You have probably noted over the past few months that I’ve been working a lot with the Dojo Toolkit. SitePen has been kind enough to allow me to guest blog about a Dojo topic I find very interesting: creating and enhancing Dojo classes. From the post:
Like all top-notch JavaScript toolkits, Dojo tries to make its classes as flexible as possible, knowing that users of the toolkit may have different ideas about how a given class or class method should work. Luckily, Dojo provides you a number of methods by which you can subclass or modify existing classes. Let’s examine a few ways you can make Dojo classes exactly the way you like.
I’ve just released my third NetTuts post: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/sexy-animated-tabs-using-mootools/ . From the post:
One modern, attractive way of placing a lot of content into a little space is by using a tab system. This tutorial will show you how to create a sexy, animated tab system complete with CSS sprites, cookies, and animated tab swapping.
Go over to NetTuts and check it out!
This post was authored by Jeremy Martin. To learn more about Jeremy, click here.
One of the catch 22′s of owning a blog or site on the cheap is that of not breaking the budget, while tip-toeing around an overly constrictive space/bandwidth quota. Along with countless others, I myself am often hanging in the aforementioned balance. One solution I recently deployed to stretch a little more mileage out of my current hosting package was to serve all my static content via one of the many dirt cheap or even free file hosting services out there.
A few weeks back, CSS-Tricks.com‘s Chris Coyier asked me to help him use PHP and the Yahoo Weather API to create a website header that changes based on the weather. Mission accomplished! Skip over to the article and let me know what you think!
This post was authored by Eric Wendelin. To learn more about Eric, click here.
A lot of blogs and websites that have a wide range of users tend to have buttons or images that change the text size for easier readability. This can easily be implemented with a bit of JavaScript and some HTML to attach it to. There are libraries out there that do this, but in many cases it is likely overkill. Simplicity is generally better where possible.