Those who are familiar with CSS and PHP know how good it is to only change one line and see all changes propagate through the elements you’ve changed. Well, today we’ll see how to do something similar to this with Photoshop, so when your client asks you to change your background from 90% black to …
4 Money Saving Tips That You Should Follow
I know that you are really good in your field. Design, development or anything you do, I know that it is good, and you’re always searching to always get better, and a higher paycheck. Well, you know, you don’t have to be a finance expert, but money management is really important since if you don’t …
jQuery Plugin Development: Hover to Reveal Masked Password
We talked about how to improve your HTML forms performance a couple of days ago. There we covered a pretty controversial topic “Don’t mask your passwords”, saying about how bad masking your passwords could be for usability. At this moment, we basically have 2 options: mask password field and don’t ask for any feedback, or …
17 CSS/HTML Effects with Cross-Browsing Alternatives
Well, we surely have a lot of different ways to achieve similar effects and with CSS the hardest part is to make it look good in almost every browser. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel every time, if you get one good snippet that does what you want (and you understand what is happening) …
WordPress Plugin Development – Relate Posts as a Series Part 2
So, we started our dive into WordPress plugin development with the first part of this tutorial where we talked a little about planning, basic plugin structure, custom post types, metaboxes and how to add custom functions to WordPress’s defaults actions. Today we will talk a little more about metaboxes and jQuery, shortcodes, and front-end functionality. …
10 Tips to Boost Your HTML Forms Performance
Sometimes we get so used to doing things one way that we forget a little and important thing: to improve. We get so involved with all this CTA stuff that we forget other important things, like the contact form that comes after the pretty button. Our task today is to improve our form, to get …
Getting Smarter Code with PHP Variable Variables and Variable Functions
Oh, variables. Who doesn’t love them? They are such nice guys, you know. When you need something, just call $something and your value is there. But something really cool is that you actually don’t need the name of the variable. You can use other variables to access a value of one variable. For example, let’s …
jQuery Plugin: Table of Contents with Smooth Scrolling
Hey guys, have you noticed that pretty box on WordPress codex that gives us a preview about what we can see on a page? So, I haven’t seen too many blogs use this kind of feature and it is really useful for our readers, since they can just skip to the content that they are …
How to Create a Web Spy with a PHP Crawler
Crawler, spider, bot, or whatever you want to call it, is a program that automatically gets and processes data from sites, for many uses. Google, for example, indexes and ranks pages automatically via powerful spiders, crawlers and bots. We have also link checkers, HTML validators, automated optimizations, and web spies. Yeah, web spies. This is …
20+ Useful CSS3 and HTML5 Frameworks, Tools and Templates
I hope you have heard a little about CSS3 and HTML5. And I’m sure you’ve used at least one of the cool features they offer. But now it is time to use them at their full (or almost full) power. You may be asking yourself “It is time to change? Should I forget everything I …
Don’t Reinvent the Wheel – 100+ Links of Design Elements and Resources
This time we will review some helpful resources for designers, how you can find them, and how can they help you. Have you ever thought that every day, while you are busy doing your work, there are a lot of people doing almost the same thing as you? And they are releasing it. For free. And …
WordPress Plugin Development – Relate Posts as a Series – Part 1/2
Today our task is to create a simple WordPress plugin to relate posts as a series. With this, when you create a new post it is automatically listed in your series, so if a user is reading any post of the series he can jump to others, even posts created after that one he is …
How to Get More From WordPress With Multisite Blogs (Network Install)
WordPress is surely the most used CMS in the world. Here we will talk a little about it’s incredibly easy multisite install (a.k.a. Network install). With multisite you can set up multiple blogs that share the same WordPress files, DB, plugins, themes, so you can do some cool things with it. We will see how …