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.

Continue Reading

In 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.

Continue Reading

This week, the folks over at Wrox Publishing (@wrox) have generously donated six JavaScript books to raffle off to you guys! Simply by leaving a comment, you’ll automatically be entered to win either “Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development With jQuery” or “Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 2nd Edition“. Good luck!

Continue Reading

As a follow-up to “30 HTML and CSS Best Practices”, this week, we’ll review JavaScript! Once you’ve reviewed the list, be sure to let us know what little tips you’ve come across!

Continue Reading

Hi, everyone. As most of you know, we recently launched our new Plus service — which supplies members with exclusive tutorials and screencasts each month. Due to the fact that these tutorials must be of a much higher quality and include a respective screencast, we offer our authors $300+ compensation, depending on the tutorial’s uniqueness and complexity. However, I’m willing to offer the authors of the next two accepted Plus tutorials $500 each!

Continue Reading

Even now, I constantly see developers using the ancient “mysql_connect” methods when querying their databases. How come, when there are so many better solutions? In this week’s 40-minute video tutorial, we’ll learn how to create, read, update, and delete records using MySQL improved and prepared statements. Join Today!

Continue Reading

A few weeks ago, I demonstrated how to make AJAX requests with raw JavaScript. In today’s screencast, we’ll take things a step further as we use PHP to query a database, convert it to the JSON format, and use Javascript to asynchronously request this information and display it on the page. If you’re just getting started with these sorts of concepts, this is the perfect video for you!

Continue Reading

At least a few times each week, I’m emailed about how I create the video tutorials that show up on the site each week. I think many of you are under the impression that it’s much more difficult than it really is. If I can do it, anyone can. I’ll show you the exact setup I use.

Continue Reading

The most difficult aspect of running Nettuts+ is accounting for so many different skill levels. If we post too many advanced tutorials, our beginner audience won’t benefit. The same holds true for the opposite. We do our best, but always feel free to pipe in if you feel you’re being neglected. This site is for you, so speak up! With that said, today’s tutorial is specifically for those who are just diving into web development. If you’ve one year of experience or less, hopefully some of the tips listed here will help you to become better, quicker!

Without further ado, let’s review thirty best practices to observe when creating your markup.

Continue Reading