Everyone learns things differently. As a designer, and more visually oriented learner, I have a hard time learning how to do things like programming. It took me a long time, a loooong time to wrap my head around Php, and even still I find that to be a challenge. I would love to learn it better so I could be one of those Php gurus out there, but it’s just not gonna happen people

A Fresh New WordPress Theme Design By Tweeaks

This is a new project I am working on, and it’s about time too! I have been meaning to start making Wordpress custom themes and designs for a while now, and never had the time to with all the other things I have going on. I had a reason to do it this time, and was motivated to make it the best I could, but within some requirements

44 Sites To Submit Links To Increase Site Traffic

If you have your own website then you would be interested in promoting it as many places as you can on the internet. If you provide useful content, and want to get more exposure of your website, then this list is a good resource.

You can start submitting your links to is right here on Tweeaks, Community Links. Your links will show up in the sidebar as well as on the links page

How To Make A Dynamic jQuery Feature Post Slider For WordPress

I finally finished getting my new custom jQuery featured post slider working as you can see in the header of the site. It took some trial and error but I eventually managed to figure out how to get it working. I ran into issues because I was first trying to use to get the posts, but then learned about WP_Query() and that solved all my problems.

15 Stunning Manipulated Photos – Masters of Design

I can make a hundred of these lists just from the amazing images I have seen on Behance, and I just might. There are some unbelievable designers on that site that I have to really give a lot of credit for the work they do. I’d say I have better than average design skills, but there are some people out there that really push the envelope.

This list of photo manipulations is so breathtaking, I don’t know how else I can better describe them besides simply astonishing. I collected this list a while back in just one visit to Behance, and it didn’t take long to find all of these either. I know you will enjoy these amazing works of art, and creative design masterpieces

800+ Vector Tutorials For Illustrator Photoshop and Flash

Since I haven’t yet posted on this yet I thought it was about time I do. I have created other mega lists before, that are also worth checking out and bookmarking if you haven’t done that already. Since I’m not nearly as skilled with Illustrator as I am with Photoshop, I know this list will be a great resource for me personally. Once I find the time to learn a little more about Illustrator, and vector design, this list will give me more than I need to get started

How To Block Ads Effectively, Safely and Easily + Other Annoyances

adblocke Everyone gets sick of all the thousands of advertisements seen on the internet, on just about every website you visit, at any given time. Some advertisements are so annoying and sometimes you just want them gone. You may be one of the 58 million Firefox users that have installed the extension, Adblock Plus, or maybe you still use Internet Explorer for some reason, and have installed the AdblockIE. Otherwise you may use Safari, and have installed PithHelmet to block ads on your Mac. Another addon I just found out about is Adsweep, but like the others it can block a lot of ads, but not of them.

How To Use WordPress Excerpts On Your Blog Homepage

wordpress-hacks I recently came to learn how useful using the excerpt feature that is built into Wordpress. You can use excerpts if you want to show a short blurb for each post on your blog’s homepage, which I have been wanting to do on Tweeaks for a long time now I just didn’t know how to do it. Since I was doing some layout modifications, and tweaks FINALLY, I figured I should find out how to use excerpts, and I am happy I did. It’s so easy

I recently realized how easy it is to forget the something I once knew how to do very well. CSS was the first thing I learned how to do in web design, since I started getting into coding because of Myspace. It’s funny I know, but Myspace is the reason for what I now do for a living, but I haven’t been doing much CSS coding for a the past few months. It isn’t something I need to do much of at my current job.

Lately I’ve been modifying the design of Tweeaks.com, which involves doing CSS, and I quickly noticed how much I forgot. To freshen my memory up, and to make my life easier so I don’t go insane trying to do things I think are right but apparently aren’t because they don’t work as they should, I searched for some CSS articles. I found some really great things, some of which I listed here. These are invaluable resources, which have helped me solve the CSS issues I’ve had the past few weeks now. So I had to share them with other people who might need to refreshen their CSS skills, and anyone else who might be interested to learn CSS.

Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started

Mastering CSS: Styling Design Elements

Mastering CSS: Advanced Techniques

With these three articles on Smashing Magazine, you should be able to learn enough to get by when making a website. There is so much more you can do with CSS. Lately, I have been using CSS in a lot of different ways because of some jQuery things I have been making. It is becoming the way to design websites today, and if you still use tables, like these, you are either a Coldfusion developer, or you are this guy. I personally prefer tableless design, over the use of tables just for the fact that the code is cleaner, more organized, and much more is possible when using div layers. I don’t care if it’s considered "cutting-edge web standards" that some people out there might call it. Plus I just really hate tables, which is why I am not a fan of Coldfusion, even though it is part of my job lol.

Hope you enjoyed this post. It has proven to be helpful to me, and I’m sure you will too.