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A Collection of Demo and Example Miscellany

July 16, 2010 6 Comments

Over the past few months I've acquired quite the collection of demos or working examples of stuff I've quick thrown together for things like how-tips on Nettuts or in the forums over at Themeforest, so I thought I would share them here in the hopes that someone would find them useful.
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How to Take the Headache Out of Writing CSS

April 30, 2010 4 Comments

Some who are new to web design and even the seasoned veteran often have problems getting a site to display properly in every (or any for that matter) browser. Here are some simple tips to ensure your markup doesn't give you problems while trying to style it with CSS.
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How To Code A WordPress Featured Slider

April 17, 2010 14 Comments

They're pretty much everywhere on just about every blog and website these days, the featured post slider. Not terribly hard to implement, but still confusing to some that do not know the WordPress API. In this tutorial I will show you how to code your own WordPress Featured Post Slider and integrate it into your WordPress theme.
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Mini-Tut: Using jQuery .live() With Dynamic Content

March 13, 2010 0 Comments

When using jQuery and loading content dynamically or with an AJAX call, any event attached to the content that is loaded either has to be rebound again after the content has been loaded or you can attach an event handler using the .live() event.
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Everything You Wanted To Know About DOCTYPE

February 23, 2010 2 Comments

Document Type Declaration. The differences between the many versions can be pretty confusing if you don't know which one you're supposed to use and why. In this post I will break down which DOCTYPE does what and why it's beneficial to use it.
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Create a User Link Feed Bookmarklet

January 18, 2010 0 Comments

Many design and tutorial sites out there have a user submitted links section or community links page in which users can submit their links and have them featured on the site in question. I thought it would be handy to provide users with a bookmarklet that would auto-fill the information into the form making it easier for users to submit these links.
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Stupid jQuery Tricks

December 14, 2009 18 Comments

If you are like I am and use jQuery to add functionality or enhance your site, you're almost always looking to learn something new or different ways to add a cool new function using the most popular JavaScript library out there. While none of these functions are actually stupid, they will show you some popular tricks to add effects and features to your site.
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Creating Short Post Urls Within WordPress

November 27, 2009 0 Comments

With the popularity of Twitter, short urls are almost a necessity these days trying to maintain the limit of 140 characters. Using a short url as default in WordPress tends to hurt your search engine optimization and looks just so, well, "default". Here are a couple of ways you can easily and automatically create a short url for use in WordPress without a plug-in.
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