In this episode of The Treehouse Show, Nick Pettit (@nickrp) and Jason Seifer (@jseifer) talk about JavaScript Tours and Pull Quotes. Here are the links for the week: Trip.js http://eragonj.github.com/Trip.js/ Pull Quotes with HTML5 and CSS — miekd http://miekd.com/articles/pull-quotes-with-html5-and-css/ jQuery …Continue reading
I recently wrote an article on creating a themable button set with Sass where I used a mixin to define all base styles, then a color value was passed as an argument when included in each theme. Example: @mixin btn-theme($btn-color) …Continue reading
Last week I was watching an interview with the incredibly talented Jessica Walsh. I’m always curious as to how the world’s most creative people operate because I don’t really consider myself a very “creative” designer in the art sense. She …Continue reading
When building a web form you need to consider a number of factors for your particular application. Many developers will need to handle special data such as the user’s birthday, invoice date, or subscription trial period. These examples could all …Continue reading
There is a large number of online resources for developers looking to make better websites. These are all free tools for anybody to use, and they provide an exceptional push forward in quality. Designers have been striving towards a better …Continue reading
Ok, that title isn’t exactly scintillating, but lowering the perceived and actual risk for you and your clients is a big part of landing paying gigs and making your clients feel confident. There’s plenty of risk when hiring a freelancer …Continue reading
An HTML5 feature that had the web community abuzz with excitement a couple of years ago was the placeholder attribute for displaying placeholder text in input fields. Now that it’s widely supported by modern browsers, there is a lot more we …Continue reading
Over this past weekend, I watched the live stream of Tina Roth Eisenberg (a.k.a. “Swiss Miss”) giving her keynote speech at SXSW. She spoke about her experiences building her website and her amazing businesses: Studio Mates, Tattly, and Creative Mornings. …Continue reading
The popularity surrounding open source code is not created on accident. Developers who can work together by sharing projects and functionality will create more stable websites over a shorter span of time. You have folks working on different aspects of …Continue reading
We’re excited to announce that we have partnered with Linode to create a series of “Quick Tips” for setting up your server. The first four videos get new users up to speed with a brand new Linode account and server …Continue reading
Smells Like Bakin' is a cupcake company in need of a website. This project will walk us through the basics of HTML and CSS from the very beginning. HTML and CSS are the structural and presentational building blocks of every website and will serve as the foundation for any web project.
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