From: iTunes on Thu, Jul 07 2011 12:05 AM

Wizard’s Castle for iPhone 4 is an exciting match and remove game for all ages. The player enters the castle to find that the friendly Wizard has cast a spell and colored, magic balls are raining down from the ceiling. The goal of the game is to prevent the room from filling up with balls during...

From: iTunes on Thu, Jul 07 2011 12:05 AM

You love golf but hate that old school method of tracking your scores. Well, throw away that paper and pencil, you don’t need them anymore with myGolfstats on your iPhone or iPod touch. This beautiful app has all the scoring capabilities that you need. It includes the same categories that profes...

From: iTunes on Thu, Jul 07 2011 12:05 AM

The ultimate cardio fitness and heart rate monitor system for iPhone and iPod touch. Track your heart rate as you exercise for maximum workout efficiency - whether you want to burn fat, get fit or improve stamina, making sure your heart rate is at the right level is key top achieving your goals....

From: iTunes on Thu, Jul 07 2011 12:02 AM

Watch MacMost to get the most from your Mac, iPhone and iPod! The video podcast features tips, tricks, techniques, tutorials and reviews geared toward the casual personal and business Apple user.

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

We once did a poll asking people what their favorite CMS was. WordPress was a run-away winner, but also got many comments of "WordPress isn’t a CMS!!". Well clearly, in the strictest sense, WordPress is a CMS as it "manages content". But is WordPress really only suited for blogging, or can it be...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

Integrating search on a website can be an incredibly complex subject far beyond my web development skills. Fortunately, Google offers a service called "Custom Search Engine" which you can integrate right into your own site. This leverages Googles awesome search power, and it can all happen direc...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

Before I get too far along in these screencasts, I thought I would introduce you a little to my working environment and explain the tools that I use. First off, I work on a Mac, so these tools are Mac software. This isn’t an endorsement of any particular working environment, I just want everyone...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

WordPress is a hugely popular CMS for blogging. The blog section of CSS-Tricks is run on WordPress and I am very happy with it. By popular request, we are going to walk through designing for WordPress. In part one, we will be downloading and installing WordPress. Then we will install the "Starke...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

We have WordPress installed, now let’s really get our hands dirty and start getting WordPress to do what we want it to do. We start by poking around the backend activating some plugins, changing some settings and creating posts/pages. Then we take a look at the Photoshop design and note some of ...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

There are three different types of layouts for websites: Fixed Width, Fluid Width, and Elastic Width. In this screencast we look at all these three varieties of sites out on the web as well as some hybrid sites and other techniques for making use of wider browser windows. True "fixed width" site...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

CSS Sprites have been a hot topic for a long time now. The fact is that each image on a web page is a separate server request and you can dramatically increase the performance of a page by combining images and reducing that number of requests. In this screencast I’m going to show you how to do ex...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

Starting off where we left off last time, we continue exploring the possibilities of jQuery. We revisit some of the old functions and make them do some smarter things. We explore a simple variable and an IF/ELSE statement. Then we look at the AJAX-y .load() function, the CSS function, and then f...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

We’re back in Photoshop this week because I wanted to talk a little bit about a very specific skill that I think is important for all designers. That is the Pen Tool and using it to hand-draw clipping paths. There are a variety of ways to make selections in Photoshop, but drawing a real vector p...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

The popular JavaScript library jQuery is an amazing way to extend the design possibilities of your site beyond what CSS can do. But luckily, if you are already comfortable with CSS, you have a huge head start in jQuery! This is a very basic introduction to including jQuery on your web page and g...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

Internet Explorer provides a way to target CSS styling information specifically for its different versions. These "conditional stylesheets" are the best way to handle CSS problems that pop up with your page in IE. They aren’t "hacks" (which are liable to cause problems with new browsers down the ...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

This screencast walks through the code that powers a fairly advanced web form. It utilizes jQuery to hide and show inputs as needed as well as power three plugins. One for applying fancy styling, one for validation, and one for the serializing of the inputs and AJAX submission. We then use PHP t...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

Anytime anyone asks me about forms, I always mention Wufoo. At work and at home, almost every single form I create I just use Wufoo. It makes form creation so easy it’s almost entertaining. In this screencast I walk you through how to get started with Wufoo and start using some of its more advan...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

FoxyCart is my new favorite eCommerce system. It is extremely easy to get started with. You have full design control over all aspects of it (cart, checkout, receipts). It has the features you need (downloadables, security, saved accounts, subscriptions). Best of all, it’s not a bloated CMS. You ...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

There are a handful of CSS attributes that can be combined into a single attribute for coding brevity. I endorse the use of CSS shorthand whenever possible. It saves space and makes code more readable. In this screencast I introduce all of the common ones and go over a few gotchas that can happen...

From: iTunes on Wed, Jul 06 2011 11:54 PM

Just a couple of quick tricks, from scratch, on coding up tables. We use the proper semantic tags for a table header and then set it to a fixed position so when scrolling the table the header is always visible. Then we implement row AND column highlighting with a bit of semi-clever JavaScript.&#...