A Collection of Demo and Example Miscellany

A Collection of Demo and Example Miscellany

July 16, 2010 6 Comments

Over the past few months I've acquired quite the collection of demos or working examples of stuff I've quick thrown together for things like how-tips on Nettuts or in the forums over at Themeforest, so I thought I would share them here in the hopes that someone would find them useful.
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How to Take the Headache Out of Writing CSS

How to Take the Headache Out of Writing CSS

April 30, 2010 4 Comments

Some who are new to web design and even the seasoned veteran often have problems getting a site to display properly in every (or any for that matter) browser. Here are some simple tips to ensure your markup doesn't give you problems while trying to style it with CSS.
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How To Code A WordPress Featured Slider

How To Code A WordPress Featured Slider

April 17, 2010 14 Comments

They're pretty much everywhere on just about every blog and website these days, the featured post slider. Not terribly hard to implement, but still confusing to some that do not know the WordPress API. In this tutorial I will show you how to code your own WordPress Featured Post Slider and integrate it into your WordPress theme.
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Mini-Tut: Using jQuery .live() With Dynamic Content

Mini-Tut: Using jQuery .live() With Dynamic Content

March 13, 2010 0 Comments

When using jQuery and loading content dynamically or with an AJAX call, any event attached to the content that is loaded either has to be rebound again after the content has been loaded or you can attach an event handler using the .live() event.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About DOCTYPE

Everything You Wanted To Know About DOCTYPE

February 23, 2010 2 Comments

Document Type Declaration. The differences between the many versions can be pretty confusing if you don't know which one you're supposed to use and why. In this post I will break down which DOCTYPE does what and why it's beneficial to use it.
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Creating Short Post Urls Within WordPress

Creating Short Post Urls Within WordPress

November 27, 2009 0 Comments

With the popularity of Twitter, short urls are almost a necessity these days trying to maintain the limit of 140 characters. Using a short url as default in WordPress tends to hurt your search engine optimization and looks just so, well, "default". Here are a couple of ways you can easily and automatically create a short url for use in WordPress without a plug-in.
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A Collection of CSS Rounded Corner Tutorials

A Collection of CSS Rounded Corner Tutorials

November 16, 2009 1 Comment

Sometimes creating rounded corners with Css is a big challenge for most designers. Many will end up with a design where they don’t use rounded corners in order to avoid the entire rounded corner kerfuffle that has always been an issue in HTML/ CSS. The question has always been which method or solution is best, and what is the easiest way.
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Getting and Setting Cookies with jQuery

Getting and Setting Cookies with jQuery

October 12, 2009 0 Comments

jQuery is one of the most versatile JavaScript libraries today. Extending it's functionality one step further, we can use cookies to enhance the user experience by helping the browser remember user site preferences, login details and more.
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