Some of you are aware that I’ve been quietly collecting vote for the best web development books available. After roughly three weeks, I’m ready to reveal the results. The books will be categorized according to their subject matter...

In many modern web applications, developers look for ways to make it easier and more intuitive for users to interact. A drag and select function can help your users select multiple objects quickly.

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We first need to create the group of objects that will be selected. More likely than not, most people will use server side script such as C# or PHP. Since that is beyond the scope of this tutorial, I will instead create them by hand. We can use most tags as objects. The only requirement is that the object must have basic mouse events assigned to them. For this tutorial I will simply use a table with two rows and five cells filled with DIVs with some basic CSS to give them shape...

The NETTUTS community asked for it. So here you are! One of the innovations of the web is online shopping. It allows us to buy things without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. However, the most basic element of online shopping, the shopping cart, has not evolved much. In this tutorial, we’re going to make an AJAX powered shopping cart using PHP, jQuery, and a few nifty plugins....

WordPress is awesome. Even more awesome is the fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! Here, we’ll be learning how to create a featured and “latest posts” section - easily a ‘must-have’ for all good News/Magazine themes. We’ll also go over using the ‘Custom Fields’ to their fullest potential.

CSS is a relatively simple language to learn. Mastering it, on the other, can prove a little more difficult. Compensating for various browser inconsistencies alone can produce a migraine. In this article, we’ll demystify five of the most head thumping issues that you’ll encounter when building web applications. [...]

It’s becoming more and more common for blogs to feature certain posts at the top of the page. In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to implement this in WordPress. We’ll be using the default theme, Kubrik, as our base theme, but it should be adaptable to most themes with some modification. There’s very little code and featuring posts is simple [...]

Wordpress provides a huge array of information about your blog and it’s content. Showing lots of this information can become space consuming. A great looking solution to this is tabbed content!

Grid/Newspaper/Magazine templates are becoming more and more predominant in the wordpress skin and theme community. They look classy, but it can be daunting knowing where to start. In this tutorial we use the power of jQuery to create a grid layout with size-degrading headers! [...]