404 pages have almost become a sort of “easter egg” for websites, an entertaining creative page that lets the user know the page they are looking for isn’t there. The 404 page first pictured below, is actually animated static — I love it!
Here are 15 fun 404 pages for your viewing pleasure (click the image to visit the live page):
So you want to start creating or editing WordPress themes, but don’t want to break your website?
You need a local development environment!
It’s basically plopping a server on your computer, so you can test things out before putting them on your hosting server. If you want to do much of anything surrounding web development, even playing around with your blogs CSS, this is a must.
I recently made a switch from a Windows environment to OSX and previously used XAMPP (tutorial here). Although I could have done the same again, I had heard some great stuff about MAMP.
So, here’s how to do it!
8BIT‘s Master Yoda Coda Coder Tom McFarlin has dropped a second post over at wptuts+ in a series of posts focusing on the WordPress Settings API.
If you’ve ever wanted to dig into the WordPress Settings API, this is the place to start.
When you first start looking at Tom’s tutorial, it’s a tad overwhelming. When you spend most of your time tinkering with themes and functions, it’s like looking at something completely different.
Don’t worry. This is still considered “beginner level,” so get your elbows dirty!
Here’s what you’ll be covering:
Learn jQuery in 30 Days is a great way to get your feet wet in jQuery.
It’s put together by tuts+, so it’s got to be good, right?
Here are the deets:
A few months ago, I posted a series on How-To Create a WordPress Church Events Page.
There have been a few updates to the posts and the church website I originally built it for has been cruising along splendidly these past few months.
Recently, I was ask by an awesome ChurchMag reader about how to add a list of link titles, displaying the upcoming events on the front page.
Something like this:
Another week, another Saturday Sunday Share, and once again, the ChurchMag community doesn’t disappoint.
Here some of the great shares from last week:
Learning about great web building tools is so inspiring!
99Lime HTML KickStart is the latest boilerplate I’ve come across. Despite being ultra-lean, it packs a lot of punch.
HTML KickStart is an ultra–lean set of HTML5, CSS, and jQuery (javascript) files, layouts, and elements designed to give you a headstart and save you 10′s of hours on your next web project.
It includes:
Web coder Victor Coulon raises the curtain on numerous creative possibilities with this open source plugin.
Create a website of fixed panels that move vertically or side-to-side across your screen using not only the mouse wheel and scroll bar, but arrow keys.
Having a hard time picturing it?
Go to the websites below and see the plugin in action.
Pears is a free WordPress theme that will enable you to create your very own CSS and HTML pattern library!
You could drop this on a subdomain, localhost, private or public, Pears + WordPress = AWESOME!
Here’s how it works:
I’ve never seen a book on HTML and CSS look this good.
Just as it says on the website:
A book about code that doesn’t read like a 1980s VCR manual…
Just look at this beautiful book!
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