Shorthand CSS When you’re designing a website, you’ll often find yourself adding class after class to your CSS Stylesheet. Eventually your CSS file becomes incredibly bloated and loading it takes forever and a day. Shortening down your CSS file, quite obviously, is the perfect way to make your web pages load faster, and the best way to go about making your CSS file smaller is to use shorthand CSS. Shorthand CSS is simply a way of writing CSS in a must more palatable form; a way to make your CSS tidier.

Pseudo classes are those things with colons in them, you know, like :hover or :link. They let you control the CSS of stuff in different forms, states and places easily and efficiently, without taking up too much room. CSS3 is going to introduce a ton of new pseudo classes, and they’re going to make our lives a lot easier (if you take browser compatibility out of the equation). They help both aesthetics and usability, and can make things that were once hard easier than ever before.

Depth and 3D effects are just another part of the web design process and they’re becoming more and more common across the web. I mean, what better way to drag your readers in than to have your design sit off the screen? So in this tutorial I’ll go over some of the key ways you can make your design ‘pop’ as it were.

In my opinion, how you organize your website is very important: If you organize your website right you’ll be able to find everything when you eventually need to fine tune it, which can be quite hard if your files are scattered all over the place. At some point or another though, you’re going to end up with a query URL, for instance ?id=1. To make this more search engine friendly, you’re going to have to alter it somehow, and that’s where mod_rewrite comes in.

The $_FILES variable in PHP is one of the more complicated global variables in PHP. With it, you can upload files to the server and find a bunch of stuff out about those files. Below is a little guide and writeup about this variable and how to use it, I hope you enjoy it.

And we’re back for another amazing, groundbreaking, earth shattering, .. moon destroying, nuclear fight against PHP and it’s magical Object Orientated Programming abilities. In this part we’ll go over inheritance, destructors and constructors, more keywords and the scope resolution operator. You might wanna check out part one if you haven’t already.

In this part we’ll cover the basics of classes, and how to put together your own class. We’ll also go over how to make variables.

Classes add a lot of functionality to your code and help to stop you repeating yourself over and over again as you might in conventional code. With classes and functions you’ll be able to make generic scripts that you can simply call when you need them.

Not only this but classes make your coding a lot more tidy, so you can usually find everything you’re looking for. When you know how to use them they can really speed up the speed at which you’re working.

Email is simply a way to send mail electronically to people in text and image form, with attachments if required. Email has been called the internet’s “killer app” and is generally considered one of the first things people think of when they think of the internet.

That’s why when you want to update your users on what’s happening on your website, we use a mailing list or a subscription service where the user enters their email address, validates it, and recieves updates from you. In this tutorial we’ll cover how exactly to do that, and hopefully you’ll learn a thing or two about PHP and MySQL along the way.

The pen tool is one of the best tools in photoshop, but often people don’t know how to use it properly. With the variety of settings and tools that photoshop gives you to compliment the pen tool, a newcomer can become very confused. In this tutorial we’ll go over the pen tool and how it is used in photoshop.

5 Star Rating System

I’ve been experimenting with rating systems recently, in jQuery and whatnot, and I thought I’d share the results with you. You can easily expand upon what I’ve made here, to make a more complex system than the basic one I have made. It’s also pretty easy to implement into whatever system you have running. Enjoy!