CSS tooltips are very popular in modern web design and contrary to popular belief it is really easy to create them, especially with one of the all so popular javascript frameworks.

Before I started to delve deeper into this topic, I thought you have to use at least a plugin, but to get some basic tooltips all you need are about 10 lines of CSS and jQuery Code.

This Tutorial will teach you how to create such tooltips with some basic CSS and jQuery. Read more »

Communizine is a highly customizable Premium Magazine Theme with a lot of Javascript goodies and administrative options.

The theme supports community building through the possibility of letting users submit news and displaying them with the help of a sidebar widget. Further a logged in user can create a favorite post list of entries he or she likes. Read more »

Because of popular demand I recently updated the favorite posts plugin I created a while ago. Since I do not have much time to spare, I wasn’t able to include all features that were suggeste by my readers, but I could implement two that were highly demanded:

• The plugin comes with widget support now
• You can display other peoples favorite posts now (for example on an authors page to display his or her favorite posts)

To take a glimpse how it works you can create an account on my wordpress test installation.
If you like the theme presented there head over to themeforest and download it for a small fee.
Plugin Download is, of course for free, here.

I am currently working on some larger projects, and some of them are in desperate need of a breadcrumb navigation, since there are so many sub categories and pages, that users often have a hard time not to lose track of their current position on the site.

After searching the web for an adequate plugin, the only Breadcrumb navigation I could find was Breadcrumb NavXT. The plugin is basically the only one which supports nested pages as well as nested categories. It has a ton of options… to my mind there are way to many. After testing the plugin on a blank installation my Database query count went from 17 to 59 even if I was on the starting page where no breadcrumb navigation was displayed. So I decided to code a lightweight version for myself.

What you will learn here, are the basics of creating a simple breadcrumb navigation. This tutorial doesn’t offer a complete script, just some snippets to experiment with =)

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Aurora Borealis is a WordPress Theme I created after experimenting with some tutorials at http://abduzeedo.com.
It uses a dark cholor scheme along with a colorful header, similar to the current version of kriesi.at, since people always tell me how much they like this combination

The theme uses some of the code snippets I created for my WordPress Tutorials as well as for my jQuery tutorials.

Some of the features that are included:

• PSD File for easy customization
• Widget ready sidebar and footer
• Valid HTML /CSS, along with Javascript that degrades gracefully if turned of
• Multi Level CSS Drop Down Menu (improved with jQuery) for your pages
• Smooth scrooling between anchor links (jQuery)
• Extendable footer (jQuery)
• Works in all major Browsers (IE6, IE7 , Safari, Firefox2, Firefox3, Opera, Google Chrome)
• Demo Version here

Since I put quite some time and effort into the creation of this theme, I decided to sell it for the low fee of 15$ at themeforest.net which recently opened the doors.  Hope you like the theme and consider buying it

I wasn’t able to write a lot during the last weeks: since I know I am going to another vacation trip – and especially since my clients know this- I am flooded with last minute work which has to be done. So there wont be any updates here until 25th August, when I safely arrive at Vienna Airport again. Well tanned from the Portuguese sun and relaxed hopefully =)

When I am back I will release my first WordPress Theme which is nearly ready now, so stay tuned!
Best Regards to all of you