After both myself and Andrew being inactive for a while on Anti Tables, we have been able to get back into the groove so to speak and get some new content on Anti Tables up, though now it seems were slipping back again, don't worry the project isn't dead, far from it in fact. Though I thought I'd give you all an explanation of what happened during our inactivity period and what's coming up in the near coming future.

One of the most exciting new additions in CSS3 has to be the ability to create shadows directly via styling, no longer do we have to use weird div positioning and images to create a drop shadow type effect, instead we now only have to use one property to apply the new shadow effect to our elements and that is box-shadow, with box-shadow we only need to apply it to a div or any other element via styling and that's it! In this tutorial I'll show you how to use the new CSS3 property and get the best out of it.

There are quite a lot of attributes in CSS, hence why CSS is so powerful and able to style webpages in unique ways, but like many coding languages CSS has shorthand methods when using certain properties. It's good practice to get used to shorthand methods because after all, if you're not using shorthand, your just creating more work for yourself, and as far as coding is concerned you really don't want to be doing that! Here's some popular short hand methods using some commonly used properties

Kicking off our new weekly segment (Plugin of the week). We look at Syntax Highlighters, there are many variations of this plugin but were taking a look at the WordPress variation called SyntaxHighlighter Evolved, which is coded by Viper007Bond. In short SyntaxHighlighter Evolved allows the user to easily post syntax highlighted code into WordPress posts and pages with minimal editing required. We take a look at how you can use it and how it can benefit your own posts, as well as top tips when using this plugin.

I wanted to share a few useful pieces of code and tools to help developers connect and source data from other websites. In the world of web 2.0, almost everything is connected somehow. Most large social sites have API's that allow easy integration into your application or website.Sometimes as developers we need to extract data or information from other websites to process or display to our users. For example, I developed an iPhone app Control My Phone which helps users stay in control and be aware of their mobile, internet & home phone spending habits. To do this, we had to login to the Telco's websites and fetch certain details such as call usage, caps and billing dates.