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How to Create a Wordpress Theme from Scratch 
Sam Parkinson via NETTUTS on Fri, 05 Sep. 2008
Creating a WordPress Theme, The Homepage Following on from the recent article on “PSD to HTML”, this tutorial will look at taking a HTML/CSS template and turning it into a functioning WordPress theme. There is so much you can do when creating your own theme we couldn’t nearly cover it all. So, we’re going to look at how themes are structured, creation of the core files and splitting up
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Use the jQuery UI to Control the Size of Your Text
Connor Zwick via NETTUTS on Thu, 04 Sep. 2008
JQuery’s UI can add so much to a web page. There are many different widgets that the UI provides. One up and coming star, is the slider. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use a slider to control the text size of an article on a page. This lets the user control exactly the size that suits them, and is also a pretty impressive feature to have on a site!
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ThemeForest is Live
Collis Ta'eed via NETTUTS on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
After three weeks in beta of ironing out some crinkles and prepping the site, I’m proud to announce that the latest Envato website - ThemeForest - is now out of the beta wilderness and ready for buying, selling, referring and viewing.
What is it?
ThemeForest is a marketplace for buying and selling HTML/
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10 Challenging But Awesome CSS Techniques
Glen Stansberry via NETTUTS on Tue, 02 Sep. 2008
Most designers and web developers only scratch the surface of the potent language that is CSS. In terms of programming languages, CSS has a fairly simple learning curve. That doesn’t mean that CSS isn’t a powerful language. Sometimes it’s the small things that make a huge difference in a website design.
In this post we’re going to outline 10 awesome CSS technique
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How to Create a Mobile Site with MoFuse
Thord Hedengren via NETTUTS on Mon, 01 Sep. 2008
MoFuse is a service that lets you convert basically any site with a RSS feed, to a mobile site hosted by MoFuse. You can customize the design, setup your very own domain, and even add advertising to the mobile version of your site. This is a great option if you don’t feel comfortable hosting your mobile site yourself. And the best part is, MoFuse supports both
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Evening Tip: 5 Time Saving Coda Features
Sean Nelson via NETTUTS on Wed, 27 Aug. 2008
Panic Inc.’s application “Coda” is, in my opinion, a terrific application for the Mac OS X platform. It’s single window interface keeps things organized and eliminates the cluttered desktop that typically plagues web designers and programmers. What I like most about Coda is all of it’s time saving features. Here are my top 5:
1. Built in reference guides.
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10 Principles of the CSS Masters
Glen Stansberry via NETTUTS on Tue, 26 Aug. 2008
When it comes to CSS, there are lots of resources and supposed “expert tips” on the web. These are from unproven, self-proclaimed “gurus” who have no street cred in the design world. While they may have valid points, how is one to know whether a CSS tip is a valid resource or just an untested hack?
Instead of relying on unknown sources for advice, let’s look deeply into designe
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Creating a PHP5 Framework - Part 1
Michael Peacock via NETTUTS on Mon, 25 Aug. 2008
With websites becoming more and more dynamic and interactive, developers often look to frameworks to help build websites and web apps rapidly. While there are a number of great frameworks available, a custom framework gives you the ability to easily customize the framework as you need, and to build with it even quicker - as you would already know the ins and outs of it before working with it.
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The Best Web Development Books - As Voted By You!
Jeffrey Way via NETTUTS on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
Some of you are aware that I’ve been quietly collecting vote for the best web development books available. After roughly three weeks, I’m ready to reveal the results. The books will be categorized according to their subject matter.
CSS
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Build An AJAX Powered Shopping Cart
(unknown author) via NETTUTS on Fri, 22 Aug. 2008
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Advanced level, bien construit niveau code mais un peu trop complexe
The NETTUTS community asked for it. So here you are! One of the innovations of the web is online shopping. It allows us to buy things without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. However, the most basic element of online shopping, the shopping cart, has not evolved much. I
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Build Your First Facebook App
Joe Casabona via NETTUTS on Wed, 20 Aug. 2008
So you want to build a Facebook application and reach literally millions of users. Well luckily, writing an application using the API isn’t too hard to learn (for the basics, anyway). In this tutorial we will write a Facebook app that generates a random quote to display on the user’s profile.
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Build An Incredible Login Form With jQuery
Connor Zwick via NETTUTS on Tue, 19 Aug. 2008
One struggle that still remains today in web design is displaying all of the redundant information on every page. For example, a login form. What if there was a way to easily make the content accessible on every page, but keep it hidden until needed? Well you can, by making a top panel that when clicked, will reveal its self and its content. But we need to make this look nice, so we'll also
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Weekend Tip: Author Comment Styling In WordPress
Dan Harper via NETTUTS on Fri, 15 Aug. 2008
An often-used feature on WordPress blogs is the ability to style comments made by the post’s author differently from the others - helping replies to stand out. Here, we will edit the default WordPress to add some subtle styling to author comments.
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Evening Tip: Save Time By Using Multiple Classes.
Robbie White via NETTUTS on Wed, 13 Aug. 2008
One of the most exhausting aspects of web development is writing out endless amounts of CSS styling for various elements - that differ only slightly in style from one another. It has taken the life (or will) of many a talented designer. Well, why give each element its own unique CSS entry, when you can mix match and add re-usable CSS styling to elements using multiple CSS classes?
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The Evening Tip: Insert Flash The Correct Way
Connor Zwick via NETTUTS on Mon, 11 Aug. 2008
You create your site the right way. You follow all of the rules, so that in the end, you can proudly have a link to w3’s validator, confirming your site’s perfection. There’s just one problem: if you embed any flash into your page, you’ll get several errors. That’s because the embed tag is not a valid tag. You need to insert your flash the correct way!
What
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How To Use Any Font You Wish With FLIR
James Lao via NETTUTS on Mon, 11 Aug. 2008
Last week, Philo showed you how to implement sIFR3. This time, I’m going to show you how to implement Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR), an alternative to sIFR that does not require Flash.
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9 Web Developers That MUST Be Followed On Twitter - NETTUTS
Jeffrey Way via nettuts.com on Fri, 08 Aug. 2008
9 Web Developers That MUST Be Followed On Twitter, Web Development & Design Tutorials
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Weekend Quick Tip: Create Your Own Reset.css File
Jeffrey Way via NETTUTS on Fri, 08 Aug. 2008
Far too many novice CSS designers don’t realize the importance of creating a “reset.css” file. When you have an environment where each browser has its own “default” styling, you’ll often find yourself thumping your skull as you ask yourself, “Why is there a spacing here?” To save yourself some of the headaches that you’ll undoubtedly experience, you’ll need to crea
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Build a Newspaper Theme With WP_Query and the 960 CSS Framework
Harley Alexander via NETTUTS on Wed, 06 Aug. 2008
WP_Query is a powerful tool to control what comes out of your loop. Today I’m going to teach you all how to use it to make a 3 columned newspaper theme that has all your main blog posts in the main column, and off to the side a set of posts with a certain category. We’ll be using the 960 CSS framework for the basic layout and reset of our theme, it will chop a lot of work
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250 Beta Invites to ThemeForest to Give Away
Collis Ta'eed via NETTUTS on Tue, 05 Aug. 2008
As you know we here at NETTUTS are also responsible for a family of creative marketplaces. Almost exactly 2 years ago, we released the first of these - a little site called FlashDen - an open marketplace where anyone can sell their Flash wares. Since its launch the site’s been getting bigger and bigger, and today there are authors making as much as $10,000 a
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