Steps to becoming a front-end web developer There are a few things you have to know in order to be a front-end web developer. Where to start and what to learn. This guide will take you through the steps of becoming a front-end web developer. First things first How To Build A WordPress CMS Theme – Part 1: Theme Basics I’ve had several requests lately for books, blogs and how-tos on how to build a WordPress theme, specifically one that has no blog or is mainly needed for a large multi-sectioned website. I love WordPress, and although I hate writing tutorials, especially really really long ones, I thought this would be a great opportunity to not only help WordPress beginners out, but to also show everyone else why I think WordPress really is the best platform out there – for everything but eCommerce. This tutorial is going to be split over several weeks, in several parts, and several chapters. At the end of the entire series, I’m going to offer the whole thing for download as a PDF book. So let’s get started! Chapter 1: What is a WordPress Theme?
Step-By-Step: Turning A Design Responsive in WordPress, Part 1 I’ve been dying to try out a real responsive design for awhile now on my site, but didn’t feel like recoding the whole thing. Thankfully, I was able to beg bribe get the fantastic Paul Maloney to redesign my site for me, which gives me the perfect excuse to try out all the new bells and whistles. And what better way to learn than to write about it as I go along? This is going to mostly likely be a long series, much longer than my How To Build a WordPress CMS Theme series, so please bear with me. How To Code A Simple Website From Scratch Part 1: Preparing the Design I thought it would be helpful to some of our beginning XHTML/CSS coders (and some seasoned ones who need to brush up) to show how I code a website from beginning to end. We’ll do this in a 3 part series; Part 1: Preparing the Design, Part 2: The HTML and Part 3: The CSS. I’ll show you a quick way to code every one of your websites, including validation and slicing of the design itself. Start With The Design We’ll use a simple, basic web layout for our coding purposes:
A Beginner’s Guide to Web Development The web development field offers a variety of languages from front-end development, like HTML, CSS and Javascript, to back-end programming, like PHP, ASP and Ruby on Rails. So how do you start learning how to code? In this post, I want to offer a variety of great tips on beginning your journey to learning web code. At the end of the post, I want to share a simple site structure with you to get started in HTML and CSS. I’ll focus on HTML and CSS in this article. HTML and CSS are the most basic web languages that everyone must learn before they can move on to another web language.
CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death Back when video games were still fun (we’re talking about the 8-bit glory days here), graphics were a much simpler matter by necessity. Bitmapped 2-dimensional character data and background scenery was individually drawn, much like today’s resurgent pixel art. Hundreds and later thousands of small graphics called sprites were the building blocks for all things visual in a game. 40 Arresting Adobe Fireworks Tutorials Adobe Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor, aimed at web designers with features such as slices, ability to add hotspots etc, useful for creating and optimizing web graphics and create web pages with good finish. If you are interested to learn, here we bring you 40 best tutorials on Adobe Fireworks for any level, whether you beginner or advanced this list would be handy for you to learn something new here… How to convert your image to line art with Fireworks In this tutorial you are going to learn how to apply find edges effect to an image using Fireworks. The Find Edges filter converts image to a line art by identifying the color transitions in the images and changing them to lines.
Classroom: Basic Site Layout and Navigation in Dreamweaver Share this Episode Please select a language: Autoplay End of Video Show End Screen Default Quality Mozilla Launches Thimble, A Web-Based Code Editor For Teaching HTML and CSS Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox browser, just announced the launch of Thimble, its latest project to teach more users how to build their own web pages. Thimble, which is part of Mozilla’s recently launched Webmaker project, is meant to help novice users write and edit basic HTML and CSS right in a web-based code editor. The service features instant previews and also lets its users host their finished pages on a Webmaker domain with just one click. Users can start from scratch or choose one of over a dozen projects and learn how to code them by hand. Unlike other projects like App Inventor, which remove a lot of the actual basic coding effort in favor of a more visual Lego-like editor or a WYSIWYG approach, Thimble uses a more hands-on approach.