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- Feb 15, 12
Making user prompts look much more appetizing doesn’t have to be that much of a chore, especially when great UI designers are giving you their Photoshop templates for free! Orman Clark over at premiumpixels.com regularly releases lovingly designed UI components to the masses. By request of a friend who’s starting out with JQuery, I thought I’d show you how to bring to life one of my favourites, the popup window. Click here to see a demo Prerequisites: Ormans PSD jQuery Tools Overlay & Expose files You can also download a working demo here, this contains everything. This guide requires basic …
- Jan 06, 12
Overview Animated tray icons are a useful way of alerting users of changes to your applications state. Unfortunately the .NET frameworks tray icon offering doesn’t support animation so I decided to write a reusable component that extends the tray icon to incorporate the desired functionality. Another notable feature of this implementation is that it supports the 24×24 Windows 7 tray icons as opposed to others that rely on the scaling the 16×16 size icons up. Download the control & sample project Extending the non-extendable The .NET TrayIcon class is sealed and therefore non-extendable so I have wrapped it (and some …
- Jan 06, 12
There are lots of long-winded methods out there that show you how to add / change a folders icon, below is a short C# class method that just gets the job done. To change a folder icon we need to accomplish the following: Ensure the target folder has the ‘System’ attribute applied to it Add a desktop.ini file within the target folder specifying the icon path The Code public static void setFolderIcon(string path, string iconPath, string folderToolTip) { /* Remove any existing desktop.ini */ if (File.Exists(path + @"\desktop.ini")) File.Delete(path + @"\desktop.ini"); /* Write the desktop.ini */ StreamWriter sw = File.CreateText(path …
- Jan 24, 12
“Anyone motivated to be successful—to really make an impact with your life—has a list of things they want to do.” - thrillingheroics.com My constantly changing list of goals to accomplish before I kick it are … Personal Goals Paragliding license Private pilots license Commercial pilots license Fly for a living for at least year Move to more of a LIP life style like the guys here, here or here. Get a Degree Scuba license Learn to power kite Learn to kite buggy Climb a mountain over 20,000ft Skydive Build a UAV from scratch Base jump – with a wing suit Learn …
- Oct 24, 11
Not that there aren’t enough examples & implementations of javascript toggle buttons on Google, here’s another to add to the collection. This plugins main features / capabilities are: Cross browser compatible As accessible & screen reader friendly as possible Light-weight & easy to use Works with both image sprites & regular HTML buttons Single & multiple button selection modes No / Disabled JavaScript fall over Working example Toggle Toggle Repeat Repeat On / Off On / Off Fall over example Toggle Toggle Repeat Repeat On / Off On / Off Download You can Download the jQuery Toggle button script and …
- Aug 22, 11
Many templates and plugins use an older method of importing tweets, unfortunately it doesn't support RTs, here is a simple fix.
- Aug 26, 11
Showing your latest tweets (& retweets) within your blog or site can be an intuitive way of getting people to follow you. The easiest way to do this is by retrieving your Twitter feed (in JSON format), reading your latest tweet(s) and adding them to the page. In this example, we’ll be starting with a blank HTML5 document like so: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> </body> </html> Create the area within your page to show the tweet(s) You need to create a list node to display the tweet(s) somewhere on your page, this needs …
- Aug 28, 11
I’ve built a fair few WordPress sites over the years, these plugins are my firm favorites across my sites. Most of these are utility plugins that provide an enhanced and / or new feature set to my installations.
- Aug 09, 11
Following on from my last article on The EU Cookie Law, I decided to check and see whether the government had updated its sites to adhere to the new law it imposed in May 2011. Number 10 Downing Street No request to send me cookies. Looks like their using Google Analytics though! Website: www.number10.gov.uk Direct.gov.uk No request to send me cookies. Again, looks like their using Google Analytics (and more!). Website: www.direct.gov.uk DVLA – Driver & Vehicle Licensing Authority No request to send me cookies. Again, looks like their using Google Analytics. Website: www.dvla.gov.uk Information Commissioners Office Although they appear …
- Aug 09, 11
Today I was posed the question, by a prospective new client, of whether their new web site would breach the May 2011 UK cookie law. Although aware of the new law, I will admit I had not yet looked at the actual legislative requirements, lets take a look. Where are cookies used? Cookies are used by nearly all web sites to remember information about visitors in between pages and sessions. In most cases, this information is stored server side, not in the actual cookie, the cookie simply acts as a key. Common use of a cookie – Analytic software Probably …
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Tweets
- Jazzing up Javascript confirmation boxes with an @ormanclark popup window template, JQuery & CSS #jquery #css #beginner http://t.co/8rC4nIVL
- Good for beginners: @smashingmag: A simple guide to get started with Git - http://t.co/LI9VUeJV
- So @Skype ... I'm set as away on one machine, online on another and #DND on a third. What's my status appear as to others? #confusing
- @theplanetd: 45 Places to go in 2012 via @nytimestravel http://t.co/C5UGenFZ Where have you been & Where are you going?
- Just setting up a new VM CPanel server with @Memset_Ltd. Provisioned at rapid pace as usual, thanks!
- @dbrewood Still working on it, I'll update you as soon as it's ready.
- Just upgraded a test site to the new version (5.5.1) of @concrete5 CMS, what a difference! They're still leading the way. #concrete5 #cms
- Just joined the 'Impossible League', time to start doing the impossible! @joelrunyon http://t.co/j7Ehtnmk
- @XNaught81 How thick is the #snow down there buddy?
- 67signals the @37signals spoof site, funny! http://t.co/d8wRuhZK
- @ormanclark That is nothing short of brilliant!
- > @mashable: Mark Zuckerberg Spent $700K Flying on Private Planes Last Year - http://t.co/Krh24RX8 - I wonder how much he gave to charity?
- Beautiful English countryside! http://t.co/DtUihohM
- Beautiful English countryside! http://t.co/5vrKuNBO
- @XNaught81 & anyone else on O2 in the UK, read this... http://t.co/2U1rRNmwJan 26, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @dbrewood Should have a change to get those tie-ups finished by the weekend.
- @chrisguillebeau I read & answer tweets. That's why I have a 4hr daily quiet time to get on with work. ;)
- @NoPlaceToBe Being a veggie I'm hoping it's photoshoped.
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