19
2012
28 Useful Plugins jquery for Developers and Designers
jQuery is a JavaScript library that is CSS3 compliant and supports many cross-browser features. The jQuery framework is extensible and very nicely handles DOM manipulations, CSS, animations, communications to server requests, document transversal and event handling. Real Shadow jQuery Plugin that casts photorealistic shadows. Perfect for eye-catching demos and landing pages. jQuery Mapz With Mapz you can easily create draggable image maps by just calling one function and by using some simple and clean HTML mark-up.
18
2012
Ticksy: A Support Story
When I started designing and developing themes and templates for the ThemeForest marketplace five years ago, customer support was easy. I’d get an email or two a day, answer them, and move on. But as sales picked up, things became complicated. One or two emails turned into five, which turned into ten, which turned into twenty! I’d respond to a question, and get another question in response. Emails were lost.
17
2012
Diving Into CSS Regions
This tutorial will cover the basics of CSS regions, which allow us to flow content within various sections of the page. Confused? You probably are; read on! Demo View It Online CSS Region Support At the time of this writing, the CSS Regions specification is a working draft and things may change! Techniques mentioned in this tutorial might change in implementation. The aim of this tutorial is to give a basic understanding of CSS Regions and what might be coming to a browser near you. Check out caniuse.com for a list of browsers which have some support for CSS Regions.
16
2012
Meet Crockford’s JSCheck
There are dozens of JavaScript testing frameworks, but most of them function in, more or less, the same way. However, Douglas Crockford’s JSCheck is considerably different from most. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how it’s different and why you should consider using it! Crockford describes JSCheck as a “specification-driven testing tool. Crockford describes JSCheck as a “specification-driven testing tool.” When using the frameworks you’re used to, you would write a test for a given piece of functionality, and, if that test passes, declare that the given functionality is working correctly. However, it’s possible that you might miss some of edge cases or exceptions that your tests don’t cover.
15
2012
How to Super-Scale Magento in the Cloud
This tutorial will help you prepare a Magento install for high traffic, better load times, and simpler ongoing site management. Ready? Requirements You can download the finished code for this tutorial, or launch the “magento-basic” Quickstart from your Pagoda Box account to test a working site. A Pagoda Box Account (free) A functional local Magento Install Local Development Software ( MAMP or WAMP ) Git Installed (Can use SFTP) The Pagoda Terminal Client Installed Fair Warning: This tutorial may change your life. Pagoda Box is not traditional hosting.
14
2012
Lots Of New Premium Content!
As Tuts+ Premium continues to sky-rocket, our ability to post better, more frequent, content has improved dramatically as well. This week, we have a variety of fun new things available to members! Course – How To Be A Terminal Pro In this fifteen-episode course, you’ll learn how to take advantage of that scary app you never touch: Terminal! We’ll begin with the obligatory “hello world” command, and work our way up to advanced usage. Course – JavaScript Testing With Jasmine Admit it: you say that you test your JavaScript, but, in reality, you…don’t. That’s okay; the idea of testing JavaScript is a relatively new thing. And unfortunately, there aren’t too many “hold your hand” resources for getting up and running.
12
2012
css3: 25 fantastic CSS3 Tutorials & Download
Designers and developers we are constantly looking for the best way to get as much content to our users as possible, but we have to make it look nice, to let it flow beautifully, and of course without any text overload. We all know that JavaScript allows us to do great things when it comes to user interfaces, but a lot of the same types of effects can be created with pure CSS3. We have selected 25 fantastic CSS3 Tutorials & Download and I think that you’ll certainly have a lot to learn from them. However, these specifically target beginners or intermediate users, so if you don’t find yourself in the above categories, then you shouldn’t waste your time here. ENHANCE REQUIRED FORM FIELDS WITH CSS3 Filter Functionality with CSS3 CSS3 Menu Navigation Effect HOW TO CREATE A FAST HOVER SLIDESHOW WITH CSS3 CSS Text Switcher CSS3 Responsive Slider CSS News Ticker 3D GALLERY WITH CSS3 AND JQUERY CSS3 Animated Loading Bar How to Create a CSS3 Dropdown Menu [Tutorial] Quickly Build a Swish Teaser Page With CSS3 Pure CSS3 Cycling Slideshow FLUID CSS3 SLIDESHOW WITH PARALLAX EFFECT Building a Static Admin Bar for the Browser CSS3 Loading Animation Loop How to Build an Accordion Image Gallery with only CSS CSS3 Breadcrumbs EXPERIMENTAL CSS3 ANIMATIONS FOR IMAGE TRANSITIONS Rotating Words with CSS Animations Orman Clark’s Vertical Navigation Menu: The CSS3 Version Animated Content Tabs with CSS3 Accordion with CSS3 Direction-Aware Hover Effect Create the Illusion of Stacked Elements with CSS3 Pseudo-Elements Making an Impressive Product Showcase with CSS3
11
2012
How to Convert a Widget into a Joomla Module
This tutorial will cover the process of creating a basic Joomla module from an existing widget. We’re going to take a widget from Mixcloud , learn how to convert it into a Joomla module and, finally, distribute the extension to JED (Joomla Extension Directory). If you’ve never created a Joomla module before, this article is the best place to start! Step 1: Setting up Our Files Basic Files For every module created for Joomla, there are two files that absolutely need to be present. One file is a configuration XML file that will hold the module details and parameters and a PHP file that will control our module. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will create a folder called mod_mixcloud_widget and, within it, using your favorite code editor, create mod_mixcloud_widget.php and mod_mixcloud_widget.xml .
11
2012
Tutorial: simple jQuery social Media Plugins
Social Media is the invincible part of our life. Every business whether small or big is doing its best to spread a word about its activities through Social Media. jQuery offers various solutions in form of plugins and widgets that are really helpful. In this post is we have tutorial about jquery Social Media and you can use it in your web site for make inspiration web design. Please have a look.
10
2012
Aspect-Oriented Programming in PHP
There’s a new player in town, and he brought new toys: The PHP World welcomes FLOW3 , an enterprise application framework written and backed by the community of the TYPO3 CMS . FLOW3 can be used as standalone full-stack framework for your applications. It’s interesting, because it introduces some concepts of software development that haven’t been adapted to PHP before. Among these new concepts is “Aspect Oriented Programming”. We will have a look on the theory of the pattern, and will set up a basic FLOW3 Application and weave in our own aspect! Why Should I Care?

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