MySpaceID allows MySpace Users to easily come into your site and get going by bringing their identity with them. By allowing Users to link their MySpace account with your site, a Developer can enable social functionality. This guide is designed …
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When you get to a stage when you need to pass user data from one page to another you have the option to do this without the user knowing by using PHP Session variables. Sessions are basically server-side cookies which …
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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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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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The MySpace Search API allows you to search MySpace for user, videos, images, and music. With an individual feed for each search item. It is designed to function like a search on the MySpace website and to have a response …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve recently been working on a large project that required a lot of JSONP encoding and parsing. To be honest its been a bit of a nightmare because of one simple problem. the formating that JSON spits out onto the …
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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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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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I’ve come across quite a few sites that explain how to create flexible CSS3 buttons but i’ve never really spent the time to implement one until i found a great little write up courtesy of the guys over at the …
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I wrote a post mid last year about protecting your site images from being hotlinked as I found a site that had word for word scrapped one of my blog posts, you can see the post here, and I really …
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