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Guide Aug 13, 2014

Pixel Polyfill for REM Units (with SASS Mixin)

It is so common to see rem units over em and px nowadays in web design, which has been around since 2012.

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css Jul 24, 2014

The Box Sizing Reset in CSS

Sizing elements is crucial in front-end Web development. Talking about CSS, every now and then you need to size things up if you are into architecting web...

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Guide Jul 16, 2014

Find previous versions of WordPress plugins

WordPress plugins are version-based. You receive updates in your admin dashboard as soon as a new version update for a plugin is available.

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javascript May 25, 2014

Lazy loading JavaScript to improve site speed

The use of JavaScript is so common on web. Ranging from site functionality, visitor tracking, advertisement to social media assets, we can see JavaScript...

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Guide May 25, 2014

Build an XML Sitemap for your static website

Sitemaps are important - both for the visitors / readers of your website and search engines. For your readers' convenience of browsing your website, HTML...

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Guide May 25, 2014

Best WordPress Plugins to generate XML sitemap

An XML Sitemap provides you the way to let search engines crawl and index the new URLs on your website.

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Guide May 24, 2014

Convert colored images to Grayscale with CSS

Ever tried turning an image into grayscale in CSS? Can it be doable? Yes. With the help of filters.

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Guide May 22, 2014

Add Font Awesome to WordPress Navigation Menus

Icon fonts allow you to add resolution-independent, multicolor icons to your web design projects. There are many icon fonts out there available for free, but...

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stale May 21, 2014

AJAX load Disqus comments on Scrolling down the page

In a previous post, we implemented loading Disqus on click event, when visitors don't see the comment box unless they click the "Load Comment" button.

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css May 20, 2014

Creating a Responsive Pure CSS Masonry Layout

The CSS-only way to create masonry layouts. Easy to understand, simple to implement. Demos included.

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css May 20, 2014

Pure CSS Rainbow text with Animation effects

Rainbow text with CSS is pretty easy thing to create while playing with some background properties.

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css May 19, 2014

Understanding the CSS Box Model

I didn't learn CSS systematically. First I started playing with colors and fonts, then I started building (those insane, red-green) 'table-based' layouts.

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