I just stumbled on this great website which has very useful and simple jquery ajax applications. I will review each here in a simple way so you can see all of the useful information. This website shows a video tutorial, a text tutorial and a demo for each of the ajax applications. Please keep in mind that you should use these design elements sparingly and tastefully. Using too many effects in your webdesign can be tacky and detract from the overall design. To begin, here is the website: http://jqueryfordesigners.com/ Ajax image carousel This creates an endless carousel with an html list. It also displays a very smooth scrolling effect. This is very simple to set up and uses jquery. Here is an image showing the carousel. View the code and tutorial here. Ajax smooth slidedown This shows you how to make a smooth div slidedown effect without the initial jump. This can be used for many cool ajax effects. View the code and tutorial here. Ajax smooth data changer This creates a panel that...

With the new Web look spreading through every site new and old, there are a lot of times when you want to use absolutely positioned pngs on your site. The 2 problems we face. The first one is that the PNG format is not fully supported on all browsers that are in use today. The way we handle that is with a simple include into the main template file of your site. Here is where you can get the javascript file click here. Include this file into the header of your main template file: <!--[if lt IE 7]> <script type="text/javascript" src="/resources/unitpngfix/unitpngfix.js"></script> <![endif]--> This is a hack to tell the browser to include the”unitpngfix.js” file if the browser is IE 7 or below. The next problem is that IE positions things differently. We will be using a similar hack to go around this problem. Here is how the code will look. <!-- Floating image --> <!--[if lt IE 7]> <div style="position:relative; margin-left:-800px;...

This tutorial explains for you the basics of MySQL in combination with Php. This tutorial is also written for people who absolutely don’t have any experience with MySQL. This tutorial was written by CrystalEdge. MySQL is a kind of textual database. This database is divided in table that have rows and columns. Most of the time you store similar data of the same category into the same table. By using a query, you are able to store information into the database. For people who don’t have any Php experience I suggest you to read CrystalEdge’s Basic Php Tutorialbefore starting on this one. Read full tutorial ->

Creating a good website with wordpress is very easy once you have the right direction. In this article I will give you the basic steps to starting up a website/blog with WordPress. First things first before we begin. WordPress is not the ony content management system for blogs/websites — there are many others. I prefer wordpress over anything else due to it’s simplicity and ease of updating and adding plug in functionality. WordPress was originally designed for the creation of blogs. A lot of websites are centered around the idea of a blog which is new articles published frequently. For most websites to do well they need to provide constant valuable information at a decent rate. If you put up a couple of pages on a website and leave it at that, most likely your website will drop from the search engines and disappear. I love the idea of building a website around WordPress and I am working on numerous other websites using it. WordPress Basics A WordPress website consists of these...