In this week’s Plus video tutorial, the creator of the extremely popular s3Slider plugin will show you how to build a similar “slideshow” component using jQuery. What better way to learn how to mimic your favorite plugins than to learn from the creators themselves? This isn’t one you should miss! Become a Plus member today!
Create a Jobs Board With CodeIgniter: New Plus Tutorial
Jun 24th in News by Dan HarperIn this two-part series, we’ll be creating a basic ‘Jobs Board’, similar to “FreelanceSwitch Jobs” and “Smashing Jobs”, using the CodeIgniter PHP framework. Sign up!
Friday Freebies: Wrox JavaScript Books!
Jun 19th in News by Jeffrey WayThis 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!
Build a Custom CMS Using PHP and MySQLi: New Plus Tutorial
Jun 17th in News by Sunil AgarwalIn this video tutorial, we’ll be building a custom Content Management System (CMS) using PHP and MySQLi. We’ll start off by pulling our content from a MySQL database and then build a CMS admin panel to manage our content. For easy content management, we will be using TinyMCE as our editor. I hope you enjoy the screencast. Join today!
Celebrating the Launch of Cgtuts+
Jun 8th in News by SkellieToday we’re pleased to introduce the newest member of the Tuts+ family: Cgtuts+. There we’ll be publishing tutorials and video training on software like Autodesk Maya and 3Ds Max, Maxon Cinema 4D, Blender, Zbrush and Mudbox. If you’ve ever wanted to freely learn how to create 3D animations, art or elements for games, now is the time to start!
We’ve launched with a massive 194 minute video training series on how to create art for current gen games. The tutorial was created by the site’s editor, Kaleb Aylsworth, who is currently working as an Environmental 3D Artist on BioShock 2 multiplayer - so he’s got plenty of knowledge and smarts to share!
Go on, open a new tab, check it out, leave a comment, then keep reading to learn more about our plans for the site.
$500 For Your Tutorial!
Jun 8th in News by Jeffrey WayHi, 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!
CRUD With Prepared Statements: New Plus Tutorial
Jun 3rd in News by Jeffrey WayEven 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!
Asynchronous Search with PHP and jQuery, Part 2:
New PLUS Tutorial
May 20th in News by Dan Wellman
A couple of months ago, on our PLUS site, I wrote a tutorial focused on creating a static search engine that spidered down through a site hierarchy and searched each web page that it found for a given text string. This type of search was aimed at owners of web sites consisting of static HTML pages. In this tutorial + screencast we’re going to do the same thing, but this time instead of navigating folders and subfolders looking for pages, we’re going to search a database instead. Join today!
Plus Members Now Have Access to Audio Plus
May 19th in News by SkellieNow that we’ve added Audiotuts+ to our Plus family, Plus members will begin to receive weekly bonus sample packs and tutorials for Audiotuts+. We hope you’ve also been enjoying your access to exclusive tutorials, video lessons, source files, brush and vector packs from Nettuts+, Psdtuts+ and Vectortuts+. Thank you so much for supporting the sites and helping us to cover costs - with mounting bandwidth, content and management expenses, these sites would not exist without their Plus members!
With 4 sites now offering Plus content, $9 a month gives you universal access to each - a little over $2 per month for each site. This moves us closer to our goal of offering the best possible low-cost, high-quality education to creatives. And if you’re into motion graphics, Aetuts+ will be the next site to go Plus!
If you’ve ever been interested in learning more about audio, now is a great time to start. Plus members can login and download a 65-piece drum and bass sample pack from the Audio Plus section. To read more about the first Audio Plus download, click here. Not a Plus member yet? You can learn more or join now.
Coding a Beautiful Website From Scratch: Plus Tutorial
May 13th in News by Marko PrljicAs a sequel to last week’s popular tutorial, “Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch”, we will be converting our beautiful design into a valid HTML/CSS website. Even though we used the 960.gs template, we will not use its CSS framework to build the site. Instead, we will be coding this design from scratch! It’s always important to create strong and clean markup first, Why is that? One of the reasons is because, if we need to change our design or rearrange some things in our web site, we only need to make modifications to our CSS file and never touch our markup.
If you’re a PLUS member, let’s get started! If not, join now!
