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New Additions to the Vault: 11/4

• Category: Vault
• Tags: css, js, php
• Comments: 4
• 04 2009 Nov

I’m getting lazy about updating the vault with new tutorials. I really need to find more of an automated way to do this; but it’s a bit difficult when they’re posted across multiple sites. Anyhow, here’s what I’ve been up to for the last few weeks.

1. Ask JW: Building the jwAnnounce jQuery Plugin
2. Build a Simple Content Slider jQuery Plugin
3. Ultimate Guide to Creating a Design and Converting it to HTML and CSS
4. CSS: The Very First Steps (Subscription Tutorial)
5. TypeKit: Removing the Wrapping Paper

Components

I’ve also released a couple helpful jQuery plugins this week; nothing too life shattering, but helpful none the less.

filterJSON

Imagine that you have a JSON file, and need an easy way to filter through and display its contents on the page. If you’re using a helpful JavaScript library like jQuery, you could use .getJSON() to load and parse the file; however, you’re then left with a huge clump of data to sort through.

Wouldn’t it be easier if there was a way to, in a sense, allow for pagination through these objects? Wouldn’t it be easier if we could set the number of items to display on the page at any given time? That’s exactly what this plugin does.

jwAnnounce

I was recently asked on Twitter if I was aware of a simple announcement plugin for jQuery – where a little bar is posted at the top of a website informing the user that some important news/update is taking place. I’m sure you’ve seen them plenty of times. With jQuery, we can create a wrapper for this effect easily and quickly.

On the Horizon

Coming up this Friday is a pretty nifty screencast called “ajaxComments.” It’ll teach how to take a simple PHP comment form and AJAXify it with the jQuery post() method and some pretty animations.

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