This is our third installment of the CMS instant edit script. Here we will be talking about our last two languages “PHP & MySQL”. PHP is a server side language that preform’s more complex and secure server side functions such as creating and editing files on the server or storing and retrieving sensitive data from [...]
This is the second edition to our instant edit tutorial. Today I will be expanding our instant edit to work with Ajax to save and retrieve information from our server side language PHP and a MySQL database.
We left off with a our functions fully created to perform our instant edit via client site DOM scripting. [...]
Let’s get into some real in depth work today. What better way to demonstrate a little of every language one might use to create internet applications than with the simple instant edit. Instant edit is more times than not is used in content management systems (CMS) to give quick edits to a site owner without [...]
Today we are going to build the second most common menu navigation, the vertical navigation menu. Here we are going to be using only pure CSS and un-ordered lists to create our vertical navigation menu with three levels of pop outs. This version of the vertical navigation menu will work in IE5, IE6, IE7 and [...]
Many developers have dedicated their time and efforts such as me to try to move developers over to the proper standards of web code and away from older or non w3c approaches to site designs. One of these long used but improper approaches to site designs is the dreaded table use for your sites layout.
Tables [...]
Sometimes we must isolate out specific versions of IE that give us grief as developers. There have been many discovered avenues in isolating certain versions of IE out of our style scheme to give specific instructions to, but none are as subtle as the !important. That’s right the !important use is for IE related issues [...]
Today I want to talk about how to create that rounded corner look you see popping up all over the internet.
VIEW WORKING EXAMPLE OF OUR PURE CSS LIGHT BOX NOW
A light box is web slang for a way to divide and present such things to your viewers as pictures in a gallery or special site notices. Today I wanted to quickly show you how to create a pure CSS light box. Lets start with our [...]
This is a follow-up to my Three Column Layout in less than 10 lines of CSS tutorial but in this one we are going to be using, no background images no JavaScript and 100% pure CSS. This method only uses 14 CSS rules making it very light weight, easy to maintain, SEO and cross [...]
Today we will be expanding on our previous tutorial “Learning the basics of CSS faster than ever” into what areas we are permitted to write our CSS. There are three areas we are permitted to write CSS and these are.
Combining Rules -
Selectors -
Pseudo Class -
Inline
We talked about how to write inline styles in our [...]
PLEASE NOTE: This lesson will not be discussing CSS3. Why we wont cover CSS3 here is due to a lack of complete and sound support of most CSS3 styles across all browsers. With this in mind its only wise for us to focus on CSS1 and CSS2 as these are the more well supported versions [...]
So you want to learn CSS huh? Well I can teach it but can you make it stick? My goal here today is to give a CSS beginner a basic understanding of not only how to use CSS but what it really is for. I will do my best to approach the idea of [...]
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