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jQuery Fancy Switch

November 24th, 2011 | 16 Comments

I wrote a post a while back on coding an iPhone style switch using jQuery. I’ve now put together a simple tutorial demonstrating how simple it is to build a switch that triggers two radio buttons in a field set. …
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jQuery Fancy Switch

Build a simple animated progress bar with tooltip

August 14th, 2011 | One Comment

Here’s a very basic example of how to code up an animated progress bar with tooltip using the Tipsy tooltip plugin. First I started out in Photoshop and designed the basic progress bar, you can download the PSD file for …
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Build a simple animated progress bar with tooltip

jQuery UI Slider

May 19th, 2011 | 12 Comments

I’ve been hugely inspired recently by the design work of Orman Clark from Premiumpixels.com and his generous selection of top quality PSD downloads. after seeing this beautiful design of a button and slider set I was eager to code up …
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jQuery UI Slider

Automatically pull in user Gravatar images

January 20th, 2011 | 2 Comments

I was browsing forrst.com and saw a pretty interesting code snippet from Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks which is pretty useful for WordPress users and allows the gravatar of a commenter to be dynamically pulled into the comment box as soon …
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Automatically pull in user Gravatar images

Optimise your site for mobile devices

November 10th, 2010 | 5 Comments

With the advent of smart phones and more powerful handheld devices like the iPad are your mobile users having the best experience? The mobile arena introduces a layer of complexity that can be difficult for designers and developers to accommodate. …
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Optimise your site for mobile devices

5 tips to designing better landing pages

October 18th, 2010 | One Comment

Marketing your site to the right audience and getting your core message across is crucial in order to sell your product or service. There is no single formula to achieve this, only different strategies and tests will lead to a …
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5 tips to designing better landing pages

jQuery form titles

July 7th, 2010 | 11 Comments

I thought I’d share a little technique that I occasionally use when coding forms with a limited amount of space. It’s a simple effect that allows you to contain the form input or textarea title within the form allowing the …
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jQuery form titles

Using Cufon font replacement

July 6th, 2010 | 15 Comments

I’d never used Cufon font replacement until a few weeks ago when I was sifting through some code that another designer had written and noticed that he was using Cufon. Not that many people seem to know about Cufon though. …
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Using Cufon font replacement

Building an animated 3D poll

June 10th, 2010 | 6 Comments

Regular readers of Papermashup will have seen the post that I wrote last week on Easy Poll, the personal project that I launched a few weeks back that allows you to create a simple 2 answer poll that you can …
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Building an animated 3D poll

Build a jQuery content feature like MailChimp

June 8th, 2010 | 12 Comments

I was scouring the internet for inspiration the other day and revisiting some interesting sites and noticed that MailChimp had changed their homepage integrating a slick full page slider. After a little investigation I noticed that they were using the …
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Build a jQuery content feature like MailChimp

jQuery page scrolling

June 4th, 2010 | 16 Comments

Over a year ago I wrote an article on scrolling a page using Prototype, just to update things here I’m going to run through scrolling a page using jQuery and the animate() function. Automated page scrolling is useful in many …
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jQuery page scrolling

easypoll a side project

May 26th, 2010 | 12 Comments

I was sat in the sun at the weekend and sporadically decided to do a little project like wedeliver you can read about the adventure I had building the 24hr project here. This project on the other hand probably took …
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easypoll a side project

Get started with jQuery Tools

May 20th, 2010 | 4 Comments

It’s so easy to go on the hunt for a plugin for a project and end up with multiple plugins all doing different things maintained and managed by separate developers, but wait there’s a common solution to this problem with …
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Get started with jQuery Tools

Building a fancy jQuery header feature

April 5th, 2010 | 16 Comments

I’ve recently been working on a project where a client came to me with an idea to create a feature on their homepage which shows three sections of dynamic content, this lead me to think about writing a tutorial on …
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Building a fancy jQuery header feature

Simple CSS Navigation

April 4th, 2010 | One Comment

Navigation is a key feature on any site and for a front end web designer or developer there’s nothing more important than creating the perfect navigation menu. Today I’m going to run through how to create a pure CSS navigation …
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Simple CSS Navigation

jQuery growl notification plugin

March 21st, 2010 | 17 Comments

Last week I signed up Gravity a new site setup by a few guys that used to work at MySpace. As i was using the site I noticed these great little notifications popping up in my browser, Mac users will …
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jQuery growl notification plugin

Give your site an iPhone bookmark icon

March 9th, 2010 | 16 Comments

I recently configured my site for mobile consumption, by using the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin along with the Carrington Mobile 1.0.2 theme. I noticed when I bookmarked my site using the iPhone that the home screen icon as missing. Today …
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Give your site an iPhone bookmark icon

Ketchup jQuery form validation

March 4th, 2010 | 12 Comments

I recently had the need for some client side form validation and happened to find the jQuery Ketchup plugin. It’s a simple and flexible plugin that can be modified and styled for your own needs, plugin modifications are encouraged although …
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Ketchup jQuery form validation

Creating a simple typographical logo

February 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Whilst working on my most recent project ‘We deliver’, I had the need for a simple logo that wasn’t overly fussy but still slick contemporary and simple to design. I thought I’d put the design stages together into a short …
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Creating a simple typographical logo

We Deliver – a 24hr project

February 6th, 2010 | 11 Comments

I’ve been meaning to do something sporadic and creative for a while now but have never got around to it until now. I decided to challenge myself to build a site (wedeliver.papermashup.com) in under 24hrs from concept and design through …
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We Deliver – a 24hr project
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I'm Ashley Ford, Co-founder and Technical Director at Harkable.com London, UK. Previously I worked at InMobi, Spotify and MySpace. My interests include photography and making short videos I'm also an avid F1 fan. I'm always working on side projects. Here are a few: Easy Poll, We Deliver.



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