Input vs Button – Which to use?

Input vs Button – Which to use?

While working on form design, I encountered some issues when using images as submit buttons when use some browsers.
You can include images in a <button> tag, but not in an <input> tag, amoung other differences. They are very similar but the tag has a few extras that can be useful on the odd occasion.

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How to Highlight Author Comments in WordPress using CSS

How to Highlight Author Comments in WordPress using CSS

Many blogs highlight the author’s comment in the comments section. I’m talking about how to highlight comments posted by the author of the article. You can use many plugins to get this effect (For eg., the Highlight Author Comments Plugin) – but you don’t have to. Most snippets will target and try to find author’s email or user id, but that actually slows your site down. Why not using CSS selector and find author’s comment and change the background color so it is easily pointed out. Pretty smart. After that, it was a simple matter of times to see the result.

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45+ Most Popular Social Bookmarking Link Codes for WordPress

45+ Most Popular Social Bookmarking Link Codes for WordPress

With Social Bookmark websites, users can save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Your visitors can now bookmark and submit your websites to all their favorite social bookmark services with the ease of a single click.
So how can we encourage more people to share our links? One of the easiest options is to include a set of links at the bottom of your posts which readers can click to automatically vote for your article. In this post, I’ve written the WordPress codes for 45+ of the most popular social bookmarking and networking sites out there.

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15+ promising jQuery Lightbox-Clones plugins

Lightbox, and the newer Lightbox 2, is a JavaScript application used to display large images using modal dialogs. On a Lightbox-enabled page, a user can click an image to have it magnified in a Lightbox window, which resizes itself according to the size of the image using a gliding animation. Lightbox determines which images will be shown in the modal window through the XHTML “rel” attribute, which is used on an <a> element wrapped around the <img alt=”” /> element. Lightbox also provides a way to attach captions to images and to run a slide show, which can be navigated using the arrow keys.

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