Web designers and developers know that compressing files into one single archive file such as a ZIP file is always a necessity when it comes to uploading huge amount of files onto a server, which means having to unzip the file once it has been uploaded. People have tried to come up with ways to [...]
There’s this interesting article and tutorial written by Brian Gardner that I thought I’d feature in today’s post. It’s about building a Tumblr-style blog with WordPress. In it he also points out the reason why you might want to try it – or rather, should do it. Since the release of version 3.1, WordPress has [...]
With this year’s summer release of superhero flicks like The Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight, one may always remember the box office hit Avengers that brought in the likes of Thor, Iron Man, Hulk and Captain America. I’ve stumbled upon a cool tutorial which you may find interesting if you’re a fan of those [...]
Here’s a great tutorial from wpwidgets by Agnis that teaches you how you can display an image on your site in various thumbnail sizes without having to produce multiple files to represent each. Let’s say you have a line of socks that you want to sell online and you want to have the very same [...]
Creating a clean and simple design may look simpler to do from the outside but inside, there are so many work details to be done which people are not aware of. Here’s something I learned from Addison Duvall about his modified version of Dieter Rams’ golden rules of design. Here are Duvall’s modified 10 golden [...]
If you chat a lot with your friends at Facebook then you might have already noticed the new update they implemented to their chat system, but in case you haven’t, read on. The update I’m referring to is called the “Seen” feature. Basically it’s a feature that lets the sender of a chat or private [...]
Twitter Bootstrap is an extensive font-end toolkit that contains HTML and CSS-based templates used for developing web sites and applications like forms, typography, optional Javascript extensions and more. Bootstrap began as an internal Twitter object intended for developing management tools and was made as style guide. It then became popular as many users used this [...]
Cubism.js is a great D3 plugin developed by Mike Bostock for displaying time series in real-time. With Cubism, you’ll be able to create better real-time dashboards, pulling data from various sources. In terms of flexibility, Cubism.js is highly customizable via CSS and JavaScript, and it also lets you add new chart types and modes of [...]
One of the most widely used payment processing platforms nowadays is Paypal. Andrew Angell shows you how to process credit cards directly with PayPal’s API using Payments Pro web service API’s. Step 1: Setup Directory Structure Create basic structure. It has 2 files and configuration is stored in config.php and handle the processing code in [...]
Today’s featured jQuery plugin is called the Dynamic Grid: XML Gallery from Nikolay Dyankov. It’s a plugin that lets you create an image gallery slider that is highly customizable, and by customizable I mean not only can you change the animation but also the layout (no. of rows & columns), scroll speed, padding, etc. It [...]
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