UPDATE: Sites Live... After many months of hard work, Collis Ta'eed (design), Mathias Meyer (Rails), and I have reached the final stages in pre-launch testing for the new Freelance Switch. Within a week or two we will have thoroughly tested the staging site to account for what I'm hoping is almost all bugs. The site is the mashup of three different applications and a seriously cool plugin. Below I'll let you in on what technologies we used to build this very awesome web site.

Blog & Plugin

For the blog and most of the sites regular content (i.e. contact, about, etc.) I built a WordPress theme that is extremely custom and sexy. In ...

Finally, all five of the Envato Tuts+ sites have now been switched to the new theme and updated branding, and I just completed the much anticipated Flashtuts+ the other day. The staff in charge of content are feverishly getting ready for a launch, which should be anytime now. So many exciting things have been happening over at Envato recently. A couple new tutorial sites, a new marketplace and one of the coolest things in my opinion to happen in the last few months is the addition of a completely new Tuts+ dashboard and redesigned members section. Now when you sign up for the plus program you only pay ...

There are tons of tutorials on the web these days about how to develop a horizontal navigation menu, but few of them are very reliable across browsers when it comes to their CSS. Undoubtedly you have come across a tutorial that works great in Firefox and the most recent versions of Internet Explorer but if you look at IE6 and below things start to get weird. This tutorial will show you how to create a CSS cross-browser horizontal menu navigation very quickly and easily. In this tutorial I am going to explain some of the pitfalls and offer you a solution for tabbed navigation that has been tested and will render exactly ...