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Simple Draggable Element Persistence with jQuery

Oct 29th in JavaScript & AJAX by Dustin Blake
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At some point you may need to create a draggable element within your web application. This is great functionality, however you may want or find that you need the element to stay in place after being dragged around. In this tutorial I will show you how to easily drag an element and make it stick, even after a page reload, by grabbing and storing its X and Y coordinates.

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151 Air, Web and iPhone Apps for Web Developers

Oct 28th in Web Roundups by Collis Ta'eed
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It seems like you can’t go two yards without bumping into apps these days. Whether it’s iPhone apps, web apps, or even Adobe Air apps – when used judiciously they certainly can boost your productivity and workflow. Of course over-apping has it’s dangers as my over encumbered Firefox will tell you! Still there is something mightily addictive about adding more and more awesome little tools to your arsenal. Continue Reading

Top 40 Tuts+ Tutorials in September

Oct 28th in Web Roundups by Skellie
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In this Best of Tuts+ roundup you’ll learn how to simulate a sniper scope, design and code a flexible website, create an intense movie poster, create a golden vector compass, build a minigolf game with ActionScript 3.0, take sports photos like a pro, create a rocky video game terrain in Blender and get a useful introduction to home recording–among many other things! Let’s take a look.

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WordPress as a CMS: New Plus Tutorial

Oct 28th in Plus by Matt Vickers
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When most people think about WordPress, they think about blogs. If you look at the front page of WordPress.org, they talk a lot about blogging as well. What they don’t tell you is that WordPress can also double as a very powerful CMS; you just have to set it up properly. It can be a bit tricky to get setup and working the way that you want; but this is where I come in.

In this 3-part tutorial + screencast series, I’m going to take you through the three steps of using WordPress as a CMS. Become a PLUS member.

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Easy Version Control with Git

Easy Version Control with Git

Oct 28th in Other by Andrew Burgess
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Have you ever worked on a project that was so unwieldy, you were scared to update a file or add a feature? Maybe the problem was that you weren’t using a version control system. In today’s tutorial, we’ll learn the basics of what might possibly be the best VCS in the world: Git.

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Feeds 101

Feeds 101

Oct 27th in Other by Siddharth
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Feeds. RSS. Atom. Syndication. Subscribers. These are some of the keywords floating around the web and have gained notorious prominence over the years. In this guide, we’ll take a look at a number of things including what feeds are, why you need to have a feed for your site, how to set up one and then publish it.

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Top 10 Reasons Why the Closing of Geocities is Long Overdue

Top 10 Reasons Why the Closing of Geocities is Long Overdue

Oct 26th in General by Joseph Rosario
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Geocities is finally, after nearly fifteen years, bowing its head and closing its doors. While the first reactions of many, like myself, was, “it’s about time;” others embraced the nostalgia of their first websites in the nineties – full of animated gifs, enormous counters, midi tunes, frames, tables, … the list goes on and on. With that said, we can all agree on one thing if we’re truly honest with ourselves: this closure is long overdue!

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Design and Converting it to HTML and CSS

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Design and Converting it to HTML and CSS

Oct 23rd in Screencasts by Jeffrey Way
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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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10+ Reasons Why you Should Definitely Upgrade to Windows 7

Oct 22nd in Web Roundups by Andrew Burgess
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I’m a PC, and I’ve always been one. That’s why I’m excited about the late release of Windows 7. I’ve been playing with the beta and release candidate for 10 months now, and for the last few months, I’ve been running Windows 7 exclusively. So let’s see what Microsoft’s latest offering is all about!

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Designing and Developing for the iPhone from Scratch

Designing and Developing for the iPhone from Scratch: New Plus Tutorial

Oct 21st in News by Tylor Skory
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In this tutorial, we are going to design a website for the mobile Safari browser (found on the iPhone and the iPod Touch). We’ll start from scratch in Photoshop and work our way, step-by-step, to a finished product complete with an animated jQuery image slider. Join today!

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