October 10, 2012 in Learn
Creating a Responsive WordPress Theme with Bootstrap: A How-To Guide
In this tutorial, we will learn how to make our own responsive WordPress theme using Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a responsive framework for building web sites and applications, and it’s a great starting point for building a responsive WordPress theme. Check…
October 8, 2012 in Learn
Beginner’s Guide to jQuery
jQuery’s core functionality has a whole host of cool things to explore. jQuery allows you to manipulate HTML elements, transverse around the document, add event listeners (e.g. when you click on an element), perform AJAX requests and effects. If you…
October 5, 2012 in Learn
Quick Tip: How to Achieve Pixel Perfection in Photoshop
In this Treehouse Quick Tip, we’re going to learn how to deal with unwanted anti-aliasing in Photoshop and achieve pixel perfection when working with vector shapes. This method is referred to as pixel-hinting. Using Adope Illustrator and Photoshop, you can…
September 27, 2012 in Learn
Learn the Mac OS X Command Line
This is a command line tutorial primarily conducted in in the OS X command line. Because of OSX’s unix heritage, much of the info here is also useful in other unix inspired systems, like the Linux command line. The command…
September 25, 2012 in Learn
Using inline-block to Display a Product Grid View
I have been working on a website that displays products in a grid view, with each product containing a title, an image and some in a grid view. To achieve this layout, I used an unordered list with the CSS…
September 10, 2012 in Learn
Responsive Web Design in the Browser Part 1: Kill Photoshop
If you’re like me, then you’ve had a love/hate relationship with Photoshop for almost a decade. The software is bloated, it crashes right at the moment you forgot to hit save, and it produces a design that is nothing more…
August 30, 2012 in Learn
Coding in the Cloud: Writing Code on a Server with Tmux
If your computer crashed right now, how long before you could be productive on a new machine? Hopefully you’re already backing up all of your important files, and using version control on all your code, so getting your data back…
August 8, 2012 in Learn
Responsive Web Design for Beginners
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned web professional, creating responsive designs can be confusing at first, mostly because of the radical change in thinking that’s required. As time goes on, responsive web design is drifting away from the pool…
August 7, 2012 in Learn
Create your first WordPress Custom Post Type
What is it and What it isn’t Everyone’s talking about them. I asked Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks what excited him about WP3 and he replied custom post types: “Think of how Tumblr works – how you can publish photos, quotes,…
February 14, 2012 in Learn
Command Line Basics
After part one of the git for designers post, Kim Røen suggested in the comments doing a post with some instructions on using the command line. This is that post. We’re going to be focusing on the Mac side of…
February 13, 2012 in Learn
Detect What A Mobile App Is Sending To Its Servers
Recently there has been a lot of chatter about mobile apps uploading your entire address book to their servers. The app makers claim that their intentions are noble, yet they have no right to the data unless you give consent….
October 19, 2011 in Learn
5 helpful UIKit features in the iOS 5 SDK
There are so many new features in the iOS 5 SDK that it is sometimes hard to keep up. This article covers some of the most helpful additions to the UIKit framework that will prove very useful for your app.