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Last week I started a series of tutorials about using some javascript tools in your website and I’m continuing this week with Flip, a jQuery plugin that gives the effect of a piece of paper flipping to show alternative content on the other side. What will we use it for? It’s quite neat as it can be [...]

This is a short tutorial explaining how to get the raw number of subscribers from your Feedburner feed to display on your web page. Intoduction To do this simple trick we are going to use three things: Feedburner Awareness API (which you don’t need to activate for this) cURL (should be enabled on most servers) PHP 5 (to read the [...]

In modern web applications you often need to make something visually appealing and without using something like Flash, the best thing for this is Javascript. There are a variety of frameworks available these days that enable a huge amount of visually impressive tricks – from animating content to organising it. This is the [...]

As you may be aware running a site like this can take a lot of work. We are continually striving to provide you with high quality programming tutorials. However at the moment there is only two of us writing for ProgTuts and we are both very busy. We contribute time when we can but its [...]

In this tutorial I will show you how to create an AJAX search box that can be used on your website or blog that also has an integrated Google search built in. We will be using HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery to create our search box. Preperation There is quite a lot of code in this tutorial [...]

Have you ever wondered how to create a “nice” or “clean” url such as the one for this page? Or wondered how to set a custom 404 page when users look for a page that isn’t there? Maybe you are trying to work out how to password protect directories on a web server. In this [...]

Creating graphics with programming languages can seem a little strange; how do these commands we write possibly become that nice picture on the screen? How can that nice picture be animated? Today I’m going to show you a really simple 2D example of how to do it in Java. Do we need special packages? None that don’t [...]

This tutorial will show you how to create a cool Parallax Website Header using jQuery and the jParallax jQuery plugin. This is quite a simple experiment and you won’t need any javascript knowledge, just plain old HTML and CSS. However this has the potential to create some really stunning effects. The Files So first of all we [...]

After the amazing growth of this site I decided that we should maybe update the look of the site and give it a unique feel. So here it is. I would really like to hear people’s thoughts on the new site design so please tell us what you think. After all it is you guys [...]

I recently wrote about making an AJAX image gallery. In it I said you should have a separate thumbnail image so that you don’t have to load up the main image and resize it, wasting time and efficiency. In this article, I’m going to show you how to automatically make a thumbnail when [...]