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WordPress: How to Take Gila to the Next Level III

Over the past two weeks, Linda shared PHP file changes that allow WordPress users to change the three-column Gila theme into a more accessible format. In this last, concluding article, Linda shares the CSS file that pulls the new Gila files together. This new CSS moves the sidebars to the right and the main copy to the left. Get ready to start from scratch!

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Creating your own Flex components

If you've worked with Flex Builder 2, you'll notice that it includes many different built-in components. There are user interface controls such as ComboBoxes and Buttons, containers such as HBoxes and VBoxes, and navigation controls like the Accordion and TabBar. There is even a range of charting components that you can purchase separately.

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Reading Web.config Values in ASP.NET 2.0

When working with the new .NET 2.0 framework there are a lot of new features, classes, and methodologies available to developers. Some things are brand new, some things are advancements upon existing features in the .NET 1.x framework.

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WordPress: How to Take Gila to the Next Level II

Last week, Linda walked you through the first portion of the PHP files contained within the three-column Gila WordPress theme to create an accessible layout for a blog. This week, she takes you through the header, side column, footer, and comments file and helps you to create a 404.php to add to the mix. The new version that you’ll create works well with recent WordPress updates. After this tutorial, Linda will show you how to alter the Gila CSS file so that you can fit the blog layout colours and text to your liking.

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Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0 classes

In the article, Loading an RSS feed into Flex using ActionScript 3.0, I introduced you to ActionScript 3.0 and we worked through an application that displayed the content from an RSS 2 feed. We created a simple interface and configured it using ActionScript in a script block at the top of the page. You learned how to add ActionScript to a Flex application and we explored some of the new features in ActionScript 3.0.

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Consuming RSS Feeds in ASP.NET 2.0

One of the biggest, most exciting new developments on the internet in the past few years has been the creation of RSS feeds.

According to Internet Explorer documentation, an RSS feed is defined as:

Feeds, also known as RSS feeds, XML feeds, syndicated content, or web feeds, contain frequently updated content published by a website. They are usually used for news and blog websites, but are also used for distributing other types of digital content, including pictures, audio files, or video. Internet Explorer can discover and display feeds as you visit websites. You can also subscribe to feeds to automatically check for and download updates that you can view later.

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WordPress: How to Take Gila to the Next Level (updated)

If you like to blog in WordPress, and if you’ve searched high and low for a three-column layout, you might have come across the “Gila” theme originally created by BloggingPro. While this theme works “out of the box” from the zip file, it’s an older version that spans the entire screen. Linda used this blog in a number of sites, but she altered the PHP and CSS files so that the site is now as accessible as possible. The new version works well with recent WordPress updates. For the next several articles, Linda will lead you step-by-step on a journey that will help you to create new accessible code for a sturdy three-column theme, as well as show you how to alter the CSS to build a theme that is uniquely “you.”

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Working with the Spry Menu Bar Control

It's time to get familiar with one of the major new features of Dreamweaver – Spry.  This is the name given to the new AJAX framework in Dreamweaver CS3 which enables you to drag a series of useful predefined controls directly on to the page.  One of these controls is the Spry Menu Bar and this tutorial is going to look at how to use it for best effect and how to use another of the Spry controls – the Spry XML Data Set – in conjunction with it to produce a dynamic and attractive navigation menu quickly and easily.

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Spry Chat Part Two

This article is the second and the final one in the series on building online chat application using Dreamweaver CS3 Spry framework. While Part One was all about Spry and building the interface foundation this time around we will concentrate on making the interface a little more attractive, as well as developing the server-side functionality required to send and receive chat messages. Finally we will set up appropriate file permissions to make sure our application can read and write the information to/from a file on the server.

PHP is used for all back-end operations in our chat application (without any database functionality involved).

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Loading an RSS feed into Flex using ActionScript 3.0

ActionScript 3.0 is the latest version of the ActionScript scripting language which goes with Flex 2. You can only run SWF files containing ActionScript 3.0 in Flash Player 9. ActionScript 3.0 makes some major changes to the language and introduces a number of new features. If you're used writing ActionScript 2.0, you probably won't find the latest version too difficult to master.

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Implementing User Management in ASP.NET 2.0 – Part 2

Welcome to Implementing User Management in ASP.NET 2.0 Part 2. In this second and final tutorial we will expand upon the foundation we built during part 1 for managing users in a web application through a custom SQL provider.

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Working with the YUI Calendar Control

In a recent article, I looked at making one the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) utilities work for you in the form of a news scroller.  In this article, I'm going to explore the functions of the of the library's controls – the Calendar control. The utilities provide different types of functionality, which you are free to implement in whatever way you want. The controls are slightly different, consisting of a set of predefined objects that enable user input and should be used pretty much as they are. They are still highly configurable however and you have a broad range of options when adding them to your pages.

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