How I built a website in just one weekend
A guide to building a website from start to finish. Get your site out instead of your hair.
Code
Writing code is like writing poetry – do it right or you’ll end up in some anthology of shame.
Submit file input via AJAX with jQuery the easy way
How to upload a file with form file input using FormData API and jQuery.
Multilingual WordPress themes with I18n and L10n
Having a fully translatable WordPress theme can save you a lot of work, and here's how.
Combined position offsets with CSS
A simple CSS technique for positioning an HTML element with both a proportional offset and a unit offset.
You can’t go wrong with Font Awesome
Font Awesome gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized — size, color, drop shadow, and anything that can be done with the power of CSS.
HTTP 404 response causes forced downloads to fail
An interesting gotcha that I stumbled across recently, sending a 404 response code with a download forced by Content-Disposition: attachment will fail but inline content will still be displayed. This behaviour was tested in both Chrome and FireFox.
Of course the appropriate response code should always be sent; this 404 response code was being sneaked in by WordPress and led to hours of frustration.