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Redirection Options

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Lately, I’ve been having to work with a lot of redirects and I was going through different redirection options with a client. So I thought I would do a quick write up about the different types of redirection. I also haven’t seen a collection of these in one place, so I thought I would put [...]

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Conditional Animation Speed in jQuery

Friday, January 8th, 2010

For years (and by “years”, I most likely mean “the years since I started using jQuery… maybe 2″), there’s been one aspect of jQuery that’s bugged the crap out of me, the animation speed. View demo We’ve all probably seen the problem that happens in many drop down menus of varying height. We set slideDown(300) [...]

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Quick Tip #2 – Bringing Back Search with jQuery

Monday, June 29th, 2009

This is something I use on all my projects now. It’s designed for a search box, but can be used with any sort of input field. The great thing about this is that the field value “Search” will only come back onBlur if the field is empty (or doesn’t say “Search”). So if you started [...]

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This Week in Links 12/16

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

10 Tips to Improve Your UI Smashing Magazine, once again, has a great article about user interface. This article gives you some quick and helpful tips on improving your user interface design. A lot of stuff we should all be doing. Anti-RSI This is a Mac program to help prevent RSI (which is basically carpal [...]

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This Week in Links 10/27

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Better CSS Font Stacks A good article on how to jazz up your stacks to try and take advantage of users who have more fonts installed. I’m all for this, and as long as it’s done carefully, can get a nice version of progressive enhancement. 5 Terrible SEO Ideas Richard Bradshaw goes over some trendy [...]

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Active navigation with jQuery

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

I was building a site last week and came across some jQuery code for active navigation. It’s very simple and works real well. I’m using it on some secondary navigation and still using my body class for the main nav. Active navigation with a body class body.home #nav ul li.navhome{font-weight:700;} So I’m still doing that, [...]

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This Week in Links 9/17

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

How HTML5 is Already Changing the Web Generally, I’m not a fan of all the hoop-la over HTML5 since it won’t be released and in use for a long time. But I was very interested in reading this article from webmonkey FV Code Highlighter A handy wordpress plugin for code hightlighting, very cool and useful, [...]

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This Week in Links – 9/4

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

I’d like to try and start sharing some links once a week with everyone since I’m settling into a new job and I don’t want my posts to become few and far between. Just to let you know that I am doing some interesting things right now, but have just run a little short on [...]

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Cracking open Google Gadgets

Monday, April 14th, 2008

A few weeks ago, I decided to do a little research into Google Desktop. Which is basically a Google widget platform competing with Yahoo! widgets. After some exploration and dissecting Google Gadgets, this is what I came out with: The core of the application runs on 2 files main.js main.xml There are also some image [...]

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