February 20, 2013 in Learn
Create an Absolute Basic Mobile CSS Responsive Navigation Menu
In this tutorial we will go over the process in coding a very basic CSS responsive navigation menu. We will transform a basic non-list style navigation to a drop down menu using media queries in our stylesheet. There’s no need…
February 15, 2013 in Learn
Building a jQuery Sticky Sidebar Navigation Menu
There have been countless efforts in creating a dynamic set of codes for sticky sidebars. Most commonly this effect is used on blogs or magazines with fixed social media sharing badges. You may notice the effect here on Treehouse Blog,…
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 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
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 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 18, 2013 in Learn
Getting Started With The Canvas API
The Canvas API provides a way for developers to create graphics on-the-fly from directly within the web browser. This has a number of benefits. First it can help to reduce the number of HTTP requests that are needed to load…
January 18, 2013 in Learn
I Have an Idea for a Killer App, but Where Do I Start?
You know the signs: you can’t stop thinking about it as you fall asleep at night. Your mind wanders back to it when you know you should be concentrating on your work that currently pays the bills. You’re even a…