Website Design & Marketing

CATEGORY: JAVASCRIPT / AJAX
SWFaddress solves Flash SEO problems
Posted in Javascript / AJAX, Web Design & Development on October 8th, 2009 by Rusty

One of the biggest draw backs of flash is using back and forward buttons in the browser and Search Engine Optimization in the URL’s. Well now look no further. Introducing SWFaddress – a small JavaScript library that lets you create virtual URLs for Flash and Ajax. SWFaddress has been around…

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Tracking outgoing links with Google Analytics and jQuery
Posted in Javascript / AJAX on September 14th, 2009 by Rusty

When looking for an easy way to track outgoing links in Google Analytics with jQuery I came across this plugin. However, I needed a more flexible way of link tracking, with more control on which links to track and in what format.

For those reasons I use a small jQuery…

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jQuery with other frameworks without conflicts
Posted in Javascript / AJAX, Web Design & Development on September 9th, 2009 by Rusty

While jQuery is certainly a popular JavaScript framework, it’s by no means the only game in town. Other frameworks such as Prototype, MooTools, Dojo and many others all have their own strengths, weaknesses, and devoted groupies.

Generally speaking, these frameworks all play well together — you can mix and match…

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Introducing jQuery $(document).ready()
Posted in Javascript / AJAX on September 5th, 2009 by Rusty

This is the first thing to learn about jQuery: If you want an event to work on your page, you should call it inside the $(document).ready() function. Everything inside it will load as soon as the DOM is loaded and before the page contents are loaded.

JavaScript:

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Create a jQuery draggable sitemap
Posted in Javascript / AJAX on September 3rd, 2009 by Rusty

There are a handful of javascript libraries and plugins available that attempt this task, but none of them worked flawlessly with our HTML. The real issue here is that javascript alone cannot produce a slick solution, the HTML and CSS need to be carefully constructed to ensure that the experience…

Creating a jQuery RSS Aggregator (reader)
Posted in Javascript / AJAX on September 1st, 2009 by Rusty

Chad Udell with Visual Rinse wrote a fantastic tutorial on creating a jQuery RSS Feed Reader using a PHP proxy to bypass browser security displaying any xml feed using AJAX.

Read more on his blog post http://visualrinse.com/2008/09/24/how-to-build-a-simple-rss-reader-with-jquery/

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Posted in Javascript / AJAX on August 26th, 2009 by Rusty

Originally Posted at CSS-Tricks

Just what the world needs, another jQuery slider. YAWN. I know, check this one out though, it’s got lots of cool features.

Here on CSS-Tricks, I’ve created a number of different sliders. Three, in fact. A “featured content” slider, a “start/stop slider“, and “moving boxes“. Each…

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jQuery Media : A Fun Tutorial on Sounds, Video, & Roll Overs
Posted in Javascript / AJAX on August 3rd, 2009 by Rusty

This article was written out of joy in finding out that jQuery has the capabilities to play sounds and music on your website. Hurray! I love the possibilities of javascript and xml and embrace it as much as I can without making the website too overwhelming with AJAX or non-search…

Advanced jQuery Form with Validation
Posted in Javascript / AJAX on August 1st, 2009 by Rusty

With technologies such as AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) the web is getting many new ways to enhance the user experience. And one way to do this is a simple contact form. Being able to have people contact you online without getting them lost in your website.

This is where…