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MooTools Content Slider Update - Numbered Nav
So, here we are again... yet another content slider update! By far, the most requested addition I have received is a way to 'jump' to other slides, along with a navigation for it. I'm actually going to take that one step further, and show you how to accomplish that with a dynamically created navigation list!
Mootools Div Slider With Basic Controls
After posting my last Mootools tutorial, I received a couple of friendly comments asking for a version with some simple controls. That seemed like a great/useful request, especially given the fact that I wasn't sure if anyone was reading these posts! It's been a super hectic week here, but I finally managed to get around to coding it up this weekend... Hopefully you will enjoy this and/or find it of use!
Mootools Content Slider With Intervals
To celebrate the official release of MooTools 1.2, I decided to post a quick tutorial on making a timed 'content slider' with the new version. I needed to create one of these for a client this afternoon, so I coded one up from scratch... and I thought it might be useful to someone else needing to do something similar. There may be a better method to accomplish this, so if you have one please share with us!
Expression Engine site up!
After a VERY interesting weekend playing with Expression Engine, the site is back up – and running on it. It's not quite finished yet, so you'll notice things may look a little screwy for the next few days. (Comments are disabled, prev/next links aren't there, pagination isn't turned on, etc... just little stuff, mainly.)
I'll definitely post a (highly positive) write-up later this week about all of this, but I've got a busy schedule for the next few days!
Lab Experiment 1 - Expression Engine
Hello, if anyone is reading! Just making a quick post to let you all know I'm doing some experimenting this weekend... and the site will likely be down today and tomorrow.
I'm pullin' out a fresh bag of espresso beans and playing with Expression Engine over the weekend, if you must know. Yes, this site is currently hand-coded... and I'm quite proud of that fact. I honestly think my latest CMS version is miles ahead most of the other ones out there. However, I've had some really cool project requests that would require me to use Expression Engine, and it seems very nice... so I'm going to attempt porting my site over into it over the weekend. (If it works as well as I'm currently thinking, I may start doing most of my sites with it! Yes, it really is that good...)
Jazz Up Your Forms With MooTools Pt. 2
In the second part of this tutorial, I'm going to show you how I did the live comment preview with the auto-expansion of the preview and the input textarea. I'll be building upon the first part of this tutorial, so be sure to check that one out first if you haven't already. So, let's get to it...
Jazz Up Your Forms With MooTools Pt. 1
I can't promise anything, but I plan on putting out at least one tutorial a month. For my very first one, we'll be dealing with MooTools and contact forms. It's a bit lengthy, so I'm going to be breaking this up into two posts. There are four main things we'll tackle:
- Animated field highlighting
- Displaying/hiding instructions for each input field
- Live comment previewing
- Auto-resizing of both the comment preview and it's corresponding textarea input
Amazing List of Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials
The folks over at Noupe have posted an extremely nice list of various Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials you should check out. I honestly can't wait to dig into some of these and play around! Many thanks to them for taking the time to put this list together...
How To Create Brilliant Light Streaks In Photoshop
My friend Henry Jones has whipped up an amazingly simple but effective Photoshop tutorial on creating dramatic light streaks. The end result could be used for anything from desktop wallpapers to website background elements, and it will take you about 5 minutes of your time.
FCKeditor and AVG 8.0
The other day, I noticed that the pages in my CMS containing FCKeditor elements were suddenly taking a LONG time to load... like, 20-30 seconds! This became maddenly frustrating, and searching the forums at FCKeditor.net was not giving me an answer.