Category Archives: Tips

Why you shouldn’t use :inth-child yet

I was recently working on a project where their were multiple ul elements and i needed to hide the third ul. I right away thought about the :inth-child selector because I just read an article talking about it over at

Curtain.js – jQuery plugin for adding page sliding transition effects

Curtain.js is jQuery plugin created by Victor Coulon that gives a cool and very unique effect during page transition. It causes the current page to be lifted up just like a curtain that you normally see in theatre stages. Instead

8 simple ways to speed up your WordPress blog

When it comes to speeding up a WordPress blog, there are a few different things you can do here is a small list I put together that will help speed up your site for users. Choose a good host (cheap

Why social media marketing is important and how it can help your business

Social media marketing has been becoming very popular within the past few years because of the increase in social networks and sharing/bookmarking websites it has even grown bigger than the almighty email. If your still thinking it’s a waste of

css3 -moz-transition tutorial

This tutorial is going to cover the basics of the new CSS3 transition property and how to easily implement transitions to upcoming projects or update older projects. I’ve used it a lot recently just because of how simple it is

Snippet of the night – Give list items a comma except for the last child

Most of you probably just read the title and said well the answer is in the title just use 1$("#selector-name li").not(":last-child").append(","); Well that’s great but a lot of people don’t know IE only supports :first-child and doesn’t support :last-child at

Tip for using jQuery with wordpress

I recently just worked on a project for Tazsolutions where I was asked to integrate Fancybox with jwplayer to get the videos to popup when a link was clicked. I got everything loaded and started working on the actual script

Encrypting javascript data you don’t want the user to see

Recently I just worked on a site where they had images they didn’t want stolen I first added a nice watermark which usually does enough but the client also wanted right clicking to be disabled for images. Most people reading

Messing around with Cufon all night

Like the title says I’ve been messing around with Cufon all night and i have to say I LOVE it. I also love how many fonts are available it allows almost limitless results. If you don’t already know what Cufon

Stupid cached pages

One thing I’ve always hated is doing a huge update on a website and thinking everything was alright and to hear from a client later in the afternoon that their site is down. This is usually from cached pages which