Web Development 2.0 Carnival – September 8, 2007
I am proud to present the first edition of Carnival of Web Development 2.0. This is my first time hosting one of these things, so enjoy: General Doug Boude presents DEMYSTIFYING JSON posted at Doug...
View ArticleDynamic Paypal Buttons via Javascript
Paypal’s website payments is perfect for small sites. You have a few products you want to sell so you don’t want to install a full blown shopping cart or anything. So we use Paypal a great solution but...
View ArticleTop 10 CSS Image Galleries – DIY
I’m not sure how many of you actually gave thought to creating your own Image Gallery, I know I haven’t. If I needed one I’d just use a prepackaged one. But that was because my application always...
View ArticleLightBox, LightBox2 and LightBox Plus
Yes, I know I’m a bit late with this, but I still had to give you the run down. Originally created by Lokesh Dhakar Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current...
View ArticleJavaScript Reflection – Wet Floor Effect
Yes again, I’m late. I’m sorry folks, but here we go. Once again we bring together JavaScript and CSS to produce amazing results. Notice the header at the top of this website (assuming that I haven’t...
View ArticleThe Secret of Cancelling and Stopping Events using JavaScript
Introduction Back when I was doing my internship we had a major problem we were trying to solve. The project involved creating a web based terminal emulator using AJAX. Well, it was a little bit more...
View ArticleMore JavaScript Reflections – Automated JavaScript Vertical Flip Image...
I’m not sure what to make of this: Automated JavaScript Vertical Flip Image Reflection. It adds reflections to images using JavaScript. But, am I missing something here, or has it already been done? It...
View ArticleJavaScript Only Links, Why? Someone Tell Me Why, Please
Why We Might Need (Want) JavaScript Links Recently I stumbled upon a site that I haven’t been to for a while: CSOWeb.org. The design is nice and clean: a header image, with some gradients and colors...
View ArticleVery Fancy Menus – CSS And JavaScript
Saw this and I was amazed: All done with CSS And JavaScript. The implementation is also brilliantly simple. And it all fits in 1.5KB. What’s to lose? By the way, you can’t tell by the image, but the...
View ArticleSteal Browser History with SpyJax
Ever wanted to find out what your users have been up to before they came to your site? Yep, you now have that power. I can see that little twinkle in your eyes now. You’re thinking that this is just...
View ArticleIncredible Expanding Menu
Now there’s a lot of code involved and the menu created doesn’t really fit normal usability standards, but the end result is cool. Happy July 4th to all you guys. Source: Accessible expanding and...
View ArticleNew Domain: WebDevelopment2.com, New Focus: Frameworks, CakePHP, Javascript,...
New Domain I has finally occurred to me that I should have gotten my own domain name a long time ago. Really, I don’t know what I was waiting for, but it was about time. Since my focus is Web 2.0,...
View ArticleGive Me 15 Minutes and I’ll Make You A jQuery Expert
Introduction In the spirit of rapid web development, I’ve stumbled upon jQuery. Here’s a testimonial from a jQuery user: You start with 10 lines of jQuery that would have been 20 lines of tedious DOM...
View ArticleMaking Sure Your Javascript Doesn’t Rise When Baking
One of the nice things about CakePHP is that it includes ready to use CSS compression. Granted, compressed CSS can be buggy at times, but for the most part it works just fine. I’ve always wondered why...
View ArticlePrepackaged Prototype and Script.aculo.us – Ready For Download
One thing that I liked about the jQuery website is that they offer a compressed version of the jQuery script on the website ready for immediate download and usage. This is convenient if you don’t want...
View ArticleJQuery, Prototype, and MooTools Benchmark – SlickSpeed
Introduction Before I even start, let me state that I’m a JQuery fan. Ever since I’ve started with JavaScript frameworks I’ve weighed the pros and cons, and trust me there are a lot. You’ll always...
View ArticleRound Corners With jQuery and CSS
Rounded Intro So you’re all grown up and want Rounded Corners on your site. There’s just one small problem: the normal rounded corners implementation comes with tons of divs used for styles and you’ve...
View ArticlejQuery Dropping Support for IE6, IE7 and IE8 – Mixed Emotions
I came across this article from the jQuery blog, talking about future updates to version 1.9 and 2.0. jQuery 1.9 (early 2013): We’ll remove many of the interfaces already deprecated in version 1.8;...
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