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Impress Your Clients and Friends with these Jquery Scripts and Javascripts
I frequently send myself emails containing interesting finds of the day from my 9-5 job to my home office. Today’s a snow day and I decided to post some of the older email links here. JQuery Mega Menu – Amazon like menu that expands with multiple columns of links. Ajax Page Fetcher – Insert content [...]
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A Couple of Recent Finds
I’m constantly searching for new scripts. I should probably learn to program my own but I just don’t have the patience for hard core scripting in PHP or Javascript. Here are a couple of good finds: PDFmyURL.com Simply type in a URL, click the fancy submit button and save the URL to a PDF. Glider [...]
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My 10 Year Old’s New Web Site Experiment using XsitePro
The folks that make XSitePro were kind enough to give me a copy of their web design software for evaluation and inclusion in my marketing on this site. I figured this would be a great time for my son to start his new website, BlindSideCreations.com. During the web design process my son will act as [...]
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Google Labs – Browser Size
Google Labs has introduced a useful tool for web designers simply called, Browser Size. Enter your URL in the search box and see how your site fits in numerous browser resolution sizes. One thing this tool fails to do is left justify websites who have their designs centered.
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Thesis WordPress Theme
Thesis Theme for WordPress: Options Galore and a Helpful Support Coummunity. Free WordPress themes are bountiful but many free themes have strings attached and/or largely unsupported by the developer. Some require a link back to the developer, others hide spyware in the code and some break after WordPress implements a major upgrade. In the long [...]
Ajax Content Sliders
If your in need of a Ajax based content slider, take a look at this tutorial/script by WebDesignBooth.com. I found it very EZ to set up and manipulate. This script is based on jquery and jflow. Another good scrollable content slider is available at Flowplayer.org. Actually they have a great set of scripts all based [...]
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Smart Columns using CSS and jquery
First off, I love jquery. I could not tell you the first thing about programming scripts using jquery but there are a plethora of ajax scripts that utilize jquery. One recent find, Smart Columns w/ CSS & jQuery by Soh Tanaka uses jquery to keep pages from scrolling left to right in any size screen [...]
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Need a Lightbox Script? See Floatbox – The Premier Javascript Windowing System
I’ve downloaded and played with just about every lightbox script available. My favorite lightbox script was greybox (at the time of this posting their site was down, http://orangoo.com/labs/GreyBox/). Greybox is nice, easy to use and it’s free! Then I found Floatbox and I don’t think I will ever use another lightbox script again. Floatbox is [...]
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Where to find AJAX scripts
AJAX is more or less fancy Javascript that can be used with ASP.net, HTML or PHP. Since I’m not much of a backend programmer, I usually search for a script that I can make my own. Usually the scripts are free or require a donation. If you need to add some cool image effects, nice [...]
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