A question I often receive is what's the best way to implement a multi-level navigation bar for a website. In some cases, some of my readers ask to me a little help and send me "very original" solutions but not so suitable in terms of semantic and unobtrusive approach to coding. For my experience, I always suggest to use simple and standard methods. So in this tutorial I want to illustrate you how to implement a perfect multi-level navigation bar using HTML, CSS and some lines of unobtrusive JavaScript code with jQuery to show and hide sub sections. The result is the following:



You can quickly reuse the code I provided in this tutorial into your web projects, customizing the CSS file and changing the links. You can take a look at the demo here or download the source code here.

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In this post I want to illustrate some useful guidelines about how to implement a well organized CSS code structure in view of introduction of HTML 5 markup language. They are not general rules but simple suggestions you can follow in order to improve the readability, manageability, and general organization of CSS code. These suggestions are especially useful if you have to work on complex CSS files that otherwise can be difficult to manage.

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Some day ago I twittered a link about TweetTab a nice on-line service (similar to Monitter) to monitor in real time Twitter trends and custom searches. I like the design of TweetTab, clean and simple and I like in particular scrollpane used in each search tab. Take a look at this screenshot of TweetTab for a preview of the scrollpane used:

Some readers of woork asked to me how to implement that kind of scrollpane in their web projects. This is very simple using jSrcollPane, a jquery plugin which allows you to replace the browsers default vertical scrollbars on any block level element with an overflow:auto style.
I prepared a simplified version ready to reuse in your project using jQuery and some lines of CSS3 code. You can download the source code here .


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In the last weeks I frequently received a question about how to use CSS3 border-radius property to draw HTML elements with rounded corners in Internet Explorer. How you know CSS3 border-radius property is natively supported in Safari, Firefox and Chrome but for some mysterious reason this property is not supported in Internet Explorer.

So to draw rounded corners in IE you have to use some trick, for example using CSS classes with a background image (take a look at this post).

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In this post I want to suggest you 10 useful code snippets for web developers based on some frequetly asked questions I received in the past months for my readers. This collection include several CSS, PHP, HTML, Ajax and jQuery snippets. Take a look!

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In this post I want to illustrate a super simple way to work with Twitter API and PHP. In particular, this tutorial explains how to get public updates from Twitter public timeline and display them in a web page with a custom style using CSS. In order to get Twitter updates I used Twitterlibphp (a PHP implementation of the Twitter API) that allows you to take advantage of it from within your PHP applications.

Using this simple method you can obtain awesome results like this:

You can download the source code at the following link and reuse it for free in your web projects (you need PHP and APACHE):



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If you are looking for free resources to learn Ajax, PHP, CSS and JavaScript take a look at this collection with six interesting online presentations about these topics. The list includes a short introduction to Ajax, how to write modular CSS code, PHP Object Model fundamentals and an overview about the most popular JavaScript libraries.

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A frequent question I receive from my readers is about how to implement a simple script to drag elements in a web page. So in this post I want to illustrate the simplest method I know and use to drag everything in HTML pages, using just three rows of Javascript code.

In this post I provided a very basic script quick to reuse and customize in your web projects (in the live preview I added some little additional features respect the content of this tutorial). This is the result:

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In the past weeks I received some messages from my readers which asked to me to dedicate a post about horizontal website layout. So in this tutorial I want to illustrate some useful tips to design this kind of layouts using CSS and HTML code, also adding a nice animated scrolling effect using JavaScript.

A little introduction: Normally websites have a vertical structure with a fixed width and a variable height which depends from the lenght of the content you have within the main layer:

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Are you looking for some useful tips to improve the look and features of your standard HTML FORM elements? In this post I suggest you some interesting resources about this topics.

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