Following a consistent design pattern and structure also helps when fixing bugs or building on top of a plugin. Having a structure that has proved to stand well in my other plugins means I won’t have to rehash my code to account for new details. I know it can hold well with small plugins as well as larger ones.

All sorts of good htaccess tricks here.

Magic.

The only rule in photography is that there are no rules. However, there are many composition guidelines which can be applied in almost any situation, to enhance the impact of a scene. Below are ten of the most popular and most widely respected composition 'rules'.

My sons Rubiks Cube just got all messed up. I could get the top two layers, but not the bottom one. I cheated, and found this handy reference chart online. I totally need to learn these moves.

My spotlight recently got hosed, this is a good reference on how to fix that.

Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file.

Lists are a beautiful way to display content and information in a very easy to scan, easy to read method. Lists are found on most blogs to list posts, comments, tags, or links. In this post we will be exploring the modern practices of lists as an element of web design and they will be showing you how to design better lists to add to the overall design of your site.

An extremely basic, yet extremely powerful, technique for adding dropdown menus using jQuery and CSS.

Modern day user experience research methods can now answer a wide range of questions. Knowing when to use each method can be understood by mapping them in 3 key dimensions and across typical product development phases.

Only standard <p> tags have been used. Some of these styles are experiments using pseudo elements and adjacent sibling selectors; browser support is not consistent. Paragraph font size is set at 1em (equivalent to 16px if browser font size is unchanged) and line height set at 1.25em. Georgia was used exclusively. No browser specific CSS has been used—any inconsistency in the rendering of line-height, baseline and element positioning has been left for cross browser comparison before implementing.

Parallax turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way.

Nice overview of .has(), and how to create a plugin that does ("a > img")