‘Development’ Category

Advanced Search Functionality is adding the option to filter search results for more specific results.
The reason why filter features are added to search’s is for the user to find the information/data they seek quicker and easier, compared to browsing which could make the user lose interest and leave the website.

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As web developers, when it comes to CSS3, we often find enough issues with IE that will give us more than enough headaches and threaten our image as knowledgeable developers that we all take so much worthy pride in.
One issue that I find with CSS3 and IE is that rounded corners are not supported for [...]

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Some really interesting stuff has happened this October such as Flash 11’s announcement, Opera 12’s development activity, and Google’s new programming language. I thought I’d summarize them for those who are not yet in the loop. Check out the highlights within.

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One thing that many people fail to notice about CakePHP is how FAST it makes development. The amount of time it takes to make a proof of concept is far shorter than if you were to use a configuration over convention framework like CodeIgniter. To show just how fast and simple getting an application up and running in CakePHP is, I’ve gone with the good ol’ Poll application. Read on to see the step by step process.

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So last month we dealt with the basics of animation. It generally focused on targeting single elements and having them be animated by changing their respective CSS properties over a set period of time. In this part, things will get more complicated in that we’ll be trying to target groups of elements and have each one’s behaviour be altered relative to its own situation with respect to the DOM (Document Object Model). I know it sounds intimidating, but fear not! It’s actually pretty simple, if only a little less so than what we did last time.

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I don’t know about you, but the real reason I personally got into Javascript (at least initially), was that I wanted to do animations. Animations are cool. Everyone wants to add flashy effects with the least amount of effort and with JQuery (and a number of other Javascript frameworks), it is indeed possible. Read on to see how!

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5 Great online CSS3 Generators for: box shadow, border radius, text shadow, RGBA, @font face, multiple columns, box resizing, outlines, transitions, transforms, selectors and gradients.

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In this tutorial series we will design and build a website from scratch. We will go through all the design steps for the various pages in Photoshop, code a static version of the site in HTML and CSS – with some jQuery for client-pleasing effects and client-side validation – then develop an administrative backend in both PHP and ASP.NET

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This week, I thought I’d give away some free code. I’ve had to make a number of sliders for some recent projects and I thought that it’d be a waste not to make the code available to the public, even if it isn’t the greatest :)

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Today, I’ve been having to edit a site that I made a year and a half or more ago. I’ve only been in this industry for 2 1/2 years or so, so I still have a long way to go before I can put the sad code I made back in the day behind me for good. To say the least, editing the code on this site has been a nightmare. It was like I had multiple personalities, and each one took 30 minutes to work on the site at a time before passing the reigns to another. Read on to see some of the dreadful mistakes I made.

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