4 WysiWyg Editors For CodeIgniter With Tutorials | Web, Mobile and Social Technology Tips, Tutorials, Best Apps 1. Integrating WYSIWYG TinyMCE into CodeIgniter TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source. It has the ability to convert HTML textarea fields or other HTML elements to editor instances. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate, all WYSIWYGs are. When I was picking WYSIWYG for my website then I was between this and CKEditor. 2. The following explains how to incorporate FCKeditor using Code Igniter’s 1.4x Libraries. Place your FCKeditor files in your CI base directory (in this example I’ve put the files under a folder called plugins). 3. Xinha WYSIWYG editor is a very useful tool to edit and create html. 4. SPAW is a very powerful and easy to use visual editor that I like to use in my applications. I wanted to keep it flowing with the rest of my CI app by using the loader class to load it (instead of including it at strange places in my views), so I turned it into a custom library which can be loaded.
20 Tools Web Designers Should Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving I always get sentimental this time of year. For me, the next few weeks will be a dizzying blur of aromatic turkey, neatly wrapped gifts, and family. In an effort to keep myself from becoming too wrapped up in the holiday shenanigans of black Friday sales and rushing to buy the last can of cranberry sauce, I have compiled a list of 20 web design tools that I am thankful for this year. I use most of these tools on a daily basis, and hope that you will find them as helpful as I do! 1-Firebug Number one on my list this year, and probably for years to come is Firebug. 2- Lipsum Lipsum.com generates the standard Lorem Ipsum dummy text. *Special Treat: If plain old Lorem Ipsum just won’t do, try Bacon Ipsum. 3- Buffer This tool was first introduced to me by one of our very own SEO Specialists, Lucia Sastre. 4- Twitter Okay, this tool may not be web-design-specific, but it is most certainly Bridget-specific. 5- Colorzilla for Firefox 6- SEOQuake 7- DaFont 8- Google Analytics 9- Mail Chimp 11- Photoshop
Understanding Twitter Bootstrap 3 Version 3 of Twitter Bootstrap is a major change from all its past versions. It is a mobile-first framework and can claim to be one of the best CSS frameworks for building responsive website designs. In my last article I focused on building responsive websites using Twitter Bootstrap 2. From that, you should have an idea of how Bootstrap works. Since Twitter Bootstrap 3 is a mobile-first framework, by default whatever you design or create will be mobile compatible or responsive. Isn’t that cool? Getting Started Twitter Bootstrap has a new website design which is itself built using the Bootstrap 3 framework. You can download the archive file here. Now, we have three directories, so let’s look at each of them. Our main CSS file is bootstrap.css, and we must include that in all our HTML pages. bootstrap.min.css is just the minified version of bootstrap.css. Consumes less bandwidth, speeds up the websiteThe font icons are responsive and resizable So what exactly we are going to build? Header Area
5 More HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed The HTML5 revolution has provided us some awesome JavaScript and HTML APIs. Some are APIs we knew we've needed for years, others are cutting edge mobile and desktop helpers. Regardless of API strength or purpose, anything to help us better do our job is a step in the right direction. I recently shared with you 5 HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed in the hope that some of them would inspire you to improve your own web apps. Fullscreen API The awesome Fullscreen API allows developers to programmatically launch the browser into fullscreen mode, pending user approval: function launchFullScreen(element) { if(element.requestFullScreen) { element.requestFullScreen(); } else if(element.mozRequestFullScreen) { element.mozRequestFullScreen(); } else if(element.webkitRequestFullScreen) { element.webkitRequestFullScreen(); }}launchFullScreen(document.documentElement);launchFullScreen(document.getElementById("videoElement")); Page Visibility API getUserMedia API Battery API Link Prefetching
Bootstrap Box Spanning Multiple Rows Parallax Scrolling Scripts and Plugins Parallax scrolling sites have been a pretty hot UX thing of late, being showcased on various blogs. Although the “ooooh! aahhh!”-ness of it all has subsided, I think this type of site is certainly a legitimate design and development option for many brands. To help you choose a JavaScript or jQuery library or plugin for doing this sort of thing (unless you’re a masochist and want to write one from scratch!) Parallax-JS (by Razorfish) Described as “Parallax page generator from simple HTML & CSS”. View demo Parallaxjs (by stolksdorf) This one seemed to be one of the more popular ones, but the demo page has recently gone haywire. View demo (like I said, broken, but maybe it will be back soon) | GitHub repo Scrollorama (by John Polacek) A jQuery plugin “for doing cool scrolly stuff”. GitHub repo GitHub repo View demo | GitHub repo GitHub repo | A similar tutorial View demo Usage instructions | Horizontal demo | Vertical demo Project page | Demos (includes an iOS demo) Project site | Demo pages
yeoman.io Cheap HTML5 web design templates The HTML5 Time Element Is Back and Better Than Ever The HTML5 time element pulled a disappearing act last year. HTML5 editor Ian Hickson deleted it from the specification, but then the W3C, the group that oversees HTML5, stepped in to override Hickson’s decision, adding time back to HTML5. Now you see it, now you don’t, now you do again. The W3C didn’t just add time back though; they’ve improved it considerably. While nothing has changed with the human-readable part — that is, anything between <time> and </time> — the datetime attribute has been imbued with new superpowers. The original version of the time element was rather strict; under the original spec datetime data needed to refer to a specific date. That’s all good and well for days, but what if you just wanted to specify a month? To specify a date no more precise than a month you’d do something like this: <time datetime="2012-02">. To see some more examples of the datetime attribute and what you can do with it, head over to Bruce Lawson’s blog.
Free HTML and MySpace Code Generators Listutorial: Tutorial 3 - Nested lists Tutorial 3 - Nested lists - all steps combined There may be times when you want to open a side navigation list out, to show subsections within a section. The most semantically correct way to achieve this is by using nested lists. HTML CODE <div id="navcontainer"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Milk</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Goat</a></li> <li><a href="#">Cow</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#">Eggs</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Free-range</a></li> <li><a href="#">Other</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#">Cheese</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Smelly</a></li> <li><a href="#">Extra smelly</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> Step 1 - Make a nested list Start with a basic unordered list. Step 2 - Remove the bullets To remove the HTML list bullets, set the "list-style-type" to "none". Step 3 - Remove padding and margins Standard HTML lists have a certain amount of left-indentation. To remove this left-indentation consistently across all browsers, set both padding and margins to "0" for the "UL". margin: 0; padding: 0;
22 Handy HTML5 & CSS3 Tools, Resources And Guides HTML5 and CSS3 are bringing new features to us and in this article you’ll be able to find some great tools, cheat sheets and much more you could need to master these new features. Maybe those new features aren’t yet supported fully, but it’s a very good thinking to learn new technologies now so you would be able to use them fully when they are supported. Be modern designer! 1. After starting the testsuite it will automatically run a large number of small tests which will determine if your browser is compatible with a large number of CSS selectors. 2. CSS3 Please! 3. Allows you to create and costumize multiple CSS3 effects. 4. You can rotate, scale, skew, and otherwise transform HTML elements with CSS 3. 5. The CSS3 Gradient Generator was created as showcase of the power of CSS based gradients as well as a tool for developers and designers to generate a gradient in CSS. 6. Allows you to create rounded edge rectangles. 7. 8. 9. Many new CSS3 feature previews and demos. 10. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.