Beauty in Design: Joomla Increasing User Experience with JavaScript

September 23rd, 2008 No Comments   Posted in Joomla
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Using the javascript library MooTools with some other free libraries, this tutorial series teaches how to increase user experience with some simple javascript. Using a fictional “blog” as the test site, subscribers will learn how to enhance the blog with modern web techniques such as:

  • LightBox type photo gallery
  • Expanding sub-menus
  • AJAX loaded pages
  • Sliding image menus
  • Reflecting images without having to touch Photoshop
  • Condensing a web page with Fx.Styles and Sliding Tabs
  • …and more More »


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MooTools Essentials

September 23rd, 2008 No Comments   Posted in Java, Web Development
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Over the past several years, JavaScript has undergone some serious changes while simultaneously becoming more and more important to both developers and users of the Web. By now, people just expect pages to be
interactive, and it’s up to you, the web developer, to meet those expectations and, when possible, exceed them. Say you went to a web site today and encountered an item—a video, a story, a photo, a download—and next to that item’s title was a five-star rating system with an invitation for you to click a star to rate it. Without thinking about it, you’d expect to be able to click the star of your choice and see the rating change. It might not surprise you if the page reloaded to ask you to register or log in, but the next time you rated something, you’d expect the rating to change to match your choice. But if every time you clicked a star the whole page reloaded, you’d feel something was wrong. Maybe you wouldn’t be able to put your finger on it (most users certainly wouldn’t think JavaScript or Ajax might be behind the problem), but
something would feel odd. More »

Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript

August 26th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in CSS
Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript

Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript

Coming to web development with a blank slate can be pretty intimidating. There are a lot of things to learn about the proper construction of a website. The most successful websites have a great deal of thought and work put into them before they’re even put into production. Although it can be scary, there has never been a better time to get started than the present. Web browsers are finally starting to reach a point where they all follow standards (more or less). More »

Beauty in Design: Joomla Template Migration

August 26th, 2008 1 Comment   Posted in Joomla, Web Development
Beauty in Design: Joomla Template Migration

Beauty in Design: Joomla Template Migration

The Template Migration for Joomla Series will show you how to take an existing, static template and convert it for use with Joomla. This highly requested series covers every aspect of template conversion: Organizing the file structure for Joomla, insertion of the Joomla PHP tags, matching and re-naming CSS conventions for compatibility with JOOMLA, and more! By the completion of this series you will gain all the know-how necessary to migrate your template for Joomla. More »

Share Point Designer Tutorial

August 19th, 2008 No Comments   Posted in Web Development
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SharePoint is a web-based collaboration and document management platform from Microsoft. Microsoft Offce SharePoint Designer (SPD) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web design program, which has replaced FrontPage, and is the ideal environment for working with pages on a SharePoint site. This book is ideal for people new to SharePoint Designer who need to put together a working SharePoint site as quickly as possible. If you want to get started, and finished, as quickly as possible, this book is for you. You won’t just learn how to use More »


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