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Do RSS Feeds Detract From Website Traffic Trends?
Is it just me, or do RSS feeds detract the user from a website? Let me try to explain what I mean by this. Recently, because I've been reading a lot, and particularly a lot from Smashing Magazine (@smashingmag), I've installed a Firefox add-on called "Google Reader Watcher", which allows me to instantly see how many feeds I have unread in my statusbar. That's just great! It means i don't have to go and check myself and when something new pops up I click it and it takes me to my Google Reader...
Posted Thu 6th May @ 15:30 by ahallicks | Comments 0
YUITip - Simple JavaScript Tooltip For YUI
Demo I wanted to create a simple tooltip for a project I was working on and have seen plenty of jQuery examples, but as you may know by now I prefer to use the YUI library for all of my javascript. So I took this opportunity to write myself a nice little script that would do exactly what I wanted with the greatest of ease.I also thought I would share the finished result with you, in case you are looking for the same sort of thing. It is configurable by changing a couple of the options at the to...
Posted Thu 22nd Apr @ 23:14 by ahallicks | Comments 0
YUILight - Spotlight Your Page Elements With YUI
YUILight is a customisable YUI Script that will highlight an element on your page simply by applying a class of 'yuilight' to that element. When that element is clicked and focused on, everything else on the page will be covered by a mask and that single element will stand out from the rest.It is a very simple script to implement only requiring two javascript files and no CSS! The options for customising the script can be found at the top of the javascript file (which is fully commented for you)...
Posted Fri 26th Mar @ 13:38 by ahallicks | Comments 2
Pure CSS Speech Bubbles
I love CSS3. If you're viewing this in a decent modern browser (not Internet Explorer) then you can probably see that because of the amount I use. I do, however, always try to use progressive enhancement in my projects so that anything that looks great in the good browsers still looks presentable in other browsers. What I love most about CSS3 is how easy it is to do some of the things that used to be an absolute chore for us web developers. Simple things such as creating rounded corners for e...
Posted Mon 8th Mar @ 10:09 by ahallicks | Comments 1
The Universal Selector - A CSS Must Have?
During the creation of web pages the most difficult task set forth before any web developer is that of cross-browser compatibility. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari and so forth, have their own default margins and padding for certain elements on the page, and the page itself. This means that when building a web site there are going to be differences between browsers in terms of display and layout. The Universal Selector is not as widely known as many of the CSS selectors beca...
Posted Fri 5th Mar @ 14:20 by ahallicks | Comments 0
Unfollow Your Twitter Followers On DeVSeO
Have you somehow managed to amass a great following of people you just don't know on Twitter? It happens. You probably don't realise it, especially if you have one of those tools that automatically follows anyone that is following you. All too easily you may find that you have a great number of followers that you simply don't want! I have seen quite a number of tools on the Internet that say they can mass remove or delete all of your Twitter followers but I have found almost none of those to...
Posted Sat 30th Jan @ 20:13 by ahallicks | Comments 0
Tweetywall - YUI Plug-In To Put Twitter Live On Your Website
Demo Have you ever seen those sites that have Twitter posts sprinkled all over the place? Would you like to have access to this same functionality without having to do anything? Here at DeVSeO we use Twitter for a number of things and in a number of places. I decided to help you guys out by turning one of ours scripts that we use here into a fully customisable release so that you, too, can have Twitter on your own site with absolutely no coding ability whatsoever. It couldn't be easier. All y...
Posted Mon 11th Jan @ 14:20 by ahallicks | Comments 0
Lovely Animated Image Captions Using YUI
I saw a very lovely caption effect for images at MotionLab but realised it was written for jQuery. If you have read of my other blogs here on DeVSeO you may notice that I prefer the YUI javascript library by Yahoo for all of my javascript. So, I decided to create this effect using YUI instead of jQuery. Firstly the setup. To make this work you will need an image and some text to describe that image (including a heading for the image). Here's the one I'm going to use for this example:...
Posted Wed 23rd Dec @ 11:59 by ahallicks | Comments 0
Using The YUI Chart Component
The above shows an example of a YUI 2 chart. There are many reason why you might want a chart such as this on your website, such as showing data to users in a more friendly way, publishing commercial content that isnt just in a static table, or even just to add some colour in the form of a funky little widget showing using the latest trends on Twitter. Whatever your reason for having a chart, I have found the YUI 2 charts library a very successful and easy-to-use component that allows you to...
Posted Thu 29th Oct @ 16:00 by ahallicks | Comments 0
Locate Keywords In Search Engine Results With Greasemonkey
So, I decided (with the help of Lee Johnson) to create a new Greasemonkey script that looked for keywords in search result for the major search engines (Google, Yahoo! and Bing) rather than highlighting a listing based on a domain which my other script does.For this one to work you will need to install the script (for a quick install, clickhere) and edit line 24 and below putting whichever keywords you wish to find in the array and the colour you wish that keyword to be highlighted by, for exam...
Posted Wed 19th Aug @ 09:31 by ahallicks | Comments 2
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