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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 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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Illustrator Tutorial: Create a vector RSS Icon (a la web 2.0)

seangw — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:31:56 +0000

Not being an artist or designer by default (I do some design by usually by applying formulas — I find a completely deterministic experince, a happier experience), I attempted to learn more about all those pretty graphics we see out there these days. I grew up in Photoshop, and have recently been “seeing the [...]

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How to link to iTunes: iTunes Link Maker

seangw — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:16:02 +0000

I was just about to write a post about an album I’ve been listening to, and an audiobook I just finished “reading”. I wanted to know how I could link directly to those items in iTunes. Here’s how.. iTunes Link Maker An official tool by Apple, it lets you find items in iTunes and link [...]

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Basic AJAX Tutorial: jQuery toggle and slide

seangw — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:54:52 +0000

In this tutorial we will review: Definition of AJAX Introduction to jQuery Basic document jQuery preparation Binding jQuery actions to an anchor (A) tag Toggling visibility of a div Sliding in and out of that div It sounds like a lot, but it’s all very easy. Definition of AJAX The term AJAX means Asynchronous JavaScript [...]

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jQuery 1.3 Released – How to use jQuery

seangw — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:51:46 +0000

jQuery is a “fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.” jQuery version 1.3 was released yesterday. Some new features in 1.3 are: Sizzle – a brand new CSS selector engine Live [...]

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35 Tutorials to get started with Photoshop

seangw — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:47:38 +0000

Adobe Photoshop is an amazing tool for web development, and image processing in general. I remember my first experience with Photoshop when I was back in Massapequa High School. There was an after school program that brought a local web designer in to help the kids work with websites and such. My first creation was [...]

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