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I found this fantastic article on writing effective tutorials. The following statement is made in the introduction to the article: “One of the biggest mistakes you can possibly make is creating a tutorial with the mindset that it will be a quick traffic fix to help increase your traffic or increase your ad revenue. If you write a tutorial with these goals as your primary objective, not only will it likely NOT get accepted, but it will be tremendously obvious that you had no intention of teaching anything when you wrote it. People who write for traffic generally recycle the (read more...)

I remember when I first learned of AJAX, and I remember thinking: “I’ll never figure that out.” Well, remember when you never thought you’d learn how to remove the underline on your links with CSS? That proved easier than we thought (we later found out that CSS is an amazingly powerful presentation language). We need to cut through the needless language and get to the meat of AJAX. We don’t need to worry about what the XMLHttpRequest object is at this point. Often designers only need to know enough to duplicate an effect and not (read more...)

Wordpress I used originally only only as a blogging tool, but I learned that it was indeed quite a powerful content management system (CMS). This especially became true in version 2.0+ as additions were made that made it more conducive to the average user (such as integrating TinyMCE). The following steps are the introductory steps I use in setting up websites using Wordpress. In fact, for me web design is no longer done apart from Wordpress; for me Wordpress = Web Design. I am assuming a general knowledge of installing Wordpress, but if you need help in this (read more...)

This file illustrates the way to include navigation dynamically to streamline your efficiency when updating your website. The code shows how to include navigation both with a text-based navigation and an image-based navigation. The code also includes a focus on XHTML and CSS compliance to W3C standards. Download File (read more...)

I was first intrigued by the WordPress theme Squible to have one featured post on the front page with links to previous posts. I liked the implemenation, and Mr. Parlin did a good job working with an existing plugin. After changing themes on my main blog I decided that I wanted to implement that same look and feel. Let’s go through a tutorial. The Necessary Components First, you need to go and grab the Limit Posts plugin (if you need help consult the Codex). Once we have the plugin installed we are now ready to move into editing (read more...)