You see it everywhere, or on a lot of sites and you’ve always wondered how on earth images or text seem to be stacked on top of each other?  If you haven’t heard about it, then you’ll be surprised that you can actually have layers on a site.  Just like layers in photoshop, you can put multiple images on top of each other, or place text on top of a banner with ease by using a CSS property called z-index.
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Ever wanted to know how options are implemented with WordPress? Through lots of tutorials, I’ve finally been able to make a theme that had some options in the backend to make it easy for users/clients to change up colors, the width of the site, link colors, and simple things like that.

Ares Framework brings you the simple theme but with a Theme Options Page for the WordPress admin. (Download link at the bottom)

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As a web developer, I’m sure most of us code our sites in our favorite browsers such as Firefox or Google Chrome. Sure enough, we speed through coding as everything works out right, but then we get slapped down by clients when they open their Internet Explorer browser and they see a huge mess. If you haven’t experienced this trouble, then either you’re a web coding prodigy, or just haven’t checked out some of your works on IE6 and up. (I have to give IE 8 some credit for being somewhat usable).

So what’s the fastest way to clean up?

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