tutorials

Designing Individual Blog Posts (Your Own Personal CSS Zen Garden)

Tired of redesigning your site? Why not style your posts individually? If you’re up for it, there are a number of things to consider and a number of things to avoid.

• code
• css
• design
• textpattern
• wordpress

Unobtrusive Expand and Collapse Navigation

Create a vertical navigation that will expand and collapse to show and hide sub-navigation using only unordered lists and as few class/id names as possible…

• code
• javascript
• navigation
• unobtrusive

Forcing New Windows on Users Script

Launch new windows for PDFs and External Websites without having to add anything into my (x)HTML – a pure behavior that should be separated from my core structure. There have been many attempts at tutorials on this, but I’ve never been happy.

• javascript
• unobtrusive
• usability

Shorten document.getElementById

Do you write document.getElementById or document.getElementsByTagName too many times in your javascript to count? How about shortening them into their own easy to use functions?…

• code
• javascript

Google Feed API Tutorial

Using Google’s new Feed API, I wanted to be able to read in a single feed that pulls all of my blog, twitter, del.icio.us and digg posts…