Browsing articles for: June, 2008

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Using jQuery To Make The Classic Typewriter Effect

On 06.25.2008 by Paul Robinson | 8 comments

Ok, so it’s an old effect that has been done in javascript probably a million times, but I’ve seen it used on a few sites quite effectively. By typewriter effect I mean the sentence types itself onto the screen rather than just appearing. It’s really simple to do so let’s get going. If you want [...]

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Making A Custom Feedburner Subscriber Counter

On 06.20.2008 by Paul Robinson | no comments

So it’s fairly late here in the UK but I thought I’d do a quick tutorial on how to make a custom subscriber counter for you Feedburner feed. Usually you get one that looks something like this: Not especially pretty but nice enough for most people. However what if you want to give a little [...]

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Preloading An Image & Displaying With A Automatic Resizing Container Using jQuery

On 06.12.2008 by Paul Robinson | 4 comments

EDIT: There has been a report of this code not working in IE6. Well turns out it didn’t work in any of the IE browsers. Click here to jump to the fix. This post is all about how to make a image preload (load in the background) and then animate the box it will fit [...]