Each day this week, we'll post five of the top twenty-five videos from the Nettuts+/Screenr competition. Your job, if you choose to accept it, is to review these short web development video tips and choose your favorite one in the poll below. How should you judge? Quite simply - there are no rules! Pick the one that helped you the most. The most chosen video each day will earn a spot in the top five at the end of the week!
As we move into the third day of this screencast competition, we have new entries on topics ranging from querying WordPress to submitting forms with Mootools to using custom fonts with CSS!
User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Latavish October 7th
Watching all these great tutorials has gotten me motivated in doing a screen cast.
Can’t wait till the next competition. Tuts Plus is on its way to being KING.
( )mary October 7th
I really liked the parsing XML one, very well explained!
( )Ambient October 7th
Isn’t that the Salamander from MechWarrior? O:
( )Alex October 8th
I think it’s an elemental…close tho
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Elemental_(Battle_Armor)
Where did that pic come from? BattleTech Lego…pretty sweet.
( )Ambient October 13th
Still thinking on the Salamander
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Salamander_%28Battle_Armor%29
Mateus Pinheiro October 7th
Man, could you ever do anything in WordPress without querying?
Good one ;D
( )Crak October 7th
The MooTools blew me away! I have never seen such a solid tutorial!
Who ever designed Mootools knows how to deliver a concise, crisp and knowledgeable tutorial!
( )Deoxys October 7th
lol, how old is that parsingXML guy? ^^
( )Giles Van Gruisen October 7th
I’m 15. Why do you ask?
( )Deoxys October 7th
Because you sound very young
But i voted for yours though ^^
Emil October 8th
Big ups for you being so young but delivering a professional tutorial. Nice language, good rethorics. Keep on rocking.
Kriesi October 8th
My vote to you as well, very well explained
John October 7th
Although I enjoyed the Mootools one, I wish he explained how to use it a bet more (i.e. including more events than just having the text appear at the top). I had to go with the custom CSS Fonts on this one.
( )LuK October 7th
I guess the parsing xml guy isn’t very old, from that point, big up to you! =)
( )Giles Van Gruisen October 7th
Thanks!
( )Mike Webs October 7th
In “how to query Wordpress” he typed “categoty” instead of “category” and it still worked? how?
Another thing, orange text on top of black background … you gotta be kidding me
I had a hard time to follow his code.
Other than that, I still enjoy the tut tho, good job and keep up the great work guys.
( )Shiro October 7th
cool~ I also notified this error but the wordpress still work out, how come? so intelligent for check error?!!
( )mary October 7th
Yeah I noticed that categoty thing too… was waiting for it to break but it seemed to work fine which I thought was weird!! lol
( )Arvi October 8th
Exactly…how? Confusion factor.
mary October 8th
Not sure, maybe it was staged?
J November 10th
My guess is it was pre-recorded and edited together. People can make mistakes and it would really look bad if you made a mistake in a screencast presentation and it broke because of a typo… which is what would have happened.
( )w1sh October 7th
1. Who will submit a form with JS? What if someone has JS disabled and they use IE6 like me?
2. Badass little custom field tut that taught me a lot in a few minutes. I was totally expecting it to suck. Can’t wait to start using this method rather than some bulky plugin. Good job Tylor.
3. What the Hell is XML? You’re just making things up and pretending you’re writing a screencast on it! I’ve got a brief tut on XJAMNOS: [ Type in "jibber" and it returns "jabber" every time ]
4. Decent tut. Wish you went more into real-world examples on how to use query_post for the greater of mankind rather than just direct people to the codex. Not bad though. It actually encouraged me to go to the codex.
5. Gets my vote because it’s not specific to any one technology (I’ve seen a lot of WordPress/jQuery stuff on this site), and it teaches something very simple that everyone can use to make the web a better place.
BTW, why is that local property repeated or was it just a typo that was ignored like in the query_posts “categoty” tut?
Screenr: I’m lovin’ it!
( )Web010 October 7th
The fact that you use IE6 means that you don’t have any right to talk about programming tutorials.
Using IE6 is the same as using Windows 98.
Actually using IE is the same as using Windows 98.
Don’t talk about what you aren’t familiar with…
( )Apoorv Vaidya October 7th
This will teach you exactly what XML is:
http://tinyurl.com/c86o9r
( )Arvi October 8th
You’re you still using IE6?! IE sucks big time.
( )Archer October 7th
Hey Wish.
Stop using IE6.
Congratulations, you’re on a web design site.
( )Web010 October 8th
Actually web development blog
( )Aaron Godin October 7th
Giles, excellent tutorial! I learned a ton, and it is well explained!
( )Vayu Robins October 8th
Tutorial 5 about custom fonts was very interesting.
I tried it out my self, but it didnt work in Google Chrome on a Windows machine eventhough the author said it did. Is it just me or?
Another question, if this works in all browsers, why do we have plugins like sifr, flir, typeface etc?
Vayu
( )Althalos October 8th
The Wordpress screencast was awesome! And a big plus for making the final change at 4:54 XD
( )Althalos October 8th
btw. I was specifically talking about how to add thumbnails, be the other one was really good too
( )Tylor October 8th
Hey, thanks! Glad you liked it. Now, have everyone you know vote for it
( )Arvi October 8th
I love it.
DemoGeek October 8th
Many of these are good stuff…I wish they’ve either increased the font size or have zoomed-in enough to read those better. I really liked the SimpleXML presentation.
( )Aqib Mushtaq October 8th
I liked the css font one, fantastic as i thought the only way to get a custom font was through sifr.
( )Ashish Bogawat (pixelator) October 9th
Thanks, Aqib. I’m glad you like it.
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