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!
1. Submitting a Form with Mootools
2. How to Add Custom Thumbnails to Your WordPress Posts
3. How to Parse XML in PHP Using SimpleXML
4. How to Query WordPress
5. Custom Fonts Across all Browsers Using CSS
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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.
I really liked the parsing XML one, very well explained!
Isn’t that the Salamander from MechWarrior? O:
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.
Still thinking on the Salamander :P
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Salamander_%28Battle_Armor%29
Man, could you ever do anything in WordPress without querying?
Good one ;D
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!
lol, how old is that parsingXML guy? ^^
I’m 15. Why do you ask?
Because you sound very young ;-)
But i voted for yours though ^^
Big ups for you being so young but delivering a professional tutorial. Nice language, good rethorics. Keep on rocking.
My vote to you as well, very well explained :)
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.
I guess the parsing xml guy isn’t very old, from that point, big up to you! =)
Thanks! ;)
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 :D 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.
cool~ I also notified this error but the wordpress still work out, how come? so intelligent for check error?!!
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
Exactly…how? Confusion factor.
Not sure, maybe it was staged?
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.
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!
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…
This will teach you exactly what XML is:
http://tinyurl.com/c86o9r
You’re you still using IE6?! IE sucks big time.
Hey Wish.
Stop using IE6.
Congratulations, you’re on a web design site.
Actually web development blog :P
Giles, excellent tutorial! I learned a ton, and it is well explained!
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
The WordPress screencast was awesome! And a big plus for making the final change at 4:54 XD
btw. I was specifically talking about how to add thumbnails, be the other one was really good too :)
Hey, thanks! Glad you liked it. Now, have everyone you know vote for it :D
I love it.
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.
I liked the css font one, fantastic as i thought the only way to get a custom font was through sifr.
Thanks, Aqib. I’m glad you like it.