You already may have child themes down and you've built a few from some WordPress themes. But, have you thought about building a child theme from another child theme? In this article, Linda shows how to accomplish this small feat, which is very similar to building a child theme from scratch.

A week ago we started a competition to give 5 copies of WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner's guide  book away! Today, after pointing out names in the dark, we have our lucky winners: Dan Trudeau, Arthus Woods, Kim Christensen, Michael Ryle and Peter Stevenson. Everyone will be notified via email, so you can get your books as quick as possible.

An online petition calling for British government agencies to drop Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been launched on the official site of Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Microsoft has provided some early testers with a near-final "release candidate" version of Office 2010 as the software maker works to make the suite broadly available in June.

About two weeks ago, a startup based in Alexandria, Minnesota by the name of Striquent quietly launched a new website that combines results from major search engines. "The idea for qrobe.it was born out of a discussion on if the search experience can be improved upon or as the saying goes 'one can't improve what is already perfect,'" Nisha Boban, QA Analyst at Striquent.

In a blog post, Aaron Boodman, the developer of the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox, announced that Chrome version 4 and later will support most of the JavaScript-coded Greasemonkey scripts without any additional tweaking necessary.

There were rumors for months about Apple's new masterpiece and finally, it was introduced - the iPad, a device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, playing games, reading e-books, and much more. Its high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets you interact with content — including 12 innovative new apps designed especially for iPad and almost all of the 140,000 apps available on the App Store.

When it comes to developing websites and pages we could all use a little help now and then when it comes down to the real detail. Fortunately there's a wide variety of tools on offer to developers that can be of use when it comes to developing, monitoring, evaluating and debugging web pages. Here are 10 which I've found useful over the years.

The Hybrid Theme, developed originally by Justin Tadlock, opens doors to a variety of possible layouts - all easy to change and to adapt through child themes. In this article, Linda shows how to create a site with a static page and more with the Hybrid News Theme.

By now you should have WordPress installed on your server as well as a new theme and child theme in development. In this article, Linda shows how you can change themes on a whim, as well as how to alter them within WordPress (WP).

Vladimir Prelovac is the author of many popular WordPress plugins and articles about WordPress optimization, security and maintenance. He actively uses WordPress platform as a base for Internet development strategy for small & mid-sized businesses. This book is for programmers working with WordPress, who want to develop custom plug-ins and to hack the code base. You need to be familiar with the basics of WordPress and PHP programming and believe that code is poetry; this book will handle the rest.

We've got a brand new mini-review and competition of Vladimir Prelovac's new book - WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner's Guide. Our friends from Packt Publishing are giving away 5 books!

There were rumors for months about Apple's new masterpiece and finally, it was introduced - the iPad, a device for browsing the web, reading and sending email, enjoying photos, watching videos, playing games, reading e-books, and much more. Its high-resolution Multi-Touch display lets you interact with content — including 12 innovative new apps designed especially for iPad and almost all of the 140,000 apps available on the App Store.

Google rolled out a new version of Google Voice for iPhone, but one that bypasses Apple's iTunes app store and functions direction from the iPhone's browser.

Microsoft's long and winding road toward regaining lost ground in the cell phone business will reach an important milestone in Barcelona next month. At the annual Mobile World Congress event, Microsoft will at long last show off Windows Mobile 7--its oft-delayed major revamp of the decade-old Windows CE code base that has been at the core of its mobile operating system since the days of challenging the Palm Pilot.

Google has released its "stable" version of Chrome 4.0, an incarnation under development for months that brings extensions to customize Chrome features and a host of technologies for more powerful Web programming.

Last week, Google's YouTube announced early support for HTML5 video, which can be built directly into Web pages and viewed with browsers without relying on a plug-in such as Adobe Systems' Flash, Microsoft's Silverlight, or Apple's QuickTime. Another Web video site, Vimeo, followed suit.

A week ago we started a competition to give 5 copies of Dan Wellman's new book away! Today, after pointing out names in the dark, we have our lucky winners: Russell Haskell, Paul Klein, Dave Ackroyd, Kristen Alderson and Frank Penn. Everyone will be notified via email, so you can get your books as quick as possible.

Congratulations and stay tuned for more Mini-reviews and free books in the next weeks!

Upload, resize, manage multiple files and generate thumbnails. Sharpen the thumbnails automatically, rotate your images and preserve EXIF information after resizing your images.

A Rich Multi Uploader Flash Component is included that allows full file management and multiple secure uploads in just a few clicks! Use the easy browsing feature for the selection of files to upload, automatically generate a clear overview and advanced status report with progress bars and the condition of the selected files. Optionally remove files from your overview or upload queue and customize it to any site design.

For the entire list of customizable properties and available methods read the API reference. 

jQuery to the Next Level

In this e-book Dan Wellman will show you how to take your jQuery scripts to intermediate/advanced levels by focusing on several areas of usage. Overall you'll get to see and use a range of different technologies that can be used alongside jQuery to enhance the user experience of your sites including PHP and cURL, Mysql, JSON, Yahoo Pipes, regular expressions, and XML. This e-book is best suited for intermediate or advanced developers that want to learn more about jQuery.

We've got a brand new mini-review and competition of Dan Wellman's new book - jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery. Our friends from Packt Publishing are giving away 5 books!

Apple released the first developer beta of Mac OS X 10.6.3 last week. Among the 221 code changes, there appears to be some initial support for parts of the OpenGL 3.0 spec, though Apple will have a long way to go before Snow Leopard is OpenGL 3-ready.

Over the next few weeks, Google Docs will expand to allow users to upload any type of file - music, photos, graphics, zip files, and more - into their accounts. The file size maxes out at 250 MB and there’s a minimum 1 GB of storage space included with the account.

Mozilla made available the first release candidate of Firefox 3.6. This will be the first major update to Firefox 3.5, which debuted roughly six months ago. The Firefox team reminded users that the 3.6 release offers improvements in performance, web technologies, customization and third party application support.

Dan Wellman is an author and web developer based in the UK. For many year he's been writing articles for DMXzone. This year he published his third book called: jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery. The book is a great help for people who are diving into the world of jQuery and want to learn quickly how to use the jQuery UI User Interface Library.

In this e-book Dan will show you how to take your jQuery scripts to intermediate/advanced levels by focusing on several areas of usage.

In the seventh and final part in the jQuery form enhancement tutorial Dan shows you how to add a flexible and robust theming mechanism that allows new themes for the form and its enhancements to be developed quickly and applied easily. In these examples Dan looks at how to add some cool new CSS3 styles to the form and the new features that have been added to it.

At this point in the WordPress process, you probably are anxious to use a theme other than the bland WordPress default theme. In this article, Linda shows how to choose themes and how to modify them easily and safely with the child theme option.

If you've uploaded and installed Wordpress (WP), you're probably anxious to style your site with widgets and plugins. In this article, Linda provides tips and tools that can make these design options work best for you.

Bring your photos to life in an amazing slideshow. This control uses amazing effects from the famous director, Ken Burns. The slideshow slowly zooms in and pans across your photos, bringing your photos to life. Furthermore, you can add your favourite sound or music track, making it the most enjoyable slideshow ever!

The control allows you to create and customize your slideshow within a few clicks. Images are resized to a specified size using Visual Studio. The Flash player is used for displaying the slideshow to the user.