Follow the Design and Development of the new Use jQueryCSS HTML Use jQuery jQuery

December 13th 2009 - No Comments

Use jQuery will become a Community Showcase where members can submit and review awesome jQuery powered sites. I make all designs and source code freely available via Github, feel free to check it out, get ideas and contribute.

Feedback is very welcome, just shoot a @reply to @mustardamus or @usejquery.

Plugin Detection for your WordPress ThemeWordpress

November 19th 2009 - 2 Comments

This tutorial should be published at Nettuts ages ago, but a E-Mail about some grammer fixes (aka German charm) got lost and it never happened. Enough with the back and forth, here it is.

Note: In the tutorial I use Wordpress 2.7 for the example, but it works with 2.8 too.

Since WordPress 2.7 it is very easy to insall and activate Plugins with the build in search & installation feature. But how to keep track if all Plugins your Theme needs are available? In this tutorial we will implement a Plugin Detection function which helps to keep track if anything is missing and also let non-techies, your clients for example, install and activate missing Plugins with 3 simple clicks.
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Show your demos like a champ: Iframe + jQuery + CSS3CSS HTML jQuery

November 15th 2009 - 7 Comments

In this tutorial I will show you how to properly show your visitors your HTML/CSS/jQuery/Whatever demos without leaving your site in an unobtrusive way. This makes usage of a Iframe, jQuery and some CSS3 for fancy shadows.
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