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Using jQuery for a Simple Animated Fade Effect

Posted on March 15, 2010  |  Category: Tutorials

I know I have already done a fade effect between two images with jQuery, but here is a quick little piece of code that will just add a nice animated fade effect to single images. Whenever a person hovers over an image, we will use jQuery to lower the opacity to make it appear lighter. Easy and not that impressive but still pretty cool.

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Full Size Background Image jQuery Plugin

Posted on February 23, 2010  |  Category: Downloads

I guess I am on a jQuery plugin kick since it seems to be all I am doing lately. I just really dig how versatile the jQuery library is and all the amazing things you can do to a Web site with it. I had to create a resizing background image that would fit the full size of the browser window and this little plugin does just that.

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Easy Overlay Modal Window jQuery Plugin

Posted on February 15, 2010  |  Category: Downloads

I developed the following jQuery plugin for the Design options admin panel of Magazine Premium. All it needed to do is display an example of all of the @font-face kits that are available with the theme. It is pretty simple and just fades in a centered modal window containing an image when you click on a link.

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Creating a jQuery Plugin to Increase Font Size

Posted on January 6, 2010  |  Category: Tutorials

I have been spending a bit of time lately figuring out how to create my own plugins for jQuery. It doesn’t take much to accomplish and I thought it would be a good idea to put together a small tutorial to show everyone just how easy it can be. For this example, I will create a plugin to increase the font size of a selected div when a link is clicked.

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Find the Category ID using the Category Slug in WordPress

Posted on December 31, 2009  |  Category: Tutorials

This is a quick little piece of code that I have been using a lot lately. I needed to get the category ID but all I had to work with was the category slug. Luckily WordPress has a neat little function called get_term_by() which makes it super easy. The function can be used to get a lot more information but for this example I am just going to extract the ID.

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