Occam’s Razor: A Great Principle for Designers

Occam’s Razor: A G...

Lex parsimoniae is the Latin expression of what is known in English as Occam’s Razor , a philosophical rule of thumb that has guided some of the world’s best and brightest minds (including Isaac Newton). It is named after the 14th-century logician and theologian William...
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July 11th, 2010
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How To Enhance Your Form Input Fields with jQuery

How To Enhance Your ...

jQuery makes it easy to spice up our search bars and form input fields with simple touches that really enhances the user’s experience. Let’s look at how jQuery can be used to show/hide a default value inside a field and provide visual user feedback when the field is selected....
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July 5th, 2010
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Useful Wordpress Template Tags for Theme Development

Useful Wordpress Tem...

Template tags can be used in your wordpress theme to display information dynamically or retrieving information about your wordpress blog. In this post we will show you some easy and useful wordpress template tag that you can use in your theme. Template tags are codes that instructs...
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June 30th, 2010
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How to create a side blog with WordPress 3.0

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Getting ready So, what are custom post types? That’s simple, custom post types are like a blog post or page, but of a custom defined type
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June 26th, 2010
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Playing with CSS 3 – Animations, Rotate and Scale

Playing with CSS 3 &...

I have been working on the new Abduzeedo design and have had the chance to play more with CSS 3, even though it’s not fully supported on all browsers we can start using some really cool features such as round corners, text-shadow, box-shadow, transitions and transformations....
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June 26th, 2010
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MySQL Has Functions (Part 4) : Make Functions with Stored Procedures & Triggers

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Welcome to Part 4 of the series on MySQL functions . You might want to check out Part 1 – Date and Time Functions , Part 2 – String Functions or Part 3 – Fun With Numbers , in case you have missed any of them
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June 21st, 2010
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How to Write a “Most Popular By Views” WordPress Plugin

How to Write a “Mo...

As you continue writing for WordPress more and more, the level of difficulty and complexity of your plugins will eventually reach far beyond the simple back-end data manipulation, as demonstrated in our beginner’s article .
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June 21st, 2010
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Sexy Tooltips with Just CSS

Sexy Tooltips with J...

Providing supplementary information about potentially complex elements of a user interface is a central part of any website designer or developer’s workflow in creating usable and accessible websites.
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June 19th, 2010
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Problems with Using Website Validation Services

Problems with Using ...

Amongst the basic skills that fledgling designers and developers should know is the art of website validation. Website validation consists of using a series of tools such as W3C’s Markup Validation Service that can actively seek out and explain the problems and inconsistencies...
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June 12th, 2010
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Build a HTML5/CSS3 Website Layout Without Images

Build a HTML5/CSS3 W...

In the first part of this article – Build a HTML5/CSS3 Website Layout Without Images – Part 1 , we have finished explaining all the HTML5 elements used in the code of our demo’s index.html page and today we will discuss the CSS properties used to make it pretty.
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June 6th, 2010
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