HTML/PHP: Sidebars, and What Have YOU Done Lately?

July 15, 2010 - Written by Guest Writer
 

The sidebar is all sorts of useful. There’s no limit on the number of different sorts of things that could go in a sidebar. Your RSS button? Definitely. Ads? For sure! …

HTML: Footer

May 6, 2010 - Written by Guest Writer
 

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For the last few weeks, we’ve been talking about the header of your website. So what’s next? Well, there’s the content section of you website, which changes on every page, and the sidebar, which …

HTML: Header Accessibility

April 29, 2010 - Written by Guest Writer
 

Photo courtesy of Phu Son Nguyen

By now, your header’s rockin’, I just know it. You know how to put a cool background on …

HTML/CSS: Hovering In Your Navigation

April 22, 2010 - Written by Guest Writer
 

Now that you’ve got your navigation lining up all prettily, what’s next? Well, you could stop there, if you wanted. But there’s so much more you could do using the wonders of CSS, to make your navigation (and soon your entire blog!) even more beautiful.

Prettify Your World! …

HTML/CSS: Navigation: All Your Cookies In A Row

April 15, 2010 - Written by Guest Writer
 

Photo courtesy of Phu Son Nguyen

Last week, we discussed the super-cool wp_list_pages($args) function, and how it can make creating your navigation on …

HTML: Navigation

April 8, 2010 - Written by Guest Writer
 

Last week, in my Sirius-ly awesome coding series on Sirius, we discussed headers. More specifically, we discussed how to put a gorgeous logo onto your header, using the background attribute in CSS. It’s a wonderful start, but there’s far more to headers than that, you know. …

HTML: An Intro To Headers

April 1, 2010 - Written by Guest Writer
 

So you want to start putting together a website. Where do you start? Well, at the top, of course. The first thing anyone ever sees on your website is your header – so you want it to be great.

What goes into a good header? A good …

HTML: Head(er), Shoulders, Knees, and Toes…

March 25, 2010 - Written by Guest Writer
 

For the last two months we’ve been talking about PHP. The month before that, we discussed tables, ids, classes, and other rules and concepts that are important for developing a website  theme.

All of that is important, very much so. You couldn’t develop a website without it. However, …

PHP: Wrapping Things Up

March 18, 2010 - Written by Guest Writer
 

If you’ve been reading my posts about coding the last few weeks, then you’re pretty much ready to deal with any of the PHP that you come across in a WordPress theme. Heck, maybe you’re even ready to write your own PHP! I’m so proud… you’re all …

PHP: Real Code, And A Game Of Hangman

March 11, 2010 - Written by Guest Writer
 

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I’m such a tease. For the last two weeks, I’ve been tempting you with a game of hangman, promising you real PHP code that actually works… none of that silly pseudo-code business. …