Lists and tables are often the best way to display data on the web; but you shouldn’t have to worry about sorting that information manually. In today’s tutorial, you’re going to make a jQuery plugin that will put all your ducks in a row with JavaScript ease!
How to Build a Custom jQuery Tabs Plugin: New Plus Tutorial
Nov 18th in Plus by Jeffrey WayIn this week’s 45 minute Plus video tutorial, I’ll personally teach you how to build a flexible jQuery tabs plugin. This plugin will automatically create the individual tabs, allow for auto-switching, fading, and plenty more – without being bloated. Why create a tabs plugin when there are plenty of them already available? Because too much abstraction is never a good thing. Become a Plus member.
Build an RSS 2.0 Feed with CodeIgniter
Nov 18th in PHP by Drazen MokicIn this tutorial, we will build a RSS 2.0 Feed with the PHP framework CodeIgniter. After this tutorial, you will be able to build a feed for any custom website in no time at all.
20 Email Design Best Practices and Resources for Beginners
Nov 17th in HTML & CSS by Matthew KirkEven for experience designers, building email newsletters isn’t easy. You receive a lovely looking design, and you crack on with the development. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t work as it should in every email clients. Styles don’t display, images aren’t visible, etc.
This is where these twenty best practices come in handy.
9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them
Nov 16th in HTML & CSS by SiddharthInternet Explorer – the bane of most web developers’ existence. Up to 60% of your development can be wasted just trying to squash out IE specific bugs which isn’t really a productive use of your time. In this tutorial, you are going to learn about the most common IE bugs and rendering disparities and how to easily squash them or deal with them. Interested? Let’s get started.
How to Create a Photo Gallery using the Flickr API
Nov 12th in PHP by Paul BurgessFlickr is, without doubt, the biggest and best photography website on the internet. There are lots of widgets, badges and plugins which allow you to display your latest Flickr photos on your website, but we’ll take it a step further by tapping straight into Flickr and integrating your photostream into your website, giving you a photo gallery that is a breeze to update.
Build a Beautiful Carousel with JavaScript from Scratch: New Plus Tutorial
Nov 11th in Plus by PabloIn today’s PLUS video tutorial, Pablo is going to show you how to create a Flash-like carousel…without using Flash! By implementing some clever JavaScript techniques, you’ll learn how to create this beautiful effect. As you’ll find, it’s not quite as complicated as you might imagine. It simply requires a solid grasp of Geometry. Join today!
The Basics of Object-Oriented JavaScript
Nov 11th in JavaScript & AJAX by Leigh KaszickOver recent years, JavaScript has increasingly gained popularity, partly due to libraries that are developed to make JavaScript apps/effects easier to create for those who may not have fully grasped the core language yet.
While in the past it was a common argument that JavaScript was a basic language and was very ’slap dash’ with no real foundation; this is no longer the case, especially with the introduction of high scale web applications and ‘adaptations’ such as JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).
7AMP – Creating a Development Environment
Nov 10th in PHP by Dan WellmanRunning a local development web server is one of the best ways of learning AJAX; reading up on it is one thing, but being able to pass the raw data back and forth between a browser and a server is really the only way to truly understand what is happening at a fundamental level. To create the dynamic and interactive apps and sites that we’ve come to know and love, you need a development server.
On Windows systems we really have only a few decent options available; we can use Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS), which is usually bundled with Ultimate or Business versions of Windows, or we can use Apache, the extremely popular open-source alternative. Remember when Microsoft enjoyed a 90% market share of the browser market? Apache is the MS of the web server world and at some points in its illustrious history has enjoyed almost total domination in its respective field.
Create a Contact Manager – New Plus Tutorial
Nov 5th in Plus by Connor ZwickIn this three-part series – in depth tutorials + two hour screencast – we’ll be creating a contact manager using jQuery and CodeIgniter. As more and more applications are moving towards the hive, web developers & designers alike are required to learn more and more about how to design “desktopesque” projects.
