In this week’s video tutorial, I’ll teach you how to take a simple, boring contact form and add some animations and an AJAX post request to submit the form to your MySQL database asynchronously.

In addition, we’ll also implement a bit of server and client-side validation to better secure our data. When submitting to the database, we’ll also review the most secure methods, including the use of prepared statements, which will bind the necessary values to each query, rather than embed them.

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Kriesi is ThemeForest’s top selling author; he, last month, broke the record of most sales in a single month, across all of the Envato marketplaces! It’s even more shocking when we consider the fact that he’s only 27 years old!

In this interview, we’ll dive into his work process, and hopefully steal some tips and inspiration!

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It’s amazing to see version four of a browser which has only been available for a little over a year. Compare that to Firefox, which took over six years to reach 3.6. Perhaps it’s just super smart marketing, or perhaps Chrome is putting an enormous amount of energy into the browser wars.

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Across all of the TUTS sites, we’re starting a new weekly giveaway! This means that you should check Nettuts+ every Friday to potentially win a prize related to web development: anything from a new book, to a code editor, to Apple’s new magic mouse – which we’re giving away today!

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I was recently asked by a reader to recommend a helpful content slider plugin. No doubt, there are a bunch of excellent options available — some which are, perhaps, too excellent! With so much flexibility comes extra weight; especially when sometimes you only need a simple slide or fade transition.

So I figured, why not build a simple custom plugin that will get the job done?

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This screencast will serve as the final entry in a multi-part series across the TUTS sites which demonstrates how to build a beautiful home page for a fictional business. We learned how to create the wireframe on Vectortuts+; we added color, textures, and effects on Psdtuts+; now, we’ll take our completed PSD and convert it into a nicely coded HTML and CSS website.

Please note that, even if you haven’t read the first two tutorials, you’ll be able to follow along with this video quite easily.

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We’re rolling out a new sub-category on Nettuts+: reviews. Sporadically, when a new book or piece of software is released, either myself or one of our writers will write a review detailing the pros and cons.

A couple weeks ago, Packt Publishing sent me a copy of the recently released “WordPress 2.7 Complete.” Though the platform has already moved on to 2.8, I was still quite pleased with the final product.

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Services like Typekit live and die by how intuitive their products are. A couple weeks ago, I finally received my beta invite to join. For those unfamiliar, Typekit is a service that allows you to use a plethora of fonts on your own site with minimal effort.

This video demonstrates just how easy Typekit is to work with. Rather than being a tutorial per se, this is more akin to removing the wrapping paper for the first time! I literally pressed record with zero knowledge of how to use Typekit. However, as you’ll soon see, this service very well might prove to be the number one choice for designers and developers, once it officially launches. I know I’m on board!

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Adobe is hard at work on the follow-up to their line of CS4 products. Just recently, they released a sneak-peak video of some of the experiments they’re working on. Needless to say, it’s incredible! It’s almost time to start filling the coin jar.

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