February, 2012


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Feb 12

Top 10 Ways to Embed Video into a Web Page

Since digital camcorders and video editing software became accessible to the large audience it’s no longer a challenge for anybody to make a video This fact underlies a lot of web trends namely the sky-rocketing popularity of video sharing portals and widespread use of video content across websites and blogs A good piece of video can help you deliver your message more effectively educate readers stimulate discussion and get your brand going far beyond your own domain Happily it’s not a problem nowadays to integrate a…..


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Feb 12

How to Use About.me as Your Online Business Card

You would probably ask ” I already use so many services – Facebook LinkedIn Google+ Flickr YouTube etc on a regular basis what’s the need for another one?”
Well aboutme is not really just ‘another one’ it’s a service meant to put together all your other services It’s a neat way to merge your multiple online profiles scattered across different service providers in one single identity – either for your personal use or for professional purposes

For me the professional angle sounds more interesting Imagine if you could have clickable links on…..


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Feb 12

SliderWall Giveaway: 5 Commercial Licenses of jQuery Image Slider

Are you ready for yet another amazing giveaway? SliderWall is giving away 5 commercial licensees to our lucky readers! If you have been dreaming of placing a jQuery slider on your website but can’t find the perfect solution for it then you’ve definitely come to the right place!
How do you win this awesome jQuery slider? Read on!

What is SliderWall?
SliderWall is a jQuery image slider that is made purely using HTML5 CSS3 and JavaScript SliderWall is a very flexible tool in terms of user customization and…..


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Feb 12

20+ Beautiful Resources That Complement Twitter Bootstrap

Advertise here with BSA Twitter Bootstrap is a beautiful "web design kit" for creating cross browser consistent and good looking interfaces
With a flexible and well-thought HTML/CSS/Javascript structure it offers many of the popular UI components a grid system and JavaScript plugins for common scenarios

And it seems to be rocking the web design community as there are lots of websites already built and being built with it (it is also the most watched/forked repository…..


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Feb 12

XDate – A Modern JavaScript Date Library

Advertise here via BSA XDate is a thin wrapper around JavaScript’s native Date object that provides enhanced functionality for parsing formatting and manipulating dates It implements the same methods as the native Date so it should seem very familiar Also it is non-destructive to the DOM so it can safely be included in third party libraries without fear of side effects It is released under MIT and GPL License Requirements: JavaScript Framework Demo: http://arshawcom/xdate/ License:…..


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Feb 12

Trending: Logo Design Typography

Tweet Not all logo designs are made with pictures some are made with texts too A logo design that is based on texts is called typography logo This is a logo design created with designed fonts that commonly includes the company or product’s name Typically we see logo designs created with an image plus its title in text Some logo designs are made with images only while others have it in pure typography A typography logo design is an intricate yet very effective way of designing your logos It…..


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Feb 12

Places It’s Tempting To Use Display: None; But Don’t

You want to hide something on a page so:
hide {
display: none;
}
But wait! By applying that class to an element you’ve immediately made that content “inaccessible” by screen readers You’ve probably known this forever but still the poison apple sneaks into our code once in a while
I don’t want to re-hash all the specifics Your best bet is to read “Now You See Me” by Aaron Gustafson on A List Apart to get an understanding of this if you don’t already
One way…..


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Feb 12

Sort an Array of Objects by Property Using sort(fn)

Believe it or not there’s more to JavaScript than the helper methods and classes they provide your JavaScript library No like seriously bro; these JavaScript-given methods do exist One of those methods sort is provided to every Array instance via its prototype I’ve used this method once or twice in the history of ever bro since I make every effort to ensure proper sort on the server side but sometimes you may receive a JSON dump and need to sort on the client side Most people would assume that sort would take no method…..


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Feb 12

HTML5 Element Printing in Internet Explorer

I was recently working on a website created with HTML5 elements like header footer section and more and got a rude awakening by Internet Explorer 8 I knew about the hack to ensure the elements render and style as they should on screen…
// For discussion and comments see: http://remysharpcom/2009/01/07/html5-enabling-script/
(function(){if(!/*@cc_on!@*/0)return;var e = “abbrarticleasideaudiobbcanvasdatagriddatalistdetailsdialogeventsourcefigurefooterheaderhgroupmarkmenumeternavoutputprogresssectiontimevideo”split(”);for(var i=0;i<elength;i++){documentcreateElement(e[i])}})();
but ensuring styling during print was a whole different story Despite the JavaScript shim above the elements still wouldn’t style correctly when I went to print After trying a variety of solutions my last attempt was the most successful; …..


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Feb 12

CSS3 Pseudo-Classes and HTML5 Forms

Hello! I’m Doctor Peter and I’m here to treat you with a dose of complementary CSS3 Don’t worry this won’t hurt a bit

Contrary to what HTML5 Please and the W3C would have you believe CSS3 is not part of HTML5 “But this is HTML5 Doctor” I imagine you saying “Why are you talking about CSS3 here?” Well I want to talk about a very specific part of CSS3 one that works in perfect tandem with HTML5 specifically with the new form functions that are available

One of the killer features that HTML5 introduces is…..