Posts Tagged ‘jQuery’

jQuery first-letter hijinks

Aug15th
2009
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This morning I was flipping through Memphis Magazine and noticed a pretty simple yet nice text treatment. They were over laying the first paragraph over a faint colored square that had the first letter of said paragraph in it. Nice way of adding a little ‘pop’ to the page. Of …
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jQuery graphical header image replacement

Jun1st
2009
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Several months ago I had a project that included feeding ad images into the sidebar of a page. Not a big deal but, there was an issue. These images were all coming from a third party. There was a small chance that these images would not be uploaded correctly and …
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JQuery cross-column pull-quotes

Dec15th
2008
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Here’s something I’ve been wanting to figure out for a while now. How to make two column pull quotes that are actually usable for the most part. With the use of some pseudo-fancy CSS and a little bit of neat jQuery, I have finally done just that. The text resize function …
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Wordpress offset archive hack

Dec11th
2008
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One issue I have found with Wordpress is that is doesn’t have a class of “offset” for the archives. While most of the time this isn’t an issue, I am currently working on a template that needed just this feature. It took me a while to get it going …
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jQuery fading and sliding image gallery

Mar4th
2008
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The idea was raised by a collegue how to go about recreating something similar to The New York Times The Little Rock Nine: 50 Years Later flash feature without using flash. In my “infinite wisdom” I said something along the lines of,“no problem, jQuery and CSS can do all …
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