Tutorials Page 177
![Select Dropdowns, MooTools, and CSS Print]()
Select Dropdowns, MooTools, and CSS Print
I know I've harped on this over and over again but it's important to enhance pages for print. You can do some things using simple CSS but today's post features MooTools and jQuery. We'll be taking the options of a SELECT element and generating...
![Introducing MooTools LinkAlert]()
Introducing MooTools LinkAlert
One of my favorite Firefox plugins is called LinkAlert. LinkAlert shows the user an icon when they hover over a special link, like a link to a Microsoft Word DOC or a PDF file. I love that warning because I hate the surprise...
![Implementing String.Tweetify in MooTools]()
Implementing String.Tweetify in MooTools
Twitter has damn near taken over the world. Everything's Twitter. Twitter this. Twitter that. TwitterGitter. Twitter everything. I'm more used to reading Twitter-speak (short condensed sentences, #'s, @'s, etc.) now than I am plain English. And...
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Caching AJAX Results in JavaScript
AJAX is an awesome tool. AJAX requests are usually faster than regular page loads and allow for a wealth of dynamism within a page. Unfortunately many people do not properly cache request information when they can. Let me show you how I cache...
![Image Manipulation with PHP and the GD Library]()
Image Manipulation with PHP and the GD Library
Yeah, I'm a Photoshop wizard. I rock the selection tool. I crop like a farmer. I dominate the bucket tool. Hell, I even went as far as wielding the wizard wand selection tool once. ...OK I'm rubbish when it comes to Photoshop.
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Pretty Word Wrapper with MooTools or PHP
Details, details, details. Details are what take a good site to the next level. Small details like link nudging (jQuery, MooTools), simple but stylish CSS enhancements, and opacity effects are the cheeky effects that give your website the edge over...
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Using Opacity to Show Focus with jQuery
A few days back I debuted a sweet article that made use of MooTools JavaScript and opacity to show focus on a specified element. Here's how to accomplish that feat using jQuery. The jQuery JavaScript There you have it. Opacity is a very simple but effective...
![Using Opacity to Show Focus with MooTools]()
Using Opacity to Show Focus with MooTools
I'm a huge fan of using subtle effects like link nudging (jQuery, MooTools) to enhance the user experience and increase the perceived dynamism of my websites. Trust me -- a lot of little things are what take websites to the next level.
![MooTools TwitterGitter and Cookies]()
MooTools TwitterGitter and Cookies
One of my MooTools plugins I use most is TwitterGitter. TwitterGitter is a small MooTools plugin I've created to fetch any number of tweets from an Twitter user's account. Since clients don't tweet very often, there's no advantage to pinging Twitter for a tweet...
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Styling CSS Print Page Breaks
It's important to construct your websites in a fashion that lends well to print. I use a page-break CSS class on my websites to tell the browser to insert a page break at strategic points on the page. During the development of my...









