Slideshow: A Javascript class for Mootools If you are looking to download Slideshow, or for class documentation, please visit the open-source project at Google Code. If you are looking for the old version of Slideshow, it has been moved here. Support If you find this page helpful, why not donate? Examples By popular request, the following are some simplified examples of Slideshow usage: Demos Click below to view the various demos - perhaps the most impressive effect of all is simply viewing this page with javascript turned off. Slideshow 2! Colophon All photos were taken with a trusty Canon DigitalElph in New York, October 2007. Dynamic Drive- FavIcon Generator Use this online tool to easily create a favicon (favorites icon) for your site. A favicon is a small, 16x16 image that is shown inside the browser's location bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up. It is a good way to brand your site and increase it's prominence in your visitor's bookmark menu. More information on favicon After you've created a neat favicon, it's time to add it to your site. To do so, follow the below simple procedure: Upload the generated file ("favicon.ico") to your site. Also see- Favicon Editor Also check out our Favicon Editor to create the 16x16 icon image from scratch!
The Life Of A Radar » Blog Archive » Ruby 1.9.1 & Friends jQuery vs MooTools: Choosing Between Two Great JavaScript Frameworks Guillermo Rauch’s Blog » CSS+Javascript power. Fancy menu Let me introduce you to Fancy Menu: When it comes to creating the navigation part of your Website, the first thing you might think of is an unordered list that you style as tabs. Lately, such navbars are everywhere, as many people believe they’ll make their site more Web 2.0-compatible. Personally, I just think they’re semantically better and accessible. In this article I’ll go through the creation of a custom navigation bar with some cute Javascript effects that will certainly impress your friends. Introduction Every time that I know I’m going to use Javascript to alter the behavior or look of something, I try to come up with a simple markup, and make sure it renders perfectly with Javascript turned off. For this menu, as we’ll be having a movable element that acts as the background, we should first make sure that just by using css, we can freely move it and that it won’t affect the display of the menu. Mark it up The CSS styling Then, this is the code we have so far: The moving background
I read a lot of threads about being lonely, sad or unhappy in ge Letter of Recommendation Guide Top Requesting a letter of recommendation You not only need the letter, you need it to be as effective as possible. Whom to ask Given a choice about whom to ask, ask someone who Is comfortable writing a letter for you Can write well and write easily Has experience writing letters of recommendation Is familiar with your work Knows you well enough to be able to include personal anecdotes in the letter Has the highest and/or most relevant job title These guidelines apply to both supervisors and teachers. When to ask Situations vary, but the more time you can allow for receiving your letter the better. How to ask Always be forthright when requesting a letter of recommendation. Lead up to the request if possible. Writing a letter of recommendation Don't write a letter unless... Never agree to write a letter of recommendation unless you Have the time to write it Know the individual well enough to discuss him or her in a tangible way Honestly feel comfortable writing the letter Rec letter length
MooTools Plugin For Geolocation Tasks: MooGeo MooGeo is a MooTools plugin that makes accomplishing common geolocation tasks easy. These tasks include getting detailed info about an IP (country, city, longitude, latitude, etc.), parsing geographical data from text and even finding Flickr photos about a given place. The plugin makes use of multiple free-to-use services like: Yahoo PlaceMakerYahoo GeoPlanetjsonip.appspot.comW3C Geo locationFlickr.places.findLatLon and wraps them into a single package. MooGeo has also support for events on every level (when a request is sent, completed, success or error) which helps offering a better experience to end users. Mootools, du renouveau dans le Javascript Pourquoi une n-ième librairie Javascript ? Mootools est le digne successeur de Moo.FX, petite libraire de 3 Ko seulement (une plume comparé à la lourdeur, relative, de scriptaculous). C'est dans l'optique de légèreté que Mootools a été développée. Du code tout en finesse, fonctionnement rapide, intuitivité et surtout légèreté. Ca sert à quoi ? Si vous avez déjà taté du Javascript, vous savez comment il peut être pénible de gérer certains cas, d'un navigateur à l'autre. Mootools converti tout en objet, avec des fonctions qui simplifieront la syntaxe. Par exemple, en javascript traditionnel, pour accéder à un DIV nommé "mydiv", la syntaxe est : var ma_variable = document.getElementById('mydiv); avec Mootools : var ma_variable = $('mydiv'); C'est non seulement plus court, mais aussi plus puissant. $('mydiv').setStyle('width','100px'); Pour plusieurs d'un coup : Quelques exemples Redimensionnement, clignotement Code : Opacité, Opacité ET hauteur Réorganisation de listes Autre chose ? D'autres exemple
NZ unveils Stonehenge replica Nestled into the verdant hills of the New Zealand region of the Wairarapa is the world's newest "Stonehenge" but this henge is no mere pastiche. Instead, Stonehenge Aotearoa, which opened this weekend, is a full-scale adaptation of its Salisbury Plain ancestor, built to work for the Antipodes. The aim of the Kiwi Stonehenge is to help people rediscover the basics of astronomy. "You can read as much as you like in a book how the sun and the moon work, how people use stars to navigate by, or to foretell the seasons," says Richard Hall, president of the Phoenix Astronomical Society which built the henge. "You stand here amongst the henge and you show people exactly how it works. Somehow it simplifies it and it becomes that much more easy to understand," he said. To build Stonehenge Aotearoa, about an hour's drive from New Zealand's capital of Wellington, the society received a government grant of NZ$56,500. Giants' shoulders Difficult interpretation "You can learn at day.