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Whenever anyone starts learning CSS, they come to a point when they get confused between the **CSS id **and the CSS Class. A lot of people, who build websites don’t even know the exact difference between the two. When I started learning CSS, I was taught about ids and Classes. I was told that the difference between a class and an id is that an element can have multiple classes, but only a single id. Well, I would not say that this is something false, but this is not the only reason. I was curious to know more about the difference between the two similar-sounding names and that’s when I started to search on the internet to find the actual difference. I went through a lot of websites and finally came up with a few differences that were actually good, and worth sharing. ...

jQuery is something that helps web developers and designers achieve a lot of difficult tasks easily. Today, in this tutorial, I am going to teach you how to create a custom content scroller on your webpage. Have you ever faced a problem when you need to set a maximum height or width for an element on your webpage, but you are cautious that it may hide the actual content? Well, in such a scenario, a custom content scroller can be used, which enables the user to scroll through the content of an element in case it does not fit the screen. It will not scroll the entire webpage, but will just scroll that specific element. Before we begin, have a look at the demo and download the source code if you want. ...

Android application development is a field that most people are targeting these days. There are a lot of opportunities for Android developers in today’s world, and there is a lot of demand for them as well. Also, there are a lot of freelance or Indie Android application developers, and they generally don’t have any funding for their projects. This is the reason that they have to look for ways to monetize their application. There are a lot of monetization networks available today, which provide very good options for publishers, to earn from their applications. Though spamming your application with advertisements is not a good option, placing a single advertisement to show every now and then is a good idea. ...

I am sure you would have heard of the famous figure of speech **Jack of All, Master of none**. It is a very popular figure of speech, which means that a person who knows everything and is not a master of a single thing. Well, in real life, I believe that this figure of speech can be applicable to everyone. I agree that one should be a master in a field and not have his fingers in every field. It does no good. However, in the field of computers, I feel that this saying does not hold true, especially for a Free Lancer and blogger like me. Still I wouldn’t say that this is the only thing that every free lancer should do. ...

A Contact Form is an essential requirement for any website these days. It allows the user to be able to send an email to the website owners regarding anything that they may want. The contact forms can be used for various purposes, and these purposes include a simple contact form, an order enquiry form, or even a registration form for an event sometimes. Today, I am going to help you create a contact form without using any programming language. This contact form will be created with the help of Google Drive, which enables you to get the responses either via email or to be displayed in a spreadsheet on your Google Drive account. ...

I have not been able to update this blog for over a month now. I apologize for that, but I was really busy with my finals at college. And now, they are finally over and I can get back to blogging from today. Well, it was not that easy to be gone away from Slash Coding for a long time, but I had to do it because I had to score well on my finals. How that works out, we will find out very soon! 😉 ...

HTML 5 Frameworks are getting common these days and using them is highly recommended as they reduce your work to some extent. They provide you a basic layout that you can use on your next project and get a head start in the development process. There are various reasons to choose these frameworks, and I would not go into much detail about that here. I have already covered that in my earlier article, which states what are the reason to choose the Bootstrap Framework, but it applies to all the Frameworks more or less. ...

Brainstorming for your next application or project is a very good way to start your development process. Brainstorming (in simple words) is a way of writing down everything that comes to your mind, without thinking how to do that. It is basically what all ideas you have regarding the project or what is that you want implemented in your project. For instance, if I am creating a new android application that is a simple calculator, in the brainstorming session for that, I would list down all the functions that I want my application to provide. This would include the basic calculations or the high-level calculations like calculating the logarithm of any number and so on. ...

At times, you might have seen websites where the selection colour of the text is different than the typical, default blue colour. This thing can be achieved simply by using minimal lines of code in your styling. This tutorial is going to be a very small one, in which I would just tell you the way to change the selection colour and then also change the styling of your text when it is selected. For the demo, I have a sample paragraph just at the end of the tutorial, where you would be able to see everything in action. ...

Heavy websites take a lot of time to load and this can be annoying for the user browsing the website. It seems better to let the user know that the website is loading and to have patience, rather than having the user see half-loaded or the still loading website. There are numerous ways to do that, but in today’s tutorial, I am going to show you a way to show a simple coloured screen with a loading animation on the enter of the page. Once the page loads, this animation will fade out to the completely loaded website. For this tutorial, I am going to use the jQuery background Image slideshow that we created in the last tutorial. In case you missed it, feel free to check it out first. ...