Start from August 2009, every month we take a look at new tutorials, tips, articles and techniques presented in Web-Development-related blogs and magazines and collect them for you. Below an overview of the best tools and articles, which have become popular or were published in October 2009.

BoxOver uses javascript / DHTML to show tooltips on a website. Implementation of the tooltips, however, requires no knowledge of DHTML or javascript. Move your mouse over the items below to see examples. BoxOver is free and distributed under the GNU license.

There are many tweaks which can be set to customise it to your needs by setting through a tag’s “title” attribute. Some of them are very useful.

The fonts used in the comics and animation is completely different with other document types. Manga and comic fonts can show characters's emotions , sounds, actions ... We have now discovered 18 unique and refreshing cartoon and comic fonts for you to give your artwork and design that extra. Here are a few for sneak preview and the full list is right after the jump. Use an all-caps font for your main text, a handwritten font for small text, and a variety of different fonts for sound effects. One last word of advice: avoid Comic Sans at all costs (die-hard manga fans hate it above all else.)

The concept of aesthetic sophistication of women than men so much, that's their privilege. For women, in my opinion, the design does not require too important to their blogs, what they concern is the color and layout content feminine or not? They do not care much to new technology, design style and new trend ....

Pinky Kupy

Pink Kupy 1.0. A 2 column, fixed width theme, widgets not supported unfortunately. Download Pinky Kupy

Installing too many plugins will make the wordpress blog work slowly and unstable, use code built in your theme will reduce the system resources.

I've known a ton of plugins and widgets that allows me to list recent comments and recent post on my WordPress blog but I'm not using it. Because I've integrated some useful code below then I get results similar to those extensions which I've known.

List most recent comments

<?php
  global $wpdb;
  $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID, comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved, comment_type,comment_author_url, SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,30) AS com_excerpt FROM $wpdb->comments LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID = $wpdb->posts.ID) WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' AND post_password = '' ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 10";

  $comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
  $output = $pre_HTML;
  $output .= "\n<ul>";
  foreach ($comments as $comment) {
    $output .= "\n<li>".strip_tags($comment->comment_author) .":" . "<a href=\"" . get_permalink($comment->ID)."#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "\" title=\"on ".$comment->post_title . "\">" . strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt)."</a></li>";
  }
  $output .= "\n</ul>";
  $output .= $post_HTML;
  echo $output;
?>

Keyboard shortcuts are typically an alternate means for invoking one or more commands that would otherwise be accessible only through a menu, a pointing device, different levels of a user interface, or via a command console. Keyboard shortcuts generally expedite common operations by reducing input sequences to a few keystrokes, hence the term "shortcut".

Adobe Photoshop CS3 is a huge program full of buttons and options that can be used for many different purposes. Keyboard shortcuts can improve your efficiency, and in some cases, they can even invoke commands that might not otherwise be available (e.g., zooming while a dialog box is open, or inserting a Select forward layer command into an action). Knowing keyboard shortcuts help you to be more efficient and work faster!