Using CSS Resets
Before you start building a new site, one important decision you need to make is whether or not you want certain elements of your design to rely on the default…
Tag: html
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…
Using PHP to Remove an HTML Tag from a String
There are times when you need to strip one specific HTML tag from a string and the PHP function strip_tags() doesn’t work the way you want it to. strip_tags() allows…
Get Familiar with HTML 5
If you work on the web you have probably heard about HTML 5. It is the next evolutionary step in web programming and the sooner you familiarize yourself with it…
10 WordPress Plugins You Should Use
WordPress.org currently hosts 6,265 plugins, which makes it kind of hard to figure out which ones are worth using. I have been using WordPress with a long time now and…
A New Comment Editor
I have had some requests to figure out a way that visitors of bavotasan.com could leave code and simple styling in their comments. I searched and searched and tried many…
How to Add Nested Comments to Your WordPress Theme
When WordPress 2.7 came out, there were a lot of new features, most of which probably passed by under your radar. I know I missed a bunch and thankfully, I…
How to Add Numbers to Your Comments in WordPress
I have been receiving a large amount of comments on my Magazine Basic theme and I was having a bit of trouble referencing certain ones, so I decided to add…
How to Widgetize your WordPress sidebar
WordPress widgets are great. They have tons of amazing functions and are extremely easy to use. The only problem is that not all themes support them. But that is a…
Making <p> and <br> Tags Work with htmlText in ActionScript 3.0
I had one hell of a time trying to figure out why my paragraph breaks (<p>) and line breaks (<br>) were not working when I was using htmlText in Flash…