Author Archives: Frank

jQuery Bread Crumb Trail Plugin

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Frank

This plugin will take the URI segment of the URL and split it into links based on directory names. This is not the most attractive method of doing this, but is very useful when trying to add breadcrumbs to older … Continue reading →

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Simple Animated Content Slider with jQuery

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Frank

Content sliders are fairly simple things to implement, as they can be built with using only a few basic pieces of html, css, and javascript ( if you are focusing development on css3, javascript is not needed at all ). … Continue reading →

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Mental Ray – Light Scattering

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Frank

While tweaking shaders, textures and bump maps for tree bark and ivy, I set to create a ‘depth’ to the textures; for light to enter, bounce around inside, giving a sense of depth to the surface. However, not entirely successul, … Continue reading →

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(Android) PhoneGap Cordova 1.5 menubutton and searchbutton with jQuery Mobile

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Frank

Using PhoneGap (Cordova) 1.5, I ran into an issue with the physical buttons on the Android device, specifically I was trying to bind handlers to “menubutton”, “searchbutton”, and use them to navigate within a jQuery Mobile app. However, these buttons … Continue reading →

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(Android) DroidGap Cordova 1.5 – Error with “Getting Started”

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Frank

Here is a simple fix to get the new version of DroidGap (1.5) working on Android. The “Getting Started” section for android simply states an incorrect import. “import com.phonegap.*” If Ecplise is showing errors, change it to “import org.apache.cordova.*” If … Continue reading →

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Affecting a series of (recursive) elements with css

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Frank

Many sites use some form of rating system for content – here is an example of how to create series of elements for a ranking meter using only html and css. HTML <div id=”stars”> <div class=”star”> <div class=”star”> <div class=”star”> … Continue reading →

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CSS Double Border

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Frank

Today I came across an interesting prospect – How to emulate a double border using only CSS. This can be achieved with the :before and :after pseudo selectors. xhtml <div id=”myDiv”>Some Text Here</div> CSS #myDiv, #myDiv:after { display:block; background:#00f; width:100px; } #myDiv:after … Continue reading →

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ScrollTo Anchor tags using jQuery

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Frank

A quick jQuery plugin to over-ride/replace the jump-to action with a smooth-easing scroll action for anchored links. This will be updated with an option to set the duration jQuery Plugin (function($){ $.fn.weighAnchor = function() { this.each(function(){ $(this).click(function(){ var scrollTo = … Continue reading →

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TimeDrop Menus with jQuery

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Frank

TimeDrop menu is a plugin for jQuery based on common drop-down methods, but allows for drop down menus that will persist until a timeout triggers them to close. This allows the user to jump off the menu for a short … Continue reading →

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