February 13, 2013 in Learn
SVG Path Animation with jQuery and Illustrator
As technology in the web moves forward we are offered new tools to build amazing web applications. Scalable Vector Graphics or SVG’s have been gaining traction in the past year or so as most browsers handle the image file extension…
February 11, 2013 in Learn
Creating Vanity URLs in PHP: Rewrite Rules
Vanity URLs can be extremely useful, especially in offline marketing materials. I covered how to create a subfolder with a header redirect in my last post; that’s the easiest way to get a vanity URL up and running on a…
February 7, 2013 in Community
Dean's List: Graham Davidson
The Treehouse Dean’s List is where we highlight some of our extraordinary members in the community and share with the world people who are passionate about learning, bettering themselves and making a difference. This edition of the Dean’s List features…
February 6, 2013 in Learn
Speeding Up Page Load Times
The average size of a web page has been growing at an accelerating rate over the last few years. Research carried out by HTTP Archive in January reports that the average page size has now hit 1.25mb. For users with a…
February 5, 2013 in Learn
Getting Started with Customer Development for Your Startup
Treehouse’s own CEO, Ryan Carson, wrote a post on the Treehouse blog recently about an experience he had of “getting out of the building.” It was one of those classic examples that all the best Customer Development books have, of…
February 1, 2013 in Learn
Find Your Dream Job in 3 Steps
A big part of our mission at Treehouse is to help our members start new careers in the tech industry. Our curriculum focuses on job-ready skills that are applicable to the real-world, and if members are interested, we’ll help them…
January 31, 2013 in Learn
The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years due to its adoption by the Node.js and Rails communities. Let’s take a look why it’s become the go-to language when people are wanting to write JavaScript in their…
January 31, 2013 in Learn
Creating Vanity URLs in PHP: Subfolders and Header Redirects
Every page on a website has a unique web address that appears in the address bar when someone visits the page in a browser. These web addresses are known as URLs. (This stands for “uniform resource locator,” but that’s not…
January 29, 2013 in Learn
Create a Themable Button Set with Sass
If you have yet to give Sass a try, don’t worry, this is a good place to start. And if you haven’t already read Andrew’s primer on Sass, give it a read for a better understanding of what we’ll be…
January 28, 2013 in Learn
How To Create HTML5/CSS3 Columns for All Browsers
There are many techniques you may follow to create generic HTML5/CSS3 website layouts. Designers often talk in terms of columns such as 2-col or 3-col styles. There are many CSS libraries based around grid design which also allows for easy…
January 22, 2013 in Learn
Building a Syntax-Highlighted Input Box with JavaScript
The textarea element has been commonly used for in-page web IDEs. Some great examples are in popular CMS’ like WordPress or Drupal. But inline web development is not the easiest solution to implement. And through other open source projects we…
January 21, 2013 in Learn
The Truth About Raising Money for Your Business
When financing your new business, you have three options, equity financing, debt financing and sources like angels and venture capitalists. In this Quick Tip, we take a brief look at the different types of financing and which one is best…