I have just posted a massive tutorial which will help you begin the process of understanding Object-Oriented Programming with PHP using MVC frameworks. This is by far the largest tutorial I have written, so if you see any spelling/grammatical errors, or have suggestions, please let my know by leaving a comment. Now go check it out!

PHP – Introduction to MVC Frameworks

Ever wonder how websites create drop menus for navigation purposes? It’s actually a lot easier than you think it is, so how about you check out the CSS – Drop Menus tutorial.

My last post to this blog was December… For this I apologize. Between work, snowboarding, and friends I’ve been swamped and have had little to no time to contribute to this site’s content. This is going to change, I promise you that. Over the next few months I plan to start releasing more tutorials that will help user’s entering the web development world to understand what they need to do. For those of you who are already seasoned enough, I plan to release a couple tutorials that may benefit you as well.

I’m also asking that if anyone knows of anything they’d like to see here, please let me know your thoughts. Sometimes it’s hard to write tutorials because you are blindly writing something without any idea if it’s going to actually benefit your user-base. So you, the reader, what do you want to see in the way of tutorials? What have you been struggling with? What kind of references would you like to have? Let’s hear it!

*Update: New jQuery tutorial will be up by this evening. – March 11, 2009 @ 10:07am

Systems have been upgraded to WordPress 2.7. Everything is stable, plugins are working, all is good. Also please note that I have tweaked some visual display bugs that were being encountered when viewing category listings when a post contained AJAX elements.

*Edit: A small error was encountered with jQuery displaying on pages themeselves. This was due to the $ caller causing errors with the mix of scriptaculous. Switching $ to jQuery fixed this problem.

I started playing around with jQuery last week and, rather quickly, found out how powerful this framework really is. So I was inspired to write my own custom AJAX plugin for the framework to handle my AJAX calls with extremely easy implementation. After finishing the plugin, I also realized that it was time to organized the Resources layout as well.

No longer will you have to look at one extremely long post to figure out what is what. I have implemented some jQuery functionality into these pages to organize each post into tabbed sections. So finding what you want will be a matter of just looking at the tabs and clicking the right one.

So how about you go download my new fancy plugin now?

Edit: WD Category Listing has been updated to v1.0.1. Please read release notes to view the changes.

WD Category Listing, v1.0, as just been put up for download. This plugin is the first of many more plugins to come from I Am Web Dude. If anyone finds any bugs with this plugin please be sure to leave a comment on the plugin page. I hope everyone enjoys this plugin and makes good use of it. Also, if you use it leave me a link so I can see it in action on someone else’s blog!

Today I have launched version 1.0.1 of I Am Web Dude. In this update you will notice many different things off the bat, and at the same time you will not see a lot of what has happened. From changing the way the homepage looks like, to the adjustment of some source code, a lot has gone into polishing version 1.0.1. I’m hoping this change will work out and allow you to enjoy your stay here even more.

On the homepage you will notice that I have cut down the posts to only display one post’s excerpt and then list the five previous entries below it. This decision was made to hopefully clear up the homepage and allow some focus to be directed to the tutorials and other sections of the page. With the change of what posts are displayed I have also added the Recent Resources section. This will display the five latest plugins, source code snippets, etc. This will give you easy access to get to what is fresh on the site. Once content starts building up these sections will start to look more and more attractive as their content will be top notch!

On that note, I would also like to announce that I will have my first official WordPress up for download later this evening. This plugin will be extremely useful for content driven websites, and I Am Web Dude is currently using it in the sidebar. More on this in another post in a couple hours! I just need to get the README created and the plugin submitted to WordPress’ plugin repository.

Once I have my new plugin posted I will be jumping in and revising the AJAX tutorial as what I have now is pretty low quality and could be way better; plus it’s missing a live preview of the code in action… Bad!

So I hope everyone likes this update! Please let me know if you think I need to change, remove, or fix anything!

Today my first tutorial was approved by Pixel2Life. You can view the tutorial’s approval state here. By having this tutorial posted on Pixel2Life hopefully this place can start building some traffic.

With the approval of this tutorial I am pleased to announce that I have enabled public commenting. You no longer are required to be registered and logged in to tell me your thoughts. Hopefully this will satisfy more users and increase the amount of people that start sticking around.

On that note, I am still working on some visual adjustments to the site so expect some updates throughout the day!

(Yup, work is slow and while Suthan works a little on 1Three I’m going to get this place polished up )

Sorry for the stagnant state of the site, but I’ve been extremely busy with work and adjusting to my full-time school schedule the last week. Now things are finally starting to come together and my time is being budgeted better so more updates to the site will come shortly.

I have a quite a few tweaks that I’m going to make to the layout, and one of those consists of public commenting. Right now you have to be registered and logged in to comment, but this is just because I don’t want a flood of activity while I try to get the rest of the site up and running. So look forward to more commenter’s here in the near future.

Also, a revised version of the Introduction to AJAX tutorial is coming as well. This version will be more focused on implementing the Object-Oriented side of PHP so the script-side will be up to the current standards.

For those of you subscribed to the RSS and/or visiting here daily looking for updates, I thank you for your patience!

I’m currently working on a gallery script that I will be implementing into 1Three. I need some ideas of features everyone would like to see in this system.

Currently I plan on implementing:

CMS Side:

• Add/Edit/Remove Images
• Approve/Deny/Edit Comments
• Lightbox Implementation

Front-End:

• View Images (Lightbox)
• Ratings
• Add Comments

Leave your thoughts on this as I’m looking to make an interesting Gallery script that I can also put up for download here in the future.

Thanks everyone!