This is the first of a series of tutorials aimed at teaching you how to create realistic interface elements that you can use on your websites or in mobile applications. The buttons created in this article are simple and easy to customize, changing the value of a single layer effect can change the color of the entire button.
A honey pot trap involves creating a form with an extra field that is hidden to human visitors but readable by robots. The robot fills out the invisible field and submits the form, leaving you to simply ignore their spammy submission or blacklist their IP. It’s a very simple concept that can be implemented in a few minutes and it just works – add them to your contact and submission forms to help reduce spam.
A sitemap is an index of pages and content found on your website. If you don’t have a sitemap yet, make one now using free sitemap generators or plugins. If you do have one, submit it to the big search engines to make sure your website is correctly indexed and ranked.
The jCollapisble plugin takes any nested list (OL or UL that have children) and coverts it into collapsible threads. This is especially useful to create simple threaded comments on a blog or nested posts in a forum without having to modify the backend code.
I’m always looking for ways to create neat looking effects with minimal code, so today we’ll take a look at a couple of slick animated menus made with CSS3 goodness.
While playing around with a few button designs for my latest project, I came up with a simple CSS-only button system that is both lightweight and compatible with nearly all major browsers. Check it out and let me know what you think!
This effect is actually from Techi.com, a new blog launched by the guys at WebDesignerDepot, where they use it to display their popular tags in the sidebar. I wanted to see how easy (or hard) it was to recreate using JQuery and CSS, and it turns out that it’s pretty simple to do. I’ve packed it into a neat little plugin so you hopefully you can make some use of it!
There are a few quick fixes you can apply to your site that can help boost your search rankings. If you haven’t already done these, take a break from what you’re doing and do this first – the results will be well worth the 10 minutes it will take.
Google Analytics is a free service that lets you monitor website traffic and more importantly, understand your visitors and what they are seeking. The data provided by analytics can be immensely useful for creating a targeted website that thoroughly engages your visitors.
I found this article suggestion on Skribit and realized that after doing this numerous times for multiple sites, I have a pretty solid technique down for migrating WordPress blogs between hosts. While a large part of it depends on the hosts themselves, I’ve compiled a a list of tips and tricks for moving your site.
DevGrow is a journal on web design, development and usability written by Monji Dolon.
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