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Full page background slideshows are something that are getting pretty common these days for various websites. These websites include various portfolio websites for Artists or Photographers. They like to show off their skills straight on their home page by showcasing their work as a slideshow on the background of the page. I had to do a full page background slideshow for one of my client’s website and that’s when I thought of sharing it with everyone out there. Performing this task can be done in two ways, one is to create it using CSS and write the entire code yourself or the other one is to use a jQuery plugin out there to make your work easier. ...

When I started coding websites for other people, I was really confused with the different positioning options that CSS provides. The options provided actually sound pretty similar and it is normal for anyone to get confused with all that. But then, with time and different experiments, I understood the various positioning options in CSS and here I am to explain them to you in brief. ...

A lot of Android application these days make use of a List View (or ListView) to display the contents to the users on their mobile devices. These lists vary from the most simple one, with just a text to the ones with a lot of elements like an image and various text fields. Today, I decided to teach you all how to create a simple List View in Android. In this small tutorial, I will tell you how to create a simple List View, which will look something like the image below and then when any list item is clicked, we will generate a toast at this moment, saying that so-and-so list item was selected. ...

Android Application Development is the new boom in the programming industry these days. A lot of companies are planning to come up with their Android Applications for the customers and readers. A successful Android Application consists of various small code snippets that you implement in the application. These snippets can range from a simple copy to clipboard function or a function to share the content shown on the screen via some other app to the pretty intense game programming. ...

New year is just round the corner and I have been very busy this Holiday season. I did not get time to write any new post on Slash Coding in the past week. I apologise for that, but I hope you can understand how hectic travelling and the holiday season can be. I promise that in the year 2014, you will find a lot of helpful posts on the blog, and if you want me to cover any specific topic, please share that topic with me in the comments section below, or just email it to me. ...

Web developers at times need to display some information to the users via a means of a popup. Clearly, the regular popups don’t look professional at all. Thus, to create professional looking stylish popups was a demand for the web developers. Hence, jQuery popups came into being. These popups don’t open any new window or tab in the users browser. It just creates a popup, which is displayed on the same page and does not look annoying. ...

Android applications are getting more and more popular these days. A lot more programmers and developers are getting together to build Android Applications for the masses. Also, not to forget that most of these Android Applications need to access the internet for one or the other thing. Though almost every Android phone out there is generally connected to the internet, there may be a case when there is no internet connectivity on the phone. We can not be certain that the internet connection exists. ...

In today’s world, most people want to browse the internet and do all the work from their handheld devices. These handheld devices include mobile phones, tablets or the recently crowned term, Phablets (the term phablets is used to describe a phone with a huge screen size, such as the Samsung Galaxy Note, which was one of the first phablet in the market). The challenge that web developers and designers face is that they have to make a website that can be scaled to any screen size, even for large desktop monitors. This challenge can be overcome by using a Responsive design. ...

Lately, I have been talking a lot about optimizing your website’s loading time. The main reason behind that is that Google and other search engines like websites that load fast, even the customer or the reader would like to visit a website that loads pretty quickly. Thus, it was essential to talk about optimizing your website loading time. After my last post on 5 tips to increase website loading time, one of the readers sent me an email asking me to describe a way to optimize images for his website without losing quality at all. ...

At times, we want to use an image slide show for displaying images in the background of our webpage and this is a difficult task. But with the advancement in the field of web development, it became easy to do so with using some jQuery or JavaScript on the webpage and achieve this goal. But I feel using additional lines of code to implement jQuery or JavaScript is not worth it. We can actually do that by using some of the properties in CSS3. CSS3 introduced a new property, the animation property. We already saw the animation property when I told you how to create a simple animated background for a webpage. If you missed that post, go ahead and read <a title="Animated Background Using CSS" href="http://slashcoding.com/create-an-animated-background-using-css/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">How to Create animated Background using CSS</a>. In today’s tutorial, I would like to share with you all a way to create an image slide show background for your webpage. This can be useful when you want to display some images to the user, by default on any page as the background! ...