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5 Rules For Using Audio/Video Media on Your Site
I don't create many sites that feature multimedia. Most of my customers don't have a need for audio or video on their site but we occasionally get a request to add an advertisement or webinar. That said, I've scoured the internet enough to have seen good, bad, and ugly uses of multimedia on the web. The following are my guidelines for using multimedia on a website.
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Weekend Links – Lightbox Matrix, Performance Best Practices, Processing.js, Adsense Testing, Multibox
If you're in the market for a lightbox but don't know which lightbox has been created for your library, let this be your guide. This site provides checkboxes to customize your search. Awesome!
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Force Secure (SSL) Pages With .htaccess
A while back, I shared a method for forcing a secure page using PHP. What if you want to force SSL (https://) on an entire website though? You don't want to have to put force-SSL PHP code on every page, right? Well, the website's .htaccess file comes to the rescue.
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Introducing Band Website Template – Get a Website That Rocks Like You!
Have a band and need a website you can update? Looking to edit shows at will with ease? I think I've got what you need.
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Flashy FAQs Using MooTools Sliders
I often qualify a great website by one that pay attention to detail and makes all of the "little things" seem as though much time was spent on them. Let's face it — FAQs are as boring as they come. That is, until you go the extra mile and use MooTools sliders.
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Drag. Drop. Lock.
I've received dozens of emails about my Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Using MooTools article. The MooTools in my article contained a lot of conditional code to require correct dropping per the game and many people requested that I simplify the process and just explain the drag, drop, lock process. Ask and you shall receive!
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Implementing Basic and Fancy Show/Hide in MooTools 1.2
One of the great parts of MooTools is that the library itself allows for maximum flexibility within its provided classes. You can see evidence of this in the "Class" class' implement method. Using the implement method, you can add your own methods to custom or core classes.
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Weekend Links – MooTools Fancy Upload, 60 Second Tech, jSize, CSS Pull Quotes, PHP First Language
Moo developer Harald Kirschner gave Fancy Upload a face-lift for MooTools 1.2. If you haven't seen Fancy Upload before, please check this out!
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Basic File Uploading Using PHP
I create a lot of websites that allow administrators to upload files to their own website. Since allowing user customization has become more and more important on websites these days, I thought I'd share how easy it is to handle file uploads in PHP.
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Weather Switcher 1.000001
A while back, CSS-Tricks Tsar Chris Coyier and I created a Weather Switcher script that connected to Yahoo!'s weather API, downloaded an XML file containing weather information for a specified zip code, and modified the website's theme based on the weather.
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