Winners Announced: Introducing CodeCanyon Competition
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16 March 2010 23:03
For the entire month of February, developers were encouraged to submit their best scripts and components to CodeCanyon. With over $6200 worth of prizes to win, it was a battle full of many top level items. However, the competition has since concluded, and after two weeks of deliberating, the reviewers and I have been our [...]
IE9 May Actually Be a Fantastic Browser
Nettuts+
16 March 2010 17:03
Today, as part of MIX 2010, some exciting updates were released on the progress of Internet Explorer 9. The IE team is implementing some incredible features, such as HTML5, CSS3, SVG, and addEventListener support! Further, they’re currently scoring a 55 on the Acid3 test – a figure that’s surely to increase substantially before the official [...]
10 Features to Look Forward to in WordPress 3.0
Nettuts+
16 March 2010 16:03
WordPress 3.0 is scheduled to be released within the next 30-60 days. There are some great new features coming, including custom post types, a new default theme, and a menu manager. Read on to find out what to expect in version three!
1. Choose your Username and Password
You’ll encounter new features as soon as you start! [...]
Win a Copy of Rockable’s Latest eBook, ‘How to Write Great Copy for the Web’
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16 March 2010 04:03
Today we’ve got three copies of the new eBook fromRockable and FreelanceSwitch, How to Write Great Copy for the Web, to give away. Entering takes seconds, just leave a comment below and three lucky people will be selected.
Win How to Write Great Copy for the Web
About the Book
How to Write Great Copy for the [...]
Learning Server-Side JavaScript with Node.js
Nettuts+
15 March 2010 16:03
Node.js is all the buzz at the moment, and makes creating high performance, real-time web applications easy. It allows JavaScript to be used end to end, both on the server and on the client. This tutorial will walk you through the installation of Node and your first “Hello World” program, to building a [...]
How to Build a Lava-Lamp Style Navigation Menu
Nettuts+
13 March 2010 20:03
A couple weeks ago, I created a screencast that demonstrated how to build a three-level navigation menu. In a response email, one of our readers requested a tutorial on how to build a lava-lamp style menu. Luckily, it’s quite a simple task, especially when using a JavaScript library. We’ll build one from scratch today.
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Quick Tip: HTML5 Video with a Fallback to Flash
Nettuts+
12 March 2010 18:03
In this video quick tip, we’ll review how to work with HTML 5 video in your own projects. Because older browsers and Internet Explorer do not understand the <video> element, we must also find a way to serve a Flash file to viewers who are utilizing those browsers.
Unfortunately, much like HTML 5 [...]
CodeIgniter from Scratch: File Operations
Nettuts+
11 March 2010 22:03
In today’s episode we are going to be working with several helper functions, related to files, directories, and downloads. We are going to learn how to read, write, download files, and retrieve information about both files and directories. Also at the end we will build a small file browser that utilizes jQuery as well.
Catch Up
Day [...]
New Plus Tutorial: Tumblr Theme Design- Start to Finish
Nettuts+
11 March 2010 07:03
Tumblr’s popularity over the last year has increased exponentially. The reason why is quite simple: Tumblr is flexible, powerful, and – most importantly, a pleasure to work with. Unfortunately, there aren’t many training resources available for the platform yet. In this video series, we’ll go through the process of taking a Tumblr theme, designed [...]
Inspiration: Awesome Book-Related Website Designs
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11 March 2010 05:03
If you’re a book lover, you may have noticed that the vast majority of book-related websites out there leave a bit to be desired when it comes to design and information architecture. In fact, some author and publisher websites make me feel like my eyes might bleed!
But there are some gems out there, and we’ve [...]
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