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How to Draw a Smiley Face with CSS3
I was messing around with CSS3 gradients, rounded corners and shadows, and I thought to myself, “I wonder if I can draw something that actually looks like something?” Lo and…
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Use jQuery to Replace a Word with a Link
If you use a word multiple times on your site and you don’t feel like going through all your posts to replace every instance of it, you can use jQuery…
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A Simple CSS Trick to Vertically Align Text
I was trying to vertically align text within a div container and it just wasn’t working for me. You would think that using vertical-align in your CSS would accomplish just…
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Moderno v1.0 Premium WordPress Theme
Just updated for WordPress 3.0. Moderno has a beautifully simple, yet exquisite design with many subtle nuances that make it stand out from the crowd. An optional two or three…
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Using Ajax with WordPress
A little while back, I updated Magazine Basic and added the Ajax save function. When I uploaded it to WordPress to await approval, I received some feedback on how I…
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Great Font Resources for Web Development
Ever since I wrote Embedding Fonts in your Web Site with CSS and @font-face many people have been emailing me with questions about adding new fonts to their sites. One…
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Blind Toggle for jQuery
jQuery has a great slide effect which comes built in to the core code. The only problem is that when an element slides down, it starts from the top and…
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Shorten Your Post Titles in WordPress
This is not a function that you would need to use often, but I came across a reason to use it recently and I thought it might be a good…
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An Easy Way to Display an RSS Feed with PHP
RSS feeds are everywhere, and sometimes it’s a good idea to display one to keep people in the loop of important posts from your site, or sites you think might…
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6 Tips to Speed Up jQuery
As it stands, jQuery is an amazingly efficient JavaScript framework, but there are a few things that you can do when creating your code that will end up slowing it…