Day and Night: Creating a Scenery Animation with jQuery and CSS

Tutorials

In today's tutorial I am going to show you, how to create an amazing animated scenery with just a few lines of jQuery and some absolute positioned elements with images. See the demo link below an... read more

December 14, 2009 by Mary Lou 15 Comments »

Fixed Fade Out Menu: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial

Tutorials

Inspired by David Walsh's top navigation bar that gets semi-transparent when you scroll down the page, I decided to create a tutorial out of that idea. The aim is to have a fixed navigation tha... read more

December 11, 2009 by Mary Lou 42 Comments »

Beautiful Slide Out Navigation Revised

Tutorials

After I got a lot of feedback for the Beautiful Slide Out Navigation, I had some new ideas for a similar horizontal navigation. Thanks a lot to everyone! Like Stefan Matei pointed out, it might b... read more

December 8, 2009 by Mary Lou 71 Comments »

URL Image Getter/Uploader/Resizer

Development

I was wondering how to get images from a site the same way like Digg or Facebook do, where it is only necessary to provide a link, and images get automatically uploaded to your server and resized. So, I decided to create a scr... read more

December 6, 2009 by chadking 6 Comments »

How I Speeded Up Our Wordpress Blog

Development

Our site was getting kind of slow, so I decided to read some articles about how to speed up a Wordpress blog. While many give really great tips on what to do, I just want to add some own experiences.  The speed of loading this ... read more

December 5, 2009 by Mary Lou 11 Comments »

jBookMark: A jQuery Marking Tool

Development

Ever missed the bookmarking option of a good editor in a web site? This jQuery plugin does exactly that: if you want your website visitors to be able to toggle bookmarks in your pages that are loaded with a lot of content then... read more

December 4, 2009 by cody 2 Comments »

CSS and jQuery Tutorial: Overlay with Slide Out Box

Tutorials

The other day I was creating an overlay with a box for Cody's jTextTranslate jQuery Plugin and I thought, it could be useful to describe the technique in a tutorial. So, I want to show you how to create a semi-transparent o... read more

December 3, 2009 by Mary Lou 25 Comments »

TweetTheme: Color Theme Inspiration from Twitter Themes

Development

My next Twitter API experiment: Get the theme's colors from any Twitter account! With this PHP and jQuery code you can call the Twitter API and request the RGB color and the background image from a given user. In the provid... read more

December 2, 2009 by chadking 3 Comments »