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My Worst CSS Mistakes
I've always taken a lot of pride in the fact that I've taught myself most of what I know. It started when I was 13 and taught myself HTML, then CSS, then JavaScript, then PHP, and the process continues today with MooTools, jQuery, and whatever...
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AJAX Username Availability Checker Using MooTools 1.2
This post has been updated: Using jQuery or MooTools For Drag, Drop, Sort, Save. The code on this page is no longer best practice. There a many examples of egregious usages of AJAX out there but every once in a while you find...
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Overflow:Auto – Height Control with Scrollbars on Page Elements
Many of the web designs my designer creates are very image-heavy. These designs are best fit for websites that wont have loads of content like restaurants, photographers, and graphics designers -- you know, sites where a picture says more than a thousand words. It's...
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Fancy Navigation with MooTools JavaScript
Navigation menus are traditionally boring, right? Most of the time the navigation menu consists of some imagery with a corresponding mouseover image. Where's the originality? I've created a fancy navigation menu that highlights navigation items and creates a chain effect. The XHTML Just some simple...
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Thoughts on “10 Principles of the CSS Masters In HTML / CSS”
NETTUTS ran an article last week titled 10 Principles of the CSS Masters. The article asked several CSS and industry experts to provide advice on much-discussed CSS topics and share a trick or two. The article brought up some great points...
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![PHP / MooTools 1.2 Accordion Helper]()
PHP / MooTools 1.2 Accordion Helper
The MooTools Accordion plugin seems to be the plugin that people seem to have the most problems with. It's an awesome plugin, so I can see why so many people want to use it, but I think that may be part of the problem.
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Color Palette Generator Using jQuery
As I continue to learn jQuery, I think it's important that I begin by porting over scripts I've created using MooTools. One of those scripts is my Color Palette Generator script, which debuted on Eric Wendelin's blog. For those of you that...
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dwClickable: Entire Block Clickable Using MooTools 1.2
I recently received an email from a reader who was really impressed with Block Clickable, a jQuery script that took the link within a list item and made the entire list item clickable. I thought it was a neat script so I...
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dwImageProtector Plugin for jQuery
I've always been curious about the jQuery JavaScript library. jQuery has captured the hearts of web designers and developers everywhere and I've always wondered why. I've been told it's easy, which is probably why designers were so quick to adopt it NOT that designers...
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dwProgressBar v2: Stepping and Events
dwProgressBar was a huge hit when it debuted. For those of you who didn't catch my first post, dwProgressBar is a MooTools 1.2-based progress bar which allows for as much flexibility as possible. Every piece of dwProgressBar can be controlled by CSS...
