Thanks to advanced CSS properties, such as gradients and shadows, it’s now quite easy to turn a dull web form into something beautiful – with minimal effort. I’ll show you how in today’s tutorial!

Subtle background gradients give depth to the fields while shadows lift them from the page. Even more impressive is that this is done without any images at all.

By following this tutorial you will not only end up with a lightweight and beautiful form, you’ll also learn and understand new CSS3 techniques, such as box-shadow, gradients, opaque colors, and rounded corners.

MySQL is one of the most popular relational database management systems (RDBMS) around, with over 6 million installations. It’s a fantastic choice for any new developer, because of its open source nature, wide support and abundance of tutorials available on the subject.

Here are a few Valuable Tips, Tutorials, and Applications users need to know when working with MySQL.

By now everyone has heard of HTML 5 and its new functionalities. Pretty exciting isn’t it… also a little daunting.
Of course, there are two sides to the excitement, most developers love it, others feel it has come to soon and we are not ready for it. What ever your feelings are on this issue, it doesn’t matter, it is here, so lets work with it.
In this post we have collected as many helpful resources as we could on HTML5. As can be expected by any young language, the volume of tutorials and resources are a little thin on ground, but what tutorials we have collected are of a high standards are and the resources are indispensable and useful.
If you like watching paint dry and taking the longer road, you can of course read all about and stay up to date with HTML5 on the W3C here: HTML 5 – A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML.

Web designers have the opportunity to increase their income and to help brand their business by taking advantage of private label (or white label) options that are available. A private label means that you will be able to brand it as your own. For example, you can use a re-branded CMS that appears to clients as though it is your own system, rather than displaying the name and branding of the CMS.

In this post we’ll look at some of the leading private label options for web designers and agencies in a few different categories. We’ll look at content management systems, shopping cart/ecommerce systems, hosting, and email marketing.

This is a guest post from Brian Muse, our lead developer on You Rather. He’ll be guiding you through a three part journey of PHP applications over the next few days.

This tutorial is intended for readers who know the very basics of PHP and Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and would like to create a basic web application.

To make this a little bit clearer, I’ve split this tutorial up into three separate posts. Each post will cover a major step in setting up a basic PHP web application.

One of the most overlooked aspects in designing a website that we often brush off is web accessibility. There’s a misconception that web accessibility requires sacrifices to aesthetics, or that it’s not worth the effort.

But, with a growing number of ways that users access the web, creating highly-accessible and universal designs that can be viewed in as many ways as possible is critical to the success of a website.

And here’s the good news: it isn’t as hard as you think.

Most web accessibility guidelines already go hand-in-hand with website development practices. In this article, we’ll explore 10 quick and easy ways to improve your site’s accessibility.

Whether you’re a CSS pro or just learning, it’s important to have a good set of tools to speed up and simplify your development. What makes the web so great now, is that many valuable tools can be found online and used inside your browser. Here are 11 online CSS tools that should be a huge help to your CSS development.

As the community of WordPress designers and developers continues to grow, and as new versions of WordPress are released, there are more opportunities to learn different techniques and tricks that you can apply in your own work. In these 10 tutorials you will find strategies that should prove to be very useful in your own theme development.

It’s easy to be comfortable using a few well-worn SQL query techniques, but MySQL is deep – way deep. Here are 5 tricks you may find useful.
1. Produce terminal-friendly output
Occasionally you may be using the command line and find yourself limited by the size of either the table you’re getting results from or by the size of the terminal window you’re using. (I find the DPS window particularly resistant to resizing…

A successful promotional strategy on the web is critical to the ubiquity of your product. When done in a way that relates to the target audience, not only can you get your product out in the minds of people, but you will also have contributed to the betterment of the web as a whole by contributing knowledge and information.