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Fluid Images — Unstoppable Robot Ninja. (Hello! If you think this article’s interesting, you might check out my ALA article on responsive web design.) I’ve always hated publishing. I don’t mean the industry, but the act. Hitting “print,” sending an email, pressing that “Publish” button on the CMS: at some point, you relinquish your ability to smooth down some of the sharper edges, fill in the holes of your argument, and just generally fix whatever’s broken. At some point, you just accept what’s on the page, tousle its hair a bit, and send it off into the world at large to be judged, poked, and prodded. But that doesn’t mean you stop thinking about the article, what you could’ve done differently, and what you wished you’d included. To wit: One of the really solid criticisms lobbied against my Fluid Grids article for ALA was that all of my examples were pretty text-heavy.

In Which “Looking Across the Pond for Help” Is a Pretty Decent Answer, As It Turns Out This solved the problem beautifully. As it turns out, not quite. Home - Pencil Project. Futurama Filler Text Generator. <h1>A Pharaoh to Remember</h1><p>Bender?! You stole the atom. I wish! It's a nickel. Kif might! What's with you kids? Bender?! Too much work. Yes. A Fishful of Dollars I've got to find a way to escape the horrible ravages of youth. The Day The Earth Stood Stupid We're rescuing ya. Dr. A Head in the Polls There, now he's trapped in a book I wrote: a crummy world of plot holes and spelling errors! MetaLab: We make interfaces.

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Ultimate web site optimization trick: data URIs « Steven Benner's Blog. Are you an obsessive compulsive web site optimization nut? Are you willing to sacrifice maintainability for one less HTTP request? Have people ever asked you to seek a mental health professional because of your OCD? If so, then you are in good company. Us optimization nuts may not be very well received when we start building a project, but we become very appreciated when someone asks how to make it scale.

Allow me to broaden your optimization toolbox with the ultimate HTTP connection killer, the data URI scheme. This article will explain what data URIs are, how to use them, and how to properly implement them. What exactly are data URIs? The data URI scheme (aka data: URLs) is a method to include data in-line in a URI. I don’t suppose that makes much sense, let me elaborate; Simply put, data URIs allow you to include a file (or multiple files) inside of another file.

Due to the IE problem (explained further down) data URIs can only be fully supported in CSS files. Data URI scheme JavaScript. Zencoder's video-js at master - GitHub.

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Twitter examples. Pricing & Competition Charts. Quicksand : Examples : Sorting one set of HTML (cloning) Quicksand. Reorder and filter items with a nice shuffling animation. Home About I love Mac apps, especially for their attention to detail. CoreAnimation makes it so easy to create useful and eye-pleasing effects, like the one in this video. Quicksand aims at providing a similar experience for users on the web. Documentation At the very basic level, Quicksand replaces one collection of items with another. Use plain HTML, like an unordered list. $('#source').quicksand( $('#destination li') ); This will work for the following HTML: <ul id="source"><li data-id="iphone">iOS</li><li data-id="android">Android</li><li data-id="winmo">Windows Phone 7</li></ul><ul id="destination" class="hidden"><li data-id="macosx">Mac OS X</li><li data-id="macos9">Mac OS 9</li><li data-id="iphone">iOS</li></ul> Please note that data-* is a perfectly valid HTML5 attribute.

First container (source) is visible to the user. If you want to include a callback function, add it as a last argument: Or List of available params: Examples. Pin plugin reloaded. Replace URL with HTML Link with Javascript and Jquery Plugins. Brandon Aaron : Code. 9lessons labs. Content Organization: Deciding What Matters Most. The content of any website is paramount to a site’s success. High quality content, regardless of whether the site aims to inform, entertain, or sell a product, will increase the site’s likelihood of converting visitors. But beyond providing high quality content, a site also needs to organize that content in a way that makes it accessible to visitors. Prioritizing your content is one of the best ways to make sure your visitors are finding the information you want them to find, and that they want to find.

But figuring out what content is most important and how to arrange it to reflect that can get confusing, fast. In many cases, designers and content creators feel like it’s all important, and should all get equal billing. But that’s not doing your visitors any favors. You need to get to the root of what’s most important to them, and then provide that in the most user-friendly way possible. What Are the Site’s Goals? Case Study: Speak Human Case Study: VaultPress Make a List of Necessary Content.

jQuery Taconite Plugin. The jQuery Taconite Plugin allows you to easily make multiple DOM updates using the results of a single AJAX call. It processes an XML command document that contain instructions for updating the DOM. A command document looks like this: <taconite> <append select="#status"> Your order has shipped! </append> </taconite> The document above instructs Taconite to append the message Your order has shipped! $('#status').append('Your order has shipped'); And this is all initiated using any of the jQuery AJAX methods.

. $.get('orderStatus.php'); Look closely at the line above. That's the basic principle behind the Taconite Plugin - you make a server request, the server returns an XML command document, and the plugin processes the commands within that document. So far we haven't seen evidence that the Taconite Plugin provides any capabilities beyond what jQuery can do very well on its own. The following command document could effect all of these changes at once: Write Content in Markup No innerHTML.

Mmm... Ajax! Image Rotator w/ Teaser - CSS & jQuery Tutorial. jQuery Tutorials for Designers. Truncatable - A jQuery plugin | the odin. Remove All Stylesheets from a Page using jQuery. Here’s a very simple piece of code that removes all stylesheet links from a Page using jQuery <html xmlns=" <title>Remove All Stylesheets From a Page</title> <link href="CSS/RoundCorners.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <link href="CSS/FloatDes.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src=" </script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { $("#removeAll").click(function() { $('link[rel=stylesheet]').remove(); }); }); </script></head><body> <div class="sub-level"></div> <br /> <input id="removeAll" type="button" value="Remove All Stylesheets" /></body></html> Originally the page with the stylesheets applied looked similar to the following: and after the Button is clicked and the stylesheets removed, the page looks like this Will you give this article a +1 ?

Thanks in advance About The Author. How to Create a 3D Tag Cloud in jQuery. 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. 3D Tag Clouds..Oh My What exactly will we be building? It’s somewhat like a carousel, but we’re going to have the take fade off into the distance like the lone ranger at the end of cheesy “B” western flick….very dramatic. We’re also going to have our tag cloud interact with the users mouse. Simple HTML As the sub title suggests the HTML is painfully simple. Styling the List For the most part the CSS is just to make the links pretty. Here is the CSS: The Fun Part (jQuery) Now comes the trigonometry….see…your high school teacher was right, you will use this stuff in the real world. Here is the jQuery: Just to step through what we did. After that we step through each element in our list and give each one a spot on our 3D circle.

The Finish Line That’s all there is to it. jQuery BlockUI Plugin (v2) The jQuery BlockUI Plugin lets you simulate synchronous behavior when using AJAX, without locking the browser[1]. When activated, it will prevent user activity with the page (or part of the page) until it is deactivated. BlockUI adds elements to the DOM to give it both the appearance and behavior of blocking user interaction. Usage is very simple; to block user activity for the page: $.blockUI(); Blocking with a custom message: Blocking with custom style: To unblock the page: $.unblockUI(); If you want to use the default settings and have the UI blocked for all ajax requests, it's as easy as this: $(document).ajaxStart($.blockUI).ajaxStop($.unblockUI); This page demonstrates how to block selected elements on the page rather than the entire page.

Test link - click me! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit sed lorem leo lorem leo consectetuer adipiscing elit sed lorem leo rhoncus sit amet lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetuer adipiscing elit sed lorem leo Test link - click me! Styling Ordered Lists with CSS. Create Flipping Content Tabs Using jQuery. Content Tabs have become more popular lately with more and more websites and blogs using them to show more content in lesser space. Today I am going to show you how to create content tabs with nice flipping effect. For this, you will need the QuickFlip jQuery Plugin by Jon Raasch and of course, the latest version of the incredible jQuery library. The HTML Structure Here’s the HTML structure you’ll need to use: <div id="flip-tabs" > <ul id="flip-navigation" > <li class="selected"><a href="#" id="tab-0" >Recent</a></li> <li><a href="#" id="tab-1" >Popular</a></li> <li><a href="#" id="tab-2" >Comments</a></li> </ul> <div id="flip-container" > <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="flip-tabs" ><ul id="flip-navigation" ><li class="selected"><a href="#" id="tab-0" >Recent</a></li><li><a href="#" id="tab-1" >Popular</a></li><li><a href="#" id="tab-2" >Comments</a></li></ul><div id="flip-container" ><div><!

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