Recently I’ve been trying out the HTML5 Boilerplate to get some of this new fangled HTML into my projects. One thing I particularly like about the boilerplate, is the feature that allows you to not just implement HTML5, but also provide a fallback for the not so fortunate browsers.

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To be more precise, we’re going to look at some of the functions used in the ‘Finding’ section of jQuery’s Traversing methods. The best way to explain this, is of course, with an example. So lets start with the problem that led me to use Traversing, oh and thanks to @tweaked for prompting me to [...]

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I’ve recently installed Fancybox (my new favourite lightbox plugin for jQuery) so you guys can zoom in on selected images on the blog rather than squinting and trying to view images that are only 448px wide. The only problem was, it wasn’t obvious that you could click an image to zoom in on it…

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BenDigital

I redesigned the front of BenDigital’s website and coded up the front page as a template for him to finish the rest of the site. I designed the site to be sleek with a ‘Web 2.0′ look and with a real carbon fiber background.
Visit site | Original Template

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Illusions Hairdressing

Illusions Haidressing is the front for a Cambridge based hairdresser offering professional mobile hairdressing. I used WordPress for the back end of the site so that all copy can edited, images changed and the jQuery galleries added to.
The website is designed to have a very clean look while still en-compassing a nice professional style.
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With most sites I build, I would have quite a big use for min-height but with not all browsers supporting it, I can’t really use it. So today I had a bash using jQuery to solve this dilemma, and here’s what I came up with.
First I defined my minimum height for my element in a [...]

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Twitter has absolutely exploded over the past few months, it’s all over the radio and TV; even some ‘celebrities’ can’t get enough of Twitter - yes I am refferring to Ashton Kutcher.
With a lot of social experiments like this you need and should want to make it your own, by using a custom Twitter badge. [...]

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With the recent popularity of multiple column layouts, and constantly changing content that can alter the height of a column from minute to minute - it has become a bit of a mess trying to make everything look nice and balanced. So here’s how to use jQuery to make it real simple.
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EU PS3 Blog

I’m a regular commenter over at the Official EU PS Forum and one day a topic cropped up to create a blog for the EU PS3 community. Since that moment the blog has come to life with user input coming from all over, competitions and some rich content coming from developers. It also has a nifty XMB [...]

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The Last Knight

This was my cocoon site and the site you’re on now is the butterfly. I created this site as sort of experiment, trying out SQL with my own comments system and admin area. Unfortunately I think I lost direction with it and it’s been great to learn from the mistakes I made, which has ultimately lead to [...]

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