In this tutorial we’ll build on the scroller we constructed here, so if you haven’t had a chance, go through that or copy the final javascript code and HTML layout. Here, all we want to do is have the content automatically scroll through the various content items if the user does not roll over any...
Read MoreJQuery is a great solution for websites looking to reduce visual clutter and show to viewers only the content that is important to them. In this tutorial we’ll create an application that lists a bunch of categories and the entries associated with each category, but we’ll hide all of the content...
Read MoreThe Google Maps API is a simple but underused tool in a web programmer’s kit. With a few lines of code you can have a map up and running on your site, and with a few more, you can have that map displaying whatever you want from your Expression Engine weblogs. Here’s how.
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Read MoreI spent two years developing on EE before I heard of its Dynamic Parameters functionality. I was tasked with creating a guided search form which allowed users to select from any number of dropdowns and input fields in order to narrow down a list of hundreds of publications to be displayed on a...
Read MoreI have done a number of large-scale Expression Engine sites now, and the one thing that has consistently frustrated me is page navigation. Expression Engine’s built in method of dealing with pages on a template group template category trigger category system can be extremely problematic -...
Read MoreIt seems like I’ve been creating a lot of these lately, so I figured I would do a tutorial on scrolling with JQuery using the scroll functionality on the home page of my website. The basic premise is that you have a menu, and when you roll over one of the menu items, a list of items scrolls in a...
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