Because of JavaScript’s dependence upon globals, it might be easy to forget that creating private variables can be accomplished quite simply, thanks to closures. In just a few minutes, I’ll demonstrate two common techniques which allow for private variables and methods in your projects.
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In this video quick tip, I’ll demonstrate an easy way to allow for sequential animations of an infinite number of elements. I originally learned this technique from Dave Methvin, but don’t think that many people are aware of this neat little trick.
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It’s becoming more and more common for web sites and applications to provide different layouts dependent upon the user’s window size, or resolution. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, ranging from CSS to JavaScript solutions.
In this video quick tip, we’ll learn how laughably simple it is to do this with a touch of jQuery, and the resize() method.
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Due to the fact that @font-face can be a bit overly complicated, it hasn’t caught on quite as much as it should. Once you start reading about licensing, different font formats, browser consistencies, it can potentially become more trouble than it’s worth.
But – in five minutes, I’ll try to simplify the process of working with custom fonts as much as I possibly can. Services like Font Squirrel help to make the task a cinch!
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Have you ever seen sites that offer some kind of “color-switcher” within the header section? Want to know how easy it is to replicate? I’ll show you in 200 seconds, using jQuery.
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The great joy that comes from being a web designer is getting to view your new website in a variety of browsers, only to find that each renders the site at varying levels of consistency – namely Internet Explorer 7 and below. This video quick tip will demonstrate the five most popular services and tools for testing a website in a variety of browsers.
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Did you know that, with the addition of only two characters, you can target both Internet Explorer 6 and 7 in your stylesheets? It’s easy…I’ll show you!
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We all know the benefits of using snippets and bundles to speed up our coding, but what if we could take things a step further, and turn a complex html structure into something as simple as a CSS selector? Well, thanks to a new project, called Zen-Coding, we can do this very thing!
In this four-minute video quick tip, I’ll demonstrate how.
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As many of you might know, I post a sporadic video quick tip on Twitter once a week or so. For those of you who don’t follow us, here are the latest five.
You’ll learn how to select anything and everything with jQuery, how to log PHP errors to a text file, how to change your website’s background with each WordPress post, and more. Each video does not exceed five minutes.
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