Tag Archives: Tutorials
Quick Tip: Learning About HTML5 Local Storage

Quick Tip: Learning About HTML5 Local Storage

In today’s video quick tip, we’re going to build a working, though very basic, to-do list in just a minute or two. Thanks to HTML5’s local storage, we can make advanced browsers “remember” what we type, even after the browser is closed or is refreshed. Subscribe to our YouTube page to watch all of the video tutorials! Or, watch this video on Screenr.com .

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How To Design a 3D Glass Icon in Photoshop

How To Design a 3D Glass Icon in Photoshop

Learn How To Design a translucent 3D Frosted Glass Box based on the Safari Icon in Adobe Photoshop. Quick Nav: Tutorial Download the PSD (Source Files) Step 1: Setting Up Make a new document with these settings: Next, select the fill tool (G) and fill it with #626262 . Now, we need to make a new adjustment layer

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Coding your First jQuery UI Plugin

Coding your First jQuery UI Plugin

jQuery contains the fn.extend() method, which makes authoring jQuery plugins quite easy, allowing us to write code that is used in exactly the same way as other jQuery methods. jQuery UI also contains structures that make authoring custom jQuery UI plugins easy

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Quick Tip: Private Variables in JavaScript

Quick Tip: Private Variables in JavaScript

Because of JavaScript’s dependence upon globals, it might be easy to forget that creating private variables can be accomplished quite simply, thanks to closures. In just a few minutes, I’ll demonstrate two common techniques which allow for private variables and methods in your projects. Watch on your iPhone The key to this particular method is to create a variable that is equal to the returned value of a function

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MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Book

MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Book

I have written a book with Garrick Cheung about the MooTools JavaScript framework called ” MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide ” published by Packt Publishing . It’s a book for beginning web developers looking to make interactive websites and web applications rapidly with the help of MooTools. The book is formatted in a way that teaches you by way of practical examples that you can apply to real-world situations.

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CSS Fundamentals: CSS 3 Transitions

CSS Fundamentals: CSS 3 Transitions

As CSS3 rolls out around the web, it is bringing some interesting new presentational techniques along with it.

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25 Beautiful Examples of “Coming Soon” Pages

25 Beautiful Examples of “Coming Soon” Pages

“Coming soon” pages are a great way to tide over your visitors until you finish your new website. They can be used as a teaser for your future website, or places to simply put your information where people can get to it while you are under digital construction

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Make your MooTools Code Shorter, Faster, and Stronger

Make your MooTools Code Shorter, Faster, and Stronger

MooTools is one of the most flexible, modular, and well written JavaScript frameworks available.

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Designing for the Future with HTML5+CSS3 : Tutorials and Best Practices

Designing for the Future with HTML5+CSS3 : Tutorials and Best Practices

HTML5 is the next major version of HTML. HTML5 provides some great new features for web designers who love to create readable code and semantically-meaningful layouts

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What’s Changed in jQuery UI 1.8 – Plus Free Books!

What’s Changed in jQuery UI 1.8 – Plus Free Books!

jQuery UI 1.8 is currently at the release candidate stage and, barring the discovery of a major bug or flaw, will shortly become the current stable release of jQuery’s official UI library.

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Beautiful Motion Graphics Created With Programming: Showcase, Tools and Tutorials

Beautiful Motion Graphics Created With Programming: Showcase, Tools and Tutorials

When you hear the word “creative”, what type of profession comes to mind? Maybe a graphic designer, painter, sculptor, illustrator, or writer? It’s unlikely that you would consider a “programmer” when thinking of creative fields of work.

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How to Test your JavaScript Code with QUnit

How to Test your JavaScript Code with QUnit

QUnit , developed by the jQuery team, is a great framework for unit testing your JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce what QUnit specifically is, and why you should care about rigorously testing your code

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50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques

50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques

CSS3 is coming . Although the browser support of CSS 3 is still very limited , many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and using the new possibilites of CSS3 for users with modern browsers. That’s a reasonable solution — after all it doesn’t make sense to avoid learning CSS3 (that will be heavily used in the future) only because these features are not supported yet.

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A Brief History of Eye-Tracking

A Brief History of Eye-Tracking

Eye tracking may be a trendy topic in this day and age, but its roots go way back.

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Developing Usable (.NET) Components

Developing Usable (.NET) Components

When building an application, developers often face the decision of either writing functionality themselves or look to a third party component to get the job done in a timely manner. In the case of the latter, a well-designed component can greatly enhance a developer’s productivity. If you write components, you have an obligation to ensure your components are well-designed, easy to deploy, and above all, easy to use.

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Quick Tip: How to Create a Theme-Switcher in 200 Seconds

Quick Tip: How to Create a Theme-Switcher in 200 Seconds

Have you ever seen sites that offer some kind of “color-switcher” within the header section?

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Quick Tip: How to Target IE6 and IE7 with Only Two Characters

Quick Tip: How to Target IE6 and IE7 with Only Two Characters

Did you know that, with the addition of only two characters, you can target both Internet Explorer 6 and 7 in your stylesheets?
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Quick Tip: How to Target IE6 and IE7 with Only Two Characters

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ASP.NET from Scratch: Lesson 3

ASP.NET from Scratch: Lesson 3

Picking up where Lesson two left off, this new installment of ASP.NET From Scratch covers more C# programming fundamentals – namely class inheritance and interfaces. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to use inheritance to save time and code. You’ll also learn about the concept of interfaces, and how they can make your applications and [...]

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Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?

Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?

Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate the Web: spam, viruses, identity theft, to name a few
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Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?

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Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers

Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers

We all have shortcuts that are essential to our daily workflow. A majority of them are staples such as Copy ( Command + C ) and Paste ( Command + V ), but occasionally we stumble upon a shortcut we wish we’d learned years ago. Suddenly, this simple shortcut has streamlined our process and shaved [...]

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