Tricks n Tips
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Using jQuery Ajax to send and recieve HTML form data
Friday, July 10th 2009
I’ve focused on Ajax quite a bit in recent posts and I’ve decided to wrap it up with a detailed breakdown on how I implemented jQuery Ajax functionality on the Interlopers portfolio pages.
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Improving Interlopers - Part 2
Tuesday, June 30th 2009
I wanted to make searching the content on Interlopers a lot easier but that didn’t mean I couldn’t spice it up as well.
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Forget IE6, use more efficient CSS
Tuesday, May 26th 2009
Thanks largely to IE6 a surprising number of developers never utilise CSS to its full potential. You can navigate the DOM with so much more than class, ID and element selectors.
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A quick wordpress tip
Monday, May 25th 2009
Quite busy at the moment so I’ll get round to a proper post soon. However I’ve got a neat little wordpress tip that might help you out.
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Yahoo presentation on Frontend development
Monday, May 4th 2009
Nate Koeachley delivers a brilliant ninety minute presentation on all aspects of Front end work that we should all be using, unless you already are. However, it’s still worth the time even if you follow the techniques employed.
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Sharing my site template
Sunday, May 3rd 2009
Before you start work on a site I find it helps to have a template ready that you can just grab a copy of and start working on. I don’t like frameworks as such but I do like having key files prepped and ready to go.
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Creating your own toolbox menu with jQuery
Thursday, April 16th 2009
If you’ve spent a few moments browsing my site then hopefully you had a little play with the toolbox over on the right there. It’s a common feature where you click a new item and the old one shuts before revealing the newly clicked content and whilst there are plenty of plugins available to achieve this, I didn’t like being bound by their rules so I wrote my own script and it’s actually dead easy.
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Sprucing up HTML validation links
Thursday, April 16th 2009
Most websites these days have got the classic ‘Valid HTML’ and ‘Valid CSS’ links and sure, we should be expecting no less these days. But if you’re up for improving the cosmetics of the standard links then these three little lines of jQuery will be right up your street.

