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jQuery form titles

July 7th, 2010 | 5 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

Building an animated 3D poll

June 10th, 2010 | 4 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 | 6 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 | 5 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 | 10 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

Using jQuery Arrays

May 21st, 2010 | 8 Comments

I was recently in a situation where I needed to count a number of list items and pass the values to a form, I got around this problem by using JavaScript arrays, looping through the list items and picking up …
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Using jQuery Arrays

Get started with jQuery Tools

May 20th, 2010 | 2 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

20 Complete scripts to download

April 7th, 2010 | 11 Comments

I’ve put together a nice little collection of scripts over the past year or so, and have decided as it’s approaching summer in the UK (sorry winter in Australia!) to do a download bundle of 20 assorted scripts where you …
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20 Complete scripts to download

Building a fancy jQuery header feature

April 5th, 2010 | 10 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

jQuery growl notification plugin

March 21st, 2010 | 9 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

Parse XML with jQuery

March 16th, 2010 | 11 Comments

I recently ran through the technique of parsing JSON with jQuery and thought i’d pick this up and show you how to parse XML. It’s pretty much the same although the big difference with using XML is that this won’t …
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Parse XML with jQuery

Ketchup jQuery form validation

March 4th, 2010 | 7 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

We Deliver – a 24hr project

February 6th, 2010 | 10 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

jQuery Event Delegation

February 2nd, 2010 | 4 Comments

When I first started using jQuery to make AJAX requests event delegation always caught me out as I never understood what it was or how to use it. If you’re manipulating the DOM you will surely come across the problem …
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jQuery Event Delegation

How to create a jQuery category drop down

January 31st, 2010 | 4 Comments

Every couple of weeks I seem to find myself checking 9rules.com to see if they’re accepting new submissions as I’d like to submit this site. Any how on this occasion I couldn’t help but notice the browse by community section …
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How to create a jQuery category drop down

Using Highcharts JavaScript Library

January 12th, 2010 | 30 Comments

There are some great JavaScript graph libraries out there and one that’s recently come to my attention is Highcharts.com which is compatible with both the jQuery and Mootools frameworks. To get started point your browser here where you can download …
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Using Highcharts JavaScript Library

Build a JSON and PHP product gallery

January 7th, 2010 | 15 Comments

As the title describes we’re going to look at making cross domain ajax requests using JSONP I’m also going to show you how to get data from a MySQL database and encode it into a JSON string which can be …
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Build a JSON and PHP product gallery

Truncate text with the jTruncate jQuery Plugin

January 4th, 2010 | 3 Comments

I stumbled across this pretty useful jQuery Plugin the other day that i though some of you would appreciate. It was written by Jeremy Martin a few years back. The plugin solves a big problem in that, if you have …
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Truncate text with the jTruncate jQuery Plugin

jQuery image zoom effect

December 14th, 2009 | 19 Comments

I recently revamped my portfolio as it was looking dreary and completely uninspiring, I wanted to present my work in a way that was both easy to navigate, easy to maintain and most importantly looked smart and un-cluttered. When I …
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jQuery image zoom effect

JavaScript link tracking with Google Analytics

December 12th, 2009 | 5 Comments

Google Analytics is great to tracking your site traffic. I started out using Statcounter.com to track my site visits, but over the years i’ve wanted more information so I switched over to using Google Analytics. Google provides an excellent dashboard …
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JavaScript link tracking with Google Analytics
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