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Creating a WordPress post calendar date icon

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Blog calendar date icons, which show the publication date next to each entry, provide a simple way to spice up your WordPress design. Using just a single image, a bit of CSS and some WordPress PHP this tutorial will show you how to implement something similar in your own themes. Plus we have some free [...]

Top free web template designs of 2009

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:00:18 +0000

In 2009 over 400 free templates were added to our website, while over 200,000 downloads were counted and close to 1 million views of the themes and designs on the site were logged. Going into the new year we highlight some of the top content of the past year based on views, downloads, ratings and [...]

Great sites for free and paid stock images

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:34:27 +0000

Images can help make a website that much better and fortunately you don’t need to be a professional photographer and graphics designer to get some great content. In this blog post we’ll be highlighting some brilliant websites that offer free and paid stock images for your work. Free All of these website’s provide images free of charge [...]

7 ways to check cross browser compatibility

admin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:52:25 +0000

Today there is plenty of choice for internet users when it comes to browsers – the current most top 10 most widely used browsers includes multiple versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari together with both Chrome and Opera. While web standards continue to improve – even in IE! – all these browsers still have [...]

Indepth: CSS3 – All about borders

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:04:16 +0000

Following on from our previous article about the changes in background properties in CSS3, we’re now going to look at the changes and new features of borders in CSS3. Things to look forward to include the ability to easily create rounded corners and using images for borders. Plus – how to add drop shadows to [...]

Indepth: CSS3 – All about backgrounds

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:36:47 +0000

CSS3 is something a lot of web designers and coders are getting very excited about thanks to numerous new properties and changes designed to make life a whole lot easier. In this blog post we’ll explore the new background properties which CSS3 will introduce plus the core changes since CSS2 and guide you through using [...]

Building a simple “Anti Adblock” script

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:39:50 +0000

There seems to be a growing trend amongst webmasters of adding so called “anti adblock” scripts to their site to disable access to users using adblocking software. A lot of these scripts however require lots of javascript or server side code, in this blog post we’ll highlight a way of detecting adblocking software in just [...]

5 ways to optimize your webpages

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:56:39 +0000

Even though internet connection speeds are increasing faster than ever there is still no excuse not to optimize your webpages to make them load even quicker and provide content faster than ever. In this blog post we’ll highlight 5 ways which can help reduce the file size of your webpages and make them load faster [...]

Ultra simple jQuery tabs

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:05:39 +0000

Tabs are perhaps one of the most popular layouts used in web design today – particular in sidebars. In this tutorial we’ll be using the jQuery library to build an ultra simple tabbed layout in less than 20 lines of javascript! 1. The HTML Firstly, we’re going to setup the HTML: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 <div id="wrapper"> <ul class="tabs"> [...]