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jQuery – How to Create a News Ticker with just a few JavaScript lines?

As you already know now, I love to reinvent the wheel ( jQuery always allows me that), and because of that, once more, we’ll see how to create something which already exists: a news ticker.

Usually the “news ticker” is a display of news which scroll horizontally, like those which can be seen in some newscasts in the lower part of the screen. Our news ticker will be slightly different given that the news won’t scroll horizontally but vertically instead, and in between the news there will be a pre-established pause (I think that this method gives prominence to every single news and at the same time it gives more time to the reader to read the article at hand, but obviously this is only my opinion). || Read more »

From Psd to Xhtml: how to transform the layout in XHTML+CSS?

From Psd to Xhtml: how to transform the layout in XHTML+CSS?

In the first part of this article we have seen how to export, using the instrument “sections” of Photoshop, the vary components of our layout “YIW Corporate“. Today “you’ll dirty your hands” with the code: we’ll see how to make...

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WordPress: Let’s have a Look at the Administration Panel

WordPress: Let’s have a Look at the Administration Panel

In the first lesson we saw how it is easy to install WordPress on your computer: the rest of the simplicity and rapidity of installation are just some of the features that have made this so popular blogging platform. Today's lesson...

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Regular Expressions: Advanced Constructs

Regular Expressions: Advanced Constructs

The "bad" reputation of regular expressions is due in large part to the obscure syntax: there are many rules and abbreviations, some symbols have other meanings depending on their location, some constructs seem incomplete, while they are functioning properly. In...

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Styles in web design: the characteristics of a site made with magazine style

Styles in web design: the characteristics of a site made with magazine style

Here we are at the fifth appointment with our section dedicated to the styles in web design. Today we will see what are the main characteristics and strengths of a style magazine and website, as usual, in the next article...

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Be inspired or copy: what is the difference? Let’s find it out together

Be inspired or copy: what is the difference? Let’s find it out together

On our italian forums a few weeks ago, the user Giavara posted to the users of Your Inspiration Web an intriguing question: "do you think is correct "take inspiration" from the work you see around?" or: in short, you can really talk...

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Security and Web sites: What lies behind your site?

Security and Web sites: What lies behind your site?

When you can really be sure of having published a great site? When your casual  navigator is able to use it without reading instructions, tips and guides, in a natural way, focusing on content rather than on mechanical user interface. Simplicity is...

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Regular expressions: What are they and how to begin?

Regular expressions: What are they and how to begin?

Among all the powerful struments available to a development, the regular expressions surely occupy a dominant position. Their flexibility in both research and validation of strings and data makes them irreplaceable for a web development (and not only). Unfortunately, this flexibility is...

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How to install WordPress Locally?

How to install WordPress Locally?

Kicks off the long awaited and requested guidance on creating a template for note blogging platform: WordPress, although probably define it as beginning to be somewhat 'simplistic as more often is used for the development of real sites with advanced Web...

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From PSD to XHTML: How cut a layout with Photoshop?

From PSD to XHTML: How cut a layout with Photoshop?

One of the most frequent when working on the web is the export of a layout from an image to XHTML + CSS. Unfortunately (and fortunately) there are still valuable tools to automate this task, so everything builds the skill and...

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How to show themselves on the own website: tips and trends

How to show themselves on the own website: tips and trends

Two rows of little description, perhaps a small postage stamp size photographs and a resume in pdf format to download: the now classic "About" section of our site, so simple, almost bare, no longer enough. Now we see all around...

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