Bookmarking / Social Archives

Facebook-Style Modal Box Using MooTools

Published by David Walsh on Tuesday, April 7, 200957 Comments

In my oh-so-humble opinion, Facebook’s Modal box is the best modal box around. It’s lightweight, subtle, and very stylish. I’ve taken Facebook’s imagery and CSS and combined it with MooTools’ awesome functionality to duplicate the effect.

Facebook Example

The Imagery

Facebook Modal Facebook Modal

Facebook uses a funky sprite for their modal box. Pretty cool though.

Create Digg URLs Using PHP

Published by David Walsh on Monday, April 6, 20097 Comments

Digg recently came out with a sweet new feature that allows users to create Tiny Digg URLs which show a Digg banner at the top allowing easy access to vote for the article from the page. While I love visiting Digg every once in a while, I’d rather grab the URL remotely. Here’s how to do so using PHP.

Following MooTools on Twitter

Published by David Walsh on Monday, March 9, 20094 Comments

A while back I posted links to various official and unofficial websites that would keep you up to date on the MooTools project. Here are a bunch of Twitter-related links that will get you even closer to the project.

MooTools Devs & Contributors

Automated Accounts

Many of the accounts above are tweeted to often so if you follow MooTools you should follow the developers above.

MooTools TwitterGitter Plugin

Published by David Walsh on Wednesday, March 4, 200932 Comments
TwitterGitter

Everyone loves Twitter. Everyone loves MooTools. That’s why everyone should love TwitterGitter, a MooTools plugin that retrieves a user’s recent tweets and allows the user to format them however the user would like. TwitterGitter allows the user to choose the number of tweets to retrieve and returns an object containing the data provided by Twitter.

Script & Style Revamp with Submission Favelet

Published by David Walsh on Wednesday, February 18, 20095 Comments

It’s been six months and some change since the launch of Script & Style and the website is doing extremely well. Traffic continues to rise, our RSS feed subscriber count is close to 4,000, the submissions continue to be quality, and we’re slowly adding new features to the site. We’ve recently taken some time to revamp the website to continue its growth.

Click here to read Chris Coyier’s article with regard to the site redesign.





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