Create an Awesome Photo Gallery with FancyBox and TimThumb

Time for a little tutorial eh? Let’s make a Photo Gallery – one that is a combination of already made scripts and plugins; one that is loaded automatically; and of course – one that looks awesome. We are using PHP, FancyBox jQuery plugin and TimThumb. Important: You should use the latest version of TimThumb due

Here are some WordPress 3.0 snippets

The more you build WordPress themes, the more you discover a few bits and pieces of code. I, on one hand, have collected quite a few. Most of them really do not apply for general use because they’re more client-driven. Although some are quite handy, that I decided to share in this post. Here are

Create a Single Page Portfolio from Scratch – Part 3: jQuery and PHP

Finally, we have come to the conclusion of this 3 part series. This part focuses on user interactions and functionality of our portfolio. The upper sections of the page I will take you through inserting several plugins as well as custom jQuery code that will make our page alive. This includes a rotating slideshow, expanding

Create a Single Page Portfolio from Scratch – Part 2: HTML and CSS

Now we have come to part 2 of this series on how to create a single page portfolio from scratch. This part focuses on the HTML and CSS mark up to convert our .psd file to a living web page. The tools we need for this is of course – Photoshop, an HTML editor (in

Create a Single Page Portfolio from Scratch – Part 1: Photoshop Mockup
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Ahhh – so many choices when it comes to what open source software to use: Joomla, WordPress, Drupal…but aren’t they at times – a little overkill? For smaller web designers like myself, I still get the usual client who just wants a simple website to advertise their services. Most of the time they will have

Taming the Grid – Align your WordPress posts perfectly using PHP and CSS

Grid based web design is becoming an art that each web developer must master. News portals, magazine layouts as well as showcase websites all adhere to the intricacies of the grid – which when mastered, is definitely a good addition to your web skill arsenal. We all know that a typical grid design uses some

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