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Chris Coyier is web designer and developer from Madison, WI currently residing in Portland, OR. He enjoys old time banjo music, photography, and bringing ideas to live with XHTML, CSS, and jQuery.
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New Plus Tutorial: Build an Awesome Calculator

New Plus Tutorial: Build an Awesome Popup jQuery Calculator

Chris Coyier on Mar 4th 2009 with 32 comments

We’ve got a fantastic Plus tutorial for you this week, from Chris Coyier, of CSS-Tricks. In this tutorial and screencast, Chris will show you how to build a really neat jQuery calculator. Join Now!

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Building a Custom Lifestream Website with Sweetcron

Chris Coyier on Sep 25th 2008 with 89 comments

Sweetcron is “The Automated Lifestream Blog Software”. It is still in public beta, but is already a very nice blog software package. The beauty of Sweetcron is that new posts are created automatically from your activity elsewhere on the web. New photos on Flickr? Tweets on Twitter? Thumbs up on StumbleUpon? Blog posts on Tumblr? Add them all to your Sweetcron-powered site and they will appear on your site in minutes.

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A Better Blogroll

Building a Better Blogroll: Dynamic Fun with SimplePie and jQuery

Chris Coyier on Aug 8th 2008 with 74 comments

A traditional blogroll is a simple list of other sites, often in the sidebar, that are related, owned by, or otherwise friendly to the home site. Blogrolls are a great idea and on-point with the spirit of blogging, but how is a casual reader to know if any of these sites are truly of interest? Let’s improve upon the concept of a blogroll by not just listing sites, but dynamically pulling recent headlines from them, and using some fun jQuery animation.

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