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Entries for August, 2009

WordPress is an Excellent _____ Platform

I’m continuously amazed at the versatility of WordPress. As a blogging platform, it’s incredible. However, it’s also incredibly useful as just a general website engine – it creates the shell, and the internals can be done up however you please. At most, you only need to know a modest amount of PHP to create a [...]

jQuery Image Overlay Plugin 1.1

A quick note – I’ve updated my jQuery Image Overlay Plugin to version 1.1. This version adds support for pinning the overlay so it is always viewable (not just when you mouse over the image). There were no other changes, so you should be able to upgrade without worry.

3D CSS Animated Image Carousel

Here’s a 3D CSS Animated Image Carousel that I created while I was learning about 3D CSS animation. Watch the video above to see the technique in action. If you’re on a 3D CSS animation capable browser (currently a non-production version of MAC Safari and mobile Safari in the iPhone and iPod Touch), go ahead [...]

Determining Geolocation on the Web

Here’s a GeoLocator example I put together that showcases two popular GeoLocation techniques – IP lookup and using the GeoLocation API – in order to both demonstrate the techniques as well as to show the issues with each. In HTML, there are a few ways of determining the location of a user. Traditionally, this has [...]