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Category: Coding

This category covers client-side and server-side programming languages, back-end issues as well as CMS such as WordPress or Drupal. Experts and professionals reveal their coding tips, tricks and ideas.

Popular tags in this category: AJAX, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, Templates, Themes, Scripts.

SimpleFolio: A Free Clean Portfolio WordPress Theme

SimpleFolio: A Free Clean Portfolio WordPress Theme

Today we are glad to release a beautiful, simple and clean portfolio WordPress theme — SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Corrales and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all ...

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50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques

50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques

CSS3 is coming. Although the browser support of CSS 3 is still very limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and using the new possibilites of CSS3 for users with modern browsers. That's a reasonable ...

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The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects

The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects

Previously in this series on CSS3, we talked not only about how to create scalable and compelling buttons but about how to effectively use new CSS3 properties to speed up development and quickly create rich page elements. In this final article of the series, we'll really get into it and ...

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Find The Right JavaScript Solution With A 7-Step Test

Find The Right JavaScript Solution With A 7-Step Test

As Web developers and designers, we are spoilt for choice right now. To build a complex Web application or even just spice up a website with some highly interactive interface element, we have hundreds of pre-built solutions to choose from. Every library comes with widgets and solutions, and every developer ...

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Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?

Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?

Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate the Web: spam, viruses, identity theft, to name a few.The problem with Web security ...

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45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques

45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques

CSS and JavaScript are extremely powerful tools for designers and developers. However, sometimes it's difficult to come up with the one excellent idea that would solve a problem that you are facing right now. Good news: almost every day designers and developers come up with fresh and clever CSS tricks ...

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Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do

Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do

Website performance is a hugely important topic, so much so that the big companies of the Web are obsessed with it. For the Googles, Yahoos, Amazons and eBays, slow websites mean fewer users and less happy users and thus lost revenue and reputation.In your case, annoying a few users wouldn't ...

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What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS

What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS

As we move forward with the Web and browsers become capable of rendering more advanced code, we gradually get closer to the goal of universal standards across all platforms and computers. Not only will we have to spend less time making sure our box model looks right in IE6, but ...

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Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3

Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3

Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3 (via @smashingmag) -In our last article about CSS3, "Pushing Your Buttons With Practical CSS3, we talked about using new CSS3 techniques like gradients, border-radius and drop-shadows to create compelling, flexible and (in some cases) hilarious buttons. In this second article we're going to focus on ...

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Advanced Power Tips for WordPress Template Developers: Reloaded

Advanced Power Tips for WordPress Template Developers: Reloaded

Two weeks ago we published the first part of this article, covering multiple column content techniques and associating pages with post content; we discussed how to use the "More"-tag, hide standalone categories from the category list and retain the page layout for post views within a category page. This article ...

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Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Techniques and Resources

Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Techniques and Resources

In an online world now dominated by CSS layouts, CSS-styled HTML lists have become invaluable tools in a CSS developer's toolbox, due to the HTML lists versatile and graphically flexible nature. All this despite some of the obvious browser inconsistencies that can affect the styling of the different types of ...

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Pushing Your Buttons With Practical CSS3

Pushing Your Buttons With Practical CSS3

CSS3 is the partially implemented sequel to the CSS2 spec we all know and love. It's already popping up in new browsers such as Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and Chrome. In this article, the first of the articles that explore practical (and even far-fetched) implementation of CSS3, we start by ...

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Smashing Freefont and Wordpress-Theme

Smashing Freefont and Wordpress-Theme

As our Smashing First Anniversary celebration ends, we’d like to wrap up our event with two further presents for each and every one of our readers. In August we’ve asked Jos Buivenga, a Dutch typo-designer who has created professional freefont Delicious to design a special typeface dedicated to the Smashing ...

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100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time. In this article we ...

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53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages ...

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Top 10 CSS Table Designs

Top 10 CSS Table Designs

By R. Christie Tables have got to be one of the most difficult objects to style in the Web, thanks to the cryptic markup, the amount of detail we have to take care of, and lack of browser compatibility. A lot of time could be wasted on a single table although ...

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CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8

One of the most bizarre statistical facts in relation to browser use has to be the virtual widespread numbers that currently exist in the use of Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. As of this writing, Internet Explorer holds about a 65% market share combined across all their currently ...

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12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean

12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean

Beautiful HTML is the foundation of a beautiful website. When I teach people about CSS, I always begin by telling them that good CSS can only exist with equally good HTML markup. A house is only as strong as its foundation, right? The advantages of clean, semantic HTML are many, ...

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Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code

Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code

In this post we present a new speedy way of writing HTML code using CSS-like selector syntax — a handy set of tools for high-speed HTML and CSS coding. It was developed by our author Sergey Chikuyonok and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. How much time do you spend ...

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10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMS

10 Things To Consider When Choosing The Perfect CMS

Choosing a content management system can be tricky. Without a clearly defined set of requirements, you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use. What then should you look for in a CMS? I have written about content management systems before. I have highlighted the their hidden costs, ...

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Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?

Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?

Over the last several years, developers have moved from table-based website structures to div-based structures. Hey, that’s great. But wait! Do developers know the reasons for moving to div-based structures, and do they know how to? Often it seems that people are moving away from table hell only to wind ...

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Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started

Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started

CSS has become the standard for building websites in today’s industry. Whether you are a hardcore developer or designer, you should be familiar with it. CSS is the bridge between programming and design, and any Web professional must have some general knowledge of it. If you are getting your feet ...

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50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools

50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools

By Jacob Gube PHP is one of the most widely used open-source server-side scripting languages that exist today. With over 20 million indexed domains using PHP, including major websites like Facebook, Digg and WordPress, there are good reasons why many Web developers prefer it to other server-side scripting languages, such as Python ...

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10 Advanced PHP Tips To Improve Your Programming

10 Advanced PHP Tips To Improve Your Programming

Update (25.03.2009): this article contains some factual errors. Please read the rebuttal of this article instead of this article. PHP programming has climbed rapidly since its humble beginnings in 1995. Since then, PHP has become the most popular programming language for Web applications. Many popular websites are powered by PHP, and ...

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The Big PHP IDE Test: Why Use One And Which To Choose

The Big PHP IDE Test: Why Use One And Which To Choose

Everyone wants to be more productive, make fewer mistakes and write good code. Of course, that all depends on you, but in most cases integrated development environments (IDEs) can help you achieve those goals more easily. Unfortunately, choosing the right IDE is very difficult because a lot needs to be ...

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70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding

70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding

CSS isn’t always easy to deal with. Depending on your skills and your experience, CSS coding can sometimes become a nightmare, particularly if you aren’t sure which selectors are actually being applied to document elements. An easy way to minimize the complexity of the code is as useful as not-so-well-known ...

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100 Amazing Free Wordpress Themes for 2009

100 Amazing Free Wordpress Themes for 2009

In January last year (2008), we put together a list of 100 Excellent Free Wordpress Themes, over a year has passed and Wordpress development has progressed very fast and gained even more in popularity. We felt it was the right time to put together an updated post and offer our ...

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