A great, slick way to display RSS feeds. Nice and smooth sliding effects. Server side support Usage: This script requires that you have access to PHP on your webserver. Creating RSS box and specify url of feed This scripts loads content from an external RSS file into a div on your page. The first you...

I am making an Ajax application using GWT and I need some kind of facility to display a tooltip on an image when I hover my mouse over it. Unfortunately GWT does not provide such widget that I can use directly. After spending some time on GWT forum, I found two neat posts (refer to post 1 and post 2),...

Semi-transparent backgrounds are nice. They would be more popular, but Internet Explorer doesn’t support .png transparency. There are a few clunky workarounds. Here’s another that’s a little less clunky. How it works: The ingredients are: * A background image: flowers.jpg *...

Who wants to use Excel to make a new graph each week? Using CSS and PHP you can create attractive bar graphs (yes, even the stacked kind) that are always up to date. Creating the List, using PHP We need to create a simple list, with three parameters on each tag. Nesting is not required. height: The...

Semi-transparent backgrounds are nice. They would be more popular, but Internet Explorer doesn’t support .png transparency. There are a few clunky workarounds. Here’s another that’s a little less clunky. How it works: The ingredients are: A background image: flowers.jpg A small, semi-transparent...

This menu build did for Mootools way back even before rev86. First, we’ll start off with the HTML so we know what the DOM looks like before we start trying to manipulate it. All we’re going to be using is a simple unordered list. <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="#">Link</a></li> ...

Nowadays, a lot of websites are using tab based content as a way to save spaces in a webpage. I have seen a lot of wordpress websites using a tabbed interface for its category, posts, comments and random posts content. It’s a good “space-saver” and if used it correctly, it can boost...

This jQuery plugin allows you to easily transform any unordered list into a horizontal menu. Release: Current: 2.0.0 Alpha (tested on jQuery 1.3+) Product releases follow this format X.YY.ZZ (i.e. 1.0.2) X signify a major version related to production release. YY signify a minor version with feature...

Now, you may have seen similar things on a few websites already, wikipedia certainly makes use of the technique to highlight external links. The astute of you may notice that the ‘external’ link isn’t actually external – think of it more as ‘absolute’. How do we achieve these results...

If you’re new to Nifty Corners, I suggest to look in particular at the article on the first version to understand the concept behind them. Basically, Nifty Corners are a solution based on CSS and Javascript to get rounded corners without images. There are several improvements and new features introduced...