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James Padolsey

I'm a freelance web developer based in Hampton, UK. I write about and enjoy front-end web development. Most of what I write focuses on my favorite topic, JavaScript! To read my blog or find out more about me please visit my site!
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How to Mimic the iGoogle Interface

How to Mimic the iGoogle Interface

Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a customizable interface with widgets. The finished product will be a sleek and unobtrusively coded iGoogle-like interface, which has plenty of potential applications!

Uncovering jQuery’s Hidden Features

Uncovering jQuery’s Hidden Features

jQuery is not always as it appears. There's a lot of cool stuff going on under the surface, and there are many methods just waiting to be discovered, and many potential usages of jQuery's API that you may not have considered before. In this article I'll be taking you through a few of the not-so-obvious things I've discovered about jQuery.

jQuery 1.4 Released: What you Must Know

jQuery 1.4 Released: The 15 New Features you Must Know

jQuery 1.4 was recently released. This wasn’t simply a maintenance release as some had speculated; there are many new features, enhancements and performance improvements included in 1.4! This post covers the new features and enhancements that you may find beneficial.

You can download jQuery 1.4 right now, here: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.js

Javascript and the dom

Javascript and the DOM: Lesson 2

Hello and welcome back to the "JavaScript and the DOM" series. Last time we covered some JavaScript basics and we touched on various aspects of the Document Object Model, including how to access nodes and traverse through the DOM. Today we’ll be covering how to manipulate elements within the DOM and we’ll be discussing the browser event model.

JavaScript and the DOM series, part 1

JavaScript and the DOM Series: Lesson 1

Hello and welcome to the first part of what will hopefully be an extensive series covering core aspects of the JavaScript programming language and the DOM API.

While frameworks such as jQuery, Prototype and MooTools are great ways of suppressing browser bugs and speeding up development, it’s important to know and understand the underlying technologies. This series intends to tell you what you need to know about JavaScript and the Document Object Model (DOM). Even if you swear by a particular library this will still benefit you – knowing how something works under the skin can only be a good thing!

Building the imgPreview Plugin
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Building the imgPreview jQuery Plugin

Today, we’ll be featuring the winner of our “Screencast Competition”. Created by James Padolsey, this video tutorial will demonstrate how to build a relatively advanced jQuery plugin from scratch.

A big congratulations goes out to James. He’ll be receiving $200 cash, a 1 year subscription to TUTS+, and $100 worth of credit at our Envato marketplaces.

jQuery Style Switcher

How To Create An Amazing jQuery Style Switcher

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to create a style switcher using jQuery and PHP. The end result will be an unobtrusive & entirely degradable dynamic style switcher which will be quick and easy to implement.

How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

In this tutorial we will be taking your average everyday website and enhancing it with jQuery. We will be adding ajax functionality so that the content loads into the relevant container instead of the user having to navigate to another page. We will also be integrating some awesome animation effects.