Previously, Linda wrote about how to get started with connecting your WordPress (WP) blog with social media. In this article, she provides even more ways to make your blog totally social, with a list of 25 plugins for WP and more.
Read MoreIf you have blog content, you may want your readers to share that content. In this article, Linda offers a variety of ways to help your readers share what you've written. The focus in this article is on Gravatar, avatars and linking to social media through WordPress Global.
Read MoreLast time, Nancy introduced you to the DMXzone Advanced CSS Animator and showed you the basics for using it, along with some very basic examples. In this installment, Nancy will show you practical applications and how you can make use of this new tool in your everyday workflow.
Read MoreIn this article, Nancy will introduce you to the DMXzone’s latest extension, the Advanced CSS Animator. She will introduce you to the extension and take you through 3 very simple examples of how you can use it to create some wonderful CSS Animation. And, unlike CSS animation that only works in a few browsers, the Advanced CSS Animator has seamlessly integrated jQuery functions so they work in all major browsers.
Read MoreWith this movie we will show you how to create Slide Out menu with Zoom In menu items using the Advanced CSS Animator.
Read MoreWith this movie we will show you how to create a great popup effect on mouse over using the Advanced CSS Animator.
HTML5 brings a whole host of new goodies to web design including the new local storage facility where data can be stored on the client where it is easily accessible. Cookies have been the only data storage mechanism on the client that the browser has access to for many years and although they have served us well in that time, they do have their limitations such as the constraints on their size and per-domain limitations. Now we no longer have to worry about these issues and can work with local storage instead.
Local storage has many benefits; in an application that requires frequent access to stored data, reading or writing the data from or to their own computer is always going to be much faster than by sending AJAX requests to the server. We also have access to a much greater size (the draft specification recommends an arbitrary size of 5 megabytes) so we aren’t constrained to the limit of just 4 kilobytes that a cookie allows.
In this tutorial we’ll create a simple document editor, it could be part of your blogging system for example, which will automatically save what is entered into the editor using local storage. We’ll cover how local storage objects are created, and how data can be stored to and read from the storage object. Read MoreWhat if you uploaded a blog, committed to backups, installed all the right plugins (like a firewall) and kept WordPress up to date and still get hacked? In this article, Linda explains how to handle that situation.
Read MoreHold onto your socks – WordPress is about to release version 3.0. What does this mean? Linda explains all in this article...
Read MoreWith this movie we will show you how to insert CSS Image Gallery within the Sliding Panels.
With this movie we will show you how to control the Sliding Panels navigation with Dreamweaver Behaviors.
In this tutorial we’ll look at how to build a cool site-monitoring widget that allows you to monitor the status of multiple sites. If you maintain a large number of web sites checking that each one individually is up and running could be a time-consuming chore, but with this widget we can instantly see if any sites are down.
We’ll use jQuery to build the interface and communicate with the server and we’ll use PHP and the cURL extension to actually check each site is up and running by making a request to the specified sites and checking which response headers are returned. We’ll also be using MySQL to store the URLs of the site’s we’ll be monitoring; it’s not strictly required, there are a number of alternative storage methods we could use including a plain text file, a PHP array, a JavaScript array, etc, but MySQL is probably the most robust method and it means we can easily add new sites to monitor.
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