Part 1: How to Code a Pure CSS3 Preloader with Animations

Part 1: How to Code a Pure CSS3 Preloader with Animations

If you are building a website and are worried about load times, preloaders are a great way to reduce user frustration due to varying load times. In part 1 of this tutorial we will teach you how to create a pure CSS3 preloader without images that utilizes CSS3 animations.

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How to Create an Apple Touch Icon for your Responsive Website

How to Create an Apple Touch Icon for your Responsive Website

When a user bookmarks or adds your website to their home screen on an iOS touch screen device an Apple Touch Icon is used. Instead of displaying a substandard icon created by Apple to your end users, we will teach you how to create a custom Apple Touch Icon for your responsive website.

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How to Create an Odd/Even Class System in WordPress

How to Create an Odd/Even Class System in WordPress

There are many times when coding a WordPress blog or full website that you may encounter the need for a class that targets odd/even posts or items. In this tutorial we will teach you a very simple method for adding odd/even classes anywhere inside of your WordPress loop using a function.

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How to Disable Emoji Support in WordPress 4.2+ without a Plugin

How to Disable Emoji Support in WordPress 4.2+ without a Plugin

Even if you aren’t utilizing emojis on your site, your site is still loading all of the CSS and JS used to drive them which increases load time slowing down your site. In this tutorial we will teach you how to remove and disable emoji support by simply adding a code snippet to your functions file.

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WordPress Tutorials

How to Automatically Retrieve Video Thumbnails from YouTube

We often use YouTube ID’s in our projects to grab either videos or thumbnails directly from YouTube, giving us greater flexibility as well as simplifying the process for the end user. In this tutorial we will teach you how to use the YouTube ID to retrieve all of the different available video thumbnails automatically from YouTube.

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