem to find myself checking 9rules.com to see if they’re accepting new submissions as I’d like to submit this site. Any how on this occasion I couldn’t help but notice the browse by community section …
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I’ve come across quite a few sites that explain how to create flexible CSS3 buttons but i’ve never really spent the time to implement one until i found a great little write up courtesy of the guys over at the …
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Planning a project thoroughly is often more important than the design, app or site. If a project is badly planned and organised then your heading for a disaster. Wireframing is usually one of the first steps to really mapping out …
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There are some great JavaScript graph libraries out there and one that’s recently come to my attention is Highcharts.com which is compatible with both the jQuery and Mootools frameworks. To get started point your browser here where you can download …
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“Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework” shows you how to use the powerful Zend Framework to build websites with amazing speed and efficiency. Embracing a teaching strategy of learning by doing, showing you how to build website features you’ll …
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As a designer it’s usually quite hard to get constructive feedback on a design. All the people I know are either friends or relatives who only say, ‘Yeah that looks good’, or ‘Oh I like that’. Fivesecondtest.com aims to fix …
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If you think you can just build a website and expect it to perform well you can think again. Getting a website to the top of search results is every marketing managers goal. Im going to run through five key …
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Inline editing as it’s known, or being able to edit content directly on a page is a great tool have under your belt. I’m going to run through exactly how it works as well as how to POST the updated …
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API Knowledge A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out using the Twitter REST API with PHP and CURL when twitter first launched …
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Following on from yesterdays little article about adding a simple JavaScript print link to a page, today I’m going to cover adding the functionality with jQuery for the user to adjust the text size on a page. It is important …
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How many times have you booked that holiday or purchased a new gadget and been presented with a button that says ‘Print your receipt’? Users generally have to be pushed into executing a physical action such as printing a receipt …
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I haven’t written a post for the last week, largely because I’ve been busy behind the scenes developing the new site design. The last theme i had was a standard theme that wasn’t really modified, but this time I’ve used …
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Carrying on the theme from yesterday with the jQuery & PHP username availability checker, i’ve got a quick tip to improve the user experience, so the user knows exactly where they are in the filling out complex forms. We could …
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Over the past few years I’ve had the opportunity to work on a few personal projects. This allowed me to experiment more with techniques that I wouldn’t have normally used on client sites. During this time I was building a …
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Here’s a quick CSS tip. Firefox likes to put a dotted border around any links that you click as shown below, but there’s an easy way to fix it simply add the code below to your ‘a tag’ style either …
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I’ve never written a jQuery tooltip script before so i thought i’d give it a go and write my own. Its very much in the experimental stage but i thought i’d open it up to see what the community has …
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This tutorial looks into creating a really simple tabbed interface using just plain HTML and CSS with the functionality and interface manipulated using jQuery. Tabbed interfaces are great for maximizing the amount of space you have on your site. Lets …
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I decided to add a title and description to the simple gallery tutorial i posted a few days back as an addition for those of you wanting to display further info about a picture in the gallery. The new code …
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Here’s a simple tutorial on how to show/ hide a div using jQuery. First we include the Google jQuery library, the next steps simple. We now setup a click event listener which is triggered when a users click the and …
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Here’s a short but sweet list of a few of the best business cards that I’ve come across on the internet for a bit of design inspiration. I often find things like this useful and often fill the gaps on …
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