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Workaround for dropdown menu hover on mobile browsers

Shaiful is back, this time with some tips on making dropdown menu hover interaction work on mobile browsers. Keep Reading

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Reliable way to render your site on IE6

Syazwan shows how to render your site on IE6 - without breaking anything. Keep Reading

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Things I’ve Learned So Far

Within hours of joining Stampede, Wan Shariff's first tasks include a presentation on the properties of white space and how it improves web content readability. He had also recently got his hands dirty with live-coding his very first html typography test. Woohoo! Keep Reading

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The Joy Of Teaching

Shen joined the Stampede Design family six months ago and had his fair share of learning from the team's senior developers. With Stampede's recent bouts of hiring, he has recently discovered that teaching is sweet. It's payback time. Keep Reading

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Get Rid of Unwanted Space Below

Got an unexplained and unwanted space below <img>? Fret not - Syazwan is back to share a handy tip. Keep Reading

User Experience

Parallax Is The New Black

Parallax scrolling - where multiple backgrounds seem to move at different speeds - is gaining quite the following among web practitioners. Mujib took the time to dissect three of his favorite websites with the infamous parallax scrolling effect. Keep Reading

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Generating Simple 1D Barcodes with PHP

In web applications like an online-ticketing system, encoding the purchase reference number as barcodes on the ticket print or voucher can be quite useful in helping over-the-counter staff to quickly handle processes such as guest check-in using a barcode scanner. Shaiful shares a simple tool for starters exploring about barcode generation in PHP applications, the cool way he knows how. Keep Reading

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Supermassive Custom Template

Supermassive is this powerful, professional WordPress theme, dubbed in their own marketing phrase "the next generation WordPress theme". It could help you to create a great looking theme that allows you to make your own unique and abstract layouts in minutes. Syazwan gladly shares his experience working on this Supermassive custom template. Keep Reading

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Easy Way to Generate Complex Excel Spreadsheet Programmatically

In one of his projects, one of the requirements was the system must be able to produce an official form document in Excel spreadsheet with precise formatting that will look consistent when printed. Like the smooth strumming of his guitar, Shaiful shares a quick workaround on how to generate complicated Excel documents from your application. Keep Reading

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Disable HTML Auto-Formatting in WordPress

The "HTML mode" in the WordPress editor doesn't really provide you with total control of the HTML being generated on the frontend. Some of the auto-formatting it does are for instance wrapping your inline elements with <p> and line breaks are also interpreted as <p>. If you're someone who likes full control over the HTML of your content in WordPress, this simple solution might interest you. Shaiful shows you how. Keep Reading