Treehouse Quick Tips

When creating JavaScript functions, we give names to each one of the arguments that our function takes. But what if you want a function to take more than one argument? Learn more about variable arguments in JavaScript with Jim, resident Treehouse JavaScript expert, in this Treehouse Quick Tip!

In this Quick Tip, Treehouse WordPress teacher Zac explains the options you have when choosing your WordPress site's URLs. Choosing the right permalink structure can have an amazing effect on your website's SEO value. Do you have a blog or news site where a date-based permalink structure would work best? Or do you need those all important title keywords in the URL? Find out in this helpful tutorial from Treehouse.

In this this Treehouse quick tip, we're going to look at how to change the home page in your WordPress blog from displaying the latest blog posts, to displaying a static home page instead. This is really helpful when you're using WordPress more as a content management system than just a blogging platform.

In this Quick Tip, Nick Pettit provides an overview of HTML5, including a look at some of the new tags now available to designers and developers. If you want to learn how to take advantage of all the new features of HTML5, this video is for you!

In this QuickTip, we're going to discuss how to create and edit an .htaccess file to use with a WordPress site.

In this Treehouse Quick Tip, Mat Helme starts off this great new Illustrator series by showing us how to effectively use the Adobe Illustrator CS6 workspace.

Have you ever wanted to learn the basics of the Type Tool in Adobe Illustrator CS6? If so, you have come to the right place. In this Quick Tip, we will use the Type tool and learn how to: select other fonts, alter the size of the text, add a stroke color, and change case (Uppercase, Lowercase, Title Case, Sentence Case). Also we will convert the text to an object with the Create Outlines feature.

In this Adobe Illustrator CS6 Quick Tip we’ll take a look the Shape Tools. This will include the Rectangle Tool, Rounded Rectangle Tool, Ellipse Tool, Polygon Tool, Star Tool and the Flare Tool. We will also learn how the directional up and down keys can add and subtract anchor points to the Star Tool and the Polygon Tool for faster productivity.

Precisely aligning objects can be pretty difficult without the Align Panel in Adobe Illustrator CS6. In this Quick Tip we’ll take a look at using the Align Panel and all of its features. We will cover the methods of aligning objects to one another as well as to the Artboard. Also we will take a look at spacing objects and distributing them. This comes in handy whenever we want to be precise with our layouts and design aesthetics.

In this Adobe Illustrator CS6 Quick Tip we’ll take a look at using the Pen Tool and all its features. From creating a simple object to altering the anchor points of the object. We will also go over adding and removing points with the Add Anchor Point Tool and Delete Anchor Point Tool. Also, we'll take a look at the Convert Anchor Point Tool. We then take a look at the importance of bezier curves and how we can manipulate them with the pen tool.

Create a registration form within a storyboard for iPhone and iPad. This is done using a static table in Xcode. Static tables are used throughout the settings app.

In this Treehouse Quick Tip, we will learn how to test locations in the iPhone simulator. When building with location service, you want to be able to test various locations to make sure you're app is functioning correctly.

In this Treehouse Quick Tip, we're going to learn how to use random objects found throughout the average household to create our very own custom texture in Photoshop.

In this Quick Tip, we'll learn how to validate HTML and why it's important.

Sometimes you need to wait a certain amount of time in your program before taking an action. You may also want to repeat an action after a certain length of time. You can do this using a timeOut and an interval. In this example tutorial, the element is replaced using getElementById.