Here is a cool jQuery effect which lets you preview an image when you hover over its thumbnail. It pretty much a tooltip that follows your mouse around while having an image rather than text. The image previewer will also adjust itself depending on how large the image is in relation to the x and y coordinates of your mouse.
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February 3rd, 2010Inline validator
January 20th, 2010It seems like today forms are getting smaller and more simple. I like this. Inline validation seems to the direction form validation is heading. I have built a very simple inline form validator that only requires simple html form markup, a couple script links and some CSS to make the form pretty.
Mario’s Buttons
January 7th, 2010As websites move towards the “web 2.0″ look and feel, a glassy rounded corner button or image is pretty standard.
The worlds easiest centered two column layout
December 22nd, 2009Here’s a post for beginner HTML/CSS soon to be ninjas. About 90% of the sites I have build use this same technique for layout. I generally use a 950px wide layout but this can be any size you would like as long as you adjust the width of the columns accordingly.
jQuery feed reader – jgfeed
December 14th, 2009I was trying to find a way to get the latest article posts dynamically on the homepage M2Volt.com. I wanted this to be client side since it is outside of the CMS we are using for our blog page. I stumbled upon a plugin on the jQuery site that blew my socks off [...]
jQuery slide show
December 13th, 2009There are tons of slideshow options on the web today, many are very well built while others can be very cluttered and hard to use/understand. Now that I am getting fairly comfortable with jQuery I felt as if building a sideshow myself would be very beneficial as well as a good learning experience. I wanted [...]
Automatically add images to links
December 13th, 2009Adding images to links on your website can be very useful, it is helpful for the ease of use and also adds attractive visuals to your site.
Must have FireFox plugins for web development
December 13th, 2009Firefox can be one of your most powerful web developing tools. Plugins for FireFox are easy to use and can cut down time coding by hours, check out some of my favorites.
CSS hacks and filters
December 13th, 2009You should rarely use CSS hacks for different browsers, but sometimes you find yourself in the situation where there is no other choice. Over the years I have come across some CSS hacks and filters that can come in handy when building websites.
