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An introduction to Deck JS

Tue 30th Aug 2011

PowerPoint has been the choice of software for corporate presentations since the 1990s. Easy to use and configure, it takes real skill to mess a PowerPoint presentation up. However, for web coders seeking greater visual flare there are now a number of browser-based solutions that are dependent on HTML, CSS and...

An easy way to use the Twitter API

Mon 22nd Aug 2011

Twitter, surely, has had one of the most successful developer outreach programmes of all time. Their relaxed attitude to data access has meant that a myriad of superb side projects has sprung up and which, in turn, fed back into the popularity of Twitter.

Universally loved by software devel...

Review of HTML5 Canvas Libraries

Mon 18th Jul 2011

There's been a buzz around HTML5 for some time now with many leading commentators in the online tech community heavily pushing the new standard.

With the last version of HTML being released back in 1997 and XHMTL never really fulling its initial promises, a new version is needed that reflec...

Replace a form submit button with an image using just CSS

Sat 25th Jun 2011

There are tons of articles out there on the subject of styling forms with individual web designers developing their own particular coding preferences over time.

For developers and designers, creating and styling forms is the bread'n'butter of their trade and one of their most regular activ...

Creating a pull down (nested) menu in Drupal 7

Wed 13th Apr 2011

Drupal was originally a developers toy but over the last few years the thrust of the CMS has been to try lower the entry point for non-technical users.

The administration section in version 7 is now far, far more user friendly to lay people and is closer to Wordpress in its logical layout a...

Using JavaScript to create equal height columns

Thu 24th Mar 2011

Creating websites with tables didn't have many advantages over using CSS, but the ability to easily create equal height columns was one of them.

There are a small number of tried and tested CSS techniques to achieve equal height columns but an ever increasing favourite amongst designers is...