How I Speeded Up Our WordPress Blog
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Our site was getting kind of slow, so I decided to read some articles about how to speed up a WordPress blog. While many give really great tips on what […]
CSS and jQuery Tutorial: Overlay with Slide Out Box
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The other day I was creating an overlay with a box for Cody’s jTextTranslate jQuery Plugin and I thought, it could be useful to describe the technique in a tutorial. […]
Beautiful Slide Out Navigation: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial
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Today I want to show you how to create an amazing slide out menu or navigation for your website. The navigation will be almost hidden – the items only slide […]
Free Glossy Icons: The jFeedback Icon Set with Source
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For our last post Cody asked me to create these two glossy icons for the jFeedback jQuery plugin. We thought, we could post the icons as well with the Photoshop […]
CSS Tutorial: Image with Toolbar and Navigation Overlay
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In this tutorial I will show you how to create an overlay toolbar and navigation for an image. This type of technique can, for example, be applied in an image […]
33 JavaScript Solutions for Sorting Tables
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Here is a list of 33 JavaScript table sorting scripts and their sources. Enjoy it! 1. jQuery tablesorter http://tablesorter.com/docs/
Google API Showcase: The Live Translator
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The API of Google has a lot of useful usage examples. This showcase demonstrates how we can use the Google AJAX Language API to build a live translator that allows […]
Styling Forms with CSS: Sophisticated Registration Form
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Here is a pretty complete registration form, nicely juiced up with some neat CSS. Here you can see a DEMO Download the ZIP file from here: CSS Registration ZIP Enjoy […]
21 Free CAPTCHA Sources
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Here is a collection of free CAPTCHA scripts and services than you can easily integrate into your website using PHP or JavaScript: 1. PHP CAPTCHA Library for reCAPTCHA http://recaptcha.net/plugins/php
42 Famous Login and Registration Forms
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Today, I want to showcase some of the most famous login and registration forms on the web. As a web developer you might be interested in having a compact overview […]
How To Play Looping Sound In Your iPhone App
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Here is a very useful code snippet for playing your own sound file continuously in your iPhone application. The example uses a .caf file and is based on the AVAudioPlayer […]
Checking Network Reachability on the iPhone
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In some iPhone apps you need to check if there is a connection to the outside world. If the application depends on a connection to the internet, we will want […]
CSS3 Styled jQuery Dropdown
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I found a really nice and simple jQuery dropdown menu on CSS Tricks and I thought, let’s add some neat style to it. You can find the original here: http://css-tricks.com/examples/SimplejQueryDropdowns/ […]
CSS3: Creating Web Site Banners
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Inspired by Tamsin Baker’s beautiful Photoshop brushes “Urban Scrawl” 1 and 2, I was trying to create some shadowed banners using some CSS3 properties. Visit Tamsin’s site and check out […]
9 Valuable and Working iPhone Programming Tutorials
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Here is a list of some highly valueable and functioning iPhone programming tutorials (list is open): iPhone View Switching Tutorial iPhone Coding – Learning About UIWebViews by Creating a Web […]
20 fresh and colorful CSS3 buttons
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Here is the result of an experiment with fonts and css3 properties like text-shadow and box-shadow: Click here to download the ZIP file with the two overlay images: CSS3 Buttons […]
CSS3 big style fieldset registration form
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Experimenting with CSS3, I created a big style registration form with rounded borders and shadow effects. The only image used is not the button, but the pen that serves as […]
Solving PHP MySQL UTF-8 issues
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Heres a list of actions you should do in order to get PHP + MySQL working with UTF-8: 1. Database: CREATE DATABASE db_name CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 […]