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Archive for the ‘CSS’ Category

A Quick Way to Use Page Scrolling to Reveal an Image

August 14th, 2009
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From time to time you may see a website that reveals some image in the background when the user scrolls.  More times than not it displays advertising.  We’re going to create a super quick and easy web page that reveals an image as the user scrolls down.

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Author: Shawn Categories: CSS, Front End Development, HTML, How to Tags: ,

jQuery Animated Wave

August 13th, 2009

The post  How to Create a 3D Tag Cloud in jQuery showed how to create a carousel like tag cloud that interacted with the users mouse.  While playing around with the code, I’ve stumbled upon a cool effect by changing one line of code.

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Author: Shawn Categories: CSS, Front End Development Tags: , ,

How to Create a 3D Tag Cloud in jQuery

August 10th, 2009

With browsers rendering JavaScript faster than ever before, it’s a great opportunity to get creative with jQuery.  This tutorial will show how to create a scrolling 3D tag cloud…it’s not as difficult as you might think.

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Author: Shawn Categories: CSS, Front End Development, HTML, Javascript Tags: , ,

Beginners Guide to Using AJAX with jQuery Part 2

August 9th, 2009

In a previous tutorial we showed how to use AJAX with jQuery.. We created a simple input box that outputs info from the server after each character you type in.  In this tutorial we will take one step further and create an auto complete feature, much like Google or Yahoo’s  search box.

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Styling Drop Down Boxes with jQuery

August 6th, 2009

One problem with HTML forms is it is hard to style the elements to fit into your design.  The tutorial will show you how to style the hardest of them all, the select box.

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Making Hyperlink Icons with CSS

August 2nd, 2009

You have often seen hyperlinks that have little icons beside them to let you know where they link to.  In this tutorial we will show how to handle this using only CSS.

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How To Build an Animated Header in jQuery

July 30th, 2009

Why not give a little flair to your header.  This tutorial will show you how to animate your header’s background image using jQuery to give your website that little extra something.

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How to Build a CSS Image Viewer the Clever Way

July 25th, 2009

Image Viewers are fairly common on websites now-a-days. Most use some form of JavaScript to change images, some use Flash. This is a problem if the user doesn’t have either enabled on their browser.  In this tutorial we’ll cover how to create an image viewer with only using CSS and HTML.

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CSS Font Size Conversion Chart

July 20th, 2009

Here is a chart that will help you find the conversion of pt,px,ems and %. The chart is good for an approximation, font size can change based on font, and operating system.

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Author: Shawn Categories: CSS, Front End Development Tags: ,

Creating a CSS Image Preloader

July 15th, 2009

There are plenty of ways to create preloaders for your images, generally a lot of them use JavaScript to get things rolling. No longer are you shackled to JavaScript preloaders, with CSS you can preload your images with little to no hassle.

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Author: Shawn Categories: CSS, Front End Development Tags: ,