Simple CSS Lightbox
With this tutorial you will be able to create a lightbox effect like this with some simple web code. This will be my first tutorial written with WP-Syntax, a syntax highlighting plug-in written by Ryan...
View ArticleOpen Windows in HTML with Standards Compliance
When opening new windows from your web page that link to external files, a common practice is to open them in a new window as not to deter the user from your site. One method to do this in the past was...
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Using jQuery To Create Parallax Scrolling Backgrounds
Just a quick demonstration today on using JavaScript and CSS techniques to create scrolling backgrounds. Here we layer backgrounds on top of each other and change their horizontal position to move them...
View ArticleBeginner’s Guide to Google AJAX Feed API
For those that don’t know, the Google AJAX Feed API is a JavaScript tool that you can use to handle your AJAX requests, and is particularly useful for reading in feed data from external websites. After...
View ArticleHow to Send a URL Fragment Anchor to PHP
The URL fragment anchor (or accelerator, ID link or jump point) can be used to relocate the visitor to a specific part of a page. This is done by giving an element an ID then linking to it with a hash...
View ArticleHow to Display a User’s Visited Web Pages
Allowing a developer to access a visitor’s browsing history is a huge security risk, that’s why it’s not possible. If you own a website that runs PHP with MySQL and handles sessions then this could be...
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Load WordPress Gravatars on the Fly
Globally Recognised Avatar (or Gravatar) is a service from the WordPress team that allows you to improve your web presence across blogs and specialist websites. It’s one of those “why didn’t I think of...
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Untold Entertainment Made in jQuery Part 1 – Animating Twitter Text
Ryan Creighton’s Flash development site Untold Entertainment has a quirky home page with plenty of animation and things to click on (complete with roll-out tongue) and of course is built in Flash....
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Untold Entertainment Made in jQuery Part 2 – Styling the Twitter Bar
Carrying on from the first part of creating a Flash-less home page on Untold Entertainment, we add to the tutorial on animating Twitter text with some more usability and style. We start off by...
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Untold Entertainment Made in jQuery Part 3 – The Project Slider
Being a showcase for the Flash work of Untold Entertainment, the image slider is used as the main focus of the home page and displays his latest projects. Continuing from the first two tutorials, I’ll...
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