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How to create a WordPress theme from scratch

Instead of writing a tutorial on how to get you stated in the world of writing a WordPress theme from scratch, I will just give you a set of links to great material you can use.   Theme Development – WordPress Codex [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development] You will become familiar with the basis and structure of a theme [...]

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Auditing web pages with Chrome developer tools

Chrome developer tools has a very cool feature to audit a web page and flag issues that by fixing them will provide your web page with better network utilization and performance, the usage is very simple and the results are really cool. Let’s try it out in the WordPress dashboard page, to do so we [...]

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Web development essential tools

Firefox If you do most of your web development work with Firefox, Firebug has to be one of those extensions you cannot miss, it is like the Swiss knife for this browser; I could describe all their features here but you’d better check it out in their web site: http://getfirebug.com/ And here is a screenshot [...]

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Web Fonts – or what typefaces can I use on the website that is not Arial, Verdana …

Over the years, we created so many websites. Layout is always different. Background. Navigation. We are using layers now, instead of tables. jQuery not Flash. One thing is always the same. Fonts.”Web Safe” fonts! “Web Safe” fonts mean that most of the people have those fonts installed, despite the system that they are using (Windows, [...]

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Internet Explorer CSS bug fixes – Part 2

HasLayout (Mysterios) Property Another IE strange math in calculating the box model. The cause of many bugs. HasLayout is triggered whenever an element is given specific dimensions (height, width), and effects IE6 and IE7. This functionality has been removed in IE8. Because IE is the only web browser with hasLayout property IE treats elements differently [...]

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Internet Explorer CSS bug fixes – Part 1

Internet Explorer has so many unique ways of rendering CSS properties. The way to fix Browser inconsistencies is by using Conditional Comments. Conditional Comments can target: All versions of IE: <!–[if IE ]> Some versions of IE: gt: greater then the version number specified gte: greater then or equal to the version number specified lt: [...]

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CSS Showcase List

Below is a list of Web 2.0 Gallerias showing some of the best CSS designs on the web. If you are looking for inspiration and idea, this is the great place to start! Most of these galleries are showing  html and flash websites, with good and clean design. The Best Designs Unmatched Style CSS Import, [...]

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