CodeIgniter from Scratch: Extending the Framework
Nettuts+
2 April 2010 15:04
In today’s screencast we are going to learn how to create our own helpers and libraries. We are also going to learn how to extend the existing helpers and libraries that come with CodeIgniter. At the end of the tutorial we will extend the Form Validation library to give it the ability to check for [...]
20 Mac Apps You’ll Use Every Day: Editor’s Choice
Nettuts+
1 April 2010 17:04
Mac app round-ups are a dime a dozen across the web. However, there’s one problem when you’re offered 100+ to choose from: you won’t use half of them. That’s why I’ve decided to streamline the process and provide twenty of my most highly recommended Mac apps, tailored for web designers and developers. While not every [...]
Celebrating the Launch of GIFtuts+
Nettuts+
1 April 2010 02:04
Today we’re pleased to introduce the newest member of the Tuts+ family: GIFtuts+. We’ll be publishing tutorials and video training on creating gorgeous animated GIFs in Photoshop, Ulead GIF Animator and Microangelo. If you’ve ever wanted to freely learn how to create ornamental animated GIFs and impressive navigational graphics for Web Pages, now is the [...]
Generating a Particle System with JavaScript: New Premium Tutorial
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1 April 2010 00:04
If you’ve ever seen a fireworks effect, created in Flash, I’ll show you how to reproduce the effect using pure JavaScript in this week’s Premium tutorial! Why let the Flash developers have all the fun? Help give back to Nettuts+ by becoming a Premium member.
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How to Create an Infinite Scroll Web Gallery
Nettuts+
31 March 2010 11:03
When working my way through a web gallery, I find it annoying when I must change pages; so in today’s tutorial, we will learn how to create an auto-generating, one-page, infinite scrolling gallery with PHP and AJAX. Let’s get started!
Step 1: Project Outline
We’ll begin with a normal gallery page that has a container for our [...]
Free Ticket to the jQuery Conference in San Francisco
Nettuts+
30 March 2010 17:03
On April 24-25, I’ll be attending the jQuery conference in San Francisco, and I hope many of you will as well! With speakers like John Resig, Steve Souders, Rey Bango, and other highly respected members from the jQuery team, it’s sure to be a fantastic event! Now, if you haven’t purchased your ticket just yet, [...]
Diving into the Twitter API
Nettuts+
30 March 2010 11:03
Twitter’s astonishing growth is rivaled only by its intuitive, developer friendly API. In this second part of the series, we are going to learn more about Twitter’s API and how to work with it.
Too much abstraction is never a good thing.
In this Web 2.0 era, web applications which have an easy to use, intuitive API [...]
How to Use the jQuery UI Autocomplete Widget
Nettuts+
29 March 2010 11:03
In this tutorial we’ll be looking at one of jQuery UI 1.8’s newest components – the Autocomplete widget. Auto-completing text fields can be a popular choice with visitors to your site because they make entering information much easier. They can be used on product search fields for example, or when a visitor must enter a [...]
Quick Tip: How to Target IE6, IE7, and IE8 Uniquely with 4 Characters
Nettuts+
29 March 2010 02:03
Two months ago, I, in a video quick tip, demonstrated how to use the underscore and star hacks to target Internet Explorer 6 and 7 in your stylesheets. In today’s quick tip, we’ll take things one step further, as we introduce a new hack that targets IE8 and below as well. It should be noted [...]
20 Helpful jQuery Methods you Should be Using
Nettuts+
26 March 2010 17:03
So you’ve been playing with jQuery for a while now, you’re starting to get the hang of it, and you’re really liking it! Are you ready to take your jQuery knowledge to level two? Today, I’ll demonstrate twenty functions and features you probably haven’t seen before!
1 after() / before()
Sometimes you want to insert something into [...]
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