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How to Display Human Readable Post Dates in WordPress

After the URLs as sentences tutorial earlier this week, I thought the topic of human readable websites would be worth touching on again.

How to set up URLs as sentences in WordPress

In the WPCandy v4 redesign post I mentioned that my favorite part about the new website is that URL s as sentences adorn the site. Today I’m going to show you how to do the same thing on your WordPress website

CSS3 Rounded Image With jQuery

The other day I was trying to style CSS3 border-radius to image element and I realized that Firefox doesn’t display border-radius on images. Then I figured a way to work around it — wrap a span tag around with the original image as a background-image

ScrollTo Posts With jQuery

Inspired by the CargoCollective and David DeSandro’s site, I asked my Twitter followers ( @nickla ) on how to do the scrollto posts with jQuery. Within a day, Ben Bodien of Neutron Creations sent back a quick demo on how to replicate the similar result with the ScrollTo plugin. The script finds your current view position and scroll to the next or previous post accordingly

WordPress 3.0 Walkthrough: Getting Started with Multisite

WordPress 3.0 Walkthrough: Multsite Multisite is the most talked about new feature in WordPress 3.0 – the WordPress team has folded the functionality of WordPress Multiuser into the main WordPress project. So how do you use it? This tutorial assumes your are comfortable using FTP clients such as Filezilla and doing basic edits of WordPress files

WordPress 3.0 Walkthrough: Getting Started with Multisite

WordPress 3.0 Walkthrough: Multsite Multisite is the most talked about new feature in WordPress 3.0 – the WordPress team has folded the functionality of WordPress Multiuser into the main WordPress project. So how do you use it? This tutorial assumes your are comfortable using FTP clients such as Filezilla and doing basic edits of WordPress files

Design A Print-Ready Promotional Ad Using Photoshop and Illustrator

    Today, we’ll look at what it’s like to develop print material in cooperation with a major marketing company for top-name brands and retailers using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. For anyone in the print industry, we’ll share methods and resources that you’ll hopefully find helpful

Beautiful CSS3 Search Form

Lately I’ve been playing around with CSS3 and discovered some new CSS tricks. Did you know you can make a round circle with border-radius and create inner shadow effect with box-shadow inset?

Voices That Matter: Conference 2010

New Riders’ Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference , now in its fourth consecutive year, will take place June 28-29 in San Francisco and the timing couldn’t be better! Web design is undergoing an historic transformation: while the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript haven’t changed, the new and evolving functionality in the HTML5 and CSS3 specs, the number of new ways in which people access the Web, and the rise of social media mean that Web designers need to know more than ever. (more…)

CSS3 Gradient Buttons

Last week I talked about Cross-Browser CSS Gradient .