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.
Internet Explorer 8 Essentials
Mar 23rd in General by Scott StewartLike it or loathe it, a new release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer is upon us once again. For this eighth iteration of their browser, they are focusing heavily on security, ease of use and improvements in RSS, AJAX and CSS. That's a rather general outline, so we’ll dive into these new features for a closer look.
What You Must Know About the New Safari 4 Beta
Feb 26th in General by Matt HarzewskiApple released Safari 4 Beta last Tuesday, for both Mac and Windows users. The updated browser received a UI update, many major improvements under the hood, and plenty of new features to play with. The new browser passes the ACID2 and ACID3 tests with a score of 100, and contains a few next-generation technologies that web developers will love, once we can take advantage of them. Let’s take a look at what’s new.
15+ Tips to Speed Up Your Website, and Optimize Your Code!
Jan 27th in General by Jeffrey WayOnce you’ve been coding for a while, you begin to take something for granted. You forget just how smart you really are. How many hundreds of keyboard shortcuts have we memorized? How many languages have we learned? How many frameworks? How many hacks? To say that web design/development is an extremely tough industry is putting it lightly. Next, add in the fact that much of what you know today will be considered obsolete in a few years.
Today, we’ll be looking at a crop of tips and tricks that will help beginners speed up their development time, and code more efficiently. You’ll see a mix of quick time savings tips, as well as specific coding tricks to increase your web application’s efficiency.
A Closer Look At the Blueprint CSS Framework
Dec 22nd in General, HTML & CSS by Jesse StorimerBlueprint is a CSS framework that can save you time and headaches when working on any project that involves HTML and CSS, whether it be with Rails, PHP, or just laying out an HTML page. In this tutorial you will get a look at the inner workings of Blueprint and we’ll take a look at demo application that uses Blueprint to get a better idea of how to use actually use the framework.
30+ Eye-Opening Web Development Screencasts
Nov 20th in General, Web Roundups by Jeffrey WayWe’ve all felt that haze that forms around your eyes when you’re trying to study lines and lines of code from a written tutorial. After an hour or so, your eyes simply become too weakened to continue reading. That’s why I’m such a huge fan of video tutorials. You can sit back and learn at your own pace. I’ve compiled a list of over thirty screencasts that are guaranteed to help you.
7 Awesome Admin Themes to Skin Your Next Client App (via ThemeForest)
Nov 14th in General by Collis Ta'eedIn my years as a web designer I can’t remember how many times I’ve had to theme a back-end admin system for one reason or another. It seems to be a really common task so when we started ThemeForest a couple months ago I added an "Admin Skins" category for back-end admin themes and it’s turned out to be the most popular category on the whole site. It makes sense because a client admin area often just needs to look neat, tidy and professional, so spending ten or fifteen dollars on an HTML skin is a pretty economical way to make the job look nice and slick, especially if design isn’t your primary skill set. The themes generally have a range of styles for things like tables, lists and even calendars, so they are pretty flexible and can be moulded to fit most little applications.
10 Most Sought-after Skills in Web Development
Oct 20th in General by Glen StansberryIn a time of economic crisis, web developers and freelancers everywhere have started chewing their fingernails. However, no matter how bad the economy worsens, there will always be work in certain booming fields of web development.
As the moderator of the Freelance Switch job board, there are certain types of jobs that are constantly in demand. Here are the 10 skills that are or will be in highest demand for developers. If you are proficient in these skills, you’ll be in a great position to find work and weather any economic downturn.
How Web Development Created Blog Action Day
Oct 15th in General by Glen StansberryBlog Action Day is a huge initiative launched by NETTUTS owners Collis and Cyan Ta’eed. There was almost no possible way you didn’t hear about Blog Action Day on October 15th, 2007, as over 20,000 blogs and 19 of Technorati’s top 100 participated and wrote posts on the topic of the environment. This year’s Blog Action Day, (which is happening as we speak), is turning that focus to poverty.
Building a site that can withstand a huge surge of traffic on one day takes considerable planning and work, as well as a little creativity. Collis has shared with me some of the inner workings of the Blog Action Day site and how they built the website to provide a platform for action, bring a community together and handle torrents of traffic on one day.
Google Enters the Browser Wars with Chrome
Sep 2nd in General by Jeffrey WayWhen a new browser enters the market, people generally split up into two categories. The first group thinks, “Great! Anything that moves us towards a more standards oriented environment is a good thing!” The other group, neither better nor worse, thinks to themselves, “Ohh gee. Yet another browser that I’ll have to test my sites in. Enter Chrome. Today, Google officially entered the browser wars. No matter which group you fall into, you’ll inevitably find yourself downloading this new browser.
If you compare the browsers of 1996 to the browsers of today, you’ll find that, truthfully, they haven’t evolved that much. Sure, they’re more standards aware. But generally speaking, they’ve essentially remained unchanged over the last decade. Google is hoping to change that.
