Almost every website will have some form of public and restricted area. WordPress for instance, has the admin side where you can create posts, manage plugins, install themes etc. For this tutorial, we are going to create a similar mechanism. One that will restrict users from accessing sections of the site. We will create a […]

So I had a question from one my readers: “How can I add a Latest Listing widget in the sidebar“, which really translates to “How do we create a WordPress Widget?” Well, a widget that pulls our Custom Post Types. So I did a bit of research, and it turns out – that it’s not […]

I needed to create a couple of forms for my latest project using the Codeigniter (CI) framework. For those who have worked with CI before, it has many neat classes built in – including Captcha. Captcha is the bot prevention mechanism you see in many web forms. Bot prevention meaning – you have to be […]

So you’re giving away free material from your site. And now you need a way to capture your users’ information. An Opt in box may be the perfect solution for you. From my previous post, we already have a working box that shows us some static messages, along with a link that takes them to […]

Recently I had to come up with a solution to the low subscriber issue that I’ve been having. Compared to the number of downloads, I have an extremely low number of RSS, Twitter and Facebook followers. I thought, if I can prompt all visitors with a box that will remind them to follow me – […]

Grid based web design is becoming an art that each web developer must master. News portals, magazine layouts as well as showcase websites all adhere to the intricacies of the grid – which when mastered, is definitely a good addition to your web skill arsenal. We all know that a typical grid design uses some […]