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Create a User Link Feed Bookmarklet

Jan18

Many design and tutorial sites out there have a user submitted links section or community links page in which users can submit their links and have them featured on the site in question. I thought it would be handy to provide users with a bookmarklet that would auto-fill the information into the form making it easier for users to submit these links.
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Stupid jQuery Tricks

Dec14

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If you are like I am and use jQuery to add functionality or enhance your site, you're almost always looking to learn something new or different ways to add a cool new function using the most popular JavaScript library out there. While none of these functions are actually stupid, they will show you some popular tricks to add effects and features to your site.
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Creating Short Post Urls Within WordPress

Nov27

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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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The 7 Most Effective Rules of Web Design

Nov18

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One of the most important principles of effective website design is 'Keep it simple'. This rule must be applied to all aspects of your website, including graphics, content and navigation. Use the following guidelines to implement simplicity in your website design and make your sites stand out from the clutter of ineffective ones on the internet that do not follow these rules.
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A Collection of CSS Rounded Corner Tutorials

Nov16

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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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