Books are a great way to learn, practice and develop new skills, we all love getting insights from professionals in their field. I have recently been read 2 books I thought you guys would like to know about, so here we go!
Tags: books, copy, php, reviews
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How many tutorials can there be on this topic? I don’t know. The more the better I say! Hopefully I can help you understand how positioning works and what it’s affected by, and iron out some of those kinks
Let’s get one thing straight: positioning is vital in web design. When you have odd issues between browsers where elements vanish, don’t show or are a few pixels out of alignment, it’s normally because you are guilty of using margin and padding for positioning your elements. This is wrong because margin and padding were not designed to do that. (of course, if each browser was compliant with web standards there probably would not be an issue).
Positioning exists to allow exact placement of elements within your markup, simple as that. This tutorial aims to help you wrap your head around CSS positioning, which will become one of your most valuable assets in design. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: absolute, css, fixed, positioning, relative, static, Tutorial
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Every browser has a defualt way of rendering HTML.
For example – if you were to create a new file and pop a little HTML in you would see it sets a unordered list with bullets, and indents it, that it also sets font size to header tags (h1-h6) it defines all the standard stuff. The browser gets all this from a built in standard run of the mill CSS file which it uses to render your code. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: css, reset, tips
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So I have been pretty quiet on Twitter recently, wanna know why? Wow you must be bored… hehe
I have been working with @divinefusion, turning her website designs into HTML/CSS here they are 
http://chhumanesociety.org/ – a rescue home for dogs and cats. I coded the site and the site attached for the upcoming event.
http://doortodoorcars.com/ – a car transportation company, taking your cars across the US.
And now I am currently working on a business directory for @divinefusion – she has me under the thumb… The directory will be my first full PHP project, so thats exciting!
I am also going to be working with a local company quite soon, developing their site.
Oh yes and trying to keep up the posting for Bitrebels.com
So all is well and good
Tags: news, update, work
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I just thought I would take a quick moment to explain the awesome next() feature of jQuery.
I recently used it for a site I was coding for the wonderful @divinefusion, I will link when its live.
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Tags: jQuery, next, selection
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If it is then I am the biggest looser of them all… there is nothing better than seeing that validated green. But more than that I HAVE to use a strict doctype, so even if a page will validate with Transitional I have to code it Strict XHTML, even if squishing the last errors isn’t 100% possible.
Is there something the matter with me? Probably, who knows?
Tags: validator, w3
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So my good twitter friend @tomsturge had an idea that when people came onto his site from a certain place that they would get a small welcome message.
His idea was to have his link with a specific # at the end, in his case #twitter, that when people entered his site via that URL it would trigger a small welcome box.
He asked me for some help as of how to do this with jQuery, although I am by no means a jQuery master, after a bit of thought it all came together.
The tutorial probably wont be the best and most efficient way to create something, but I wanted to show you how easy jQuery can be to get into.
Tags: jQuery, Tutorial
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I am here, and I do care! Seriously this past few months have been a little mental… So whats been going on I hear you cry? or maybe not…
Hopefully for some of the poor unfortunates who must be bored enough to read my drivel, you may find this interesting – if you don’t, I apologise!
Tags: news, round up
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So we all know and love Google, well I do anyway, and they seem to love developing apps and ideas. Well the next big thing from Google was recently announced at the I/O conference.
Its called Google Wave, and its based around collaborative communication. Its going to be fully open source and they want to start getting developers on board soon to come up with applications, widgets, plug ins that make use of this new. The demo below shows some very interesting ideas, which make your head start to spin with the possibilities. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: google, news, tech, wave
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EDIT: Tutshelf have been down for a while now – so I have moved the tut back onto this site – you can find it here.
I thought I should post about a tutorial I made for Tutshelf and the amazing response I got from the community! I had so many great comments about it on the post itself, and then technical problems stole them all away…
But the stats speak for themselves! With over 1000 unique hits in a month on a brand new tutorial site, I’m just stoked at how successful its been!
The tutorial is a deeper look at CSS Positioning, hopefully helping people who struggle with it, as I did, finally understand!
If you would like to read more you can visit the tutorial here:
http://tutshelf.com/the-art-of-css-positioning/
Tags: css, Tutorial
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