A Collection of Demo and Example Miscellany

Jul16
A Collection of Demo and Example Miscellany

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

Apr30
How to Take the Headache Out of Writing CSS

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

Apr17
How To Code A WordPress Featured Slider

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

Mar13
Mini-Tut: Using jQuery .live() With Dynamic Content

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

Feb23
Everything You Wanted To Know About DOCTYPE

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

Jan18
Create a User Link Feed Bookmarklet
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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

Dec14
Stupid jQuery Tricks

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

Nov27
Creating Short Post Urls Within WordPress
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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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The 7 Most Effective Rules of Web Design

Nov18
The 7 Most Effective Rules of Web Design

One of the most important principles of effective website design is 'Keep it simple'. This rule must be applied to all aspects of your website, including graphics, content and navigation. Use the following guidelines to implement simplicity in your website design and make your sites stand out from the clutter of ineffective ones on the internet that do not follow these rules.
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