Every year in the design community, new trends come out of the woodwork — some simply being reworks of old ideas while others are completely new. Among the design trends like infinite scrolling, minimally-designed landing pages, and large photographic backgrounds, there is the design…
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In this article, I will discuss the power of 960 and show you how to create a 12-column layout (or other size if you want) so you can hit the ground running with grid systems. I have a fully functional CSS and…
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Back in the golden days of the web, we had a little thing called Flash to help us make the web a dynamic, fun, interactive place. But, Flash is being used less and less. Of course, in certain environments it can still…
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In this final part of the series on real-time graphs in WordPress, I’m going to get into the nitty-gritty of styling your Flot graphs. I couldn’t stand the idea of handing you an ugly baby! I just didn’t have it in me. So…
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Imagine a world without CSS, where you have no real control over how anything looks or behaves in a browser. Imagine having to slice images using nested tables for your design. Some of us have been around long enough to remember when…
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This is a special post that I made just to help out those who are struggling to get your graphs working properly. I start off with a discussion of PHP and MySQL. If you really struggled through those parts of this series,…
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Recently, I shared a roundup of some truly creative contact pages to inspire you to take a look at your own or at least get you thinking if you’re in the midst of launching your own website. The pages featured everything from…
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Creating an effective “Coming Soon” page may seem like a nuisance at first, but in all honesty it doesn’t take that much to build and can provide surprising benefits. Most “Coming Soon” pages are designed with very little thought or effort, as…
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In this part of our series on creating a responsive, real-time graphs within a WordPress site, we’re going to finally get to the good stuff! The last three parts were for getting the newer designers up to speed. If you’re just arriving,…
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In this series, we’ve been building out the functionality needed to create amazing, real-time graphs. Up to this point we’ve done the following: Part 1 We loaded a base plugin that loads our graph libraries We uploaded a blank PHP file via FTP…
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