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CSS Tweaks for The WordPress Download Monitor Plugin

CSS Tweaks for The WordPress Download Monitor Plugin

I will share a few CSS tweaks for the download monitor plugin in this tutorial (a few users have asked for it). You should use the Custom CSS plugin to insert these CSS tweaks in your site.

The following code examples should give you a really good idea of how to go about making these changes. You may need to tweak it a little depending on the WordPress theme you are using.

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Better Bookmarking With RainDrop.io

Better Bookmarking With RainDrop.io

Even with all the advanced technology available, there is still one thing that hasn’t changed about the way we explore the Internet and that is bookmarks. Whatever the reason, we still like to keep a track of the things that really catch our interest.

Traditional bookmarks are not that social and are not optimized for easy and organized viewing. You can actually do this without relying on the…

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Designers: 7 Ways To Be More Prolific

Designers: 7 Ways To Be More Prolific

With the demand for design increasing every day, so too is the number of designers out there competing for the same jobs. It’s not enough anymore to simply be a good designer.

via getrefe.com

Clients are looking for designers who can not only exceed their expectations, but do so in record time. Here’s how to get more design done in less time, earning yourself more moneyand loyal clients in the…

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8 Best Dropbox Plugins for WordPress

8 Best Dropbox Plugins for WordPress

Dropbox is one of the most popular free cloud storage provider. Using cloud storage to save your WordPress backups, media files, and other important documents is a great strategy. Your documents and files will remain safe no matter where you are and what device you are using. There are several WordPress plugins that allow you to integrate your WordPress site to your Dropbox account. In this…

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New Rails Shiny: ActiveJob

New Rails Shiny: ActiveJob

One of the highly anticipated feature of Rails 4.2 is the introduction of the Active Job library. Like many libraries in Rails, Active Job serves as the adapter layer on many of the most popular queuing libraries in the Ruby ecosystem.

With the new Active Job library, choosing a queuing library with an unique API will not be something to worry about anymore. Rails now provides a unique queuing…

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How to be a Good Developer

How to be a Good Developer

As a PHP developer, or any kind of developer as a matter of fact, you need to constantly improve yourself in this ever-changing industry; you need to learn and use new knowledge every day.

What successful developers have in common, is that they care about programming a lot, they are professionals treating good programming practices as a form of art.

In this article, you’ll learn about how to be…

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On Our Radar This Week: Windows 95, Startup Help, and Automation

On Our Radar This Week: Windows 95, Startup Help, and Automation

Welcome to On Our Radar, a weekly round-up of news, trends and other cool stuff from the world of web development. Why Windows 95 pushed Microsoft from version 9 to 10 After last weeks announcement that Windows 8 is going to be followed by Windows 10, people were asking questions as to why number 9 […]

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A Graceful Fallback for SVGs in Old IE

A Graceful Fallback for SVGs in Old IE

There are plenty of good reasons to use SVGs instead of rasterized images. The benefits include better image quality, image flexibility, and smaller file size. But one obstacle you might still face is browser support. SVGs are supported by all modern browsers except IE8 and below.

In the following sections I’ll outline how you can handle this in a graceful way by falling back to PNGs for older…

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Is Onsen UI the Answer to Cordova UI Development?

Is Onsen UI the Answer to Cordova UI Development?

Onsen UI is a new JavaScript and CSS framework for developing mobile apps. With its large selection of web based UI components, you can develop HTML5, PhoneGap and Cordova apps. With a focus on native-like performance, user experience, responsive design and diverse platforms, it seems quite promising. It combines the power of HTML 5 , CSS, AngularJS, jQuery and Font Awesometo create impressive…

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DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014 Report

DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014 Report

As has been the pattern of many recent DrupalCons and Camps, DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014 was all about Drupal 8 and the changes that it’s bringing to the platform and community.

This has coincided with an increase in attendance at Drupal events (2300 in Amsterdam) and an increasing professionalism to DrupalCons. Drupal 8 has pulled us (sometimes forcibly) from out of our comfort zone and into the…

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Hacking at its last stage!! Facebook, youtube, Myspace hacked..

It is reported that yesterday 9th, oct, 2014 hackers from Mumbai hacked three big websites at same time 3:45 am and did some changes in database of facebook, deleted 54,000 videos from youtube database, Developers team of facebook is in a great shock and FIR has been registered, FBI – Cyber Crime  says

this isn’t happening for first time we had same cases in past, Team of our best officers our…

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Hacking at its last stage!! Facebook, youtube, Myspace hacked..

Hacking at its last stage!! Facebook, youtube, Myspace hacked..

It is reported that yesterday 9th, oct, 2014 hackers from Mumbai hacked three big websites at same time 3:45 am and did some changes in database of facebook, deleted 54,000 videos from youtube database, Developers team of facebook is in a great shock and FIR has been registered, FBI – Cyber Crime  says this isn’t happening for first time we had same cases in past, Team of our best officers our…

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Scroll-Then-Fix Content

A reader sent me in a GIF showing off a cool effect they saw on Google on mobile. (Presumably the homepage you see when you launch Chrome on Android?) There is a search input in the middle of the page that scrolls with the page, but as it’s about to scroll off the page, it becomes affixed to the header. Let’s cover that, because, you know…

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Getting Started with CSS Shapes

Getting Started with CSS Shapes

I just watched Jen Simmons give a talk Modern Layouts: Getting Out Of Our Ruts and she had some great examples of how easy CSS shapes are to use, even with safe progressive enhancement. If you haven’t heard of them, essentially it’s a way to wrap content (typically text) around custom SVG-like paths.

As serendipity would have it, here’s Razvan Caliman with a megapost on how it all works and how…

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The Bézier Game

A game to help you master the pen tool.

By Mark MacKay.

Early in my career I had a job where a good half of it was cutting detailed clipping paths on photos (using the Pen Tool in Photoshop). We had an in-house photography department that shot furniture and electronics and the like, and I had to cut outlines around everything so designers could easily isolate things as needed. I’m sure I did…

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Build Web Layouts Easily with Susy

Build Web Layouts Easily with Susy

I’ve been coming around to the idea of using Susy (a Sass add-on for grids) lately. I like the idea of grids-on-demand, rather than a strict framework (no matter how simple). We even added supportto CodePen. Last week I ran into Eric Suzanne, the creator of Susy, and I told him Zell Liew was working on a guest post for this site. He was “Oh, Zell! Yeah he’s awesome, he’s like the unofficial…

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Don’t use `picture` (most of the time)

Don’t use `picture` (most of the time)

Jason Grigsby:

Unless you’re solving for art direction, you don’t need to the element. In fact, you’re likely doing your users a disservice by using the <picture> element.

I’d wager that the majority of “responsive images” use is serving appropriately sizedimages for the situation. The situation = the size the image will be displayed at, screen pixel density, and bandwidth. That’s exactly what