Create a Social Media Widget for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube with PHP
"Create a Social Media Widget for Twitter and Facebook with PHP" is a free, 30-minute informational webinar. The presenter is A...
WordPress Theme Development Part 6: Integrating the CMS
With a functional HTML5 and CSS page completed, adding WordPress-specific PHP commands and dividing pages into template files are the final steps toward a competed WordPress theme. For the past several weeks, I have been going through the process...
WordPress Theme Development Part 5: The WordPress Theme Tour
WordPress is a powerful content management system that lets you separate your content from your style and allows you to reuse PHP and HTML in a modular way. This article is part of a series describing one approach to developing a WordPress theme....
WordPress Theme Development Part 4: The Style-Making Continues
In theme development, it is often a good idea to first create the markup and style that you want for the theme and then worry about integrating that markup and style with the content management system in question. This is exactly the approach tha...
WordPress Theme Development Part 3: Getting Started on Style
Cascading style sheets (CSS) are the web's presentation language, directing the web page's positioning, font and color specifics. This article is part of a series of tutorials demonstrating how to create a WordPress theme. In "Part 2", I demonstr...
WordPress Theme Development Part 2: HTML Markup
Transferring a graphic design to HTML5 is simply a matter of trying to write — as semantic markup — what one sees. This article is the second in a series devoted to demonstrating how to create a WordPress theme. WordPress is one of the single mos...
WordPress Theme Development Part 1: Installation and Graphic Design
WordPress is a leading content management system capable of serving as the backbone for just about any sort of site project, including retail sites. What's more, WordPress has its roots in blogging, and can be an excellent choice for a business b...
Introduction to the Facebook Open Graph API
"Introduction to the Facebook Open Graph API" is a free, 30-minute informational webinar. The presenter is Armando Roggio, cont...
All Shaken Up Over jRumble
A fun, new jQuery plugin shakes and rotates page elements, instantly drawing a site visitor's attention. jRumble is the work of 23-year-old web designer Jack Rugile, who is based in Denver, Colorado. The plugin has a narrow focus — it makes pag...
An Introduction to Custom Magento Modules
"An Introduction to Custom Magento Modules" is a free, 30-minute informational webinar. The presenter is Armando Roggio, site d...
Design By Grid in Photoshop or Illustrator
Having some sort of order or grid when designing can make design elements easier to work with and improve your design flow. A great way to add order to your design process is with grids. In this video tutorial, I will walk you through the basics ...
Saving Multiple Images from a Single Photoshop Document
Saving multiple images can be a hassle, especially if each image needs to be a separate file type and all the images are nested inside a single document. In this video tutorial, I will show you how to use the slice tool to save multiple images fr...
Create Custom Illustrator Swatches with Kuler
If you’re like me, when it comes to swatches you care less about color theory and more about color. Lucky for us, there’s Adobe Kuler. In this video tutorial, I will walk you through using Adobe’s swatch creation program, Kuler. To start, I’...
Create a Custom Magento Theme, Part 6: Style and Position for Category Navigation
Because Magento uses the popular Model, View, Controller (MVC) structure, it is possible to create attractive custom or semi-custom themes using mostly CSS. In this installment of the "Create a Custom Magento Theme" tutorial series, I am going to...
An Introduction to jQuery UI, Part 3: Building a Drag and Drop Shopping Cart
A lot of online businesses are updating their stores so their customers can drag and drop products into their shopping carts. In this tutorial, I'll build a drag and drop shopping cart with jQuery and jQuery UI. I'll begin by laying out a simple...
Create a Custom Magento Theme, Part 5: @fontface and Category Labels
Typography, including font choice, is an important part of any site design. It helps to convey brand, connect with shoppers, and setting the site apart visually. In this tutorial series, I am demonstrating how to build a custom Magento theme, usi...
An Introduction to jQuery UI, Part 2
JavaScript user interfaces often include relatively easy-to-employ widgets that speed design and make a great impression on site visitors. In "Part One" of this introduction to jQuery UI Library, I described some of the key features of the framew...
An Introduction to jQuery UI, Part 1
The jQuery UI Library is a collection of utilities, themeable widgets, interactions and effects built on the immensely popular jQuery JavaScript library. The library is too big to go over everything in this video tutorial, but I'll hit most of t...
Manipulate and Recreate Colors in Adobe Photoshop
Color plays a critical role in design, and good designers should know how to manipulate or even recreate color. In this video tutorial, I will show you how to recolor a black and white image in Adobe Photoshop CS4. I will be using a stock im...
Halftone Illustrations Add Drama, Simplicity
Halftone images are a great way to add flare to an illustration without using gradients and can lead to a simpler design. In this video tutorial, I will show you how to create a one-color halftone effect using Adobe Illustrator CS4. To begin, ...