WordPress: How to insert data programmatically
Jean-Baptiste Jung will show you how you can easily add data (posts, comments, categories, etc) to your WordPress blog, without any manual effort.
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A Web Designer’s Guide to Linux Fonts
One area in which few Linux users see any representation is Web typography. In 2003, Linux user and software developer Jeremy Zawodny howled about the dearth of decent fonts for Linux. At the time, he was right. But that situation has since changed, even though many Web designers still believe fonts designed for (and included with) various Linux flavors are all just icky.
That’s not true any longer either. But the perception remains.
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Editing a WordPress theme with Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 – Part 1: Learning the basics
This is Part 1 of a four-part tutorial series on editing WordPress themes using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. In this part, you will learn the basics of WordPress, including why so many people use it, how it is installed, and what makes up a WordPress theme. I'll also describe some of the features you will be using in Dreamweaver to make editing your theme a snap.
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10 life-saving PHP snippets
In order to be efficient, a web developer should have a toolbox with code snippets he can use and reuse when needed. In this article, Jean-Baptiste Jung is going to show you 10 extremely useful PHP code snippets to add to your web developer toolbox.
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A Beginner’s Guide To Website Copywriting
When writing for the Web, writers should always keep one analogy in mind: the Internet is a jungle and Web users are information foragers within it. Usability expert Jakob Nielsen championed this comparison based on his studies that found that the majority of Internet users only scan websites in their quest to find useful information as quick as possible.
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HTML E-mail Design Techniques Part 1
Today’s free helping from the Think Vitamin Membership video library looks at what to do and what not to do when designing HTML email.
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Getting Started with WordPress Custom Menus
Perhaps one of the biggest holes in WordPress prior to version 3 was the lack of custom menu support. Menus often had to be hand coded into header.php and, whilst they could be ‘smart’, it often let the client needing a PHP savvy developer to make alterations to the setup.
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13 Pure CSS Techniques for Creating JavaScript-like Interactions
We all know that JavaScript allows us to do great things when it comes to user interfaces, but with a little imagination and creativity, the same types of effects can be created with only CSS. Here are 13 tutorials that teach you how to push the limits of CSS and make it do things that we’re not accustomed to it doing. You’ll notice that some of these techniques can be very useful, while others are simple for proving it can be done.
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10 jQuery Slider Techniques and Plugins
Last year we posted a collection of jQuery slider techniques and plugins. In a years time the trend of using these types of sliders or slideshows to display featured content has only grown more popular. This means more sites are using jQuery sliders and more people are coming up with new ways to create them.
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The Only HTML5 Resources You Need for Getting Up to Speed
There’s a lot of buzz going around about HTML5. Big companies such as Apple are predicting that it’s the technology that will sign the death warrant of the popular Flash platform that powers a lot of rich internet apps and complex dynamic web components.