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5 WordPress Frameworks to Jump-start Your Theme Designs

In recent years, WordPress theme frameworks have arrived on the scene in a big way. From commercial frameworks like Thesis and Genesis to free alternatives such as Thematic and Hybrid, frameworks aim...

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Beginner’s Guide to the Thematic Framework for WordPress

Raena, co-author of SitePoint's Build Your Own Wicked WordPress Themes, shows how to boost your theme development efforts using the Thematic theme framework. It will save you heaps of tedious setup...

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Build an Awesome Image Gallery with jQuery, Modernizr, and CSS3

In this tutorial, Raena shows you how to make a gorgeous image gallery in the true spirit of progressive enhancement: CSS3 transforms for cutting-edge browsers, jQuery for the rest, and it even looks...

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Mobile Sites vs. Media Queries

The technique of responsive web design using CSS media queries has been attracting a lot of attention lately. But as with any technique, it has a time and a place, and sometimes other tools are better...

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Thinking Laterally: Build a Side-scrolling Site Layout with CSS & jQuery

Horizontally scrolling websites are definitely the exception in web design, but sometimes that's what your site needs: to stand out from the crowd. Raena shows you how you can easily combine some...

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No Stress RSS with the Google Feed API

You love JSON. It's clean, efficient, and easy to work with. But when dealing with data from blogs or news sources, you'll most likely have to deal with RSS. In this quick tutorial, Raena shows you how...

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Wicked WordPress Theme Frameworks

In WordPress, as in life, reinventing the wheel is for suckers. If you're going to create a theme, build it on a framework. Raena Jackson Armitage provides the guidelines you need. Continue reading...

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How To Build a Speedy WordPress Sandbox VM

If you’re planning to break into the world of WordPress development, it makes sense to set up a dedicated development environment — and one of the best ways to do it is with a virtual machine. Raena...

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Roots—A HTML5 WordPress Theme Framework

Raena's found another wicked WordPress framework. Let her show you the finer points of Roots.Continue reading %Roots—A HTML5 WordPress Theme Framework%

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Small Screens Come First: Build for 320 And Up

Raena Jackson Armitage has been thinking about mobile users and responsive web design, and has found an approach that is "head-smackingly simple". Continue reading %Small Screens Come First: Build for...

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