AnythingZoomer jQuery Plugin

You have a small area. You mouse over it. An area pops up giving you a zoomed in closer look. This is a jQuery plugin that does it. I’m not going to tell you what you should use it for …

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Filtering Blocks

One of our eCommerce clients at work had a number of products they wanted to put on special to promote on the web. Each product has a different “reason” why it’s on special. Perhaps it’s discontinued, perhaps its special pricing, …

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Highlight Certain Number of Characters

I had a unique programming challenge the other day that I thought I’d share here. It’s rather specific and probably won’t be of huge general use, but hey, it might be interesting.

The idea was to have 160 characters become …

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jQuery UI Tabs with Next/Previous

Tabbed areas are lovely, but when you start getting to more than 3 or 4 different tabs, they start to get a little crowded and it makes sense to provide alternative navigation of them. I think it makes sense to …

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Simple jQuery Dropdowns

There are lots of dropdown menus already out there. I’m not really trying to reinvent the wheel here, but I wanted to try to do something slightly different by making them as dead simple as possible. Very stripped down code …

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Using jQuery in Magento

At work we are developing a site for a client using the Magento eCommerce software. This is my first time using it and I’m finding it fairly badass (and it’s free!). There is a lot to like about it, which …

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Force Secure Form Submission

I was working with a client eCommerce site the other day, and a really concerning problem popped up. On the very last step of checkout, when you press the very final button to submit the order, the browser would pop …

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