How to use BuddyPress as a Private Collaboration System
For sites with multiple writers, it’s nice to have a place for them all to interact privately. Though there are solutions like Yammer and Teambox, they require your writers to register and log into another site. I can only guess as to how busy some people are! With this post I’ll show you how to make your own Private Social network for your writers using BuddyPress.
WordPress 3.0 is required for this guide, as we’ll be putting WordPress 3.0’s new multi-site feature to good use, along with BuddyPress.
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Creating a Simple Twitter App using oAuth and PHP
Everyone on the web is updating to the latest & the most secure technologies with Twitter being the most hyped one as it upgraded from basic Authentication to the more secure oAuth. Earlier people had to risk their Twitter login credentials if they wanted to use some external Apps that gave them more control over their Twitter profile. Twitter would now be removing the basic Auth to fully support oAuth. As Twitter describes oAuth is:
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Improve Your Skills: 25 jQuery Beginner Tutorials Roundup
jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library that highlights the interaction between JavaScript and HTML. With jQuery you can write less and do more. jQuery has become an active trend and it’s features are growing rapidly.
I have assembled 25 beginner level tutorials for you to start knowing and exploiting jQuery and it’s powerful tools. After reading these guides and tutorials you will be able to proceed and start testing jQuery’s limits.
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How to Create a better FAQ page for end users
FAQ (Frequently Asked Question) pages have become commonplace on many websites for many reasons. The main, is that they offer a way to provide support, most commonly, customer support, without having to re-iterate solutions to common problems. For larger companies, a good FAQ page can even have an effect on the amount of support staff that are needed to be hired, yet browsing the internet, I continually find FAQ pages to be neglected, and a navigational nightmare. Similarly, Google for some articles on FAQ page design, and you’ll find near to nothing that’s helpful.
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Complete Toolbox: 55 CSS Menu And Button Coding Tutorials
Navigation menus and buttons with CSS styling are being used in almost every website. There are a lot of techniques to utilize and a good developer should have some basic knowledge about them all.
Below you will find a lot of tutorials each teaching you something different and appropriate. You will also find quite lot CSS3 tutorials, because CSS3 offered features are being used more and more and you should practise them too.
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Create Really Detailed Dark Web Layout Using Photoshop
Hello! Today I’m gonna teach you how to create a dark template, I tried to explain everything as detailed as I could, but let me know if you didn’t get something right. This is my very first time on writing a tutorial and I am very excited about this chance.
I will do my best to make this tutorial easy for you to follow, just follow screenshots as we move forward step by step and try to understand how to use these techniques in your own designs! Let’s start?
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How to Create a Cool Slide Out Panel with CSS3 only
Many sites have a really cool hidden panel which contains some relevant information and this panel is revealed to us, with a cool animation, when we click on a particular button or hover over it. This has usually been achieved using jQuery. But now as we advent towards the future and CSS3 is becoming a reality, here is a tutorial on how to build an animated slide out panel using only CSS3.
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The Ultimate Roundup of 50+ Icon Designing Tutorials
Icon designing is very essential and important for graphic designer as there are plenty of clients who are willing to pay good for some unique and creative icons for their projects. There are many sites offering free icons for commercial use but they cannot be unique as anyone can use them or they may not be according to your requirements like size or color so it is very important for designers to know, how to design their own spicy icons.
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How to Build a Distance Finder with Google Maps API (Part-2)
In the first part of this tutorial we’ve built a distance finder using google maps. To build our app we’ve used the newest google maps api version, v3. Our distance finder lets the user write two addresses, shows them on a map, shows the route between them and computes the route’s length. Today, we will make some improvements to our distance finder and learn some other features of google maps!
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How to Create a “Stay-On-Top” Menu with CSS3 and jQuery
In the project I was working on recently I had a chance to experiment with CSS3 and jQuery. You know CSS3, right? It’s that thing that makes all those beautiful and amazing things on the web and makes Flash want to run away and hide. Yeah, that CSS3. And I’m more than sure you have heard about jQuery. If you haven’t, well, it’s a kind of library where you cannot borrow any books, but it allows you to do other stuff and bring some additional magic to the web.
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