I’ve received multiple requests for simpler CSS tutorials that teach the tricky fundamentals. This will serve as the first entry in a series that will receive new additions sporadically each month. Today, we’ll be reviewing the overflow: hidden, and clearfix tricks to force a parent div to contains its children.
Easy E-Commerce With Magento
Jul 2nd in Screencasts by Ed BaxterHundreds of ecommerce systems exist, but very few can match the power of Magento. In this screencast, I’ll demonstrate how to download and install Magento to a local host, configure some of the site options, and create simple and configurable products and categories for our test e-commerce site.
Create an s3Slider-like jQuery Plugin: New Plus Tutorial
Jul 1st in News by Boban KarišikIn this week’s Plus video tutorial, the creator of the extremely popular s3Slider plugin will show you how to build a similar “slideshow” component using jQuery. What better way to learn how to mimic your favorite plugins than to learn from the creators themselves? This isn’t one you should miss! Become a Plus member today!
10 Tips for New iPhone Developers
Jul 1st in Other by Paolo RanosoMaking a webapp for the iPhone is a lot like making a normal web site, but with a few quirks to abide by. In this article, I’ll give you a wide variety of tips, covering things such as: “must-haves”, usability guidelines, testing/debugging, pitfalls, and performance issues. I hope you enjoy it!
Turn-By-Turn Directions with the Google Maps API
Jun 30th in Javascript & AJAX by Noah HendrixIn this tutorial, we will go through the process of creating a small widget that allows users to retrieve turn-by-turn directions to a specified location. We’ll be using the Google Maps API, via JavaScript, to provide this rather advanced functionality.
30 Exceptional Web Designs
Jun 29th in Web Roundups by Sean GengI’ve compiled a list of 30 exceptional web page designs for your inspiration. Most of these are relatively new; so they’ll hopefully give you some ideas for your next project! Enjoy!
Recreating the MobileMe Web Gallery Interface
Jun 26th in Javascript & AJAX by Devon GovettIn 2007, Apple updated .Mac (now MobileMe), and introduced the “Web Gallery” feature - a photo sharing service that integrates with iPhoto. Web Gallery offers a beautiful interface, but the layout is done entirely with JavaScript. In this tutorial, we will attempt to recreate the Web Gallery interface using only CSS and a small amount of jQuery.
Easy Development With CodeIgniter
Jun 25th in Screencasts by Jeffrey WayIn this week’s 30 minute screencast, I’m going to show you how easy it is to work with the MVC pattern and CodeIgniter. This video is aimed at beginners who have no experience with a PHP framework.
For demonstration purposes, we’ll be building a simple image upload utility. We’ll then perform some validation, save the file to our uploads folder, and automatically create a respective thumbnail. With raw PHP, this can be somewhat time-consuming. However, with CodeIgniter, it’s simply a matter of referencing the correct library, and passing in some configuration options! Let’s dive in.
Create a Jobs Board With CodeIgniter: New Plus Tutorial
Jun 24th in News by Dan HarperIn this two-part series, we’ll be creating a basic ‘Jobs Board’, similar to “FreelanceSwitch Jobs” and “Smashing Jobs”, using the CodeIgniter PHP framework. Sign up!
Getting Started With Restful Authentication in Rails
Jun 24th in Ruby by Noah HendrixIn this article, we will use restful_authentication to add a user system to a simple Rails application. This is great for those first starting out and need step-by-step directions for using this amazing plugin. At the end of the article, visitors will be able to create an account, reset their password, login, logout, and validate email addresses.
