WordPress just seems to get better and better, when will it stop?! Lorelle has done a beautiful job of summarising all of the exciting new features and has compiled a great set of useful links for the immanent release of WP 2.7.
Write off that first hour
Are you guilty of spending the first portion of your day catching up on your RSS feeds, finding new techniques and commenting on blog posts? Elliot Jay Stocks explains that this is actually not a bad idea, and can actually increase your productivity.
10 Biggest Milestones in Web Development
Net-tuts shoots and scores yet again with this interesting article about the biggest moments in history which have influenced the internet. It covers everything from Amazon to Linux, PHP to CSS. Great read!
More on developing naming conventions, Microformats and HTML5
A very informative article by the legend that is Andy Clarke about Microformats, HTML5, their uses and how we can develop for them now
Google’s Search engine optimisation starter guide (PDF)
Google’s guide to search engine optimisation. It’s the classic faultless and well-written google style document, so is a little patronising and simple at the beginning. But it is the starter guide, so I can’t even fault it there.
Build your profile to get more freelance work
After Elliot Jay Stocks decided to go it alone earlier this year, he looks back on his experiences and gives some useful advice to the would-be freelancer.
Create cool slidy drawers with jQuery
In this tutorial, I will show you how to make cool sliding content using jQuery. And the best part is that if javascript is disabled, the content will still display very nicely.
Using ems to Specify px Text Sizes in CSS
We all know that internet explorer is the runt of the browsers. In yet another rebellion, it simply refuses to scale elements which have been specified using pixels. In this tutorial I will show you how to think in pixels but work with ems.
Seperating HTML, CSS and Javascript – unobtrusive javascript
So with all of this web 2.0 hype you want to add in loads of cool CSS behaviours, javascript wotsits and AJAX wangdoodles to your website. But then you’re told that you have to keep the (X)HTML clean. ‘What the?!!’ you may ask. Read on to find out how the voodoo is done.
Number to words function in PHP
You know those ‘I have nothing to do this-afternoon so I want to waste some time making something utterly pointless’ moments? Well I get them too. Fortunately however, it turns out that my moment of inspiration led to a very useful script to turn ’123′ into ‘One hundred and twenty three’. Bargain!
