The Loop is the basis of dynamic content in WordPress. Joe Casabona explains what it does, how to use it, and resolves the most common Loop-related queries

CSS transitions rarely happen in isolation. Adding transitions to groups of elements means there's more to keep track of and more opportunity to add variety. We can also take advantage of how our brains tend to see things to both save ourselves some work and make things a little more interesting

WordPress has a fantastic feature called shortcodes. Paul Maloney shows you how they work and offers up a few examples of shortcodes you can use in your WordPress install

CoffeeScript helps generate readable code. Jonathan Barrett, of accounting software provider FreeAgent, walks you through validating an online form to demonstrate how

Nathan Smith of Projekt202 explains how to use Handlebars.js to build lightweight HTML templates for JSON data

Joe Lambert walks you through creating a stunning page turn effect to enhance a portfolio image gallery

In this extract from his SitePoint book PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, which is on sale now, Kevin Yank offers a beginner’s guide to this server-side language

Many sites neglect users with slow connections. Ian Culshaw explains how to use SVG library Raphaël to create a preloader that’ll hold the users' attention while pages load

Near Field Communication (NFC) enables wireless communication between things like phones, stickers and cards. In this tutorial Richard Leggett shows us how to write a game demo that both reads and writes custom data to an NFC tag