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Quick Tip #10 – How to get HTML5′s placeholder working across all browsers
Recently I’ve been trying out the HTML5 Boilerplate to get some of this new fangled HTML into my projects. One thing I particularly like about the boilerplate, is the feature that allows you to not just implement HTML5, but also provide a fallback for the not so fortunate browsers. read more
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Quick Tip #9 – Change the default capabilities of WordPress users with ease
In my latest WordPress project, the client wanted a user with the capabilities of a Contributor but they also wanted them to be able to… read more
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Quick Tip #8 – Limit the length of ‘the_excerpt’ in WordPress
Right here’s the scenario. On one of your clients post page’s you use
the_excerpt
function to display an excerpt for each post. You’ve got room for a decent size excerpt and explain to them they can put about a paragraph into each excerpt, 100 words or so… read more -
Quick Tip #7 – Getting to grips with jQuery’s Traversing methods
To be more precise, we’re going to look at some of the functions used in the ‘Finding’ section of jQuery’s Traversing methods. The best way… read more
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Quick Tip #6 – How to write clever pretty URL’s with htaccess
In this quicktip I’ll show you how to create clever ‘pretty URL’s’ using your servers htaccess file. Why are they clever? The easiest way to… read more
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Quick Tip #5 – A ‘Hello world’ introduction to PHP classes
Right lets get straight to it as this is only a quick tip, do note though that we’re only scratching the very surface of PHP… read more