Someone you know may or may not be close to the top seller on the Tuts+ Marketplace!

It turns out the people over at Envato have launched the Tuts+ Marketplace.

We’ve just launched the Tuts+ Marketplace, where Premium quality tutorials – both from our Tuts+ Premium program and from unaffiliated authors – are available to purchase individually. Our Tuts+ Premium program will still stay exactly the same – you’ll get all the same things, for the same price. But now, non-members will be able to purchase selected Premium tutorials on a one-off basis, without a Premium membership.

What does this mean for you?

A la Carte tutorials instead of having to pay for a monthly subscription.

What does this mean for me?

A chance to make a little bit of money while teaching people some new things.

So go ahead and checkout my portfolio page and while you there, look around. There are TONS of great tutorials ranging from beginner to expert!

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I was responsible for design and development of a functional WordPress theme, content organization and plug-in development/management.

Vantage Studios Inc. is proud to launch the new Teleco Wireless!

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Vantage Studios Inc. launches Vulcan Attachments!

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Vantage Studios Inc. launches Unsurpassed Waters and Birding Manitoba!

This was a 2 site set developed for Travel Manitoba.

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This was a 2 site set developed for Travel Manitoba.

I was responsible for design and development of a functional WordPress theme(s), content organization and plug-in development/management.

All content property of Vantage Studios Inc.

The first draft just slid up a background sprite to reveal the tab. My co-workers did not like this as it looked awkward.

This is where LabsTab 1.0 was created.

The Goal

In a perfect world the tab would slide up, the text would fade from grey to white and everyone would be happy. My initial goal is to have the text use Cufon to replace the text but it will require some keen thinking and a bit of Cufon.refresh();

The Current State

Right now the tab is split into 2 background images.

The Tab Background & The Text

When the user rolls over the link, the tab slides up. This is good. The bad part is the text background doesn’t fade into the new background because by default jQuery wants to animate the background position.

Also it is very poorly coded, I’ve moved from MooTools to jQuery so I’m still a tad unfamiliar with things.

The Code

I’ve uploaded the entire project to github so feel free to fork it and make it better!

http://github.com/envex/LabsTab

Twitter @Anywhere is an easy to deploy solution for bringing the Twitter communication platform to your own site. Add follow buttons, hovercards, linkify @usernames, and build deeper integrations with “Connect to Twitter.” @Anywhere promotes a more engaged user base for your site.

Just installed Twitter’s new @anywhere service. Just hover over my name @envex to test it out!

One of the best things about being a designer/developer/geek is that there is always something new to learn. Even if you’re not keeping up with current trends you can always take time to learn the things of the past.

One of the areas of development I’ve briefly glanced at was e-commerce. It’s not that I don’t enjoy e-commerce, it’s just the opportunities to create full sized e-commerce websites has never come up.

Naturally, when I was contacted by Packt Publishing to review a book on WordPress I was excited. Getting to learn about WordPress, awesome. Getting a (free) book, awesome. When I noticed it was about e-commerce it sparked my interest to new levels.

WordPress 2.9 e-Commerce

Now, this is just a preview of the review. A “yes-i’m-going-to-write-it-soon” post if you will.

Feel free to download the sample chapter “Shipping, Taxes, and Processing Orders”

Be sure to send me friendly reminders on twitter (@envex) to remind me that I should be reading!