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10 Great Adobe Air Tutorials

Posted in Tutorials | On 13th February 2010 | 7 Comments
10 Great Adobe Air Tutorials

With Adobe Air developers can create internet applications that run from the desktop, and you can popular languages such as HTML, Flex, Flash and Ajax to build your application.
In this post we have collected 10 great tutorials which will enable you to get to grips with Adobe Air and build a couple of apps yourself.
If [...]

How To Display Your Feedburner Count And Twitter Followers Without Chicklets

Posted in Tutorials | On 5th February 2010 | 16 Comments
How To Display Your Feedburner Count And Twitter Followers Without Chicklets

Feedburner offers a great chicklet which allows you to add your subscriber count to your site, and for Twitter you can use a chicklet to display your followers from a service such as twittercounter.com.
What I’m going to show you today is a method of displaying these counts without actually using a chicklet which will allow [...]

How To Make Automatic Tr.im Links In Wordpress Posts

Posted in Tutorials, Wordpress | On 1st February 2010 | 4 Comments
How To Make Automatic Tr.im Links In Wordpress Posts

Today I’m going to show you how to automatically add a tr.im link for each post on your Wordpress install using a little PHP, CSS and the tr.im API.
I was recently working on a project for a client when they required this function, to cut a long story short they changed the design specification and [...]

Mimic Design Elements From Some Of The Top Sites

Posted in Tutorials | On 31st January 2010 | 4 Comments
Mimic Design Elements From Some Of The Top Sites

Looking at some of the bigger site’s UI design can give you some inspiration for usability and of course the aesthetic side of things.
These bigger sites have design elements that work and users are comfortable with, so they are a good starting point for your own projects.
The following tutorials mimic these elements and show you [...]

Timed CSS Stylesheet Switch Using PHP Tutorial

Posted in Tutorials | On 19th January 2010 | 20 Comments
Timed CSS Stylesheet Switch Using PHP Tutorial

Today I’m going to show you a pretty clever technique for changing the Cascading Style Sheet by time using PHP, this can be a quirky addon for region/country specific sites, and will allow you to experiment and perhaps alter the code to use for different purposes.
I have coded this so it uses 4 stylesheets and [...]

Create A jQuery Powered Author Box For Wordpress

Posted in Tutorials | On 12th January 2010 | 16 Comments
Create A jQuery Powered Author Box For Wordpress

Today I’m going to show you how to make a jQuery powered sliding author box for Wordpress.
Using an author box in your blog can be a great way to tell your users a little about yourself and of course link to your personal/business website, you can fill out your author information from your WP Admin [...]

How To Widgetize Your Wordpress Theme

Posted in Tutorials | On 8th January 2010 | 7 Comments
How To Widgetize Your Wordpress Theme

When designing your own Wordpress theme to utilise widgets your sidebar must be widgetized in order for the widgets to appear.
What I’m going to show you today is a very quick and easy way to widgetize your sidebar and start making full use of widgets.
Before making any change to your template, please backup your files [...]

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