While they say a picture is worth a thousand words, not every image is self-explanatory. Sometimes a few words of description or context can make the difference between a confusing image and a clarifying one. That’s why image captions are often a good idea. […]
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While there’s nothing to stop you from using multiple frameworks simultaneously, compatability problems can pop up — particularly between jQuery and Prototype. Luckily, there’s a simple solution called noConflict mode. […]
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There are lots of reasons you might want to offer your users more than one CSS file for your website. But whatever the reason, it’s amazingly easy to create a function that swaps between multiple stylesheets using a few lines of jQuery. […]
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Last week’s article covered how to build a tabbed box interface, starting with Photoshop, and moving through XHTML and CSS to our basic jQuery functionality. If you missed it, I would highly recommend starting your reading there. This article will show you how to use jQuery to make your tabbed interface more attractive and interactive. […]
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Feedburner is a fantastic service for managing RSS feeds and delivering useful statistics on those feeds. But sometimes Feedburner drops the ball when it returns my subscriber counts. So what’s my solution? When in doubt, turn to JavaScript. […]
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A while back, I wrote an article demonstrating how the accordion effect could be replicated with nothing more than CSS. There was one caveat, however: the technique didn’t work in Internet Explorer 6 due to its limited support of :hover. Today I’m revisiting the CSS accordion technique and will make a modification or two that will let it work with IE6. […]
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After I wrote and published my last article on writing a function to equalize heights in jQuery, I realized that the function would probably make a really useful jQuery plugin. This is that plugin. This plugin is slightly more sophisticated than the function I wrote earlier this week. […]
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Part 2 of our series is going to build on what we accomplished last week. Namely, we’re going to take the ad we built last week and animate it, as well as provide the user with a means to open and close the ad. […]
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Advertisements on the web: love them or hate them, it’s safe to say they’re here to stay for a good long while. But advertising is a tough line to walk for a lot of websites (such as this one). Make your ads too annoying, and you’ll lose readership. But make them too unobtrusive, and you might as well not even have them at all. Today I’d like to start an article series of three parts, the result of which will be a popout-style, jQuery-based box like the one pictured above, which I think strikes a nice balance on the obtrusion-scale. […]
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There are plenty of reasons why you might feel the urge to wax verbose on your website’s front page: to prevent your users from having to click through to a new page to find your information, to avoid having to reload the page, or even to improve your front page’s SEO. But just because your front page is text-heavy doesn’t mean it all needs to be visible at once. […]
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