Just because some techniques don t work in decade old browsers doesn t mean that you shouldn t be learning everything you can! Stay on the cutting edge, as we use everything from CSS shadows and animations, to HTML 5 mark-up and local storage, to utilizing jQuery to work with the Picasa API. We ll also take advantage of the excellent jQuery library, and review some best practices when coding.

Today, we re going to be taking the PSD website design, from Mahmoud s Psdtuts+ Tutorial ,and coding it into valid, semantic HTML and CSS. Along the way, we ll go over some essential CSS techniques, such as image replacement, sliding doors, and CSS sprites. This is a monster of a tutorial, as the design is a bit complex. Nevertheless, a relative beginner should be able to follow along, so put on a pot of coffee and let s get started!

Recently, I thought I d try my hand at creating a simple CSS selector engine. You know what I m talking about: it s the kind of thing you use in most javascript libraries, where you pass in a CSS selector to find the elements you want to work with. Today, I ll show you how to create a really simple one!
What we are going to be building today is in no way something you d use on a live site. It will not have all the great features you re used to using in the  real  selector engines, but it will give you a small taste of how complicated something like Sizzle or NWMatcher can be. And who knows? Maybe you ll pick up a few javascript tips and tricks on the way.

What once required background images and icons can now be created with plain-old CSS. Because modern browsers have access to things like box shadow, gradients, rounded corners, text-shadows, and font-face, we can finally take advantage of this and remove any need for images, when creating visual elements, such as buttons! I ll show you how in today s video tutorial.

Though the idea of a video-specific HTML element was suggested well over a decade ago, we re only just beginning to see this come to fruition! Forget all of that  HTML5 2012  mumbo-jumbo; the truth is that you can use the video element in your projects right now! The only problem is that the video players are inconsistent from browser to browser, and full-screen support is, at the time of this writing, only available in certain browsers, via a right-click. Further, what if we want to brand our video player? Unfortunately, there isn t an easy way to do so by default. The solution is to create a custom player that remedies all of these issues.

In this course, Jeremy McPeak, author of Professional AJAX and Beginning javascript: 4th Edition, will teach you how to build high quality ASP.NET applications from scratch. Even better, for those who prefer a more visual approach, each lesson comes in the form of a twenty to thirty minute video tutorial. Ready to dive in?