Author: Evert Padje | 143 views
17
Mar
In this tutorial, we’re going to build a PHP/MySQL powered forum from scratch. This tutorial is perfect for getting used to basic PHP and database usage. Let’s dive right in!
Step 1: Creating Database Tables
It’s always a good idea to start with creating a good data model when building an application. Let’s describe our application in one sentence: We are going to make a forum which has us
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Author: Saad Bassi | 50 views
17
Mar
This article is sponsored by SSLmatic which sells SSL certificates (RapidSSL, Geotrust, Verisign) for much cheaper prices & offers great support. Check their site to get the cheap SSL certificates.
In the first part of the Ultimate Magento Guide, we covered the back-end features of this open source e-commerce software. We also created a simple product and displayed it in our e-store.
Today we will focus on &qu
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Author: Umut M. | 42 views
17
Mar
Microsoft has announced the "Preview Release" of Internet Explorer 9 which seems to be a milestone for the IE family considering it gets closer to the standards.
The IE9 has a new JavaScript engine which performs much better than IE8 & some other browsers.
Another good news is, it supports HTML5, CSS3 & SVG almost completely.
The website includes speed, HTML5 & graphics demos besides the comp
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Author: Umut M. | 188 views
20
Feb
TexturePalace is a website which shares 200+ premium-but-free textures that we can use to decorate our designs.
All textures are converted from camera RAW data where the picture size is 3400px*2400px (or more).
The textures are well categorized like ground, nature, grunge, metal, etc. & they are free to be used in both personal or commercial projects.
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Author: Umut M. | 328 views
3
Feb
FeedBurner's popular chicklet FeedCount is the most-used way to display the number of subscribers for a feed.
Also, a similar design is used by TwitterCounter to display your Twitter followers.
We'll be creating a dynamic FeedCount-like interface that can display your website's statistics like pageviews, visits, etc. (one or all of them) using PHP.
At the end of this tutorial, we'll have 2 differen
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Author: Umut M. | 810 views
2
Feb
SlickBoard is a pretty different tool, built by the developers of XML/SWF Charts, for creating:
unlimited graphics
attractive interface elements (buttons, menus, tabs, drawers, etc.), animated slideshows
live dashboards (dials, gauges, ticker tapes, etc.)
interactive presentations (drag, dock, etc.)
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It works by describing the output with XML & passing it to the SlickBoard's
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Author: Bill Pena | 314 views
28
Jan
Mobile websites have come a long way, but if you want to take full advantage of a smartphone’s hardware, or get listed in the iTunes App Store, you need to compile your code. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to create a mobile web app with an iPhone look and feel using jQTouch, then turn it into a native iPhone app using Phonegap. No Objective-C necessary.Tutorial DetailsProgram: PhonegapVersion: 0.
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Author: Umut M. | 252 views
21
Jan
bxGallery is a lightweight jQuery plugin for creating image galleries with thumbnails.
It requires images to be defined within an unordered list & converts them to a gallery with several options like:
max width/height of images (will resize maintaining aspect ratio)
thumbnail width & if it will be cropped to create a perfect square
opacity of thumbnails
loading text & image
The plugin also has an opti
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Author: Bill Pena | 136 views
20
Jan
HTML 5 provides some great new features for web designers who want to code readable, semantically-meaningful layouts. However, support for HTML 5 is still evolving, and Internet Explorer is the last to add support. In this tutorial, we’ll create a common layout using some of HTML 5’s new semantic elements, then use JavaScript and CSS to make our design backwards-compatible with Internet Explorer. Yes, e
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Author: Umut M. | 137 views
20
Jan
MediaCore is an open source platform for publishing audio, video & podcasts which makes distributing media on any website so easy.
The platform supports many media formats like FLV, M4A or MP3 which can also be played via the integrated FlowPlayer.
It can pull media from any source (Youtube, Vimeo, Google Video, etc.) & a site-owner can publish media from the administrative interface or let users create th
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