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Elastic CSS Backgrounds

Posted on: August 18th, 2010 by James Vec
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A friend of mine prompted me to write this tutorial. He comes from a flash background where all you have to do is set percentages to get a full screen site, and he asked me how I did it in HTML. In this tutorial I will show you how I set up multiple backgrounds with ...

Creating Your First Jquery Plugin

Posted on: August 8th, 2010 by James Vec
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Here is a demo of what we will be creating. If you want to skip the tutorial and download the files you can get them here In this tutorial I am going to take my Simple Thumbnail Gallery script and turn it into my first Jquery Plugin. I will walk you through the process I used to ...

WordPress Custom Post Templates

Posted on: July 18th, 2010 by James Vec
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Wordpress Custom post Templates Creating custom post templates for your blog is a good way to keep your posts interesting. Some notable writers with lots of custom templates are of course Jason Santa Maria and Andrew Rossi who writes for Design Informer. Each post has its own look and feel, and I have to admit I probably ...

Google font API and @fontface

Posted on: July 10th, 2010 by James Vec
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I recently started experimenting with both the Google font API and @fontface in my designs. Now that @fontface is supported by the majority of browsers I think it is time to start playing with it and pushing web typography further. The Google Font API Google Font API Google is offering their own free solution to web typography. ...

Large Thumb Photo Gallery V.2

Posted on: July 8th, 2010 by James Vec
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If you have not read Large Thumb Photo Gallery you might want to check it out before you read this, as this is just an upgrade to the original. One of the problems with the original was that all the images were contained within the markup on load. What I decided to do was load ...