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Nettuts+ Quiz #12: Quirky HTML Tags
Taking a break from the relatively technical focus of the past few quizzes, we’re going to do something very offbeat today. Yes, Offbeat with a capital O. Be it front end or back end programming, I’m...
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Optimize Your CSS With RequireJS
In this lesson, we’ll review the awesome RequireJS optimizer to handle the process of merging and compressing our stylesheets. While preprocessors continue to become increasingly popular, there are...
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The Essentials of AMD and RequireJS: New on Tuts+ Premium
In this Tuts+ Premium screencast, we’ll review RequireJS, an asynchronous module loader and dependency manager, and AMD, which defines the mechanism and guidelines for declaring and importing modules....
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Advanced CodeIgniter Profiling With XHProf
There are a number of ways to profile and monitor the performance of PHP code in a development environment, but once it’s been let loose on a production server its extremely difficult to know what’s...
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Creattica Redesign: Introducing UI Elements
It’s a month of new beginnings over at our design and inspiration gallery Creattica. April has seen the site undergo a complete redesign with a whole new streamlined grid-style layout for its over 50...
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Top 10 Pitfalls When Switching to Vim
Admit it: every time you see a person using Vim, you consider the possibility that they know something you don’t. Why else would they be using an editor that, in your mind, is dated, open-source junk?...
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Lightning Fast Folder and File Creation in Sublime Text 2
I’m frequently asked about how I’m able to create new directory structures and files so quickly in Sublime Text 2. Well the answer is that this functionality is not offered natively; instead, I use a...
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Create an Animated 3D Bar Chart/Graph
The Truematter team was recently tasked with creating a fun, sexy web app that presents numerical data in an engaging way. After putting our heads together, we came up with a bar chart that responds...
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Are You Our Next Awesome Writer?
We’re in need of a kick-ass, talented author to help out on Nettuts+ on a regular basis, a Bieber fan preferably. We’re not sticklers but we’d optimally like to see weekly and bi-weekly submissions...
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Meet Grunt: The Build Tool for JavaScript
If you’re working on a large project, you’ll no doubt have a build script or a bunch of task scripts to help with some of the repetitive parts of the process. You might use Ant or Rake, depending on...
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Closures: Front to Back
Closures are often viewed as an arcane art in the land of JavaScript. Once mastered, they allow you to write some truly amazing JavaScript. This article will get you up to speed on the magic of...
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The Essentials of Zepto.js
Modern JavaScript libraries are quite the behemoths — just take a look at jQuery. When you’re creating a mobile app, or even just targeting modern browsers, a library that’s much more svelte and nimble...
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Recently in Web Development (April ’12 Edition)
Web development is an industry that’s in a state of constant flux with technologies and jargon changing and mutating in an endless cycle. Not to mention the sheer deluge of information one has to...
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Why Wine and Macbooks Don’t Mix…and How to Handle the Aftermath
Ready for a revelation? A concept that you’ve never considered before? Well here it is: never ever, ever pour a glass of wine into your Macbook keyboard. Or, more practically put, be extremely careful...
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Lots Of New Premium Content!
As Tuts+ Premium continues to sky-rocket, our ability to post better, more frequent, content has improved dramatically as well. This week, we have a variety of fun new things available to members!...
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How to Super-Scale Magento in the Cloud
This tutorial will help you prepare a Magento install for high traffic, better load times, and simpler ongoing site management. Ready? Requirements You can download the finished code for this tutorial,...
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Meet Crockford’s JSCheck
There are dozens of JavaScript testing frameworks, but most of them function in, more or less, the same way. However, Douglas Crockford’s JSCheck is considerably different from most. In this tutorial,...
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Diving Into CSS Regions
This tutorial will cover the basics of CSS regions, which allow us to flow content within various sections of the page. Confused? You probably are; read on! Demo View It Online CSS Region Support At...
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Ticksy: A Support Story
When I started designing and developing themes and templates for the ThemeForest marketplace five years ago, customer support was easy. I’d get an email or two a day, answer them, and move on. But as...
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Quick Tip: What Exactly is Web Hosting?
Tired of the “techie” trying to explain to you what web hosting is all about from his bedroom-recorded Skype video? Ever get confused with all the funny terms they drop, like “Shared Hosting” and...
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