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Google Code University: Free Courses, Tutorials and Lectures for Web Development – AJAX, HTML5, HTML, CSS, Javascript and more

seangw — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:15:51 +0000

I grew up with webmonkey as the single best destination for web developers and any tutorial you could want, but just saw that Google has a Google Code University featuring Tutorials, Contributed course content and Video lectures on: Web Programming HTML CSS Javascript AJAX HTML5 Web Security (yes, web developers should be well versed in [...]

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Basic jQuery Tutorial: Modify CSS classes and attributes, Hover and Toggle example

seangw — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:34:45 +0000

This tutorial will cover: Modifying CSS attributes with jQuery Setting a class for a page element Removing a class from a page element Testing if a class exists A quick toggle click behavior example The final example will use all of the other elements in a single exercise. There are many more things you can [...]

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HTML Fadein Fadeout: Basic Javascript/AJAX Tutorial using jQuery’s fadeTo

seangw — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:24:19 +0000

In this tutorial we will review: Basic document jQuery preparation Binding jQuery actions to an anchor (A) tag Fading In and Fading Out html elements with Javascript/AJAX If you want some more basic information you can check out some of my other jQuery basic tutorials: Basic AJAX Tutorial: jQuery toggle and slide – Includes AJAX [...]

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How can I sell my music on iTunes or Amazon MP3?

seangw — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:04:52 +0000

A reader just asked me: … I have a company that does films and music, I wanna know how i can use itunes to sell my products do i need to contact itunes directly or what can I do? What are the steps? … Fortunately the answer is easy — you can use CD Baby. [...]

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Help: How do I announce a new website?

seangw — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:15:33 +0000

We launch websites every month or two for clients, and make many website updates. What are the best ways to tell the “internet” that your site is up, and ready to be checked out? I’m going to focus on the free options, as I find anything that costs money sketchy (especially with regard to listing [...]

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WordPress: How to get the Slug of the page

seangw — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:34:39 +0000

When working with WordPress templates, we frequently find ourselves trying to get certain information about a page. It bothers me how “non” object orientated page information is in WordPress, but those are the hurdles you need to get over as a web developer. Today I wanted to get the “Slug” (or the last part of [...]

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iTunes Link Affiliate: How to Make Money Linking to iTunes Music

seangw — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:47:21 +0000

Over a year ago I published an article, How to link to iTunes: iTunes Link Maker — which described how to link to iTunes content from your blog. I have received a few comments asking about how to setup an affiliate account with iTunes to make money off of content that you link to. I [...]

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How To: Track File Downloads with Google Analytics

seangw — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:19:22 +0000

Google Analytics is what most people use nowadays for web traffic reports. It is flexible, powerful and simple. The problem with Google Analytics is that it doesn’t analyze web traffic reports, but generates data in real time. In most cases, this isn’t a problem. In fact, it is big feature. The problem is what about [...]

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How To: Throw an iTunes DJ Party

seangw — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:31:45 +0000

With Apple’s iTunes 8.1 release, we now have iTunes DJ. It used to be Party Shuffle (for the past few years) but now we have a few new toys. The biggest of which is the ability to allow guests to your party to vote for songs. Guests can see the song details, upcoming songs, request [...]

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How do I use transparent PNGs in IE6: Using AlphaImageLoader

seangw — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:12:53 +0000

Internet Explorer is a tough beast. It was very popular years ago. Unfortunately, it’s still in use in out there. This site, www.seangw.com, has a fairly technical crowd. We still see approximately 3% of our visits from IE6 (Firefox is the most popular at 64%, then IE7 at 14%, Safari at 10%, then Chrome at [...]

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