There are about a dozen other plugins out there that do this already, except most seem to come with an enormous footprint: 10-12k of code, X-number of images, and roughly 1000 options to support every plausible use case. For other minimalists like myself out there, here's one built off the jQuery UI widget factory in approx. 100 lines of code and 100% CSS. In typical widget fashion, this implementation supports the most basic (and arguably most common) uses, but is flexible enough for more advanced cases.

Blog designs certainly can by complex, colourful and overwhelming and many free themes for Wordpress belongs to that category. Some bloggers on the other hand prefer simple and clean layouts for their blog leaving more space for the text itself to be in focus. If you should go for a minimalistic theme is really up to you to decide but if you're considering this post will give you the inspiration needed and may help you find the theme you are looking for.

Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. In this article we'd like to present 7 Impressive techniques using some jQuery magic to grab the attention of your users with a simple, rich user experience that gets them excited about your website.

In this article, I'll introduce you to the fundamentals of PHP. We'll focus on using PHP to access Web services and on turning static HTML pages into dynamic ones by retrieving data from the Web and by showing different content depending on what the user has entered in a form or requested in the URL. You won't come out a professional PHP developer, but you'll be well on your way to building a small page that uses Web services. You can find a lot of great PHP info on the Web, and most of the time you will end up on PHP.net itself. But I was asked repeatedly on several hack days and competitions to write this quick introduction article, so here it is.

In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to use a visual database modeling utility to draw a database diagram and automatically generate SQL. Specifically, we'll review how to use MySQL Workbench, a cross-platform, visual database design tool.