I received an email yesterday asking me if I could replicate Twitter’s auto updating popular tweets widget that they have on their front page. So instead of just sending an email back I thought I’d make a tutorial.

It’s always useful to run speed tests on your scripts to check how fast they are running, and so that you can then measure any improvements when you are optimizing scripts. Here is how I do it, plus a few tips.

Creating a stylized pull quote or blockquote can sometimes require images & additional elements. In this tutorial I am going to show you a simple method of creating a simple but stylized pull quote or blockquote using only CSS.

I was recently asked how to create a Polaroid photo effect using only CSS & no layout based images. After creating it I though I’d share it with the world, just to show how easy it is.

Sanitizing data is a very important part of any server side scripting language, and it’s no different for PHP. So here is one simple way of sanitizing data using the dreaded REGEX.

Following on for my last tutorial, I’m now going to show a couple of examples of CSS transitions & transforms in action. This includes a list animation commonly created with jQuery.

Zazzle Store Builder is a fantastic tool to quickly display products from your Zazzle store on your own personal website or blog. Unfortunately there is a cross-site scripting flaw which needs to be addressed.

A awesome feature of CSS that has started to become a little more usable as CSS 3 draws nearer are the transform & transition properties. They can be used to manipulate elements in wonderful ways & animate without Javascript respectively.

Writing text on your images using GD is a handy ability to have. Maybe you are developing an imagehost or you have a project where you need to place text on an existing image. Whatever the reason here is how it’s done.

While you no longer need to use custom fields to help show post images they are still an extremely useful tool for theme developers. They can be used for all manner of different things, from displaying favorite films to showing what products a design is available on. In this tutorial we are going to look at how to use them.

Despite being a very useful feature in WordPress I have noticed that, in my experience, some WordPress users don’t know they exist. Here we take a quick look at why conditionals are, what they are used for, and even show a small example.

Setting up XAMPP on your computer in fairly easy thanks to the quick installer & control panel that enables you to set Apache & MySQL as services.