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Ever have some text that you wanted a person to read before they submitted content to your site. Most of the time, the people just scroll to the bottom of the page and click the submit button. In the Web 2.0, people have added additional code to make sure that the person has read the text. I am for sure most of you have seen the sites where you have to scroll an entire div block in order to have a button enabled that you can then click to say you agree to something. In this tutorial we will do a similar delay, but this will be a delay that you have more control over than the user. Read the rest of this entry »

Emulating position: fixed; in IE 6 & below

A little background:

Internet Explorer 6 and below do not understand the CSS property and value position: fixed;. All the better browsers (IE7, Firefox/Mozilla, Safari, Opera) understand and apply this rule.

If you are unfamiliar with position: fixed; it basically makes an element stay in the same position on a page while the page is scrolled. When using position: fixed; you should set the position using a combination of top or bottom and left or right.

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Use jQuery Javascript library to make easy effects for your website

In this tutorial I will explain how to use the jQuery Library to make some easy effects for your webpage. jQuery is infamous for easily implementing it into your site, and for its usage of effects. I like jQuery for its ease of use over other Javascript library’s such as Prototype and moo.fx, lets get started.

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