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1.3.16 demo - jQuery. Window 1 I am plumbed with a Bezier connector to Window 2 and a label, with Blank endpoints. Window 2 I am plumbed with a Bezier connector to Window 1, and a Bezier connector with Rectangle endpoints to Window 3 Window 3 I am plumbed with a Bezier connector and Rectangle endpoints to Window 2, and a Bezier connector with Dot endpoints and a label to Window 4. My blue endpoint tracks Window 4's position. Window 4 I am plumbed with a Bezier connector with Dot endpoints to Window 3, and with a Straight connector with Image endpoints to Window 5. Window 5 I am plumbed with a Flowchart connector to Window 6, between our two centerpoints, which are drawn below, and larger than, the window element; I am also plumbed to Window 4. Window 6 I am plumbed with a Flowchart connector to Window 5, between our two centerpoints, which are drawn below, and larger than, the window element.

Window 7 I am plumbed with State Machine connectors to Window 3. Connection One. Gallery · mbostock/d3 Wiki. Wiki ▸ Gallery Welcome to the D3 gallery! More examples are available for forking on Observable; see D3’s profile and the visualization collection. Please share your work on Observable, or tweet us a link! Visual Index Basic Charts Techniques, Interaction & Animation Maps Statistics Examples Collections The New York Times visualizations Jerome Cukier Jason Davies Jim Vallandingham Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation Peter Cook Charts and Chart Components Bar Chart Histogram Pareto Chart Line and Area Chart Pie Chart Scatterplot and Bubble chart Parallel Coordinates, Parallel sets and Sankey Sunburst and Partition layout Force Layout Tree Misc Trees and Graphs Chord Layout (Circular Network) Maps Misc Charts Miscellaneous visualizations Charts using the reusable API Useful snippets Tools Interoperability Online Editors Products Store Apps.

WordPress Plugins I Use. I think this is a fun and useful style of post that any WordPress blogger can do. It's always interesting to hear in what ways people are extending what WordPress can do out of the box. I'll share the ones I'm using here on CSS-Tricks then you can share yours (either in the comments or in a post on your own WordPress site). My list is quite a bit different than the last time I did this in 2008. If you have some better alternatives to the ones I'm using, I'm always interested in that, too.

AddQuicktag → Allows me to create new buttons in the post editor of my own creation. Advanced Excerpt → Gives me more control for how I output excerpts of posts. Akismet → Has blocked 148,338 spam comments at the time of this writing. Clean Notifications → Extremely old but still vital for me. I turned this off recently thinking maybe this has made it into core, but it hasn't. Code Markup → Also extremely old but still works great. FD FeedBurner Plugin → Feature Comments → Live Comment Preview → WP-Markdown → John Polacek on Github. 5 Easy Steps to a Simpler Blog Design. Do you want a simpler design for your blog? One that’s lean, elegant and attractive? Well, there are five easy steps to making your blog look better and to attracting more subscribers, customers and members.

And you don’t have to be a design ninja or have worked at Apple to pull it off! These steps are simpler than you might think. Those who aren’t sold on simplicity might ask: why would I want it? Here are three convincing reasons that may work for many blogs: Your blog will be easier to read and navigate, and visitors will stick with it.Simplicity translates into strong branding. Convinced that a simpler design is better for your blog? 1. Prioritize content and call-to-action elements over everything else. Follow the 80/20 rule: 20% of what’s on the page delivers 80% of the value. The call-to-action elements are the 20%, and everything else is the 80%. So, how do you make your content important? Next, remove as much of the 80% (i.e. the unessential elements) as possible. How? 2. 3. 4. 5. Demos: Grayscale Hover Effect with HTML5 canvas and jQuery.

CSS-Tricks. Perfect Full Page Background Image. Learn Development at Frontend Masters This post was originally published on August 21, 2009 and is now updated as it has been entirely revised. Both original methods are removed and now replaced by four new methods. The goal here is a background image on a website that covers the entire browser window at all times. Let’s put some specifics on it: Fills entire page with image, no white spaceScales image as neededRetains image proportions (aspect ratio)Image is centered on pageDoes not cause scrollbarsAs cross-browser compatible as possibleIsn’t some fancy shenanigans like Flash Image above credited to this site.

Awesome, Easy, Progressive CSS3 Way We can do this purely through CSS thanks to the background-size property now in CSS3. Works in: Safari 3+Chrome Whatever+IE 9+Opera 10+ (Opera 9.5 supported background-size but not the keywords)Firefox 3.6+ (Firefox 4 supports non-vendor prefixed version) View Demo CSS-Only Technique #1 Big thanks, as usual, to Doug Neiner for this alternate version.