http://wpaoli.building58.com Mostly a site with a jQuery tabslideout plugin... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:55:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en willyphttp://feedburner.google.com See Example Page Just need a simple way to swap content out using javascript real quick? This seems to come up a lot in my life. On a recent job interview I was given a task to do this and the following is what I came up with. I'm positive this ... http://wpaoli.building58.com/2009/10/super-simple-jquery-content-swapper/ A couple weeks ago, I made this pull out slider thing using jQuery. (people use them as 'feedback' tabs) I decided to try making it into a plugin for jQuery and here it is. Use it for creating a feedback form, contact info, or any content which is revealed using ... http://wpaoli.building58.com/2009/09/jquery-tab-slide-out-plugin/ Yet another jQuery plugin ;-) A designer friend of mine was working on his portfolio and was searching for a way to animate his horizontal navigation bar so that the sub-navs would drop down smoothly. In helping him implement a couple of scripts he found online, I decided to write a ... http://wpaoli.building58.com/2009/08/horizontal-nav-with-animated-drop-down-sub-navs-jquery-plugin/ See the live example in the sidebar of the Navigenics blog. Today I cleaned up a huge category list on the sidebar of Navigenics' blog. Since the main problem we were trying to solve was to free up some side bar real estate, I was asked 'is it hard to ... http://wpaoli.building58.com/2009/08/jquery-drop-down-sub-menus-for-expression-engines-category-module/ View Demo Update: I have now made this into a jQuery plugin, check it out. minus the ajax form part. Which I plan on including into the plugin in the future. I saw this little widget being used on a couple of sites lately, and decided to try building one myself. ... http://wpaoli.building58.com/2009/08/jquery-animated-feedback-tab-thingy/ When I first rediscovered Shells again last year, I was amazed at how it had evolved. The gaps between the jumps looked basically undoable. 20-30 foot gaps with very unforgiving consequences. The idea of actually hitting one of these gaps became almost a silly obsession in my mind. Every visit ... http://wpaoli.building58.com/2009/08/mid-30s-crisis-birthday-jump/ My work badge, with mini map of Waterdog Lake For people that live/work in the San Francisco bay area, specifically the peninsula between San Carlos and San Mateo, the options for mountain biking/dirt jumping are really damn good considering the proximity of the various spots within this small area. I am ... http://wpaoli.building58.com/2009/07/shredding-the-peninsula/ Part 2 in my series on print.css While one of your co-workers is in the middle of an annoying IE6 bug, say "zoom one" to them and chances are they will laugh (or maybe cry). The proprietary IE css 'zoom' property has its roots in accessibility and well intentioned functionality however ... http://wpaoli.building58.com/2009/07/zoom-is-good-for-printcss/ Most of us now use css background images to display our logos so that we still have the text in our html source for SEO/Accessibility reasons. Usually works out just fine, but one day a very shocked and surprised QA person was waving paper in front of my face going ... http://wpaoli.building58.com/2009/06/print-css-and-logos/ Hey here I am, another web developer with a blog! My own place to discuss the exciting topics we web devs love to argue about endlessly on our quest to make better websites for people to use.  Exciting and engaging topics such as: XHTML Strict or Transitional or HTML4 (to get ... http://wpaoli.building58.com/2009/05/why-have-a-blog/