A great idea for some WordPress blogs is to have a related posts widget. However they generally require a plugin to work & too many plugins can slow down even the leanest (and most optimized) WordPress blog. Here is a great alternative to using a plugin.
Read moreIf you are a fan of watching online videos you may, or may not, know that nearly all videos on the web are played using a video player that runs using the Adobe Flash plugin. While this has always been ok, it is still a plugin & native support for playing videos would be a lot better.
Read moreToday we are going back to basics with a small tutorial on how to use the PHP switch statement. They can be extremely useful, but knowing how to use them properly can save you a lot of time.
Read moreOne of the new and exciting features I’m loving in CSS is the ability to include custom fonts in your website. The best thing about it is that it’s all done in browser. In this post we are going to look at this exciting new feature.
Read moreGradients are part and parcel of web design these days. Even subtle ones can be used to make a flat color look that little bit more exciting. The problem has always been creating them required a graphics program & repeats are a pain, but now you can generate them in browser.
Read moreAs a developer cURL can be a very handy for numerous reasons. In my case I have used it for my plugin Twitter Stream, but here we are going to look at a little tip I stumbled across while playing with cURL.
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Today we are going to have a quick look at HTML 5. HTML 5 comes with a lot of improvements over XHTML 1.1 including quite a few very useful tags that replace the massive number of <div> tags we use when building a website.
Read moreNext on our journey through the new CSS 3 properties we are going to take a look at Box Shadow. As the name suggests it creates a shadow, just like the Text Shadow property, except Box Shadow creates a shadow based on the element’s box model.
Read moreProvided your host allows you to, using your htaccess file is extremely important. Without one you can’t have fancy permalinks in WordPress, but did you know you can do all sorts of other cool things with it? Here are some of my favorites.
Read moreToday’s latest & greatest PHP based applications generally have some sort of mass media upload system integrated with them. Sometimes though you get error after error when using these new mass uploaders. Here is one way that may fix them.
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