Articles Tagged 'webdev'
35 Websites To Teach You How To Use CSS Effectively
Dainis GraverisCSS ( Cascading Style Sheets) are the modern standard for presenting website. Combined with structural markup language like HTML, XHTML - CSS fully take care about presentation part, creating that good concept - HTML = Content, CSS = Presentation. If you know CSS, you can really do everything controlling spacings, borders, positioning, margins, paddings, colors, fonts, background images, hover effects and more presentational effects. CSS is really easy to understand, and in my opinion every graphic designer should have at least simple coding skills with HTML and CSS, because CSS is really still design part, not really coding.
16 Free Javascript Code Syntax Highlighters For Better Programming
If you are programmer or actually if you at least have some basic coding skills, you'll find this article useful. For example just look at this page source - without highlighting that whole code is just a bunch of plain black text and it is really hard to find specific things if everything looks the same. Thankfully there are many highlighting scripts available, for example Notepad++ also supports and highlights different code snippets. These code syntax highlighters actually are doing mainly the same thing, but with more options, big coding language support, better integration - really in our days you just need to choose one - there are too many tools available anyway.
New And Comprehensive WordPress 2.8 Tutorial and Hack Toolbox
Wordpress just becomes more and more powerful, it's very hard to keep up with new features. Thankfully there are several very active people behind great blogs, who write very well explained tutorials and premade code snippets to let you learn everything in very easy way. Today I made my exercise to find such sites and articles, which are very new and Wordpress 2.8. compatible. There are really long list with new features, you can check them in first link from Wordpress Codex, so make sure you can keep up! In summary you'll find here 37 helpful tutorials, resources and hacks + 11 helpful Wordpress related sites for further reading in long run. Hope you'll like it!
23 Extremely Helpful WordPress Help Sheets And Resources
Cheat sheets are extremely helpful while your developing your wordpress theme, but definitely don't remember all the code snippets or tricks. If you have such helpful reference resources, you can easily find what you need in very short time. Even if you're beginner these help sheets will come handy to understand what the basic template files are, check wordpress site architecture and most important get those code snippets also explained in good way! This list features not only wordpress help sheets, but also SEO optimization articles, online theme generator and coding tips showing where you can look further if you've got problems with coding.
33 Promising Web Development And Social Network Firefox 3.5 Plugins
Since the big success with Wordpress related article showcasing promising and new Wordpress plugins, I decided to continue with similar list showcasing Firefox plugins. Several of these plugins are still experimental, but I tested them, checked for reviews and references and carefully picked these all extensions together. I divided this article in three sections - Web development, Social development related plugins and finally just overall handy plugins for better browsing. Also I must remind you, you will not find already popular and well known extensions here, since the mayor community already are know such plugins like - GreaseMonkey, WebDeveloper or Firebug tools for example. Just scroll through the list, check screenshots and hopefully several of these plugins will be useful for your daily Firefox internet browsing.
55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks: Ultimate Collection
If for whatever reason you don’t know jQuery, it is a "write less, do more" JavaScript library. It has many Ajax and JavaScript features to allow you enhance semantic coding and user experience. From jQuery homepage - “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.” jQuery definitely is one of the biggest trends coming in up-to-date designs and the best of all, everything is done without countless code lines. Keeping in mind such aspects I created hopefully pretty complete collection of jQuery sites, tip and trick articles, video screencasts, tutorials, cheat sheets and lot's more. Took a while to compile and research was really solid. Enjoy as always!
40 Web Design Artists And 102 Websites Worth Watching
I am continuing Top DeviantArtist worth watching series and now I stopped to the best web designers I could find. I only listed those artists, whom layouts I found to be really unique and inspiring, taking classical web design actually to the next level. These layouts are really artworks with amazing details, You usually don't see browsing through the web. Consider this article as inspirational article now and if You choose to watch those artists, then inspiration blasts in long term. At first I wanted to pick only 2 website examples from each artists, but there was several so amazing webdesigns, where I couldn't stop and picked 3 or 4 examples. Enjoy this list, hope this will help to get inspired in regular basis!
10 Ways How To Track Site Traffic, Popularity, Statistics
I know from myself people are obsessed with traffic, statistics, looking at other sites - tracking their stats and so on. And if there is enough demand, of course there are sites to satisfy You. I wanted to put those sites and tools in one list together, because at least for me this field was really unclear - I didn't know what means Google Pagerank, Alexa, Compete, Technorati rankings and I could continue so on. I must say not always these stats are precise, but however they give at least overview, how popular the certain page is, how many visitors that sites gets - and if You compare those stats with Your site statistics, You can get pretty precise results then.
