I was recently working on a personal project where I wanted to implement some cool “checkmark” icons like you see at left to spice up my unordered lists. I could’ve done it quite easily with the list-style-image property, but I was trying to keep my images and http requests to a minimum, so I wanted to figure out another way to do it (plus, the challenge sounded kind of fun).

I had just seen Nicolas Gallagher’s awesome pure css social media icons, though, and I thought, “If he can do that, than I could certainly create a simple check icon with just css3″. I did figure it out with some experimenting and testing, and today I’m going to show you how to achieve the same effect.

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I’m glad to announce that today we have a special freebie release for Webitect’s faithful readers and subscribers – a fresh 8 piece social media icon set!

This set has a clean modern feel, comes in four different sizes perfect for blogging (64, 48, 32, 22), and best of all has a completely free unrestrictive license, meaning that you can modify them, use them in personal or commercial projects, and even include them in commercial products (like themes or templates).

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The PHP language includes lots of helpful functions for easily filtering, cleaning and manipulating content, all of which are excellent tools in the hands of a skilled developer. A solid knowledge of these filtering tools will help you achieve enhanced security and functionality in your projects.

Today, I’m going to give you a crash course on PHP’s basic filtering functions so that by the end of the tutorial you’ll be able to easily escape data, strip tags, remove words and more.
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Unless you missed your coffee this morning, you’ve hopefully already noticed that Webitect has been outfitted with a fresh new theme design! Over the past few months I’ve watched a whole barrage of new blog designs (Design Informer, MyInkBlog, JankoAtWarpSpeed, Hongkiat, Tuts+, Visual Swirl) come out, all of which served to repetitively remind me that the Webitect theme was sadly lacking.

Well, no more! With this fresher and more optimized theme, I’m sure that Webitect will be a much more enjoyable place to be (even if it’s not so stunning as some of the blogs I listed above). In this post, I’m going to take you through the process of the redesign and show you around the new theme.
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Do you enjoy interacting with others and coordinating team efforts? Skillfully organizing and directing time and human resources? These are all things that a project manager does on a day-to-day basis. Many of you are freelancers – and goodness knows there are plenty of benefits to freelancing.

For some, though, there are very good reasons to head back to a firm or other corporate workplace, and a job as a project manager could be an excellent next step for you. Let’s take an educational detour and check out some tips and advice on successfully becoming a project manager.
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There are plenty of great, useful jQuery plugins out there. It’s great to have those kinds of plugins and know where to find them, and the community has done an excellent job of giving those plugins the attention they deserve.

There’s a whole other class of plugins, however – brilliant masterpieces that make your jaw drop as you go, “Whoa!! How did they do that?!” You don’t find them every day, but they’re definitely out there. Today we’re going to dig through the development community and unearth 6 of those amazing under-publicized animation plugins that are guaranteed to impress every developer-at-heart. Let’s get started!

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We are always on the search for modern and trendy fonts simply because fonts are an important aspect of our creative designs. Just for this purpose, I put together a collection of 20 my current favorite modern fonts you may download and start using right away. All of them are free!

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Entrepreneurs and computer savvy techs aren’t the only ones that hit the keyboard hard and blog. With today’s online frenzy with vast social media networks everyone wants their voices to be heard. Not to say the least, if you’ve been online for more than 2 months you must have come across one or two blogs by now. Anyone that’s anyone has a weblog, and designers, developers, and creatives have caught on to the blogging craze.

Now, just because we’re mostly design and code oriented, this doesn’t mean we haven’t figured out a way to develop a blogging system that makes it much easier and quicker to post news online. As a matter of fact some of us have revolutionized blogging forever, and will continue to as long as juicy data is flowing through web servers and into our computers.
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