Tutorials Page 171

• By David WalshDecember 7, 2009

  Create a Sexy Persistent Header with Opacity Using MooTools or jQuery

  I've been working with the Magento eCommerce solution a lot lately and I've taken a liking to a technique they use with the top bar within their administrative control panel. When the user scrolls below a specified threshold, the top bar becomes attached to the...

• By David WalshDecember 3, 2009

  Create PHP Classes with Dynamic Functions

  As you have probably found out, when I see something interesting I don't know how to do, my only goal is to figure out how to do it. Thus is the case with PHP classes featuring dynamic methods based on database records (or arrays).

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• By David WalshDecember 2, 2009

  Image Reflection with jQuery and MooTools

  One subtle detail that can make a big difference on any web design is the use of image reflections. Using them too often can become obnoxious but using reflections on large, "masthead" images is a classy enhancement. Unfortunately creating image reflections within your...

• By David WalshDecember 1, 2009

  Introducing MooTools ScrollSide

  This post is a proof of concept post -- the functionality is yet to be perfected. Picture this: you've found yourself on a website that uses horizontal scrolling instead of vertical scrolling. It's an artistic site so you accept that the site scrolls left to right.

• By David WalshNovember 30, 2009

  Introducing MooTools ScrollSidebar

  How many times are you putting together a HTML navigation block or utility block of elements that you wish could be seen everywhere on a page? I've created a solution that will seamlessly allow you to do so: ScrollSidebar. ScrollSidebar allows you...

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• By David WalshNovember 26, 2009

  What I’m Thankful For: 2009 Web Edition

  I'd like to take a moment this Thanksgiving to thank some people that deserved to be. I'd like to thank the MooTools team for all of the support and hard work. I feel truly honored to be around such intelligent, driven group of individuals.

• By David WalshNovember 25, 2009

  Access JavaScript Object Variable Properties

  Not all JavaScript objects are as easy as MyObject.property. Sometimes you may want to access a property whose key is stored in a variable. Luckily accessing these properties is very easy. Javascript Object Property Accessing Example You may use array-style syntax to access an object's properties.

• By David WalshNovember 24, 2009

  META Refresh vs. JavaScript Refresh

  A few days back I was perusing the ESPN.com source code when I found the following snippet of code: I understand what the code was supposed to do but was confused as to why they'd use JavaScript as a primary method and META as a fallback method.

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• By David WalshNovember 23, 2009

  Better Pull Quotes with MooTools

  Chris Coyier authored a post titled Better Pull Quotes: Don't Repeat Markup a while back. In his post he created great-looking pull quotes without repeating any content -- instead he uses jQuery to dynamically create the pull quotes. The following is the...

• By David WalshNovember 19, 2009

  MooTools OpenLinks Class – Updated

  A long time back I coded a MooTools class called OpenLinks. The class is quite useful but the code...sucks. I've gotten much better with MooTools over the past years so I thought I'd go back and update the class to be better, faster...